by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 1, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Church, COVID-19, Small Groups
How healthy is your cell group? This may go by different names in different churches, like action group, care group, life group, etc. Essentially, it is part of the small-group ministry of the church. Some of us remember a time when there were no small groups. The...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 24, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Discipleship, Mentoring
Recently a church asked me to teach them about mentoring. I was happy and excited to do this of course, mentoring being one of the key foci of my ministry at this stage of my life. I was particularly excited by this invitation because I was told that they have never...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 10, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Preaching & Teaching
For the longest time I held out on using video lectures as my primary way of teaching, especially when I taught in seminaries. I had minimal PowerPoint presentations which I often felt were distractions. I continued to be committed to showing up in the classroom,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 26, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Unity, Church, Generations Project, Leadership
The Generations Project is an endeavour that Graceworks embarked on which seeks to improve the unity within our churches by increasing the empathy that the different generations have for one another. Having concluded our research into both Millennial and Baby...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 20, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring, Preaching & Teaching
Some of the teachers that influenced me most at Regent College had done their doctoral work at Oxford University. So, sometime in my third year at Regent, I toyed with the idea of pursuing a doctorate at Oxford too. I ran the idea by John Nolland, a New Testament...
by Wei-Hao Ho | Aug 6, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Unity, Church, Generations Project
Gen-X (aged 41 to 56 in 2021) Ask people what they know about “Gen-X” and you might get puzzled looks and questions about whether they are the same as Baby Boomers or Millennials. A quick google search will probably reveal that while there are many...
