by Soo-Inn Tan | May 8, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Church, Community, COVID-19, World Issues
This past Lunar New Year was special and will remain in my heart for a long, long time. Everyone was back — family from Canada, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. Over great food we swapped stories, teased each other, and shared our struggles — we were family. One...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 24, 2020 | 2020, Articles, COVID-19, Death & Grief, Dependence on God, God, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose, World Issues
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) suggests that the discomfort we are feeling in the midst of the present Covid virus pandemic is grief. This makes sense since grief is our response to loss and we have lost so much. I am aware that different people...
by Bernice Lee | Apr 17, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, COVID-19, Hope, Loving Others, Racism, World Issues
I encountered two extremes of emotion yesterday. One, a case of racism, and the other a fundraising initiative. I had to make a delivery run because one of our online retailers desperately needed their stocks replenished. Armed with my face mask, hand sanitisers (yes,...
by Wei-Hao Ho | Apr 3, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, COVID-19, Discernment, Loving Others, World Issues
Have you been stockpiling? With all the uncertainty associated with the COVID-19 pandemic many Singaporeans rushed to supermarkets to stock up on daily necessities or what were perceived to be necessities. I confess that my wife and I were also “stalking”...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 27, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Church, Corporate Worship, COVID-19, Small Groups, World Issues
Those of you who know me will know how I have long championed small groups meeting in homes as the preferred platform to do church. So, I was pleasantly surprised when I encountered this article in mainstream media, the Singapore Sunday Times. “Christians: Return of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 20, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, COVID-19, Faith, God, God’s Sovereignty, Malaysia, World Issues
KUCHING: The nation’s first Covid-19-related death was recorded in Sarawak on Tuesday (March 17), the state disaster management committee announced. The victim, 60-year-old Pastor David Cheng (pic), from Emmanuel Baptist Church here, passed away at 11am at Sarawak...