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Spiritual Mentoring seminar by Rev Dr Tan Soo-Inn 13 March, 2010
The greatest need of the hour is not better programmes or more sophisticated
technology. The greatest need of the hour is for a transformed community, mature
followers of Jesus who will bring Godly wisdom and grace into a needy world.
But how do we help followers of Jesus grow in Christ-like maturity?
We will see that spiritual mentoring is a primary “method” that God has provided
to help people grow in Christ-likeness. This is the model that Jesus Himself gave us.
He developed people through close personal relationships.
This seminar will take a biblical and practical look at questions like:
. What are the basic components of spiritual mentoring?
. What are the three directions of mentoring?
. How can I give and receive spiritual mentoring where I am?
Specific strategies will be suggested as to how you can do spiritual mentoring
whether you are starting out or adapting fresh insights to existing programmes.
Our ultimate goal is for participants to grow in their capacity to give and receive
spiritual mentoring so that we can be the people that God wants us to be for the
times we live in.
Date: 13 March 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 10.30am – 3pm
Venue: Canaanland HQ @ 25 Jalan PJU 1A/41B, NZX Commercial Centre, Ara Jaya,
47301 Petaling Jaya (click for map direction)
Email: larry@canaanland.com.my
Investment: RM30 per pax (including materials – excluding lunch)Speaker: Rev Dr Tan Soo-Inn
Soo-Inn is a director of Graceworks, a training and publishing consultancy committed to promoting spiritual friendship in church and society. He runs this ministry in partnership with his wife, Bernice. He also serves as honourary associate pastor of Evangel Christian Church, Singapore. Bernice and Soo-Inn have four sons. Soo-Inn has a BDS from the University of Singapore, a ThM in New Testament from Regent College, Vancouver, and a DMin from Fuller Seminary. His primary passions include connecting the Word of God to the struggles of daily life, and the promotion of the discipline of spiritual friendship. His latest book, Thinking On The Run, has just been released
Public Forum: GLOBALISATION AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD, 7pm, March 1, 2010
GLOBALISATION AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD
A Public Forum organized by World Vision Malaysia & Kairos Research Centre
Speakers: Vinoth and Karin Ramanchandra
Place: Corus Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Ballroom 1
Time: Monday, March 1, 2010 7 pm – 9 pm
Attendance is free.
The world has shrunk. We are traumatized by news of violent terrorists randomly attacking innocent civilians, whether in Europe or in the Asia subcontinent. We feel a sense of economic injustice when millions lose their jobs just because some business tycoons played with the stock market at Wall Street. These events highlight the interconnectedness of life in the “global village”.
These global forces that are reshaping the social fabric of society and overwhelming our experience of the world seem so inexorable and unstoppable that they give rise to confusion in our perception of the world around us. We vacillate between feelings of optimism (global development will bring economic prosperity) and pessimism (we are merely pawns in the hands of media moguls and financial tycoons).
Our mindsets are caught in the contestation of global myths related to terrorism, religious violence, nationalism, postcolonialism and multiculturalism. We are desperate for handles to understand, critique and subvert dominant global myths so that we may regain the ability and freedom to choose for ourselves how we should live.
But how can we break free from the hypnosis of the present age? In this public forum, Vinoth and Karin Ramanchandran will outline the contours of the dominant myths that hold captive our mindsets and suggest ways to think beyond the global herd mentality and free ourselves from ongoing colonial mindsets and practices.
Biodata of Speakers
Vinoth Ramachandra
Vinoth Ramachandra is from Sri Lanka, and lives in Colombo with his Danish wife Karin. He holds BSc and PhD degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of London. He currently works as the Secretary for Dialogue and Social Engagement for IFES, an international Christian federation of about 150 autonomous, national university student organizations. He gives lectures in universities, colleges and at conferences all over the world, and his special interests at present are in the areas of the dialogue between theology and science, bioethics and political philosophy. He is the author of five books of which the most recent is Subverting Global Myths (IVP Academic-USA and SPCK-UK, 2008). He has also been active for many years in the Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka, and in A Rocha, an international environmental network committed to fostering research and advocacy in the area of biodiversity conservation and caring for the earth.
Karin Ramachandra
Karin Ramachandra has been involved in different forms of Christian social work – with drug addicts in Denmark and Holland, Cambodian refugees along the Thai-Cambodian border and foreign prisoners in Bangkok’s jails.
She holds a Diploma in Psychology from Denmark and a B.A. in Counselling and an M.A. in Biblical Studies from the University of the Nations, an international university developed by YWAM. Her Master’s dissertation was on “Biblical Ethics for Working with the Poor”.
Karin is also on the Visiting Faculty of Colombo Theological Seminary. She teaches regularly on the following topics: A Christian worldview, a theology of suffering, justice and the poor and cross-cultural pastoral ministry.
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Synopsis of Vinoth Ramanchandran, Subverting Global Myths:
The Global Myths that hold us captive
What myths about terrorism are spread due to lack of historical memory and moral focus?
Why since 9/11 are religions blamed for violent conflicts around the world?
Are human rights self-evident truths, or does protection of rights around the world demand a deeper understanding?
How does liberal talk of multiculturalism mask the way cultural diversity is threatened by forces of secularism and capitalism?
What encourages the divorce of scientific research from moral reflection, with dire consequences for the planet?
Are we trapped between the contradictory stories that we are determined by our genes and that we have an unlimited capacity for redesigning ourselves?
What historical myths lie beyond current thinking about globalization, and how do we free ourselves from ongoing colonial mindsets and practices?
