Posted in reflections, tagged calling, seminary education, vocation, women in ministry on August 12, 2014| 2 Comments »
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By Wendy Choy-Chan
When I first considered going into seminary, a church friend asked if I had a calling to full-time ministry. My answer was, “not really… I just love to study the Bible and what I am getting at church and elsewhere is not enough.” She then said, quite bluntly, that I shouldn’t go because I didn’t have a calling. (more…)
Posted in poem, tagged calling, happiness, motherhood, parenting, vocation on January 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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By Tina Teng-Henson
these days I think a lot about my family
I don’t think I would have done this before I had a child (more…)
Posted in reflections, tagged motherhood, ordination, vocation, vocational discernment on December 17, 2013| 3 Comments »
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By Joy Wong
The last time I wrote for the blog was February this past year, when all things felt eclipsed by my pregnancy. Fast-forward ten months, and I now have a 7-month-old baby girl; how time flies! When pregnant, I often wondered how my journey in ordination would turn out after I became a mom. Would motherhood render me an “ordination dropout?”
It’s been a surprising journey — one that has required a constant assessment of my needs in order to know how to thrive as a mom. (more…)
Posted in reflections, tagged calling, preaching, vocation on May 7, 2013| 5 Comments »
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I was only a sophomore in high school, and preaching was one of the activities we had to do during a twelve-week discipleship class at church. I took the assignment quite seriously. Sure, the sermon wasn’t even mine since the requirement was to take one of my youth pastor’s sermons and preach from it, but I was the one up on the “pulpit”–a holy place where only the ordained ministers and laity could go up. (more…)
Posted in spotlight, tagged calling, child of God, identity, Kingdom values, performance, vocation on April 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Yonnie Cheng is a missionary in Taiwan who works with the rich and the poor. She is currently pioneering bases for Iris Ministries in Taiwan and Thailand, as well as starting an Iris international relief organization. Born in Taiwan, she immigrated to New Jersey with her family at the age of six. She has a masters in science, and worked as a physician assistant for two years before going on her first missions trip to Africa. Yonnie loves Asian food and snowboarding, and she is a painter and documentary artist. (more…)
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