Posts by Abigail Soon (Page 3)

Last week, I had the opportunity to take Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training online. MHFA is quite similar to first aid, where you try to stablize/provide temporary relief to someone injured until help arrives, except you’re trying to help people with mental health challenges. This was my first time taking live online training, and I have to say that it was excellent. I had a great instructor who brought the course material to life and taugh us many useful…

A few days ago, I was working through university applications. Basically, you input your personal information, academic background, schools of choice, and supporting documents into the form. At the end, you get a summary of your application and fee. When I saw the fee, my heart skipped a beat. I’m not telling you what it was, but it was a LOT. I hadn’t even finished adding in all my university choices, and I was pretty sure that when I was…

This week, BSF covered the story of Jesus healing the blind man in John 9. A point that stood out from the night’s lecture was “[Some] Christians think that their story is not worth sharing because they feel their story is not as painful and therefore not effective as someone else’s. When we think this way, we forget that our testimony is not about us, it’s about Jesus. Because each one of our stories is unique, they all reveal different…

I had an essay prompt that ran along the lines of “What do you expect to be remembered for and why?” It really got me thinking, If I died today, what would people say at my funeral? It’s a morbid topic, I know, but bear with me. The “Correct Christian Answer” would obviously be “people saw Christ in me”. As I was trying to envision what that would look like on paper, a thought I had was, In what scenarios…

In the movie The Fellowship of the Ring, Galadriel tells Frodo, “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”, and it really got me thinking about the impact we have on the world. It’s easy for us to see CEOS and politicians calling the shots and making big changes in the world and think that what we do is pretty insignificant compared to them. This reminded me of when I went through the story of the 5…

Last week, I attended the Toronto Children’s Ministry Conference with some people from LifeSpring. I learned so much from the workshop presenters and speakers, and while I was reflecting on my takeaways from the conference, God gave me a verse that pretty much summarized them. “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” James 1:19-20 Let me break…

I heard so many gems from Dr. Siang Yang’s sermon and leadership training on Sunday. One line that really jumped out at me from the leadership training was “Don’t try to do great things for God. When you try to do great things for God, the emphasis is on the great things. It’s not about God, it’s about how great you are and the great things you do. Do things simply for a Great God.” He was spot on. If…

My family invited some friends over for dinner the other day, and one of my friends told me “Your house is full of treasure!” It really got me thinking, “What are the things in our lives that we don’t generally think of as treasures?” It’s usually the little things that slip through the “things I am grateful for” cracks.  For instance, my friend was mainly referring to my mom’s cooking and kimchi. I’ve heard many people say that growing up…

I was in a church service the other day where the worship team and worshippers were on fire and quite a few people in the congregation shared a testimony.  You’d be correct in thinking that I just described this Sunday’s Service. However, this description also applies to the morning service at Glory of Zion, a Mandarin church I attend. The only real difference between the two services was content and there was no sermon that morning, but let me tell…

Have you ever had one of those days where things unexpectedly work out really well? For me, it wasn’t exactly one day, but the days leading up to the first day of BSF (Bible Study Fellowship). This year, our study would be fully in-person at a church, and while I prefer in-person to online gatherings, I didn’t have a ride and busing down would be a hassle. To top it off, I had forgotten about BSF starting in September, so I…

Last week, I went camping with my family and some friends for a few days. I enjoyed most of it, but there was one day where it rained pretty heavily the whole day, which ruined our plans to go on a hike and check out the programs/activities in the park, so we spent the day at our friends’ yurt. I thought, “This is not ideal AT ALL.” However, I realized that ideals are our (often unrealistic) ideas of a “perfect…

I came across a podcast episode a few months ago titled “If you want to Succeed, Slow Down”. The theme of this was consistency, not just in not slacking off, but also in not overdoing things. It’s easy to go all out when starting/learning something new in the hopes of getting results fast, but it will quickly backfire when you can’t keep up with doing as much as possible every day to achieve your goal. It’s easier to stick to…