A Yale Alumna Shares
"Growing up, I imagined Christianity was about being right, and I sought to understand God intellectually. It was only in college that God became real, as I was nearly 10,000 miles away from home and constantly challenged about my faith. I had to figure out what I actually believed. Christian Union’s ministry at Yale was a safe refuge to bring my questions and doubts. When I studied abroad in India, South Africa and Brazil, I struggled to understand how a loving God could allow injustice, poverty and discrimination to perpetuate. I poured over the gospels for answers; we didn't shy away from the hard questions. Eventually I saw how Jesus surrounded himself with the forgotten people of the first century, and how radical it was that He had come to save people like us. When I was baptized this spring, I shared my testimony with my Yale community.
During my senior year at Yale, I served on the ministry’s student executive team. We kept tabs on the spiritual pulse of the ministry at Yale, and mentored and encouraged the other student teams. These are some of my closest friends –we supported one another through thick and thin. And we did our best to show God's love (as much as we could, within our human capacity) to our neighbors - Yale students and staff, people in New Haven - and encourage one another.
Having just graduated, I'm now working in Singapore’s equivalent of the US Department of Labor. I write, evaluate and review foreign manpower policies and analyze trends in service sectors like retail, maintenance and healthcare.
Yale is an incredible place, with talented, brilliant people. It’s still a highly liberal environment, but God is up to great things at Yale right now!"
Stephanie was recently in the news at Yale for her leadership role representing her home country of Singapore at the Youth 20 Dialogue in Berlin. You can read about the speech she delivered to German Chancellor Angela Merkel here.
