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Student Preaches at Duke Chapel Service Feb. 28

Senior Yi Ying Teh’s sermon titled, “Everybody’s Got the Blues”

Senior Yi Ying Teh is this year's student preacher at Duke Chapel.
Senior Yi Ying Teh is this year's student preacher at Duke Chapel.

Duke University senior Yi Ying Teh has been selected as this year’s Duke Chapel student preacher.  She will deliver her sermon, “Everybody’s Got the Blues,” during the chapel’s worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, in Page Auditorium. Teh said her message, based on I Corinthians 10:1–13, is about, “What it means not to claim to have life’s answers, as Christians, but to be able to embody Christ in flesh and blood to the people who are suffering around us.” Teh, from Singapore, is a double major in public policy and environmental science and policy. She is a PathWays Chapel Scholar, a member of Asian InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Duke and a co-president of the campus group Duke Voices for Interfaith Action. Last fall, she participated in the Campus Festival of Young Preachers at Duke. She also regularly attends worship at CityWell United Methodist Church in Durham. "Yi Ying’s sermon displays her deep commitment to Christian faith, as well as her wisdom gained through meaningful interfaith engagement across traditions,” said Adam Hollowell, director of student ministry at Duke Chapel. “Her thoughtfulness and abiding commitment to friendship are evident in her words calling us to imitate Christ’s humility.” Upon graduating Teh plans to return to Singapore to serve as a civil servant as part of a scholarship she received. Sunday’s service will be webcast, broadcast on WDNC Radio 620 AM and broadcast on channel 12 of the Duke Hospital cable system. Watch it online here: https://chapel.duke.edu/events/university-worship-page-auditorium-1456675200-1456678800.