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| Together in God's Mission |
Bishop Dr Robert Solomon's Message
METHODISM FIRST SET FOOT IN SINGAPORE 125 years ago when Bishop Thoburn and three others arrived on Feb 7, 1885. Within two weeks, following evangelistic meetings, the first Methodist church was constituted on Feb 23. We have come a long way since then, through two world wars, colonial days and independence, and all kinds of changes and challenges. Today we have grown, by God’s grace...
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| The Methodist Church in Singapore’s 125th Anniversary |
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How Methodism set foot on Singapore
AN INTERESTING STORY is told of how Methodism first set foot on our island. A small party of Methodists landed here on the SS Khandalla on Feb 7, 1885 – Bishop James and Anne Thoburn, the Rev William Oldham and Julia Battie. Two years earlier Thoburn, in India, had received a Macedonian call from Charles Phillips, superintendent of a Sailors Home in Singapore. The question among Thoburn and his colleagues was “What can we do for Singapore?”...
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Programme at a glance
Feb 28, 2010 – 125th Anniversary Celebrations begin with the launch of a Community Outreach Project and common liturgies for all church worship services.
Aldersgate Convention:
May 18-19 – Hymn Festival at Victoria Concert Hall;
May 21 – Dialogue with Bishop & Annual Conference Presidents;
May 22 – Aldersgate and 125th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service;
May 22 – Launch and distribution of a Commemorative Booklet.
Sep 10-12 – Young Methodist Leaders’ Conference.
Oct 31 – Methodist Heritage Walk (to be announced).
October – There are also plans for a book to be launched.
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| How long, Lord, must the poor remain poor? |
IT IS DINNER TIME and the Ng family (not their real name) get together in the cramped living room for their only meal of the day – rice and vegetables fried with anchovies. Dirty mattresses are strewn all over the floor of the two-room flat and a middle-aged man is sitting uncomfortably in a rickety rattan chair...
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| On teenage love and dating |
MANY YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS 17, my girlfriends and I did a naughty thing. On the wet cemented pavement outside our campus, we scribbled these words “Being Single Rocks” and laughed our way off. Back in my time, infatuation was common, but kissing was sacred and not to be seen in public,..
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| Helping others to taste the length and breadth of God’s love |
IN THE ECCLESIAL WORLD where the chasm between Praise and Worship songs in relation to Hymns seems to be growing wider, this work by Stuart Townend and Keith Getty appears to contradict the unspoken and unsettling sentiment among some quarters of the church that hymns are becoming extinct in the 21st century...
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| How should Christians understand the meaning and responsibilities of citizenship? |
THE WEBSTER DICTIONARY defines a citizen as “an inhabitant of a city or a town, a member of a country, native or naturalised, having rights and owing allegiance”. Broadly speaking, therefore, citizenship has to do with the relationship between an individual and a community...
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