RETIREMENT, ORDINATION-CUM CLOSING SERVICE OF THE 34TH SESSION OF THE CHINESE ANNUAL CONFERENCE THE PASTOR’S FEARS, the Pastor’s Tears, the Pastor’s Ears, the Pastor’s Years. What do they have in…
I WAS FORTUNATE that the taxi unknowingly took my team up the mud track (three km) from Dai Lai village to the Faith Farm – a drug rehabilitation centre. The…
WORD FROM THE EDITOR “BAH! HUMBUG!” Those familiar with Charles Dickens’ tale of Ebenezer Scrooge will understand the emotions behind his savage outburst at the carollers. His very name has…
SCHOOLS ACS (INTERNATIONAL) has a vision statement that speaks of “developing future leaders with international vision, moral character, intellectual ability and deep compassion for humanity based upon Christian belief and…
How should Christians respond to the growing influence of secularism? THE WORD “SECULAR” comes from the Latin saecularis which means of an age or of a generation. This term points…
PHNOM PENH – It has been said that the most enduring ministry of the Methodist Church is with young people. More than a century ago, missionaries opened the first…
Third HOPE Fair THE THIRD AND FINAL HOPE – Helping Our People – Fair, initiated and sponsored by Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC), was held at Paya Lebar Methodist Church on…
AT THIS CELEBRATORY TIME of the year, Christ becomes the buzz word and His name is everywhere. Little kids sing it; shops shout it and advertisers make huge headlines…
I AM JILL KOH, 17, a Year 1 student in Catholic Junior College. I serve in the Youth Ministry of Trinity Methodist Church (TMC) as a youth group leader as…
MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING HOW MANY FACETS are there to a person? Can one be somebody in one setting and quite somebody else in another? Experience tells us that…
IN CHURCHES THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD, the Christmas Story will be read and retold again. I wonder what part of the story catches your attention. What aspects are you more…
It is easy in a season of Christmas fun and food to forget the really poor and those helplessly sick. Miss May Lilly was in charge of the Methodist Girls’…
THE METHODIST CHURCH IN SINGAPORE (MCS) has given $20,000 to the victims of the recent natural disasters in the Philippines and Indonesia. e Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippines received…
MY CHILDREN ASKED ME THIS RIDDLE. “What flies and yet does not move?” I could not solve the riddle. They answered, “Time, it flies but it doesn’t move.” Is that…
The old history of Adam and the new of Jesus AS WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, we must get to know one word. That word was important in the early church, but…
WORD FROM THE EDITOR IN A MULTI-LINGUAL SOCIETY such as ours, we should be especially mindful of how we speak and write, partly not to be misunderstood, but mainly to…
One Methodist’s perspective TWITTER IS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON on the Internet where one posts messages to answer the question “What are you doing now?” and this can be read by…
