TRAC-MALAYSIAN SENIORS FELLOWSHIP CAMP AT BUKIT TINGGI, PAHANG FORTY-THREE seniors from various Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC) churches waited eagerly at Newton car park for the coach on March 27, 2007…
The Rev Trevor Hancock, Methodist Missionary who served in Sarawak, gives us an eye-opening account of Thomas Coke, Methodism’s first bishop in America, whose zeal for preaching and missions was…
SOME sermons from the distant past may sound strange to our ears today. Take, for instance, John Wesley’s sermon, “On Obedience to Pastors”. Imagine you were in the congregation when…
CHURCHES that are growing and dynamic almost always have a strong culture and history of youth ministry. With this thought in mind I set out to understand the youth ministry…
ON HOLY SATURDAY, April 7, 2007, about 4,500 students from the 15 Methodist schools and some 1,000 members from the Methodist churches came together as a Christian family to “Walk…
IT HAS taken time and effort during the past decade for St Francis Methodist School to grow and to give relatively disadvantaged students an opportunity to develop their potential, often…
PHNOM PENH – Singapore’s Ambassador to Cambodia, Mr Lawrence Anderson, visited The Methodist School of Cambodia on March 21, 2007. Accompanied by the Second Secretary, Mr Jonathan Lim, he…
THE “A” level results were released on March 2, 2007 to a jubilant cohort of 950 students, the largest in the history of Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC). By the grace…
RETIRED Methodist missionary Rev J. Harry Haines (picture above) passed away at the age of 89 on March 29, 2007 in Eugene, Oregon, leaving behind his wife, Loma Housley and…
BISHOP’S FELLOWSHIP WITH CHURCH LEADERS “SPIRITUAL formation has to do with making us holy.” With these words, Bishop Dr Robert Solomon engaged in a discussion with lay leaders on the…
It is clear that the Christian Tradition opposes abortion because it is the wilful killing of another human being. But are there no exceptions? What about pregnancies that result from…
Event celebrates Charles Wesley’s 300th birthday New arrangements composed by seven Asian musicians HOW better to celebrate the 300th birthday of Charles Wesley than to hear and sing his hymns…
THE Permanent Secretary of the Public Service Division in the Prime Minister’s Office, Ms Lim Soo Hoon, was named Her World’s “Woman Of The Year” on March 6, 2007. Ms…
BOYS’ BRIGADE CHARITY GOLF 2007 THE Boys’ Brigade Charity Golf 2007 was teed off on a sunny March 6 afternoon. The golfers played hard at the Tampines Course in Tanah…
HE JUST could not stop talking. His face was beaming. In less than one year his school, which receives poor students from the surrounding farming community, has been transformed.…
Bishop James Thoburn’s sister, Isabella, who founded the women’s college in Lucknow, India, remembered their mother’s strict training which stood the family in good stead through hard times. Preferring a…
THIS year Methodists all over the world celebrate the 300th birth anniversary of Charles Wesley – God’s poetic gift to the Methodist movement and the larger Body of Christ. Charles…
IN RECENT years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of mission trips to poorer countries neighbouring Singapore. This prompts us to ask, “What is it that…
CHARLES (top) AND JOHN WESLEY: They created many thousands of hymns in their life time THE Wesley brothers, as we are all familiar with, never did leave behind…
