MY GRANDFATHER didn’t care much for Roman Catholics with good reason. Working as a missionary in the jungles of Mindinao in 1918 he barely escaped death at the hands of…
Some thoughts concerning the casinos THE Government recently announced that Singapore will have two casinos. This decision, after much private and public debate, came as a great disappointment to many,…
NASHVILLE — In the aftermath of one of the world’s deadliest natural disasters, complexities abound. How will we help care for the injured and orphaned? Assist in burying the dead?…
AFTER weeks of preparation, March 5, 2005 finally saw the long anticipated launch of “Project Inkwell” with a literary festival, MGS Book Fest. From as early as nine in the morning, students, teachers, families…
A VISITING American couple, Mr and Mrs William Ross Conners, gave “full marks” to the Methodist Heritage Tour. At the end of the tour, Mr Conners, 79, a retiree, told…
PART 19 OF THE SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON ‘WISDOM TO LIVE BY: REFLECTIONS ON AN ANCIENT TEXT’ Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:8 AFTER a sustained and at times torturous reflection on the meaning…
Visiting US couple and two Nepalese pastors among 35 participants THE inaugural Methodist Heritage Tour on March 4, 2005 turned out to be a “live” history lesson in more ways…
ACS COMBINED 119TH FOUNDER’S DAY CELEBRATION Holistic ACS education should direct students back to God: Bishop OUR Hearts, our Hopes, our Aims are One” – this was the spirit that filled…
Aldersgate 2005 ‘Methodist Worship in Context’ seminar CAN Methodists maintain the old forms of worship and still be relevant? The upcoming seminar, “Methodist Worship in Context” on May 27 and 28,…
There’s value in different mission groups and churches working together ONE of the effects of globalisation is that for the financially able, there is greater access and ease of travel to…
The early missionaries to this region were assisted by many local “Asiatic” men and women who helped bear the heavy burdens that missionary work entailed. Mrs Nathalie Toms Means, wife…
THERE have been several attempts to unseat God from heaven. Lucifer and his rebellious angel friends tried it a very long time ago, and failed (Is. 14:12; Rev. 12:7-9). They…
Stewardship is planning to get maximum returns for God’s purposes YOU may know people who are penny-wise, pound-foolish: people who are generally frugal but when a windfall hits, they go berserk…
Its history intertwined with Methodism in Singapore AS THE first Methodist church to be established in Singapore, the history of Wesley Methodist Church is closely intertwined with the beginnings of…
NEW YORK – As Indonesian officials once again increased the estimated death toll from the Dec 26, 2004 tsunami, United Methodists continued their efforts to assist the survivors. The denomination raised…
IT WAS a fitting start to the year as all the staff from the Anglo-Chinese Schools were reminded at the Staff Dedication Service for 2005 to give praise and honour to…
NASHVILLE – The tidal waves that struck countries along the Indian Ocean prompted the Rev R. Randy Day to set aside an earlier text he had developed for a New…
PART 18 OF THE SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON ‘WISDOM TO LIVE BY: REFLECTIONS ON AN ANCIENT TEXT’ Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 WHEN I was in my early teens, the book of Ecclesiastes…
WORSHIP services are the punctuation marks of our lives. Like punctuation marks, the worship service can be an indication of the end of a thought and the beginning of a new…
ARE you happy if your teenaged son or daughter is compliant, obedient, sporty, diligent, exercises regularly, dresses decently? Do you become unhappy when he or she presses for independence, is rebellious,…
