The Third Place

Sunday Worship Service in progress One of the challenges to missions is to continue to be relevant to the needs of the people to whom we are ministering. In Cambodia,…

Christus Victor

Last September, my wife and I visited for the first time the famous Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where the greatest Baroque composer, Johann Sabastian Bach (1685–1750), served as Thomaskantor. The…

Leading the community to Christ

The TPCMC building after their latest development works Toa Payoh Chinese Methodist Church (TPCMC) was born in 1971 when Faith, Foochow, Kum Yan, Kampong Kapor and Wesley Methodist Churches came…

What’s in a name?

Amid the emerging global health crisis, an intense discussion may have gone unnoticed. Whilst the larger part of the scientific community were busy trying to understand how the novel coronavirus…

The Garden of Gethsemane

“Peter replied, ‘Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will’” (Matt 26:33, NIV). How often we are like Peter—believing that our conviction to follow Jesus is…

Appreciating the unseen

Appreciating the Faith MC cleaners “Auntie, jiak ba buay?” That’s my best attempt at making conversation with one of the aunties in our cleaning staff. If the conversation goes on…

What I owe the Methodists

ACS later moved to Coleman Street to accommodate the rapidly-increasing enrolment A Tale of Two Peranakan Families Humanly and historically speaking, I owe my life to the Methodists. My paternal…

Christ-centred creation care

Should the Church care for the earth? To explore this question, let us consider the overarching framework of salvation history—the story of God’s good creation, damaged by our rebellion, reconciled…

An authentic community

Rachel Tham of Faith MC Comms I’ve been told that what sets Methodists apart from other denominations is our heritage of schools and education, our culture of music and the…

Peace Be With You!

This was the greeting the risen Lord gave His frightened disciples when He appeared among them on the evening of the first day of the week. The gospels tell us…

MCS celebrates 135 years!

Bishop Dr Chong greets worshippers at the MCS 135 launch service, and also Wesley MC’s 135th anniversary celebrations It was a beautiful morning on 16 Feb 2020. In the main…

What is my purpose?

Participants at the Asian Young Women’s Leadership Development Seminar Asian Young Women’s Leadership Development Seminar Three dozen young ladies from Singapore and nine other Asian countries gathered to ponder over…

God’s Gardeners

Creation Care Stories from Singapore and Malaysia How do we show love and stewardship for God’s creation in one of the world’s most densely built-up cities? God’s Gardeners—“Singapore’s first book…

Bridging a gap in understanding

Bishop Dr Chong speaks at the One MCS Methodist Leaders’ Fellowship with the Rev Raymond Fong translating One MCS Gathering: Methodist Leaders’ Fellowship On 5 Feb 2020, Bishop Dr Chong…
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