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Rev Ho Chee Sin, a three-term Bishop, conferred the title of Bishop Emeritus

6 January 2025

At the 13th Session of the General Conference that took place on 5 December 2024, delegates voted unanimously to confer the title of Bishop Emeritus on Rev Ho Chee Sin.

Reaping God’s harvest

1 January 2025

The 49th session of the Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) was held from 8 to 9 November 2024 at Ang Mo Kio Tamil Methodist Church.

An ageing congregation and use of AI in churches among challenges in next quadrennium, says outgoing TRAC President

1 January 2025

There are concerns and challenges ahead for the Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC) in this new quadrennium (2025- 28), said the outgoing President, Rev Stanley Chua. And these include an ageing congregation and the use of AI in churches.

Presidents’ Greetings 2025

1 January 2025

We thank God for bringing us into 2025, another year of his mercy and grace. The Church is God’s expression, we are called to live this out in comfort and peace or in time of difficulties and trouble. The expression of God’s righteousness is lived in and through us, disciples of Jesus Christ.

A new chapter unfurls in CAC history

1 January 2025

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” The words of Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV) remind us that to be a Christian is to acknowledge our temporality; to be awakened to the way history inhabits us and is inhabited by us.

New Bishop of MCS consecrated

6 December 2024

The new Bishop of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS), Rev Philip Lim, was consecrated on 6 December 2024 at Queenstown Chinese Methodist Church (QCMC) / Faith Methodist Church. Bishop Philip Lim, who attended QCMC as a child, will serve for the 13th quadrennium from 2025 to 2028.

Presidents’ farewell messages

1 December 2024

The three Annual Conference Presidents stepped down in November 2024. These are their farewell messages penned just before the 49th Sessions of their respective Annual Conferences. Rev Dr Gregory Goh, Rev Philip Abraham and Rev Stanley Chua will return to pastoral duties in the new quadrennium.

Bishop appoints new ACS Board of Governors Chairperson

1 November 2024

The ACS Board of Governors (BOG) has a new chairperson. Mr Choe Peng Sum will succeed Mr Richard Seow, who steps down after 16 years of service, with effect from 1 November 2024.

Is intergenerational worship worth pursuing?

1 November 2024

Thirteen-year-old Laura Janis’ verdict of her Choir Tool Box session with Dr Eudenice Palaruan was unwavering. She went on to describe how she had learnt several new songs, moved into a big circle to dance and experienced unity in music-making through playing a variety of percussion instruments.

Why Methodists should pay attention to the Lausanne Movement

1 October 2024

What would happen if someone called together a congress of 5,000 Christians from 200 different countries, from a wide range of ethnicities, ages, theological backgrounds and worship styles? And imagine adding to this, another several thousand joining in the conversation online, across multiple time-zones. What would result? Would this great pooling of diversity and difference result in division and disharmony? Or would this be an opportunity for the global Church to display and declare its unity in its Lord Jesus Christ? This was exactly what took place at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (L4), held in Incheon, South Korea from 22 to 28 September 2024.