THE SALVATION ARMY was established in 1865 when William Booth, a minister from London, brought the Gospel to the homeless, the poor and the hungry in the streets of London. Booth’s original aim was to direct these converts to the established churches of his day. But when he found that these new believers were not […]
THE SEED FOR THE FORMATION of the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) was sown by Mr Peter Joe Chia in June 1976. It bore fruit in 1977 when the Board of Social Concerns of Trinity Annual Conference under the leadership of Mr Lee Liat Cheng appointed Dr Chia Lin Sien to draft a constitution for […]
“As the Methodist Church grew with the development of Singapore, its mission expanded. The Methodist Welfare Services (MWS), formed in 1981, provides a wide variety of services to about 5,500 people every month to alleviate their financial, physical, social and psychological problems. While the MWS coordinates the work of looking after the socially disadvantaged in […]
BEING BROUGHT UP METHODIST, I was theologically conservative and careful about claims concerning the supernatural. It was not that I did not believe that miracles happened, but I had not expected of God such closeness and immediacy as I observed among prisoners. One man who started me on the quest for the reality of God […]
MMS Volunteers’ Appreciation Night THE METHODIST MISSIONS SOCIETY (MMS) celebrated Volunteers’ Appreciation Night at Sophia Blackmore Hall on Jan 7, 2011. It was an opportunity for the MMS to express heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the many individuals who have contributed their time, talents, knowledge and experience to it. We said “Thank You” in […]
HE ENTHUSIASTICALLY EXTENDED HIS HAND and introduced himself. I am Isaac, he announced to my surprise as I had braced myself for a name that I assumed would be difficult to remember. When Isaac adopted this rather quaint English name is unknown to me. I wondered if it was chosen recently in preparation for […]
RICHARD DUNN in his book Shaping the Spiritual Life of Students wrote: “ There can be quite a gap between knowing a truth is meaningful and learning that truth meaningfully in one’s life.” What Dunn wrote provoked me to reflect and evaluate the way I do discipleship. Does our Youth Ministry provide a conducive context […]
PLANS ARE UNDERWAY to prepare for the Aldersgate Hymn Festival, an iconic event in our annual celebration of the Aldersgate Convention. In line with the convention’s theme of “Go and Tell: Proclaiming the Gospel Today,” the Methodist School of Music (MSM) has started to plan for the Hymn Festival, to be held on Friday, May […]
The evangelist, Rodney Smith (1860-1947), otherwise known as “Gypsy” Smith because of his Gypsy background, was born in a tent, raised on a Gypsy camp, never attended a school – not even for a day! Yet, he influenced the lives of millions of people for God through his powerful preaching. Here he recounts an oft-forgotten […]
THE YOUNG EGYPTIAN was on his way to church. He came from a fairly wealthy family and was brought up in a godly way. By the time he was 20, his parents had died, leaving him to care for the estate and his only sister. It was now six months after his parents’ death, and […]
