ALDERSGATE METHODIST CHURCH opened the first Methodist Hostel in Cambodia last July. The primary aim of this ministry is to lead students to Christ and equip them to become Christian leaders. Devotions and Bible Study are conducted three evenings each week, and on Sunday afternoon hostelites come together for house church. Students are encouraged […]
Quadrennial Pastors’ Retreat GRACE. JUST WHAT IS GRACE? In three talks over three days, Dr Richard Heitzenrater, William Kellon Quick Professor of Church History and Wesley Studies at Duke University, dwelt at length on this topic as he engaged with some 120 pastors from the three Annual Conferences of The Methodist Church in Singapore. He […]
OBITUARY: REV DR GEORGE WAN TIAN SOO (Nov 10, 1936 – March 22, 2010) THE REV DR GEORGE WAN, who retired in 1998 after 33 years of service in the Methodist Church, passed away at the age of 73 on March 22, 2010, leaving his wife, Bee Bee, his son Joshua, his daughters Rebecca and […]
Methodist school students give generously to MWS Hongbao Donation Drive CHINESE NEW YEAR is a wonderful time for family bonding and catching up with friends. But for the youth, perhaps the biggest perk is getting to collect those money-filled hongbao. With a multitude of ways in which our youth can choose to spend their […]
WE MAKE MANY ASSUMPTIONS about video games, which can influence the way we view our children’s involvement with them. Some parents ban games altogether as “evil”. Others let their kids have a free run because they think of games as “harmless”.
WHEN I GRADUATED FROM LAW SCHOOL 10 YEARS AGO, most of my classmates plunged themselves into the corporate rat race, working 15-hour days in law firms. Law is a profession that pays well, if you are willing to sell your soul to it. Not willing to pay that price, I took what some would call […]
Maintaining marital harmony in a world of income disparity THE MODEL OF THE COUPLE where the husband is the sole breadwinner is fast becoming obsolete. For many households, wives would be working for much, if not for a significant, portion of their married life. With better education and improved employment opportunities, the average salaries […]
As presiding elder of the district, Rev W. E. Horley visited Malacca to inspect Methodist work and held a series of Chinese meetings. Satisfied with the work under the Chinese pastor, he was, however, convinced that there ought to be a missionary appointed there and that work should also be started amongst the Baba Chinese, […]
“Our ministry to the poor becomes a means of grace by which God does His work of holiness in us. It becomes a way by which God perfects us in His love and makes us Christ-like.” JOHN WESLEY, THE FOUNDER OF METHODISM, had a big heart for the poor. He came from a family where […]
CHURCHES SOMETIMES FIND DIFFICULTIES in getting members to serve as ministry heads or as members of the Local Church Executive Committee (LCEC). One of the reasons is probably their aversion to attending the numerous meetings which are often unavoidable. Meetings are necessary in the consultative and decision-making process of Methodist churches, but they do not […]
