The season of Lent that started on Ash Wednesday, Feb17 this year, is a Christian festival in preparation for Easter. Many Christians have overlooked this important time of fasting and penitence, and need to be reminded of its origins and signifi cance. Mrs Joyce Foster, who was Acting Editor of Methodist Message in 1970, shares […]
THE WATER FROM HIS BAPTISM in the Jordan River evaporated quickly in the dry and hot Judean desert air as Jesus climbed the barren hills. Was He on His way to where the action was – to crowded urban Jerusalem, where the temple and palaces were? Or was He off to the gentle rolling hills, […]
AS WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF LENT let us bend our knees for “meaningful prayer”. The attitude that one has in God’s presence reflects one’s desire for God. In Luke 18: 9-14, we see in the tax collector a vivid picture of a penitent sinner. The tax collector was so utterly remorseful of his […]
WORD FROM THE EDITOR CHINESE NEW YEAR’S DAY, also known as chun jie or Spring Festival in China and to Chinese emigrants in all parts of the world, falls on Feb 14 this year. As Chinese everywhere, including ethnic Chinese worshipping in our churches in Singapore, celebrate this major Chinese festival, it is perhaps timely […]
FREDERICA (Delaware, U.S.) – On a bright November Sunday, 125 United Methodists gathered to thank and praise God at the spot where, 225 years earlier, the course of American Methodism took shape. The setting was Barratt’s Chapel at Frederica, Delaware, the oldest Methodist Church in the United States, originally built as a church. The […]
OBITUARY: TRACEY K. JONES, Jr (1917-2009) He pastored Wesley Methodist Church in Singapore in the early 1950s THE REV TRACEY JONES, JR passed away on Dec 16 in Sarasota, Florida, the United States, at the age of 92. He served as a Methodist missionary and was Pastor of Wesley Methodist Church, Singapore for a quadrennium […]
In Christ Alone In Christ alone my hope is found, He is my light, my strength, my song; this Cornerstone, this solid Ground, firm through the fiercest drought and storm. What heights of love, what depths of peace, when fears are stilled, when strivings cease! My Comforter, my All in All, here in the […]
How should Christians understand the meaning and responsibilities of citizenship? THE WEBSTER DICTIONARY defines a citizen as “an inhabitant of a city or a town, a member of a country, native or naturalised, having rights and owing allegiance”. Broadly speaking, therefore, citizenship has to do with the relationship between an individual and a community. In […]
MUTUAL RESPECT AND TRUST “Authentic church partnership, like good friendship, is built on mutual respect and trust. Thus, the friendship and partnership model cultivates mutual learning and provides an infrastructure conducive to promoting the “Study Tour on Missions”. Some have argued for only long-term missions as they will allow for the indispensable component of […]
NOVEMBER IS THE Annual Conference month, and last November, the three Annual Conferences held their respective 34th Sessions in different churches. The Chinese Annual Conference (CAC) held its Session at Paya Lebar Chinese Methodist Church from Nov 9 to 12, 2009. It was chaired, for the first time, by the Rev Dr Chong Chin Chung, […]
