Third HOPE Fair THE THIRD AND FINAL HOPE – Helping Our People – Fair, initiated and sponsored by Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC), was held at Paya Lebar Methodist Church on Oct 17. After months of preparation with partnering churches – Ang Mo Kio MC, Toa Payoh MC and Trinity MC – we opened our doors […]
AT THIS CELEBRATORY TIME of the year, Christ becomes the buzz word and His name is everywhere. Little kids sing it; shops shout it and advertisers make huge headlines out of it. However, it is in the context of the commercial CHRISTmas that Christ is being remembered by the larger community. Within the church, […]
I AM JILL KOH, 17, a Year 1 student in Catholic Junior College. I serve in the Youth Ministry of Trinity Methodist Church (TMC) as a youth group leader as well as a drummer in the youth worship team. This year, I will also be leading a group of youths to Cambodia for our annual […]
MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING HOW MANY FACETS are there to a person? Can one be somebody in one setting and quite somebody else in another? Experience tells us that this is possible. It seems in business and professional life that this is not only so but must be so. To “be professional” is to […]
IN CHURCHES THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD, the Christmas Story will be read and retold again. I wonder what part of the story catches your attention. What aspects are you more drawn to? Different scenes are especially poignant to us at the various stages in our lives. The part that has recently captured my imagination is […]
It is easy in a season of Christmas fun and food to forget the really poor and those helplessly sick. Miss May Lilly was in charge of the Methodist Girls’ School when it met in the Middle Road chapel more than a hundred years ago. Visiting some of her destitute pupils and their families, she […]
THE METHODIST CHURCH IN SINGAPORE (MCS) has given $20,000 to the victims of the recent natural disasters in the Philippines and Indonesia. e Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippines received $10,000, the United Methodist Church of the Philippines got $5,000, and the Methodist Church in Indonesia was given $5,000. In separate letters accompanying three bank […]
MY CHILDREN ASKED ME THIS RIDDLE. “What flies and yet does not move?” I could not solve the riddle. They answered, “Time, it flies but it doesn’t move.” Is that true I asked myself. Surely not. The reality of this comes especially as we come to the close of the year. This is the time […]
The old history of Adam and the new of Jesus AS WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, we must get to know one word. That word was important in the early church, but its significance has largely been forgotten. The word is Recapitulation. The word was used by the second century church father Irenaeus, for whom it became […]
WORD FROM THE EDITOR IN A MULTI-LINGUAL SOCIETY such as ours, we should be especially mindful of how we speak and write, partly not to be misunderstood, but mainly to convey information accurately and to communicate effectively. In short, we must express ourselves clearly. Unfortunately, we are apt to become careless, especially when we think […]
