THE METHODIST MISSIONS SOCIETY’S (MMS) MISSION for China is to train disciples and disciple-makers so that many preaching points and churches will be planted by the nationals themselves. MMS missionaries and teaching teams from Singapore Methodist churches have been training the national preachers and workers through small groups and seminars in China. The MMS […]
Dedicated teachers and school environment helped Shyam Srinivasan fulfil his potential IT WAS THE YEAR 2006. We had recently received news of an ex-student of Geylang Methodist Secondary School who had been awarded the Public Service Commission (PSC) Overseas Merit Scholarship to study at Oxford University. There was a buzz in the staff room as […]
THE WORLD IS COMING to our island in the form of SYOG! From Aug 14 to 26 next year, Singapore will be hosting the first-ever Youth Olympic Games. Some 5,000 athletes and officials from around the globe will be coming, not counting the 500,000 visitors expected. is presents unparalleled opportunities for us to make Jesus […]
Volunteering with Agape Methodist Hospice: An outreach of Methodist Welfare Services “I ONCE FAINTED at the sight of my own blood, so I would have been the last person to volunteer at any kind of medical facility. Just thinking of the tubes and needles that are part and parcel of the work makes my […]
INITIALLY, WE WOULD GATHER at weddings. Then it would be at our children’s birthday parties. Now, we bump into old friends when there is a death, sometimes of a parent and sometimes of a mutual friend. Such events invariably leave us feeling awkward, saddened with grief and even anxious for ourselves. We are also […]
N – NURSE MY CALLING WAS LARGELY RELATED to my Christian heritage. My parents were Methodists who faithfully brought my brother and me to Sunday School week after week. From young I learned to do good and not evil. When I finished school in the 1960s, the majority of the girls were either nurses or […]
The personal testimony of how a lost sheep was found many years ago is a refreshing reminder that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. It may perhaps help us remember the commitment we made at our baptism, often overlooked in the hurly burly of the busy world in which we […]
A DELUSION “Beware of the delusion that religious busyness is equivalent to knowing God. It is not.” AT ITS HEART, the Christian faith is not a religion as such. It is a Person. Rules and rituals may be important but they are not at the heart of Christian discipleship or church life. It is the […]
Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marvelled because of their unbelief. (Mark 6:5-6a, NKJV.) UNBELIEF PREVENTS EVEN GOD from performing mighty works. The people who had seen Jesus of Nazareth grow up could not accept the fact […]
THE PIONEERS “Though informal groups of Methodist men might have started meeting and praying together in the past, the first of the formal groups, who called themselves Men’s Small Groups or MSG, was formed at Barker Road Methodist Church in 2001, initially with only seven members.” THERE ARE MANY CHURCHES in the United States, especially […]
