FOR the fi rst time ever, the TRAC Board of Seniors Ministry and the Glowing Years Ministry (GYM) held a Thanksgiving and Dedication Service on March 28. About 390 members and friends from 17 TRAC (Trinity Annual Conference) churches gathered at Christ Methodist Church for the service. It was a momentous occasion as it was the […]
How should Christians respond to surrogate motherhood? AMONG the various forms of artificial reproductive technologies surrogate motherhood is arguably the most controversial. A surrogate mother is a woman who carries a child for an infertile couple. There are basically two forms of surrogacy. In traditional surrogacy, the surrogate is inseminated by the husband’s sperm, generally because […]
TODAY, I remember my mother who loved my siblings and me so unconditionally that we miss her so much. She died in 2002 and for five years after her death, my father, siblings and I, and our families would visit her niche at the Garden of Remembrance on or near the date of her death […]
The class of 2008 that excelled at the A-Levels. ACJC Principal Mrs Kelvyna Chan (in pink blouse) is in the centre with the students. – ACJC picture. THE class of 2008 at Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC) has surpassed the benchmark set by their predecessors at the A-Levels. March 6, 2009 saw the release of the much-anticipated […]
THE outlook of 20 Trackers changed drastically when they came face to face with the clients of the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS). When Rachel Toh signed up for a four-week internship at an MWS Home, she did not expect to feed some of the elderly through their nose and stomach tubes. Not even in her […]
TRACKERS, a youth discipleship programme organised by TRAC (Trinity Annual Conference) Youth Ministries, offers a three-month intensive mentoring programme to give our young people an opportunity to encounter God through Word, Spiritual Disciplines and Mission. Its goal is to effect value change in our young people – i.e. from the world’s values to Kingdom values. […]
IF YOUR son or daughter is a student at one of the Methodist schools, then you have chosen what is often referred to as a mission school for your child. What can you expect? What does a mission school offer that others may not? Here are some of the things you can expect. 1. A […]
“WE NEED to find ways to open our churches for prayer every day,” Bishop Dr Robert Solomon urged Methodist lay leaders recently. Speaking on the “Devotional Life in the Wesleyan Tradition” at a Lunch Fellowship for Lay Leaders and Local Church Executive Committee (LCEC) Chairmen at Methodist Centre on March 21, 2009, he addressed the […]
THE Aldersgate Seminar on Saturday, May 23 at Barker Road Methodist Church will address the experiential aspects of worship. The Rev Dr David Chapman, who is one of two speakers at the Aldersgate Convention 2009, will address the theme, “The Wesleyan Experience of Worship” during the seminar, which is on the last day of the […]
As a young man studying in ACS, Chen Chang Lok was a favourite student of the Principal, the Rev Kingsley Pease. After completing his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree at the University of Chicago, he returned to Singapore in 1919. His experience of a holier-than-thou attitude of certain missionaries moved him to write this letter to […]
