PART 10: THE SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTRY OF THE METHODIST WELFARE SERVICES Ms Christine Wong, a trained counsellor with more than 25 years of experience in the social service sector, has helmed the Methodist Welfare Services as Executive Director since March 2005. Making sure the MWS runs smoothly is just one of her many tasks. […]
‘Numerous passages of the Bible support the doctrine of universal atonement. In John 1:29, John the Baptist introduced Jesus as the “Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”’ Did Christ die only for the elect? THE view that the sacrifi cial death of Christ on the cross has made available God’s […]
THE 2007 GCE “A” Level Examination marks the first cohort of Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC) students taking the new JC curriculum. In this new examination, every student is required to take a minimum of seven subjects, combining at least three Higher Two and four Higher One papers. At least one of the subjects must be a […]
The BRMCK Management, Ms Leong, the Principal, and her staff have been true to the church’s mission of reaching out to children and directing them to Christ by educating with a difference. BARKER ROAD Methodist Church Kindergarten (BRMCK) has been ranked by Edupoll as one of the top 10 preschools in Singapore. This ranking was […]
2nd Methodist Schools Student Leadership Conference at ACS (Barker Road) A TOTAL of 255 student leaders from nine Methodist secondary schools recently attended the 2nd Methodist Schools Student Leadership Conference at Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road). Organised by the ACS (Barker Road) Prefectorial Board, the student leaders came from ACS (Barker Road), ACS (Independent), ACS (International), Fairfield […]
FOUR Methodist leaders have been appointed as Justice of the Peace (JP) this year for a term of five years. They are Associate Professor Ngiam Tee Liang, Mr David Alexander Ong Liang Bong, Mr Kim Seah Teck Kim and Mrs Mildred Tan Beng Mei. They were among the 22 newly-appointed JPs who took their oath […]
Youth discipleship programme draws 39 young people from 11 churches TRACKERS 2008, a youth discipleship programme (organised by the Board of Youth Ministries, Trinity Annual Conference), was held at Bedok Methodist Church from Jan 2 to Feb 29. This year, a total of 39 youths from 11 churches, including one Chinese Annual Conference church, took […]
JOHOR BAHRU – Some 100 pastors from the three Annual Conferences benefited from a retreat conducted by Bishop William H. Willimon from the United Methodist Church in the United States. The three-day retreat was held in idyllic surroundings in Sofitel Palm Resort in Johor from March 25 to 27. The theme was “Wesleyan soundings for […]
Missionary Hobart B. Amstutz (later Bishop) recounts how the Ibans became Christians and formed the nucleus of the first Iban Methodist Church in Borneo in 1950 ‘AT THE beginning of the (20th) century, the Methodist Church sent the Rev James M. Hoover to Sarawak Borneo to begin work among the Chinese Christians from Foochow, China […]
RECENTLY my computer crashed and bade a sudden farewell to me. I tried to retrieve as many of my documents as possible, but found out, painfully, that I had permanently lost a number of sermons and an article that I had written. These were for future use. Rewriting the article was not a big problem as […]
