RECENTLY a cousin called me to pick my brains, so she said. She has been going to this particular Methodist Church for a number of years and one day, happened to pick up a Bible from the pew. On the inside page, it read “Property of xxx Methodist Church. Please do not remove.” It […]
THE Methodist Children and Youth Centre (MCYC) has been appointed by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) to help recruit foster parents to join the Fostering Scheme. Methodists have always answered the call to social action, to express God’s love in practical ways. This is one more avenue of social action that […]
LAKE JUNALUSKA (North Carolina) – The World Methodist Council has presented the 2008 World Methodist Peace Award to Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States and The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. Her commitment to abolishing the death […]
Our leaders at least must know how our Church evolved From Mission to Church The Evolution of The Methodist Church in Singapore and Malaysia: 1885-1976 Author: Earnest Lau Publisher: Armour Publishing Pte Ltd 320 pages, $25 THE story of how the Methodist Mission started in 1885, grew and evolved from a “mission” to become the autonomous Methodist […]
DILI – The Methodist Missions Society (MMS) is rendering help, through its missionary, Ms Lace Sim, to the Familia Hope Orphanage in Gleno, Ermera District of Timor Leste. There are 28 children and youths aged between 10 and 18 living in the orphanage. The MMS has seized opportunities to be a channel of God’s […]
Is there scriptural basis for the doctrine of purgatory? ACCORDING to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994), “All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of […]
Lay Leaders Fellowship LAY LEADERS and Local Church Executive Committee (LCEC) heads learned about Methodist connectionalism at the Bishop’s Lunch Fellowship on March 29. Bishop Dr Robert Solomon shared with the 55 lay leaders about the importance of being a connectional church. He pointed out that, unlike some other Protestant denominations in which each congregation is independent, Methodists share a mutual bond at various […]
LIKE all Family Service Centres, Tampines Family Service Centre (FSC) has three core services: Information and Referral, Casework and Counselling and Preventive and Developmental Programmes. The following are some of its programmes: • The Children’s Club was set up for the children in the neighbourhood to enhance their social, physical, emotional and intellectual wellbeing. […]
PART 9: THE SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTRY OF THE METHODIST WELFARE SERVICES Ms Connie Ng, Tampines Family Service Centre’s Assistant Director, strongly believes in supporting and nurturing social workers to enable them to help others. ‘AS THE Assistant Director at Tampines Family Service Centre (FSC), my responsibilities include overseeing the general operations at the centre […]
ALDERSGATE Convention 2008 is all set to begin. Are you ready for it? The week-long convention will be held at Wesley Methodist Church from May 19 to 24. It comprises five evening talks (two in Mandarin and three in English), two morning seminars (in English) and the Aldersgate Service (in English with simultaneous interpretations in […]
