“Boldly Ventured Is Half Won” (Latin/ German proverb). IN MARCH this year, four young Singapore organists embarked on an adventure to San Diego and Orange County, California. They took part in the American Guild of Organists (AGO) / Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists. The purpose of this US-based competition was to encourage organists below […]
“ONE Heart, One Spirit” – the theme for this year’s Founder’s Day Challenge – was clearly reflected by the many participants and spectators at the event commemorating the founding of ACS Oldham Hall, Singapore’s oldest boarding school. Since its founding soon after 1886, Oldham Hall has seen the changing faces of Singapore – through hardship […]
Puppetry workshop at GC-WSCS’ LifeHub@Sophia Blackmore Hall PUPPETS came alive when Ms Lee Hwee Chin, from CAST Puppet Ministry, Wesley Methodist Church, brought Igloo and friends to Sophia Blackmore Hall on April 27, 2007. It was the first puppetry workshop organised by the General Conference Women’s Society of Christian Service (GC-WSCS) at its LifeHub@Sophia Blackmore […]
“Is your life full of difficulties and temptations? Then be happy, for when the way is rough, your patience has a chance to grow. So let it grow, and don’t try to squirm out of your problems.” (James 1:2, Living Bible). A PROBLEM gives your life a jolt and knocks you off your accustomed track. […]
Should Christians support organ donations and transplantation? SINCE medical doctors Joseph Murray and David Hume performed the first successful living-related kidney transplant from identical twins in 1954, the science of organ transplantation has advanced by leaps and bounds. About 50 years later, there have been successful heart, pancreas, pancreas islet cell, intestine, lung, liver and […]
Youths dedicate two months of holidays to God to grow closer to Him JOURNEYS. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Elijah, Jesus, Paul … all made theirs. All of us make ours. For 27 youths, their journeys crossed paths as they reached a crossroads of their lives. They all made the same decision: to dedicate two months […]
TRAC-MALAYSIAN SENIORS FELLOWSHIP CAMP AT BUKIT TINGGI, PAHANG FORTY-THREE seniors from various Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC) churches waited eagerly at Newton car park for the coach on March 27, 2007 at 6.30 am to take them to Berjaya Hills Resort at Bukit Tinggi, Pahang for the TRAC-Malaysian Seniors Fellowship (MSF) camp. More than 300 participants […]
IT HAS been a great joy to hear of hundreds of Methodists investing their time and money to go on a short mission trip. For myself, after each trip I make, I ask myself two questions: 1. How were the missionaries and national pastors blessed and refreshed by my visit? When we left, did […]
The Rev Trevor Hancock, Methodist Missionary who served in Sarawak, gives us an eye-opening account of Thomas Coke, Methodism’s first bishop in America, whose zeal for preaching and missions was worthy of the founder of Methodism, John Wesley. ‘… IN THE main street of the small Welsh town of Brecon there is a plaque on […]
SOME sermons from the distant past may sound strange to our ears today. Take, for instance, John Wesley’s sermon, “On Obedience to Pastors”. Imagine you were in the congregation when he preached that sermon. You would have heard these words: “I would now apply myself in a more particular manner to you who desire me […]
