A WORKSHOP to help Christian caregivers understand and respond to the needs of persons with dementia from a Christian perspective was held on July 22, 2006 at Sophia Blackmore Hall at Methodist Centre. The workshop was facilitated by Ms Kwok Sian Yee, Executive Officer of the Bethany Home Help Service, and conducted by Ms Sigi […]
SUNDAY, July 23, 2006 was set aside as Methodist Schools Sunday, a day commemorating the work and contribution of schools with a Methodist tradition in Singapore. Today, 14 schools on our island fly the banner of The Methodist Church in Singapore, each of which can trace its heritage to the pioneering work of many remarkable individuals, […]
MY DEAR Susanna, Today is our 15th wedding anniversary. I was feeling nostalgic when I woke up this morning so I took out our wedding album. The pictures refreshed my memory, as if our marriage took place just last week. Remember how we poured our hearts into our wedding preparations? We busied ourselves meeting the hotel people, going from one wedding boutique to another … until Margaret, our […]
Mrs Jolly Low playing for the ESN girls at Sophia Blackmore Hall. With her is Mrs Angeline Tambyah, 73, another volunteer pianist and teacher. – Methodist Message picture. At 92, Mrs Low still serves GC-WSCS by playing the piano “Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses Let us run the race not only for […]
Can you please explain the meaning of the Lord’s Supper? I participate in it month after month but am not sure of its significance. MOST theologians would agree that the institution of the Lord’s Supper goes back to Jesus Christ Himself. In all three Synoptic Gospels we have the explicit words of Jesus recorded by […]
THE Methodist Missions Society (MMS), through its social and welfare unit in Thailand, Muang Thai Mettakij Foundation, has presented fishing nets and equipment to fishermen affected by the December 2004 tsunami in a village to the north of the resort island of Phuket. Twenty-one families, comprising about 100 people, in this small fishing village in Ban Nai Rai in […]
FOR three nights, July 27 to 29, the grounds at Methodist Girls’ School (MGS) became a theatre where the girls enacted stories from the Bible. Each night at half-past six and again at nine, two groups of about 150 each followed either Eve or Satan on the trail of some famous (and infamous) women from the Bible. […]
METHODIST Girls’ School (MGS) celebrated the dedication and opening of a new educational block – the Puan Sri Helene Tan Chin Tuan Building – with a month of celebrations in July-August called Celebrate MGS. The dedication service was conducted by Bishop Dr Robert Solomon on July 14, 2006 in a school blessed in its people, […]
MORE than 100 years ago, at great cost and personal sacrifice, Christians from the United States, Britain and Australia • Left their homes and came to Singapore as missionaries, pastors and teachers, • Raised money to purchase land and build churches and schools, and • Gave everything to us – entrusting us with the […]
EDITOR: Mrs Lee Foong Ming, a member of the Methodist Message Editorial Board and a member of Covenant Community Methodist Church, was involved in a road accident on July 24, 2006. She shared her testimony with Christian and non-Christian friends in an email. She agreed to have her testimony published in Methodist Message because, she […]
