PHNOM PENH – The Cambodian Methodist Bible School, established in Phnom Penh in May 2000, was originally built by and for the Korean Methodist Church (KMC), which had begun its work in Cambodia in the early 1990s. It trains pastors and church workers for the Methodist Church in Cambodia. It offers a three-year Diploma of […]
Another milestone for ACS with opening of its school in Jakarta JUST a year after the successful launch of ACS (International) Singapore, another school, ACS (International) Jakarta, has been added to the ACS family of schools. This is yet another milestone in ACS history as ACS exports its brand of education beyond the shores of […]
What is Gnosticism? How did the early Christian leaders respond to its teachings? THE phenomenal success of Dan Brown’s controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code, and the recent hype surrounding the discovery of the Gospel of Judas have generated public and media interest in Christian Gnosticism. Scholars have not achieved a consensus on the origin of Gnosticism. Early sources also […]
ALDERSGATE CONVENTION 2006 was celebrated by Methodists at the Aldersgate Service on May 24 at Barker Road Methodist Church. This was followed by three evening talks given by the Rev Dr M. Robert Mulholland Jr, Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and a leading voice in biblical spirituality. The theme running throughout the four […]
THE Methodist Missions Society (MMS), in partnership with Transformation Alliance, a Singapore church grouping, is starting to extend care and love to the people of East Timor. It is reaching out to the people in Emera District. There are 498 villages (known as “sucos”) spread out in 13 districts. Each village comprises 10 to 15 […]
HAVE you ever wondered what people are looking for when they go online? Google Trends, a service launched by Google in May 2006, answers just that question. Google receives 200 million searches a day in 89 languages from all over the world. Some people have called Google “the closest thing the Web has to an […]
BARKER ROAD METHODIST CHURCH LAUNCHES NEW MINISTRY FOR SINGLES: connect@brmc AFTER praying for three years, finally on May 6, 2006, connect@brmc became a reality when 50 excited people gathered at Wesley Hall at Methodist Centre for a simple Dedication Service. It is the new ministry at Barker Road Methodist Church (BRMC) for singles – unmarried, widowed […]
MSM reaching out beyond its boundaries THE Methodist School of Music (MSM) celebrated its 9th year in testament of God’s faithfulness and blessing with an evening of thanksgiving, worship and music at the TA2 Sanctuary of Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church on April 29, 2006. The theme was “Blessings beyond Boundaries.” About 400 friends and supporters […]
Mrs Vera Ostrom, Methodist missionary in Sumatra, tells the story of Ah Moi’s faith and her sacrificial offering given out of love for her Lord. AH MOI and the Bok Su Niu (Pastor’s wife) had been good Christian friends in Bagan Si Api-Api. They had read the Bible and prayed together, and Ah Moi had […]
IF WE were really to follow Jesus, we would discover a difficult path – no, an impossible path (except for the grace of God). The crowds that followed Jesus did so for various reasons, most of them having to do with their happiness and comfort, happiness as reduced to creature comforts. On one occasion, after Jesus […]
