THE Principal of Sha Tin Methodist College in Hongkong, Mr Lau Hor Keung, and six of his teachers came here recently on a goodwill and study tour of schools. During their four-day stay here from April 11 to 14, they visited Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road), Xinmin Secondary School and Victoria Junior College. They also visited […]
A TEAM of six Vietnamese government officials and church leaders was here recently on a three-day visit to study the role of religious organisations in society and relations between them and the Singapore Government. The visitors also held discussions with Trinity Theological College (TTC) on “a partnership” to provide theological training for Vietnamese students and […]
Bishop Frank W. Warne, who accompanied the mainly Christian pioneer group of Foochow settlers in their pilgrim journey to Sarawak, told of his experience baptising the very first converts. Making them responsible for the spiritual nurture of the new converts was a bold step, and a Wesleyan approach to personal/mutual accountability relevant even today. This […]
DON and Caroline Richardson went to live with the Sawi tribe, a Stone Age people in Irian Jaya, in the 1960s. There they learned the language and tried to understand the customs of the people. The Sawi were illiterate and were ignorant about iron; their tools were made of stone and wood. They also had some […]
RECENTLY, while visiting friends in a neighbouring country, we took time to drink coffee at an open café located on the top of a six-storey building. This building stood at a busy intersection of two major roads. There were buses, cars, bicycles and motorcycles pouring in from all directions into this road junction with […]
Chen Su Lan Home an expression of Methodists’ call to discipleship CHEN SU LAN Methodist Children’s Home is an expression of Methodists’ call to Christian discipleship and service. “It puts a human face on the church as we seek to serve our community and those who need our help,” said Bishop Dr Robert Solomon, who […]
WHAT kind of a Christian woman would: ■ LEAVE her father’s church as a teenager and join up with the tradition that once persecuted him? ■ RISK her marriage by refusing to give in to her husband in a political quarrel? ■ DISOBEY her husband – and church law – by holding “irregular” prayer […]
‘The Garden of Remembrance fulfilled all my hopes as a beautiful and dignified home for my father’s memorial site.’ — Dr Nigel Stanley in an e-mail to Methodist Message. THE headstone of a well-known English doctor who joined a Singapore medical practice in 1929 and the Malayan Medical Service three years later and was killed by […]
TRINITY Annual Conference (TRAC) of The Methodist Church in Singapore is partnering The Methodist Church in Sri Lanka (MCSL) to build 100 new houses in the Batticaloa district of East Sri Lanka for those affected by the devastating tsunami of Dec 26, 2004. Eighty per cent of the total project cost of $1,059,008 comes from […]
Should Christians condone euthanasia? IN THE modern world dying has become a problem! The extraordinary advances in science and technology have not only made it possible for doctors to alleviate pain but also to extend life. The possibility of being maintained on life support for months and sometimes years has resulted in much anxiety in both elderly and non-elderly patients. Patients and their […]
