80th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF GEYLANG METHODIST PRIMARY SCHOOL “Unless the Lord builds the house, the labourers labour in vain.” — Psalm 127:1. OUR hearts rejoice as we look back on how our Heavenly Father has so graciously sustained and showered His blessings upon us for the past 80 years. We started out as Geylang Methodist […]
80TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF GEYLANG METHODIST SECONDARY SCHOOL “GREAT is Thy Faithfulness” resonated through-out the school since the beginning of the academic year 2004. True to His promise, God has seen us through the difficult times and rallied all staff, pupils and parents of Geylang Methodist (GM) School together in celebration of our 80th […]
FIVE top church leaders from Malaysia, Indonesia, Britain and the United States will be attending the 8th General Conference of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) to be held at Sophia Blackmore Hall, Methodist Centre, from Oct 18 to 23, 2004. These guests are the newly-elected Bishop of The Methodist Church in Malaysia (a bishop […]
The Rev Raymond L. Archer, a Methodist missionary in Sumatra and later first locally-elected Bishop of this area in 1950, recounted how he and his church members helped many addicts to throw off their dependency on the vicious opium habit. ‘THAT the opium smoking habit is one of the worst influences in the moral and […]
Yes, but we must fill our pews not with consumers but with disciples of Christ WE LIVE in an age of no-frills airlines, no-frills hotels, and the like. Will we also see the emergence of no-frills churches? That would indeed be a good thing. It would greatly improve the spiritual health and maturity of the […]
AT THE end of July, an irate parent wrote a letter to The Straits Times Forum Page to complain about a morning radio broadcast during which one radio jockey host gave his advice on how a shy caller should approach a girl. His comments were found to be coarse and unacceptable. Even before the Media […]
Need to know how the church should respond to cultures THERE is a need to consider how the church should respond to the cultures existing in Singapore. Stating this at an international conference for Chinese church lead-ers, Bishop Dr Robert Solomon said “Stephen Neill has provided for us a helpful classification of cultural customs – […]
Methodist Hospice Fellowship conducts training sessions for caregivers and volunteers WHEN faced with a diagnosis of an incurable illness like cancer that is life threatening, the patient, his family and friends embark on what is described as “the journey of hospice care”. The journey of hospice care is often a roller-coaster experience and the patient […]
The Da Vinci Code Author: Dan Brown SOME months ago, my niece spoke to me about an exciting book that she was reading: Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Little did I know then that this fictional thriller has not only captured the coveted number one sales ranking at Amazon.com but also sparked some […]
PART 12 OF THE SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON ‘WISDOM TO LIVE BY: REFLECTIONS ON AN ANCIENT TEXT’ Ecclesiastes 7:1-14 EXPERIENCE, it is often said, is a great teacher. But, as J. A. Froude is quick to add, “experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes”. Even a cursory study of history will reveal that […]
