“Voices from Scripture” is a work of fiction based on some references in Scripture to “minor” characters. As the Bible gives us few lines about these people, this series imagines what they would have been like, their personality, and what their thoughts could have been in the situations mentioned. It is hoped that as the […]
OBITUARY: REV WILLIAM DENVER STONE (Dec 11, 1926 – May 8, 2004) THE Rev William Denver Stone who passed away on May 8, 2004 at a nursing home in Greensboro, North Carolina at the age of 77, was a Methodist missionary for 32 years in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore before he retired in 1990. Something […]
Trying to help one of the pupils in the girls’ school in Sibu, Sarawak, missionary Rev J. M. Hoover tells of the strange encounter he and his wife had with … ‘SEVERAL years ago two Chinese girls from the bazaar came to the girls’ school. They were not Christians. The older sister later married one […]
TRY this thought experiment. You wake up one morning and prepare to go to work. You go to the kitchen and greet your wife but she does not return your greeting. “Is she angry with me?” you wonder. You stand in front of her and ask her what is wrong. She ignores you and does […]
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road … that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of the treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. — Acts 8:26ff. IT HAPPENED again […]
Inspiring Aldersgate Service enhanced by sterling performances of singers and musicians THE beauty of Wesleyan songs was evident. The singing of the Method-ists was stirring. The joy was bursting. And there was passion in the way the choir, the musicians, the conductors, together with the congregation, went about giving praises in songs. It was, all in all, […]
VOICES of Praise will present an evening of sacred classics and spirituals entitled “Sing Sing Sing” at Queenstown Chinese Methodist Church on June 4 and at Kim Tian Christian Church on June 12 in aid of their building funds. The full concert programme will also feature several Chinese songs, including two familiar favourites, “Flowers of […]
“Voices from Scripture” is a work of fiction based on some references in Scripture to “minor” characters. As the Bible gives us few lines about these people, this series imagines what they would have been like, their personality, and what their thoughts could have been in the situations mentioned. It is hoped that as the […]
A picture taken in 1960 of the Rev David Tsutada (centre) on a visit to his alma mater, ACS. Others in the picture: his teachers, from left, Mr S. K. Pradhan, Mr Yap Ah Chuan, Dr Thio Chan Bee and the Rev C. B. Paul. – Methodist Church Archives picture, courtesy of Dr Eunice Thio. […]
A group of pastors discussing the significance of the Holy Communion. – Methodist Message picture. COMBINED PASTORS’ RETREAT AT SOFITEL PALM RESORT, JOHOR: APRIL 13-15, 2004 “THE ministry of the Word” was the theme for the Combined Pastors’ Retreat when nearly 100 Methodist pastors gathered at Sofitel Palm Resort in Johor from April 13-15. […]
