TRINITY Annual Conference (TRAC) of The Methodist Church in Singapore is organising an International Prayer Conference for Wesleyans in Renewal – Restoring the Wesleyan Flame – to be held at the ACS (Barker Road) Campus from June 16 to 19, 2004. It will begin with an Opening Service on June 16 at 8 pm. Besides […]
Jesus Driven Ministry Author: Ajith Fernando Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2002 255 pp, Hardback, $30 THIS year’s Aldersgate speaker, Dr Ajith Fernando, wears many hats. The Sri Lankan is a sought-after speaker with a world-wide ministry, a pastor of a Methodist church in a country torn by ethno-religious strife, a supervisor of a drug-rehabilitation ministry […]
ASIAN Methodist Bishops have been given three reasons why they should unite and work closer. They are: Because of rapid changes in the region, there is a need for church leaders to come together to pray and think of ways of strengthening the witness of the church in Asia; In view of difficulties and persecutions […]
Finding rest in the midst of restlessness THE scream of a disturbed child shatters the silence of the night. It is soon joined by a mother’s loving and reassuring lullaby. Fear and love then have a strange conversation and fear begins to listen to love. The frightened child is soothed when he feels his mother’s […]
John the Baptizer appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance – Mark 1:4. THE church of today lives in an ethically debilitating climate. Where did we go wrong? Was it the urbane self-centredness of Peale’s Power of Positive Thinking and its therapeutic successors? Was it the liberal, civic-club mentality of the heirs to […]
IT’S here – the Aldersgate Convention 2004. And registration is still open for the Aldersgate Day Seminar on “Nurturing Religion of the Heart” to be held at Sophia Blackmore Hall on the 6th floor of Methodist Centre on May 21 and 22, 2004. The early-bird concession of $50 per person has been extended to church […]
MORE than 140 people turned up for the valedictory service in honour of Dr Lee Soo Ann who retired from the Bible Society of Singapore (BSS) as its General Secretary last December. It was a moving scene when tributes were read out by BSS staff and leaders of other national bible societies and the United […]
I PRAISE and honour God for giving me the opportunity to give my testimony at the GC-WSCS Thanksgiving Service. I was married for five years and I was childless. My husband and I wanted to have a baby as early as possible. I was called “barren”. All of us know that the word “barren” is […]
lashback: President Trajkovski (left) receiving the 2002 World Methodist Peace Award. – UMNS picture. PRESIDENT Boris Trajkovski, a United Methodist who helped unite his country of Macedonia and was admired in many circles for his skills at peacemaking and bridge-building, died on Feb 26, 2004 in a plane crash in southeastern Bosnia. The 47-year-old […]
WHAT is the biblical perspective for Christian social concerns? What is “social holiness”? How do you even start reaching out to the least among us? The Rev Dr Daniel Koh, a lecturer at Trinity Theological College and District Superintendent (West) of Trinity Annual Conference, will address these topics at the Christian Outreach and Social Concerns […]
