PART 3 OF THE SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON ‘WISDOM TO LIVE BY: MODERN REFLECTIONS ON AN ANCIENT TEXT’ Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 “KNOWLEDGE is Power!” Ever since Michel Foucault, the French post-modern philosopher, formulated it, this slogan has been repeated, mantra-like, by politicians, scientists, policy makers and intellectuals of every stripe. Of course, the slogan does give […]
Mary Nind: One of most influential women in Methodist Church Mary Clarke Nind – ‘Our Little Bishop’ METHODIST readers are, no doubt, acquainted with the beginnings of women’s work in Singapore and Malaysia pioneered by Sophia Blackmore from 1887. They will have heard of Methodist Girls’ School and Fairfield Girls’ School, as well […]
Rickshaw-pullers at their Night School run by Foochow Methodist Church. — Methodist Church Archives picture. This unusual vignette of Christian social service 72 years ago is a good example of the mission of the Methodist Church in its earlier days. ‘A SCHOOL for rickshaw coolies is one of the interesting pieces of work being […]
COME Dec 6, right up to Christmas Eve, the nights in Changi Village will come alive to the light of the Star in the East and the voices of carollers. This is Love Changi Christmas Light-up 2003. The organising churches comprising the Salvation Army, Changi Baptist, Changi Christian Fellowship and Living Hope Methodist Church, […]
Beyond Belief Author: Elaine Pagels PROFESSOR Elaine Pagels’ latest book, Beyond Belief, is on the New York Times bestseller list. She reflects her own religious quest and scholarly research on early Christianity, exploring historical and archaeological sources and what Jesus and His teachings meant to eyewitnesses and early Christians. Her personal crises led her […]
THIS is the time of the year when the story of Christmas would be told countless times in nativity plays, sermons and magazine articles. The story of the birth of Jesus brings joy to our hearts and smiles on our faces as we hear the familiar carols in churches and shopping centres, on our car […]
Putting the finishing touches to a Christmas tree at last year’s Sharity Gift Box. – BB picture. The Boys’ Brigade Sharity Gift Box — Nov 28 to Dec 18, 2003 THE Boys’ Brigade Sharity Gift Box (BBSGB) is one of the longest-running national community service projects in Singapore advocating the spirit of caring and […]
National Day 2003: Nurturing every ACSian to be a Scholar, an Officer and a Gentleman. MOE awards recognise school’s commitment to provide holistic and ability-driven education for students ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL (Independent) won two Best Practice Awards for Organisational Effectiveness and Student All-Round Development and three Sustained Achievement Awards for Sports (5th Award), Uniformed Groups […]
Awards for Grace Kwee and Eric Chan ACCORDING to Miss Grace Kwee, our first Christian ministry worker recruited to work in the Methodist schools and a recipient of the 30-year Long Service Award, the Methodist Schools’ Get-together was started about 30 years ago to give the staff an opportunity to get to know one another […]
THE Foochow Methodist Church Tuition programme will be conducting a workshop on new Mathematics techniques for parents and teachers at its premises at 90 Race Course Road on Nov 15, 2003 from 2.45 pm to 4.45 pm. There will be a synopsis of some useful problem-solving heuristics to help participants unravel mind-boggling mathematics problems. The […]
