A HIGHLY successful debate on contemporary issues and problems faced by the Christian community was held over three consecutive Saturdays in July. DEBATE ’03, organised by the Board on Discipleship and Nurture of Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) was so enjoyable that the organisers, participants and audience regarded the entire event as “three memorable days […]
In His Good Time (Third Edition 2003) Author: Dr Bobby E. K. Sng The Bible Society of Singapore, 2003 Paperback, 371 pp AS ITS subtitle declares, the book In His Good Time is about the story of the church in Singapore. It offers a broad sweep beginning from 1819, the very year of Singapore’s […]
THERE are no atheists in the frontline trench. How true, for when under fire, even the man who had habitually denied the existence of God begins to pray desperately. It seems almost common to our human nature that personal danger often turns the cynical atheist who thrives in fair-weather into a hysterical theist who shakes […]
MRS BETTY SNEAD: Served in various parts of Malaya and Asia. — Methodist Church Archives picture. OBITUARY: MRS BETTY SNEAD MRS BETTY SNEAD, who passed away in her home in Tucker, Georgia, on Sept 3, 2003 at the age of 83, was the widow of Methodist missionary, the Rev Paul Snead, who perished in […]
SUNDAR SINGH: Most influential Indian Christian ever lived. DR JOHN SUNG: Greatest Chinese evangelist of the 20th century. Two Asian men who had given so much of themselves in the 20th century WHILE speaking at a chapel of a local theological college, I mentioned the names of Sadhu Sundar Singh and Dr John Sung. […]
AS PRESIDENT of the National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS), Bishop Dr Robert Solomon receives numerous heads of churches. He recently hosted the President of the National Council of Churches of India, His Grace Geevarghese Mar Coorilos, who paid a visit on July 18. Mar Coorilos is Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church […]
I REMEMBER vividly one Ministerial Session interview at a July Annual Conference Special Session where a young pastor was asked if he had any faults; whether he had a dark side. And the cheeky pastor replied that his main failing is that he is too humble; if he wasn’t so humble, he would be perfect! […]
OFFICIAL OPENING AND CONSECRATION OF ACS BARKER ROAD CAMPUS TUESDAY July 15, 2003 will be eternally etched in the memory of Anglo-Chinese School. Nearly 5,000 people called ACSians from all walks of life congregated in various venues – Tan Chin Tuan Hall, Mrs Lee Choon Guan Concert Hall and Lee Kong Chian Auditorium – […]
RECOGNISING the Bible as the authoritative standard for its faith and practice, the Church has historically and consistently held the view that the practice of homosexuality is clearly incompatible with the teachings of the Christian faith. This is spelt out in a statement on homosexuality issued by the National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS), […]
LLANDUDNO (Wales) — Representatives of 61 Methodist, United and Uniting Churches who took part in the Tercentenary Celebrations of John Wesley’s birth in Britain in June have issued a message to its churches around the world. They were in Britain, at the invitation of the British Methodist Church, to take part in the celebrations and […]
