The new MWS Management Committee: Seated, from left, Mr Khoo, Mrs Ng, Mrs Tan, Mr Chan, Mr Lim and Mr Tambyah. Standing, from left, Mrs Poore, Mr Fong, Mr Peh, Mr Yen, Ms Lor and Mrs Woo. Not in picture: Dr Chen. — MWS picture. THE Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) has adopted a resolution […]
The Retired Missionaries’ Reunion at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee. NASHVILLE (Tennessee) — Retired Methodist missionaries from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore held a reunion in Nashville, Tennessee recently. Among them were the Rev and Mrs Allen Rice. He is a retired Methodist minister and his wife, Shan, was a Methodist missionary in Singapore […]
ONE of the hallmarks of the Christian life is the freedom from sin and its consequences, which we receive from Jesus’ finished work on the cross. Jesus Himself said, “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36 NIV). However, the ordinary believer often struggles with sin and experiences less than […]
CONCLUDING THE SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON ‘FAITH TO LIVE BY’ BEWARE OF 2 MISTAKES IDENTIFYING the biblical teaching of everlasting life with the idea of the “afterlife” that is found in most religions, THINKING of everlasting life in terms of the immortality of the soul. AS WE turn to the final statement of the Creed, […]
Hope and a voice for migrant workers HOPE HAVEN — Christians’ response to the plight of migrant workers in Singapore — was launched at Kampong Kapor Methodist Church at its Tamil Ministry’s 10th anniversary celebrations on Aug 3, 2003. It aims to give a voice to these workers and to enable the hopeless to […]
A MAN’S daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father. When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed that the old man had been informed of his visit. “I […]
A group of Chinese men at a church conference, circa 1903. — Methodist Church Archives picture. “A Chinese Christian” in the May 1915 Malaysia Message drew attention to the racial epithets used by certain missionaries, questioning the appropriateness of “Chinaman” and “Kling” to refer to Chinese and Tamils. In an editorial rejoinder, the then […]
Mr Chan (centre) performing on Teachers’ Day. — Fairfield Methodist Primary School picture. David Chan this year’s only primary school teacher to win Outstanding Youth in Education Award Teaching in Fairfield Methodist Primary School has convinced him he has found his calling in life SOME may call it a strange twist of fate, but […]
The Rev Nagle (left) and Mr Lee Choon Guan, two men who dreamed of turning ACS into Anglo-Chinese College. – Methodist Church Archives picture, courtesy of Ms Alice Nagle, the Rev Nagle’s daughter. Why forerunner of ACJC did not take off A LITTLE-KNOWN, but significant aspect of Singapore Methodist history is the saga of […]
A fellowship of hymn lovers ministering the Word through music THE Methodist School of Music (MSM) will launch the Charles Wesley Circle – a fellowship of hymn lovers ministering the Word through music — at the Trinity Theological College Chapel on Sept 21 at 6.30 pm. The launch will include a buffet dinner, special music […]
