CHURCHES have remained vigilant and offered prayers over the current concerns in Singapore. Here is a public prayer offered at a Preaching Point entreating God to exercise His sovereign control over us: “We want to pray for our country and our people. Our lives are crippled and inhibited by illness, ignorance, bitterness and grief. In […]
PASTORS’ FELLOWSHIP Clergy also need sabbath, says counsellor Anthony Yeo PASTORS need to have a sabbath, too, according to Mr Anthony Yeo, a well-known counsellor and part-time lecturer at Trinity Theological College. Mr Yeo, Clinical Director of Counselling at the Counselling and Care Centre, was speaking on the topic “The Pastor’s Well-Being” at the annual […]
PASTOR CHAN: Remembered for his sermons. – Methodist Church Archives picture OBITUARY: PASTOR CHAN WAH TECK PASTOR Chan Wah Teck, who passed away on June 6, 2003 at the age of 94, was born on May 26, 1909. Although he did not attend theological college, but felt deeply called to preach the Gospel, he […]
Here is an Everyday Methodist who shares her passion for church music and her strong desire to educate children and youth in the doctrinal principles of worship and music education. SINCE childhood, I had always dreamt of becoming a teacher. My educational pursuits led me, however, into the field of accounting. I eventually earned a […]
Birth of Living Waters Methodist Church APRIL 20, 2003 — Easter Sunday — will always be a special day for the congregation worshipping at the “Preaching Point at ACS(I)” for it was the day that the congregation was constituted a new local church known as “Living Waters Methodist Church” (LWMC) – the 18th Local Conference […]
Sin, forgiveness lose their meaning in secular age THE statement of the Creed concerning the forgiveness of sin poses some difficulty to the modern reader because both sin and forgiveness have lost their meaning in the secular and superficial age in which we live. The evangelical theologian Bernard Ramm aptly entitled his book on sin, […]
Fairfield MC’s outreach project held official inaugural service on June 1 WITH the singing of a great old hymn, “The church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord”, a new preaching point opened in Woodlands. After months of careful planning and preparation, the Fairfield Preaching Point (FPP), an outreach project of Fairfield Methodist Church (FMC), […]
Visit to an English Methodist Circuit I WAS one of a group of five Singaporeans who went to England in April, at the invitation of a British Methodist pastor, the Rev David Jebb, to spend two weeks at a couple of Methodist churches there. On Easter Sunday, our last Sunday there, I was asked at […]
The Call to Worship and Aldersgate Service begins. In the front row are the special guests, Methodist Church leaders and their spouses. At extreme right is Mrs Malar Solomon, wife of Bishop Dr Robert Solomon. – Methodist Message picture. John Wesley’s 300th birthday and Dedication of new Methodist Centre marked by launch of book […]
A touching incident that brought reviving cheer to a very sick Japanese woman is recounted here by Methodist “teacher, preacher, musician, artist and churchman” Joshua Baruch (d. March 1, 1967). DURING the time Malaya was in the hands of the Japanese, I lived in Malacca. For a long time no one dared to go out after […]
