LONDON – The birthplace and boyhood home of John Wesley at Epworth, England, is playing a prominent role in celebrations throughout this year to mark the 300th anniversary of his birth. Now known as the Old Rectory, the original building was destroyed by fire in 1709, a conflagration from which the six-year-old Wesley was dramatically […]
PART 11 OF THE SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON ‘FAITH TO LIVE BY’ But it cannot be fully described within our framework ofspace and time WHILE much has been written on the resurrection of Christ, the literature on His ascension is very slight. Yet, the New Testament unequivocally testifies to the ascension of Christ into heaven […]
MRS Lorinne Reinoehl (above) celebrated her 100th birthday on Feb 25, 2003 at a nursing home in Claremont, California. She is the oldest past Head of Anglo-Chinese Middle/Primary School. Before her marriage to the Rev Waldo Reinoehl, she taught the ACS Cambridge classes at the start of her missionary service from 1927 before being […]
FUSION noun: a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy A “simultaneous release of energy” is exactly what was achieved on Jan 25, 2003 as more than 300 youths and their mentors gathered for a day of learning, networking and glorifying our God. FUSION 2003 […]
The simple wooden structure that is the Kirirom Methodist Church. EQUALLY hospitable to the Singapore delegation were Pastor Pon Navi, his wife and members of the Kirirom Methodist Church, a three-hour’s drive from Phnom Penh. What started as a “family church” is now a flourishing church serving an entire village. Again, we were more […]
The mission to the lepers was a regular feature of the women missionaries. Mrs A. J. Amery gave a graphic account of the work that she, Miss Edith Hemmingway and other women missionaries were doing. Their example is worth emulating. ‘THE Lord’s crops spring up in queer places. It takes a spiritual expert to calculate […]
ON CLONING EMBRYOS FOR RESEARCH A RECENT article in The Straits Times announced the intention of a group of researchers at the National University of Singapore to clone a human embryo for research (Straits Times, Wednesday, Dec 25, 2002, H8). This announcement was made in the wake of a similar initiative to be undertaken by […]
Eight of the 10 ordinands being acknowledged by the congregation after they had been ordained by the four heads of the participating church partners (in back row). They are, from left, the Rev Lun Sophy, the Rev Ven Voun Chhen, the Rev (Ms) Treoung Chan Bony, the Rev Ham Chheng Hor, the Rev Chan Hak, […]
The Bible on Stamps: (1) The Story of the Old Testament (2) The Story of Jesus THESE two bilingual books (English and Chinese) are a young collector’s item of Christian art and literature. The two volumes will be books that will be taken from the shelf and read and illustrations admired from time to […]
AN AMERICAN psychiatrist, Karl Menninger, wrote a book in 1973 entitled, “Whatever Happened to Sin?” He observed that modern society had abandoned the word “sin” from its popular vocabulary. Behaviour that once was attributed to human sinfulness was now being seen as nothing more than the result of some physical or psychological illness. As a […]
