A panoramic view of the ACS (Barker Road) campus with the new Methodist Centre at top left. – Methodist Message picture by CHIA PAK YUEN. THE BIG MOVE TO ‘THE PROMISED LAND’ AT BARKER ROAD MONDAY Dec 23, 2002 will go down as a red-letter day for The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS): the […]
The Rev Raj with his wife Adarsh and Anjali, six months. AT A time when some Western communities either actively oppose or barely tolerate Christian missionaries, the Rev Rajaspuran Mannar, 50, is in an unenviable position: he is in the midst of what he terms as the “post-Christian, post-modern culture” of North America. Stationed […]
TWO missionary pastors from Short Street Tamil Methodist Church came back recently on home leave. JASMINE DANIELS spoke to them to find out what they had been doing these past years. HE LIVED on a tear-drop shaped island in the Indian Ocean, south of India. But the Rev George Barathan’s real voyage began with […]
Japanese student Y. Toyama sought the truth in one of our educational institutions in Japan. ‘MOST consciously and most cheerfully I accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour. About nine years ago I believed that there must be in the universe an Almighty Power, and also believed the immortality of the soul. But as I […]
THE Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) [http://www.ccel.org] has brought great Christian books to millions of people around the world by CD-ROM and the Internet since 1994. It is a non-profit project, using mostly volunteer labour, seeking to make great Christian writings widely available. The CCEL grew out of a family crisis I went through in […]
THE excitement over the discovery of the bone box which may have contained the bones of James, a brother of Jesus, suggesting that it may be the earliest surviving archaeological link to Jesus (Methodist Message, December 2002) has given way to scepticism among a number of experts. According to an article by John Noble Wilford […]
LONDON – The Rev David Deeks, 60, has been nominated as General Secretary of the Methodist Church in Britain. He will take office as the first appointment to the Church’s new-look leadership role this year, subject to the agreement of the Methodist Conference in July 2003. The Methodist Council has agreed to the nomination of […]
The Future of Success Author: Robert B. Reich ROBERT B. REICH, a political economist, was a distinguished public servant who served under three US Presidents and was the Secretary of Labour during Mr Bill Clinton’s presidency. As a member of the Cabinet he found his job better than any other one and loved it and […]
A YOUNG boy was taught the Lord’s Prayer. His proud parents asked him to recite the prayer when their pastor visited them. He did well except that he inadvertently said, “Hollowed be thy name.” The adults had a good laugh. This mistake caused by childhood innocence and ignorance points us to realities about which we […]
Time in itself, as part of God’s good creation, is not evil IN 1985 I was invited by the Basle church in Labuan to speak at a series of revival services. I arrived at the idyllic island after a fairly hectic week in Singapore, hoping to enjoy its slower, more relaxed pace of life. I […]
