The three-storey Joy Community Services Centre in ChenDai. — Methodist Missions Society picture. Official Opening Ceremony of the Joy Community Services Centre in ChenDai, China The three-storey Joy Community Services Centre in ChenDai. — Methodist Missions Society picture. A GROUP of Methodist pastors, leaders and supporters led by Bishop Dr Robert Solomon went to […]
How should Christians respond? BIOLOGICAL science crossed a significant milestone at 5 pm on July 5, 1996 when embryologists Drs Ian Wilmut and K. H. S. Campbell and their team at Roslin Institute, a research centre near Edinburgh, successfully cloned a lamb from cells taken from a mature sheep. The technique they used is known […]
BEAUTIFUL Bayu Beach Resort was the setting for this year’s Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) Camp. More than 100 people from seven Tamil Methodist churches gathered at the Port Dickson resort in Seremban in June. The theme for the ETAC Camp 2002 was “Thinking Churches: Growing Conference“. The theme speaker was the Rev Dr Theodore […]
Worshipping on the sundeck. — Paya Lebar Methodist Church picture. Paya Lebar MC’s HOPE Methodist Mission celebrates first anniversary IMAGINE a church by the idyllic beach of Punggol … Imagine the waves lapping the shore while the Word of God is preached … Imagine the seagulls flying over your head while you enjoy God’s […]
THREE renowned speakers will be coming for the Aldersgate Convention 2003, which is set for May 21-24, 2003. Speaking on the topic “A Reasonable Faith: Wesleyan Insights” will be Dr William J. Abraham, Albert C. Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Perkins School of Theology in the United States. The new headquarters of The […]
SEVERAL years ago, a reader wrote to a columnist with a puzzle: Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say number 1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say […]
An early 1900 picture of, from left, Miss Tan Siok Kim, Mrs Shellabear and Miss Pugh. — Methodist Church Archives picture. Malacca MGS moved to new premises at Bickley Park in 1927, thanks to generous support from American well-wishers. But it was the early efforts of Mrs Shellabear and Miss Ada Pugh that brought […]
Visit reminds PLMGPS teachers and pupils how blessed Singaporeans are A TEAM of two teachers and four pupils from Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ Primary School has returned from a trip to Thailand, thankful for the reminders that Singaporeans are blessed and God loves every person. The trip, from July 2 to 7, 2002, has truly […]
THE month of June brought to our globe the excitement and ecstasy of World Cup 2002. Unlike some World Cup finals I have watched, the recently concluded one was not the boring affair that brought the worst out of sportsmen. Instead, it has not only delivered its promise of being a football fiesta but also […]
PASIR PANJANG TAMIL METHODIST CHURCH PICTURE Members of Pasir Panjang Tamil Methodist Church and guests at the 75th Anniversary Service at its Wishart Road premises on June 2, 2002. The Rev Dr J. Daniel, who was pastor of the church for more than 30 years, delivered the sermon. He urged the congregation to continue […]
