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Methodist Welfare Services’ Golf Fund-raiser: Celebrating 25 years of ‘fellowship on the greens’

“Fellowship on the Greens” (FOTG) was first initiated by the late (then-former) Minister of State, Dr Tay Eng Soon and the late Mr Edwin Chan in 1989, for the purpose of bringing Methodists from different churches to socialise and strengthen bonds in the Methodist family over a game of golf. 92-year-old Cecil Wong is one of our most stalwart supporters and has played in almost every MWS golf fellowship since it first began.

A time to remember, forget?

…some people only remember the mistakes, setbacks and disappointments of life. They gloss over any upside that life has to offer and choose instead to focus on and remember the bad days. In her song “Big Yellow Taxi”, Joni Mitchell sings: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve […]

God, the Master restorer and re-creator

“But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.” Jeremiah Even when we are broken, defeated, oppressed, or unstable, God can restore and bring about “beauty” from ashes, a “rock” out of sand and build […]

Young Adult Conference 2013: Reviving young adults withGod’s call

Were we merely pursuing God’s call for our lives, or were we pursuing God Himself? … it was important to seek the Giver, not the gift, and to seek God and His kingdom first and foremost. Christians in the 18 to 25 age range are often overlooked in church ministry. No longer teenagers and not […]

Must I confess my sins?

When we do confess, our fellowship with the Father is restored. He extends His parental forgiveness. He cleanses us of all unrighteousness, thus removing the consequences of the previously unconfessed sin. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon […]

The business of transforming lives

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA More than 400 specially invited guests at the Methodist Mission Society’s (MMS) “My Father’s Business” Banquet on August 25 sat riveted as they watched the telling of a transformed life in the mountainous country of Nepal. Rojina was a street kid, roaming the streets of Kathmandu and moving from house to house. […]

Hazardous haze

IN JUNE, Singapore was engulfed by dense haze with the highest Pollution Standards Index (PSI) reading since 1997. This haze, according to reports, was caused by illegal burning of forests and the traditional slash-and-burn methods used by farmers in Indonesia to clear the land for cultivation. For almost everyone in Singapore, the haze was a […]

Shoring up marriages

MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS are under siege today. Factors that contribute to divorces include neglect of the family, physical and emotional absence, adultery, selfish pursuits, financial tensions and a range of other behaviours. Christian couples and families are not immune and Christian counsellors and pastors share that they are now seeing more cases of marriage break-ups […]

The Burning Bush

STANDING UNSHOD, traumatised before the manifest presence of God, Moses gasped to hear the Divine assignment. Under Bedouin skies at nightfall, contemplating the majesty of distant stars that swept across every inglenook of space in the cloudless desert firmament, he had learnt the secrets of Creation: of Adam’s world and of his fall from grace, […]

Youth advocates lead 30-hour fast for the poor

Students at the 30 Hour Famine Camp participating in a simulation exercise where they took on the roles of countries and traded resources for their country’s survival. IMAGINE FASTING FROM 6 pm tonight until 12 midnight tomorrow – that’s 30 straight hours, and that’s how long about 1,000 youths, aged 14 to 18, did without […]