The new lease will require the home’s 15 single-storey buildings to be replaced by a multi-storey building to optimise land use. COME 2016, the St. John’s Home For Elderly Persons will take its mission of sheltering and caring for the elderly to new heights – literally. The home will be required to build a five-storey […]
The MG dancers performing “Shango” at the Dance Grand Prix Europe 2013. HAPPY HEARTS, fulfilled souls and a journey they would never forget – these were what 49 dancers from the Methodist Girls’ School Dance Club (MG Dancers) brought back from Barcelona, Spain on June 19 this year. The dancers emerged overall champions in the […]
SOME CHURCHES celebrate Pledge Sunday this month, where members commit to giving God a portion of their income in the new financial year. Are there any hymns we can sing to reflect this spirit of joyful giving? Here is a hymn written in 1961 by the Rev Robert L. Edwards, an American Congregational minister. […]
Holy Covenant Methodist Church (Chinese Annual Conference) Fairfield Methodist Secondary School Auditorium, 102 Dover Road Sunday services: 9 am (English), 11 am (Mandarin), 2 pm (Hokkien) Contact: 6270-7804 or email [email protected] AT 15, you could say that we are a relatively “young” church. Yet we have been on the move quite a bit. We first […]
“TELL ME AND I FORGET, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn,” goes a Chinese saying. How true. Indeed, education and the process of going to school is a journey, and like paths in a wooded forest that draw us in, every road that we choose to take leads us to new […]
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL heterodox movements that exploded onto the scene in Asia Minor in the second century is Montanism. Named after its founder Montanus, a former pagan priest and recent convert to Christianity, this heresy is also known to its adherents as the New Revelation and the New Prophecy. In his village of […]
YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD to learn new technology – and the seniors at the Wesley Seniors’ Activity Centre (WSAC) are doing just that as they rave about a popular iPad game app that allows them to shape, fire, add patterns, colour and even auction off “pottery” to earn credits and shop for more materials! […]
Possibly the first Swedish delegation to visit the Methodist Centre, Equmeniakyrkan members are pictured here with representatives of the Methodist Church in Singapore. Mr Johan Arenius is standing, seventh from the left, and his wife Josefine is wearing a polka-dotted dress. – Picture by Christina Stanley. MRS JOSEFINE ARENIUS, a member of “Equmeniakyrkan” or the […]
Building strong educational foundations at the Singapore Mission School in Laos. – Picture courtesy of SMS Laos A LANDLOCKED, mountainous country with less than five per cent of its land suitable for subsistence agriculture, Laos today has gradually 0pened up to the world since the 1990s. Economic and business reforms were implemented in 2005 to […]
THIS MONTH, as I begin my four years of university life, I am both excited, and yet fearful of the culture I am about to be immersed in. The challenge of university is an enticing one, but there is the innate fear of failure. After all, the mentality in the Singapore education system is: […]
