IT HAS BEEN ALMOST four months since the ruling of a weekly day off for Foreign Domestic Workers (FDW) took effect on January 1, 2013, after the Government passed this mandate in March last year. To recap: This ruling applies only to FDWs – or “home helpers” as I like to call them – whose […]
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Matthew 26:39 I HAVE A SUPER mobile phone, That doesn’t cost a cent. It belongs to me alone, And cannot […]
This month’s “Page From The Past” features extracts from the Twenty-first Homily on the Epistle to the Ephesians: On Marriage and Family written by John Chrysostom, Patriarch (Archbishop) of Constantinople from 398-404 AD. Despite having been written more than 1,500 years ago, John Chrysostom’s words on parenting are strikingly relevant even today. Some of these […]
MEMBERS OF WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH (WMC) took up the pen in unison in 2012 when they came together to write out – by hand – every single word and verse of the Holy Scripture in the church’ s first-ever Biblethon project. The entire handwritten tome, hand-bound in three volumes, each measuring 30.7 cm by 44 […]
SIX MENTORS, six adolescent mentees and their parents met on March 2, 2013, to sign agreements to participate in Torch (JC), a new mentoring programme for the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) Bursary Recipients who are currently in Junior College. The bursary recipients are students from low-income households. Mentors and mentees will meet face-to-face four times […]
“SOCIAL MEDIA is the devil… and I’m getting old!” This tongue-in-cheek title of an article by blogger Gem Nicholls could easily describe the apprehension with which cautious Christians approach social media. Is this claim substantiated? And is it true that some of us are “too old” for social media? Firstly, what IS that amorphous giant […]
Cristo Vive (Christ Is Risen) Christ is risen, Christ is living, Dry your tears, be unafraid! Death and darkness could not hold Him, Nor the tomb in which He lay. Do not look among the dead for One who lives forevermore; Tell the world that Christ is risen, Make it known He goes before. […]
Medical and dental mission teams play an important role in the work of the Methodist Missions Society (MMS). In this story, a mission tripper in one such team shares his experience. TOGETHER WITH MY FAMILY and six other mission trippers, I flew off to Kathmandu, Nepal from November 25 to December 3 last year. […]
HUMILITY WAS THE overriding topic of the day at the recent 3rd Methodist Schools’ Student Leadership Conference (MSSLC) which took place at ACS (Barker) on a Saturday in February. In the audience were 300 prefects, student leaders, teachers and principals from nine Methodist schools in Singapore. The underlying theme in Bishop Dr Wee Boon Hup’ […]
