TRAC President and Bishop-Elect Dr Gordon Wong at the opening service of the TRAC 45th session “How might we continue to promote the loving welcome of God in both the Church and the world?” Bishop-Elect Dr Gordon Wong asked the delegates of the 45th session of the Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC) in his final address […]
“What are the plans and vision God has given you for the Church?” I was asked this eight years ago when I had been appointed to serve as President of TRAC. I was asked this again last month when I was elected to serve as Bishop of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS). My answer […]
MMS engages Methodists to reach out and bless the nations Past and new quadrennium The Methodist Missions Society (MMS) was established in 1991 as the mission agency of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS). MMS seeks to establish indigenous churches supported by mission endeavours in our region. We are committed towards encouraging, enlisting, engaging and […]
A socially-distanced and muted opening holy communion service at Tamil MC (Short Street) due to COVID-19 restrictions. The Annual Conference sessions are usually a time of lively worship and joyful reunion among members across the local churches. For the Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) session, there would be much hugging and hand-shaking, as well as […]
It is time to take charge It sounds like a tongue-in-cheek question: “Is there a law protecting parents from being abused by their children?” Increasingly, this question is being asked, not of abused elderly parents, but in the context of parents in their forties and fifties, with abusive children in their pre-teen and teenage years. […]
Bishop Dr Chong Chin Chung (with purple stole) prays over Bishop-Elect Dr Gordon Wong as he is consecrated. Behind Bishop-Elect Dr Wong are (from right to left) his wife Lai Foon, his father Cecil, his son Jeremy and his daughter Deborah A rainy evening on 4 Dec 2020 marked a new chapter in the history […]
Rev Dr Gregory Goh Nai Lat President of the Chinese Annual Conference Rev Dr Gregory Goh Nai Lat Fix our eyes on what is unseen. In the past year, we have been fixing our eyes on the “unseen”—COVID-19. This coronavirus is highly contagious and very smart. However, it can still be seen through the microscope. […]
What is your congregational music repertoire like? I am sure you will agree with me that most of the songs we sing in worship are from the West. Whether they are hymns or contemporary songs, 80 per cent, if not 90 per cent, are from the West. If, at most, 20 per cent are from […]
2018: With my husband and nieces at the launch of one of my children’s books What would you do if you woke up one day to find that your voice had been stolen? That happened to me shortly after my wedding, in late 1998. The doctor at a GP clinic dismissed it as stress. Well-meaning […]
One of the most common Gospel passages that is read in churches across the globe during the season of Advent is Matthew 1. This chapter, located at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew, describes the circumstances surrounding the conception and birth of the Messiah. In this passage we also find the ancient prophecy of […]
