“You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.” (Psalms 65:11) My thoughts and feelings are deeply stirred as the final month of 2020 approaches. It is time for me to bring to a close a year’s service, my four years as Bishop as well as my life in pastoral ministry […]
Handwritten, personalised, thank-you cards made by students from the Interact Club, Thoburn House and the Art Club On 18 Sep 2020, 80 students from our Interact Club collaborated with Wesley Methodist Church (MC) to give out 400 care packages to the migrant workers living in the dormitories that the church is supporting. Under the guidance […]
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6, NIV) During the Christmas season, Christians remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, when God gave us His only Son. During […]
Kimberley-Ann Tan For many of us, the circuit breaker brought everything to a standstill. For Kimberley-Ann Tan—fresh nursing graduate, cell leader and worship leader in at Paya Lebar Methodist Church’s Youth Service—it was a hurricane of activity, as well as one of the biggest tests of her faith. The circuit breaker coincided with Kimberley’s final […]
Conversation about values has featured prominently in my sessions with a couple I have been counselling for almost two years. They came in to try to repair their marriage after the husband’s infidelity—for the second time. Six years earlier, he had cheated on his wife but was given a second chance. The husband is again […]
“She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” (Matt 1:21, NIV) Christmas commemorates the birth of a Child who is given the name Jesus. This name offers one reason why Christians celebrate Christmas. (Other verses provide us with […]
The charity organisations attending the ceremony held on 23 Oct 2020 on behalf of their beneficiaries In conjunction with The Methodist Church in Singapore’s (MCS) 135th anniversary (MCS 135), Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) has raised $1.58 million from its “Donate to Bless” fundraising campaign. The campaign was initiated to help distressed and low-income families of […]
2020 has been a year of the unexpected. At the beginning of the year, many of us may have made a lot of plans and looked forward to entering a new decade. But many of our plans were dashed. We grappled with many questions: Was it going to be only for a few months? When […]
Andrew Tay with his wife, Cheryl Have you ever felt that God has been preparing you for a long time to do a certain work? The Psalmist writes: “You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day […]
Paul Khoo (left) leading the worship session with father, Julian (not in photo), and his son, Matthew On 17 Oct 2020, “Passing on a Godly Legacy”, which was organised by a group of fathers, was held online. It was a call for Methodist fathers to gather, hear and learn about Godly fatherhood. 614 people from […]
