Nutritious, delicious and easy to cook Sweet Sour Chicken Healthy Family Meals 1. Why did you, Gnanamany and Lai Keng write Simply Good? We wanted to help families plan and prepare healthy meals in a short time, as many find home cooking challenging and resort to convenience food, which may not provide a balanced and […]
Bridging the Gap, Promoting Understanding through Table Fellowship Think about the lowest point of your life—it could have been the passing of a loved one, a broken relationship or a critical illness. How did the stress you experienced affect your work, relationships and decision-making? Over time and with the support of loved ones, you eventually […]
The ladies at work More than 70 ladies from 13 TRAC churches spent two Saturday mornings preceding Chinese New Year at a workshop on writing devotions. At a time when many were busy with Lunar New Year preparations, the ladies did what the Lord told Martha when she complained about her sister Mary not helping […]
The Methodists are often noted for being so methodical—we are well organised and our church programmes reflect the many methods we employ to do God’s work. However, it must be noted that the “method” in “Methodism” does not have to do with strategies, techniques and programmes as it has to do with the Person of […]
A family holiday to Vietnam in 2007. When most people of his age were enjoying life and looking to make their mark in the world, Richard Tan was looking to die. Richard, now 65 and a facilities officer at Faith Methodist Church, saw suicide as the only way out of his losing battle against drug […]
Alvin and his wife, May Wong, at their son’s OCS commissioning parade in 2019. Barker Road MC Prison Ministry Alvin’s story Alvin was introduced to me when I was looking for guest speakers to share their personal transformative life journeys with the detainees to whom we ministered. Alvin came from a dysfunctional family—his father was an […]
“Soundings” is a series of essays that, like the waves of a sonogram, explore issues in society, culture and the church in light of the Gospel and Christian understanding. Fasting is a spiritual discipline that has a very long and venerable tradition in Christianity, stretching back not only to the earliest period of Christian monasticism […]
The “One Way 146” Youth Concert in Phrao. We waited with bated breath for the electricity to come back on. It had gone out for almost an hour and we were afraid that a year’s preparation would be wasted. Then there was a bang, and the lights came back on, just in time. The drums […]
Diversity implies differences or a range of things that differ from one another. Where people are concerned, diversity may be seen in age, religion, ethnicity, socio-economic status, physical abilities, gender, political beliefs and other ideologies. When diversity is discussed in the Church, it is usually with the intention to accept, respect and celebrate differences in […]
I occasionally experience a sense of déjà vu – my clients’ issues, circumstances and dilemmas appear similar and yet are not the same. I felt it recently when three siblings—working adults in their mid-twenties to early thirties—came to consult me. A family conflict had led to the two older daughters moving out of the family […]
