Congratulations! Methodist Message congratulates the following who have received the 2019 National Day Awards: Churches Aldersgate Methodist Church Ms Audrey Tan Yuet Ling The Commendation Medal Ang Mo Kio Methodist Church Mr Desmond Chong Eng Soon The Commendation Medal Mr Francis Tan Chih Siang The Commendation Medal Mr Tan Chin Heng The Commendation Medal […]
We are now in the season of Kingdomtide. The season begins on the last Sunday of August and ends on the last Sunday of November (which is designated as Christ the King Sunday). During this season we declare the values and glory of the kingdom of God.1 The values that the kingdom of God teaches […]
Students from CHIJ St Theresa’s Convent weaving garlands at the Sri Mariamman Temple. The Harmony Games, an ecumenical event, is organised each year by a different religious group, and this year, the cycle went a complete round back to the National Council of Churches (NCCS). This year’s Games was held on 24 August at Telok […]
One day while in primary school, I came home to find my mother in tears. A family friend, Tim1, had been so overwhelmed by his struggle with depression that he took a fatal overdose. Tim had been studying at a top university in the UK. Earlier, while still in Singapore, a leader in the church […]
One of Paul’s injunctions concerning the responsibility of Christians towards one another—familiar to many Christians, I am sure—is found in Galatians 6:2, where he writes: “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” However, familiarity with this command is one thing; applying it effectually to our common life as members of Christ’s […]
One of my roles in my job as counsellor is to be a clinical supervisor for counselling interns. As counsellors in training, they are given less complex cases to stretch their counselling “wings” by practising, under supervision but on real-life cases, the skills and techniques they have learnt in the classroom. These interns soon learn […]
Evelyn (middle of front row, in jeans) with the hotelites of Sundermeier Home. In May 2018, I stayed at Sundermeier Home (SH) during a medical mission trip to Timor-Leste. After the house-parents Uncle Joseph and Aunty Grace (MMS missionaries) shared about their sabbatical plans for 2019, God prompted me to return to bridge the gap. […]
We were on holiday as an extended family. It was just weeks before our only daughter’s wedding and days after I had started on antidepressants. We were playing Taboo, a game we had enjoyed countless times before, but I just could not concentrate. I was not sure if it was the medication or the depression, […]
Happy campers at the ETAC Camp at Batam, Indonesia. ETAC Camp 2019 Held from 19 to 22 June 2019 at Batam, Indonesia, the camp saw a record number of Conference members gather to await a blessing of revival from within our churches. I would like to thank God for those four fruitful days of learning, […]
The Rev Dr Lim Teck Peng gives his inaugural lecture after his appointment to the Lee Huai Kwang Chair of Religious Education. On 29 Aug 2019, Trinity Theological College (TTC) held its induction service for the Lee Huai Kwang Chair of Religious Education, the fifth endowed professorial chair of the college. The Rev Dr Lim […]
