In 1880, a Chinese boy, Charlie Soong, arrived at Wilmington, N.C., on the United States cutter, Colfax. The captain of the Colfax, Charles Jones, became very much interested in the Chinese youth. Captain Jones later found the boy a home with some Christian friends. There, the young Soong became a Christian. Subsequently, a Methodist minister […]
A year after Methodist Girls’ School (MGS) moved from Mount Sophia to Blackmore Drive in 1992, the Principal, Mrs Anna Tham, invited The Methodist Church in Singapore to start a preaching point there. Pastors and members from Barker Road Methodist Church and Wesley Methodist Church began to work together to raise a congregation. Many volunteers […]
‘Before Work’ was the title of this six-stanza hymn when it was first published in 1749 in Hymns and Sacred Poems. In 1989, it was included in The United Methodist Hymnal (UMH) under the title ‘Forth in thy Name’. In this hymn, Charles Wesley encourages us to work with delight and know that by God’s […]
“I compare the Littworld conference to a big family Christmas dinner with family members attending from around the world. I met people from many countries who are now friends.” Thus shared Nigerian author Pusonnam Yiri at Littworld 2015, where he also served as a workshop trainer. Pusonnam would leave Littworld 2015 having his dream of […]
“Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” (Acts 17:11, NIV) Some people think that faith has nothing to do with careful thought and examination. They assume that […]
It has been reported that Singapore was bestowed the mantle of being the “Antioch of Asia” by the late Billy Graham, 40 years ago during his crusade held in Singapore. A decade later in 1988, Patrick Johnstone, a well-known researcher in his book The Church Is Bigger Than You Think, cited statistics which showed that […]
The Methodist Missions Society (MMS), as the missions agency of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS), is the resource provider and facilitator in missions for our Methodist churches. In partnership with Singapore Methodist churches, MMS has been sending out missionaries over the last 26 years in obedience to the Great Commission to bring the gospel […]
In a recent report on urbanisation trends, the World Health Organization predicted that by 2030, six out of every 10 people in the world would be city dwellers. This means that virtually every global growth over the next 30 to 40 years will take place in urban areas. Sociologists have coined two new terms to […]
Do you have a favourite prayer, one you often say or which resonates with you? One popular prayer is the Serenity Prayer (attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr). A widely-used, abbreviated version is: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the […]
The VUCA world is Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. From the moment of birth, Ms Sherie Ng was thrust into such a world. Her fortune-telling great-grandmother predicted that this baby girl would bring misfortune to the family. When she was five years old, her mother spiked her father’s coffee so that he collapsed. She then […]
