Paya Lebar Methodist Church (PLMC) was established on 10 July 1932, and currently has more than 2,800 members. As God’s family, many of our church members meet regularly in cell groups to study His Word, minister to and pray for one another. The vision that God has given to us is “We are a family […]
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Praying Parents Unite (PPU) is a gathering of parents to pray in unity for revival in the family, schools, and nation. Since its inception about four years ago, there are now more than 30 schools which are covered by “praying parents groups”. The vision of PPU is for every school in Singapore […]
“How often, making music, we have found a new dimension in the world of sound, as worship moved us to a more profound Alleluia!” I gained a deeper understanding of this stanza from Fred Pratt Green’s ‘When in Our Music God Is Glorified’ as sung at the Methodist School of Music’s (MSM) 20th Anniversary Thanksgiving […]
An exercise I always set for my students learning about Family Therapy is for them to write an essay about themselves and their family. I will get them to draw their family tree and to subsequently infer how their parents, grandparents, and events from their formative years may have shaped them into who they are […]
“Let me be homo unius libri.” This John Wesley quote is found in the Preface to Wesley’s Standard Sermons, a collection compiled to help Methodist Local Preachers promote ‘scriptural holiness’ throughout the land. Homo unius libri – Latin for “a person of one book”. The book Wesley was referring to was the Bible. Wesley’s quote […]
John Wesley (1703-1791). Engraved by anonymous engraver and published in Thomas Dugdale Curiosities Of Great Britain, United Kingdom, 1845. A Methodist pastor once made a bold assertion that the unique thing about Methodism is that there is nothing unique about it. By saying that, he was echoing a prejudice held by Christians who assumed that […]
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, is arguably one of the most theologically complex and creative figures in 18th-century England. Scholars almost unanimously agree that it would be a misnomer to describe Wesley as a “systematic theologian” because of the disparate and somewhat diffused character of his corpus. But to give Wesley the polite designation […]
Imagine a preschool classroom that transforms every two weeks – into a home, salon, post office or a familiar landmark in the neighbourhood. This kind of experiential learning is now a reality for the children of MWS D’Joy Children’s Centre located in Jalan Besar. Named the Dramatic Corner, this changeable classroom offers pre-schoolers aged two […]
“Prayer catapults us into the frontier of the spiritual life…. Real prayer is life-creating and life-changing” — Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster The Methodist Church in Nepal (MCN) conducts regular training for pastors, leaders and the laity, equipping present and future leaders with a firm spiritual foundation, enabling them to reach the unreached and […]
Education has been one of the key strengths of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) since the beginning. It was no coincidence that soon after Bishop James M. Thoburn and the Rev William F. Oldham established the Methodist Mission in Singapore in 1885, one of the key early events was the founding of a boys’ […]
