ACS turns 130, answers the call to serve

Specially designed ACS 130 collar pins were given to all students and staff to celebrate ACS’ 130th Founder’s Day The six units of the Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) have come together as ONE ACS to celebrate 130 years of God’s Faithfulness since its founding on 1 March 1886 by Bishop Oldham. The schools have adopted a […]

Reconciling science and Christian faith

In his lecture, Dr Andrew Loke (second from right) challenged the view that science and Christian faith were necessarily in conflict. Photos courtesy of The Bible Society® of Singapore“As a young Christian, I’d always thought that creationism and evolution were opposing ideas,” said Timothy Seow, 19, an attendee at the ‘Science and the Christian Faith’ […]

Queenstown Chinese MC : Making disciples, transforming lives

    An indication of a closely knit body of Christ is found in Queenstown Chinese Methodist Church (QCMC) and Faith Methodist Church (FMC), which counts among them members from the same families. They go way back to the 1960s when the Methodist Church initiated the ‘Queenstown Methodist Church Pioneer Work’ project, as Queenstown was […]

BMNH’s silver lining from the haze

  Last year, the severe haze conditions affected many people. The residents at the Bethany Methodist Nursing Home (BMNH) run by Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) had to adjust their daily schedules as well. Before the haze, volunteers would bring residents out in their wheelchairs to enjoy nearby amenities or rehabilitative exercises. What was disaster for […]

Cambodia’s Glory Trinity MC breaks ground for new building

The association Trinity Methodist Church (TMC) has with Cambodia began in 1994 when our members covenanted among ourselves and with our Lord to adopt the Khmer people of Cambodia as an unreached people group, and to become instruments to evangelise to and establish the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ there. Soon after, we adopted […]

Focused attention

  These days, with so many things demanding our attention and energy, giving our focused attention to what we are doing is often a challenge. We seem to be torn in so many directions that being able to multi-task is one of the prerequisites for life today. Yet can we really be good at doing […]

Choosing to do ‘nothing new’

“All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is […]

We have risen!

“Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.” (Colossians 2:12, ESV) At Easter, we celebrate not just the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but ours too. In 1 John 5:12 (ESV), the apostle writes: “Whoever has […]

Thomas Taylor One of Wesley’s veterans

We continue our series of paired articles on early Methodist preachers from the UK and Singapore, aiming to trace the movement of the Holy Spirit in grassroots evangelistic preaching, reminding us of the evangelistic fervour of Methodism worldwide, and demonstrating the fruitfulness of the Gospel when preached with spiritual power and integrity. The first instalment […]

Publishing and training to serve Chinese churches worldwide

Vincent Toh is the General-Secretary of Christian Communications Singapore. He was previously featured in an article in the August 2012 issue of Methodist Message for his heroic act of volunteering as hostage when a tour group he was leading in Egypt was held up by gunmen.   Christian Communications Singapore Address: 8 Burn Road, Trivex […]