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My colleague is now my boss

I am an office worker in my 40s, in a four-member SME team. My boss resigned recently and one of my colleagues will be promoted to oversee the team. I am more senior and experienced than her and have been in the company for a longer time. I recognise that she will be able to fill the role of a manager but I am not sure if I am able to change my perspective from relating to her as a colleague to seeing her as my boss. I know that I should submit to the authority within the company structure but feel there is some unfairness in the promotion process and am not convinced she’s the best person for the job. What should I do?

Bearing the fruit of love

Mr Chua Wah Liang recalls a haunting visit to a museum in Poland when he was in his 30s, encountering heart-wrenching images of Holocaust victims and a poignant exhibit of a pile of shoes belonging to those who had lost their lives at Nazi concentration camps.

Saints in the marketplace

In the past few decades, there has been an avalanche of excellent books on marketplace ministry such as Every Good Endeavour: Connecting Your Work to God’s Plan for the World (2012) by the late Timothy J. Keller, and The Kingdom of God in Working Clothes: The Marketplace and the Reign of God (2022) by R. Paul Stevens.

From message to messenger

The 12 men came on stage as the opening item. Ranging in age from the early 40s to late 60s and dressed in blue jeans and T-shirts, they looked confident and determined. Linking arms they began to sway and sing to the tune of Robbin Williams’ song “A Better Man”. The lyrics, however, had been re-written by one of the men.

Towards Harvest 2024

Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) celebrated its annual Thanksgiving Service on 27 January 2024 at Sembawang Tamil Methodist Church. More than 350 members—nearly 40% of ETAC’s membership—from ETAC’s eight churches gathered for a time of thanksgiving, fellowship, praise and worship, acknowledging the abundant grace of the Lord over ETAC during the past year.

Sowing gospel seeds in the young

I was born into a Christian family. My grandmother and mother brought me to church at a very young age. I loved attending Sunday school because of the many interesting Bible stories, the fun times I had with friends and of course, the nice goodies and prizes given out for active participation and regular attendance.

How three outreach ministries in AMKTMC grew

For churches in the Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference, the Tamil-speaking congregations are well-placed to reach out to different segments of society. One significant segment is that comprising migrant workers, both male and female. This was the objective of Ang Mo Kio Tamil Methodist Church’s (AMKTMC) Fellowship of Indian Brothers (FIB) and Fellowship of Indian Sisters (FIS).