The phrase “silver tsunami” is often used to describe the extraordinary rise in the number of older people throughout the world today. It is employed by not only politicians and academics, but also the ageing service sector.
In the months following his father-in-law’s death, Mr Lim Kay Kwong began noticing signs of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in his wife Betty Pay.
“What does it mean to be a Methodist?” Even though I was privileged to attend a Methodist school and church for the better part of my life, I was always challenged to provide a satisfactory answer to this question.
Methodist Missions Society (MMS) conducted an Organisational Restructure Exercise to address the issues related to the emerging trends in missiology and alignment of roles according to the arising needs in the mission fields.
Each year, we are reminded of our Methodist roots when we commemorate that day in the year 1738 when John Wesley’s heart became strangely warmed on Aldersgate Street in London. As a Church, it is timely to reflect on our past and appreciate how God has grown the Methodist Movement. In this year’s Aldersgate celebrations, we also looked to the future in search of answers about God in our vast universe and, with a basic hunger in our hearts and minds to connect with what is beyond our world, sought to challenge our own perceptions of our place in the present and in the future.
Every May, Methodists celebrate John Wesley’s Aldersgate Street experience of which he wrote: “I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that [h]e had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.”
In early 1885, the work of the Methodists began in Singapore through missionaries Bishops James Thoburn and William Oldham. The early team of missionaries focused on education, social outreach and medical work.
Barker Road Methodist Church (BRMC) announced the launch of the Connect Experience 2023 (CE’23), with the objective of unifying its approach to small group ministry. The official launch took place on 22 April, kick-starting a sermon series on biblical koinonia or fellowship.
Love is often associated with ideas of romance, roses, soft-focus pictures and gentle, kind words. Toughness, being stern and exacting, seem to be diametrically opposite. Yet many of us would have heard of “tough love”. What is it?
