Have you encountered “charity muggers”, the people paid to conduct face-to-face solicitation on behalf of the charities who hire them? Some genuinely believe in the cause that they’re paid to promote, while others approach it with the same level of enthusiasm as a rebellious teenager forced to do something against his will.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 (NIV)
Some of you would have experienced getting a wood splinter embedded in your hand. As you try to extract the splinter, bits may come away but some remain stubbornly buried. You then fluctuate between finding ways to remove it and ignoring it while hoping that it will somehow disappear.
All her life, Mdm Ong Quee Huay, 81, had never celebrated Mother’s Day … until last year.
One of the many problems that have arisen in some churches in America due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with its frequent and erratic lockdowns, is the significant drop in the number of Christians serving in their respective churches.
29 September, 2010. That was the day I realised I was burned out. As a young Christian undergraduate, I thought that I was immune to burnout. After all, wasn’t I doing everything “right” by serving in multiple church and campus ministries every week?
Anyone who has served in a church ministry is likely to be able to share an anecdote or two about some misunderstanding or conflict that arose between members belonging to different generations. “That’s life!”, you may sigh, but instead of resigning ourselves to it, we have undertaken The Generations Project in the hope that our research can help to facilitate greater empathy through a deeper understanding of each generation.
I accepted Christ at an altar call during a Christmas programme organised by The Boy’s Brigade (BB) when I was in Secondary 2. The officer-in-charge, David Chan, followed up with me and has been my mentor till today.
On 9 Feb, ACS, together with MOE, made a spectacular announcement that it will start a special education (SPED) school. It will be the 5th SPED school in Singapore. No less earth-shaking to the ACS community were the other announcements made alongside: in 2030 ACS (Primary) will move to Tengah, a new heartlands precinct from its current Barker Road campus, and enrol girls as well. ACS (Junior), currently operating at Winstedt Road, will eventually move into the Barker Road site.
