My ‘accidental’ encounter with Methodism

My wife and I “accidentally” stumbled into a Methodist church. While asking ourselves, “is that all there is to this life?”, we found ourselves attending a Sunday service at Kampong Kapor Methodist Church in 1997, at the invitation of a close family friend.

Good is better than Great!

And we know that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good—with those who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 (NIV) 1 “Don’t have a good day—have a great day!” This is how the lead character in the 2021 movie Free Guy greets […]

Making missions a vision for children

The team that produced Clean Hands, Pure Hearts and Beautiful Feet Daniel could not wait to tell the story of his recovery to others. As he shared his story, some who had knowledge of sorcery told him, “Even if you had died after two weeks, your God is still a great God, because this type […]

One moment in time

Annual Meeting and Ordination in 2010 Although there have been many significant events during my long years of ministry with MMS, I can only describe them as “one moment in time”. Humbly, I acknowledge the hand of God working to shape my ministry as I have been privileged to work together with groups of faithful […]

Just a hallucination?

In the fifteenth chapter of Paul’s first letter to the Christians at Corinth, we find the earliest and most extensive discussion on the resurrection in the New Testament. The integrity of the Christian faith, the apostle insists, hinges on the facticity of the resurrection of Christ. “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching […]

Meet Sharon Liew, who runs an inclusive dance school

Sharon Liew runs an inclusive dance school When Sharon Liew embarked on a career in dance in the 1990s, inclusive dance—that is, persons with disabilities (PWDs) dancing alongside persons without disabilities­—was unheard of. Into her third decade of teaching community dance classes, and running a private dance school that supports inclusive dance, she credits her […]

I picked a bone

“I picked a bone,” my client admitted with some hesitation. We had been talking and trying to understand a recent argument with his wife. My work with him focused on helping him manage his propensity to escalate from irritation to anger and then rage. That morning, he could not find something he wanted. At the back […]

What do I do if I’m Covid Positive?

Emily Lim tells you in a second Covid-19 children’s book As a follow-up to I Can Recover at Home, an e-book that was produced last year to explain Ministry of Health (MOH) Home Recovery Programme to kids and families, Emily Lim, together with illustrator, Josef Lee, have once again teamed up to publish What Do […]

Encounter with the True God

Rev Saravana Kumar is a pastor at Sembawang Tamil Methodist Church “He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.” Psalms 113:7 I praise and thank the Lord for his abundant grace in my life. It is a joy to be part of the family of The Methodist Church […]