Josephine and Miko Just two years ago, it would have been unimaginable for 44-year-old Miko Lew, a single mother supporting three children and elderly parents-in-law, to be where she is today. Her husband had walked out on the family. Without a job or savings back then, her debt mounted and Miko spiralled into depression. Unable […]
I’d like to highlight some statistics on the numbers of cases of suicide among the youth in Singapore. There were 30 recorded suicides last year among those aged 10 to 19—the highest figure in 29 years of documentation by the Samaritans of Singapore. There are signs that the figures for 2021 could be just as […]
The psychologist G. Stanley Hall coined the phrase “storms and stress” to describe the intense interpersonal and intrapersonal turmoil that adolescents typically experience. No longer children but not yet adults, adolescents are neither fully dependent on nor totally independent of their parents. One of the challenges of this in-between stage is around the task of […]
The Faith We Sing 2021 Organised by the Methodist School of Music (MSM), The Faith We Sing (TFWS) is an annual singing retreat that provides an opportunity for congregants to go deeper into the songs of the church and understand why we sing them. It is also a platform for songwriters, both local and regional, […]
Matthew Visuvasan Matthew Visuvasan, 66, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a debilitating eye condition, in 2012. Matthew, who worked as a teacher’s aide at Anglo-Chinese School (Junior), realised then it was hereditary as his late father had suffered from blindness. Matthew’s vision issues slowly compounded as he became colour blind. He was referred to the […]
Dr Cheah, Vice President of the Trinity Annual Conference and a medical doctor by training, conducted the hourlong Zoom presentation in an event organised by the Chinese Annual Conference (CAC) Board of Family Life (BoFL). If the thought of your child asking you questions about the human genitalia makes you squirm, you are not alone. […]
Raquel Cardano with her children, Rianna and Ryan, and husband, Chris My grandfather was a Methodist pastor, and I grew up as a Methodist. At a very early age, the Bible, Sunday school, worship services, hymns and choir were a way of life for me. These brought our family together and I enjoyed them all. […]
MMS is planning for a 30th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service on 28 Nov 2021, similar to the one it had for our 25th Anniversary “In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them. Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see […]
Confrontations that wound The door slammed. Right in my face. I have never had someone do that to me before; this was the stuff of Hollywood dramas, but this drama was only just beginning. That was the response I encountered when my father asked me point-blank if I was seeing Pravin*. It marked the start […]
At the General Conference of The Methodist Church in Singapore held in 2020, the delegates accepted the revised edition of the Methodist Social Principles (MSP). The previous edition had been put together in the 1980s. Although that document incorporated certain issues that were generating concerns in Singapore at that time, like the paragraphs on the […]
