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Mr Danny Goh and Mrs Lois Goh, recipients of the MWS Empowering Warmth Award On 30 July 2021, over a hundred invited guests witnessed the powerful performance of “The Prayer” by 18-year-old award-winning soprano soloist Lauren Yeo. Lauren’s performance was one of the highlights of the inaugural Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) Empowering Life Awards (ELA) […]

The Methodist Missions Society (MMS) Vision 2025 is to “Enlarge the Tent of God” among the world’s unreached people groups (UPG) so that “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea” (Isa 11:9). The Lausanne Committee defined a people group in 1982 as “the largest group […]

Mrs Gnanamany Philip with her husband, ETAC President Rev Philip Abraham “I am determined to be a Bible Christian not almost but altogether.” This remains my goal in my Christian life. I grew up in Sembawang—Jalan Sembawang Kechil to be exact—where Sembawang Tamil Methodist Church stood before it shifted to Yishun. It was there in […]

Mr Yan Yuelong, client of MWS Covenant Family Service Centre – Hougang and MWS Family Development Programme This year, Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) celebrates 40 years of empowering life to the full. This is one of a series of stories from people empowered to help others through MWS over the years.Mr Yan Yuelong was working […]

Barker Road MC medical mission team members praying for missionaries in Nepal in 2018 MMS was officially established on 30 Sep 1991 as the missions agency of The Methodist Church of Singapore (MCS). Its primary mission is to establish indigenous churches where none currently exist. MMS aims to be a disciple-making movement that touches and […]

Bishop Dr Gordon Wong is well-known for his golfing skills and has won several local charity golf tournaments. And as every good golfer and sportsman attests, Bishop Dr Wong believes that playing well requires practice and discipline. “My fitness regime? I play golf once or twice a week with friends and my 99-year-old dad. I […]

Puay See’s church in Hong Kong I was not born in a Christian family. I never studied in a Methodist School. I only got to know Christ through a death in the family. At a neighbour’s invitation, we visited Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church (TA) and somehow found the service reassuring. We have been worshipping […]

Eunice Chew realised that despite living in a developed country, poverty still exists but is often invisible in our community When Singapore entered Phase 2 (Heightened Alert) in May 2021, many were reminded of the struggles they faced during last year’s circuit breaker. It is easy for anyone to slip back into despair and self-isolation […]

An MWS staff shares his former struggles and journey towards empowering others   Benny Thiam, Social Worker at MWS Family Service Centre – Yishun This year, Methodist Welfare Services celebrates 40 years of empowering life to the full. This is one of a series of stories from people who felt empowered to empower others through […]

Yes, we can! X-Culture-Collab participants A key feature of missions across geographical borders in the “new norm” is capitalising on the digital platform more than ever before. Both digital natives like millennials and students as well as the older digital novices need to creatively explore the digital platform to be on the frontiers of cross-cultural […]

Keith Tan is a member of Holland Village Methodist Church, and a member of the MCS Council on Communications I stumbled into the Methodist Church almost by accident in 1996. My now-wife, whom I was dating at the time, was a non-practising Catholic and I was from a charismatic church. We needed to find a […]

A Pioneer Talks about Learning from the Dying   In 2021, Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) celebrates 40 years of empowering life to the full. This is the first in a series of stories from people who have been on this journey with MWS. They include MWS co-founders and leaders, volunteers, beneficiaries, donors, staff, and representatives […]