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A NEW WEB PORTAL aimed at facilitating the participation of Methodists in community work was unveiled by the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) at its 30th Anniversary Thanksgiving Dinner. Dr Lee Wee Leong, Board member of the MWS and Chairman of the IT Sub-Committee, presented to dinner guests the portal, which has the aim of bringing […]

  THE METHODIST WELFARE SERVICES (MWS) aims to work closely with Methodist churches in bringing more help to those in need, said its new Chairman, Mr David Wong Cheong Fook. Mr Wong, who is the Local Church Executive Committee Chairman of Wesley Methodist Church (WMC), and who also serves as an independent director on several […]

  I WAS PRIVILEGED to join a team from the Methodist Missions Society to Timor-Leste from Sept 27 to Oct 1 this year. It was a most fruitful fact-finding and relationship-building trip. Timor-Leste as a missions field is ripe. It is a young nation with many needs including health, infrastructure, industry, education and agriculture. On […]

WHEN I WROTE LAST (Methodist Message, May 2011), I referred to the ills of much of the current state of education in schools and posited an alternative approach of a truly holistic education as worthy of serious consideration. I did not at that point identify one of the logical implications of such an approach namely, […]

  IN MAY 2005, I was a healthy 48-year-old working in the financial district. One day, I discovered thick mucus stuck in my nose. After a series of medical tests, I did my quiet time in my office before I went to collect my test results. I prayed for healing, and God said: “My grace […]

  THE METHODIST WELFARE SERVICES (MWS) runs four Student Care Centres (SCCs) in different parts of Singapore. Nestled in the HDB heartlands, the SCCs were set up to meet the needs of lower-income families, offering affordable after-school care for children aged seven to 12 years. About 34 per cent of the students at Daybreak SCC, […]

  THE TYPICAL MISSIONARY EXPERIENCES STRESS LEVELS between three and four times higher than that considered to be “at risk” under normal circumstances. This is due to the discomfort of being in a different country and culture, facing high expectations from sending churches or agencies, the unconventional nature of mission work, being distanced from supportive […]

  FOUR METHODIST PASTORS raised more than $100,000 for the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) in the MWS 30th Anniversary Pastors’ Challenge 2011. On May 28, about 25,000 people descended on a remote part of Changi for the Adidas Sundown Marathon. Among them were four pastors: the Rev Dr Wee Boon Hup who is the President […]

  WITH MANY YOUNG SINGAPOREAN FAMILIES setting up their first homes in the Punggol and Sengkang estates, the Rev Jasper Sim of Changi Methodist Church saw a valuable opportunity to address a social service gap in the northeast region. “The church leaders and I prayed for more than a month as we felt God calling […]

  Methodist Missions Society starts work in Anhui province, China METHODIST MISSIONS SOCIETY (MMS) LEADERS and the MMS Country Coordinator for China have been cultivating close relationships with government officials and leaders of the Three-Self Church in a town in Anhui province for several years. Recently, they were invited there to conduct their staff retreat […]

NASHVILLE (Tennessee, US) – Tears ran down “Samuel’s” hollow cheeks as he held the chalice and served Holy Communion to his congregation. The 52-year-old homeless man with five teeth, a beard that looks like steel wool and tangled blond hair, suffers with poor physical and mental health. He wept as he offered “the blood of […]

  TRACkers at MWS service centres DILLON WAS ONE OF 15 TRACkers who were attached to some of the Methodist Welfare Services’ (MWS’) service centres in March through April this year. The attachments were part of an intensive disciple-making course organised by the TRAC (Trinity Annual Conference) Youth Ministry. The third phase of this programme […]