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MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING I FIRST HEARD GOD’S CALL to full-time ministry in 1990 while I was studying at a polytechnic. At this time I was also serving in church as a musician and worship leader. In 1995 after completing my National Service, I joined Forerunner’s stint programme for six months. It was during […]

OBITUARY: TRACEY K. JONES, Jr (1917-2009) He pastored Wesley Methodist Church in Singapore in the early 1950s THE REV TRACEY JONES, JR passed away on Dec 16 in Sarasota, Florida, the United States, at the age of 92. He served as a Methodist missionary and was Pastor of Wesley Methodist Church, Singapore for a quadrennium […]

  MUTUAL RESPECT AND TRUST “Authentic church partnership, like good friendship, is built on mutual respect and trust. Thus, the friendship and partnership model cultivates mutual learning and provides an infrastructure conducive to promoting the “Study Tour on Missions”. Some have argued for only long-term missions as they will allow for the indispensable component of […]

  IT IS DINNER TIME and the Ng family (not their real name) get together in the cramped living room for their only meal of the day – rice and vegetables fried with anchovies. Dirty mattresses are strewn all over the floor of the two-room flat and a middle-aged man is sitting uncomfortably in a […]

ALTHOUGH ONE OF MY PASSIONS IS SKETCHING, I did not have the faintest idea that I would have a career as an architect. I did not have much of career guidance from my parents and friends, but God led me. Upon graduation from university, I had imagined serving God through public service and worked for […]

I WAS FORTUNATE that the taxi unknowingly took my team up the mud track (three km) from Dai Lai village to the Faith Farm – a drug rehabilitation centre. The Faith Farm in China, established in April 2003, was a leprosy rehabilitation centre but vacant for many years. I was pleasantly surprised to see a […]

SCHOOLS ACS (INTERNATIONAL) has a vision statement that speaks of “developing future leaders with international vision, moral character, intellectual ability and deep compassion for humanity based upon Christian belief and values”. What are these “Christian values”? All the Methodist schools in which I have worked have stressed not only that Christian values were an essential […]

  PHNOM PENH – It has been said that the most enduring ministry of the Methodist Church is with young people. More than a century ago, missionaries opened the first Methodist schools in Singapore. For the past 12 years the Methodist School of Cambodia (MSC) has followed that tradition by providing quality education and sharing […]

  AT THIS CELEBRATORY TIME of the year, Christ becomes the buzz word and His name is everywhere. Little kids sing it; shops shout it and advertisers make huge headlines out of it. However, it is in the context of the commercial CHRISTmas that Christ is being remembered by the larger community. Within the church, […]

MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING HOW MANY FACETS are there to a person? Can one be somebody in one setting and quite somebody else in another? Experience tells us that this is possible. It seems in business and professional life that this is not only so but must be so. To “be professional” is to […]

  IT STARTED with a vision. More than a year ago, Dr Seet Ai Mee, a long-time member of Aldersgate Methodist Church (AMC), had a dream. In the dream the Lord showed her a house where students coming to study in Phnom Penh from far-flung provinces throughout Cambodia could live. Having attended the Methodist Girls’ […]

OBITUARY: LEE HAH ING (1914-2009) BORN TO A METHODIST PASTOR’S FAMILY in China in 1914, Mr Lee Hah Ing passed away after a long and blessed life on Sept 4, 2009. He was educated at ACS Ipoh, and after graduating from Raffles College, started a life-long career as a teacher – in ACS Telok Anson […]