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  METHODIST Missions Society missionaries, Francis and Angela Lim, are using agriculture as a platform to proclaim the Word to reach out to the villagers in Fujian Province, China with much success. They have been living with the farmers and the community in a village there for more than a year, training them to practise […]

  LONDON – Ms Ruby Beech’s “day job” is a position that dates back to at least the 15th Century. As an Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms in the British Parliament, Ms Beech, 51, helps look after the security and administration of the House of Commons. When she is not making sure British lawmakers can do their jobs […]

PART 10: THE SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTRY OF THE METHODIST WELFARE SERVICES Ms Christine Wong, a trained counsellor with more than 25 years of experience in the social service sector, has helmed the Methodist Welfare Services as Executive Director since March 2005. Making sure the MWS runs smoothly is just one of her many tasks.   […]

  LAKE JUNALUSKA (North Carolina) – The World Methodist Council has presented the 2008 World Methodist Peace Award to Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States and The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. Her commitment to abolishing the death […]

  LIKE all Family Service Centres, Tampines Family Service Centre (FSC) has three core services: Information and Referral, Casework and Counselling and Preventive and Developmental Programmes. The following are some of its programmes: • The Children’s Club was set up for the children in the neighbourhood to enhance their social, physical, emotional and intellectual wellbeing. […]

PART 9: THE SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTRY OF THE METHODIST WELFARE SERVICES Ms Connie Ng, Tampines Family Service Centre’s Assistant Director, strongly believes in supporting and nurturing social workers to enable them to help others.     ‘AS THE Assistant Director at Tampines Family Service Centre (FSC), my responsibilities include overseeing the general operations at the centre […]

  ENGLEWOOD (New Jersey, US) – Steve Chung would drive past the labourers lined up on the streets of Palisades Park, New Jersey, each day, a Bible verse from the Gospel of Matthew constantly on his mind. “Whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me,” is how he […]

  THE training of Nepalese pastors has been done mainly in the capital city of Kathmandu. The city hosts more than 35 training institutes run by various organisations and more than half of them run three-to five-month residential courses. The main challenge that the churches outside Kathmandu face is that their trained people are unwilling […]

PART 8: THE SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTRY OF THE METHODIST WELFARE SERVICES Mahmood, Christalite Methodist Home’s Senior Welfare Officer, is always thinking about what else he can do to improve the residents’ quality of life.     ‘I JOINED Christalite Methodist Home (CMH) in February 1997 while our would-be residents were still staying at Woodlands Home […]

  LOS ANGELES – The Rev Bau Dang would rather not talk about himself. He shies away from the spotlight. He just made history by becoming the first Vietnamese American elected as a delegate to the 2008 United Methodist General Conference, the denomination’s top lawmaking body that meets every four years. He finds it hard […]

THERE are several ways you can help to plant a new church. 1. You can contribute financially to help support a national church planter – for example, for just $120 a month, we can empower a pastor in China to plant a new church. Our current policy is to support such a person for three […]

PART 7: THE SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTRY OF THE METHODIST WELFARE SERVICES One of the longest serving staff at D’Joy Children’s Centre, Madam Lee Cheo Kee, cannot imagine herself working with anybody except young children     ‘MY ROLE as the playgroup teacher in D’Joy Children’s Centre includes teaching and taking care of the daily routine […]