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  THEIR faces said it all. Grateful fishermen from the village of Ban Nai Rai, 80 km north of Phuket, stepped up to receive fishing boats, boat engines and other equipment with wide smiles amidst applause. The “gifts of love” were presented to 30 fishermen by the Methodist Missions Society (MMS) through its social and […]

I BELIEVE it is very possible for your church to plant 20 new self-supporting churches in the next 10 years – but you need a plan. Allow me to re-tell a well-known story. The Story of the Shoe Factory The manager of a well-established shoe factory was fired because for three years the company lost […]

In this new series on the Methodist Welfare Services, we would like to give you a glimpse of our social service ministry carried out in our centres. So get to know our staff as they share about their work and experiences.     ‘MY NAME is Elin Poh Su-Ching and I have been working at […]

  PANAMA CITY (Panama) – The first Methodist congregation established outside England and Ireland was in the Caribbean and its members were slaves. Nathaniel Gilbert, a lawyer influenced by Methodism founder John Wesley, brought his witness to the island of Antigua, where the congregation was born in 1759. During the next century, Methodists from the […]

  AT A recent meeting, the main governing body of the Methodist Missions Society (MMS) – the MMS Executive Committee – decided to concentrate on planting self-supporting churches in the region. This is not how we do it here in Singapore, but for our work in the region, we must adapt and use a different […]

Part Five of the series on the Methodist Welfare Services highlights programmes and services on parenting. We continue to witness the life journey of a couple, Jin Han and Susanna, as the former reminisces in a love letter to his beloved wife.     MY DEAREST WIFE Susanna, By the time Charis was nine years […]

  IT HAS been a great joy to hear of hundreds of Methodists investing their time and money to go on a short mission trip. For myself, after each trip I make, I ask myself two questions: 1. How were the missionaries and national pastors blessed and refreshed by my visit? When we left, did […]

RETIRED Methodist missionary Rev J. Harry Haines (picture above) passed away at the age of 89 on March 29, 2007 in Eugene, Oregon, leaving behind his wife, Loma Housley and two surviving sons. His missionary service spanned a total of 38 years, beginning in west China in the 1940s, then in the division of inter-church […]

  HE JUST could not stop talking. His face was beaming. In less than one year his school, which receives poor students from the surrounding farming community, has been transformed. Morale among teachers and students is at an all-time high. * A TOTAL of 980 of his students whose families live well below the poverty […]

  IN RECENT years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of mission trips to poorer countries neighbouring Singapore. This prompts us to ask, “What is it that helps towards an effective mission practice?” There are three elements that can be identified as essential in good mission practice, namely, the head, the life […]

Part Four of the series on the Methodist Welfare Services highlights programmes and services for children and youth. Once again we witness the strength of Jin Han and Susanna’s faith and their commitment to their family as the former reminisces about their life together in a love letter.     DEAR Susanna, Do you know that […]

Why MMS has two different child sponsorship schemes A NUMBER of people have asked me, “Why does MMS have two different child sponsorship schemes?” At present you can support a child through the MMS (Methodist Missions Society) for either $30 a month or $90 a month. Here is the short answer: In our $30-a-month scheme, […]