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Mrs Jolly Low playing for the ESN girls at Sophia Blackmore Hall. With her is Mrs Angeline Tambyah, 73, another volunteer pianist and teacher. – Methodist Message picture. At 92, Mrs Low still serves GC-WSCS by playing the piano “Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses Let us run the race not only for […]

  THE Methodist Missions Society (MMS), through its social and welfare unit in Thailand, Muang Thai Mettakij Foundation, has presented fishing nets and equipment to fishermen affected by the December 2004 tsunami in a village to the north of the resort island of Phuket. Twenty-one families, comprising about 100 people, in this small fishing village in Ban Nai Rai in […]

  MORE than 100 years ago, at great cost and personal sacrifice, Christians from the United States, Britain and Australia • Left their homes and came to Singapore as missionaries, pastors and teachers, • Raised money to purchase land and build churches and schools, and • Gave everything to us – entrusting us with the […]

EDITOR: Mrs Lee Foong Ming, a member of the Methodist Message Editorial Board and a member of Covenant Community Methodist Church, was involved in a road accident on July 24, 2006. She shared her testimony with Christian and non-Christian friends in an email. She agreed to have her testimony published in Methodist Message because, she […]

In this series we shall focus on a category of (generally) nameless and overlooked characters in the Old Testament – the servants. In the social and economic structures of the day, households were large establishments, comprising the family, together with the extended family of siblings, relatives, concubines, children and a host of servants. Throughout the […]

  THE more I listened to him and his church leaders the more I was impressed. Pastor Gopal has poured his life and his own money into building the Mahima Church. For the past three years, the Methodist Missions Society (MMS) has been working with him to develop the Caleb Bible Institute. He has proved […]

  NASHVILLE (Tennessee) – When band leader Lawrence Welk tapped Ralna English to sing his favourite hymn on his musical television show, the young performer had no idea that “How Great Thou Art’ would become her signature song in a career spanning decades. The song – and her album of the same name – brought […]

In this new series, “Servants of The Lord”, we shall focus on a category of (generally) nameless and overlooked characters in the Old Testament – the servants. In the social and economic structures of the day, households were large establishments, comprising the family, together with the extended family of siblings, relatives, concubines, children and a […]

PHNOM PENH – The Cambodian Methodist Bible School, established in Phnom Penh in May 2000, was originally built by and for the Korean Methodist Church (KMC), which had begun its work in Cambodia in the early 1990s. It trains pastors and church workers for the Methodist Church in Cambodia. It offers a three-year Diploma of […]

THE Methodist Missions Society (MMS), in partnership with Transformation Alliance, a Singapore church grouping, is starting to extend care and love to the people of East Timor. It is reaching out to the people in Emera District. There are 498 villages (known as “sucos”) spread out in 13 districts. Each village comprises 10 to 15 […]

BARKER ROAD METHODIST CHURCH LAUNCHES NEW MINISTRY FOR SINGLES: connect@brmc AFTER praying for three years, finally on May 6, 2006, connect@brmc became a reality when 50 excited people gathered at Wesley Hall at Methodist Centre for a simple Dedication Service. It is the new ministry at Barker Road Methodist Church (BRMC) for singles – unmarried, widowed […]

  NEW YORK – Scrabble, the popular word game, has a historic link to a United Methodist congregation. Among the first players of the game were members of Community United Methodist Church in the borough of Queens in New York City, according to the Rev Austin Armitstead, who served as pastor there from 1974 to […]