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“Voices from Scripture” is a work of fiction based on some references in Scripture to “minor” characters. This issue’s article features Lucas. Lucas is an imaginary leader of the Corinthian Church. He is a merchant by trade, hosts house gatherings in his home and is generally a good man. However, he has been swayed by […]

FORMER students and parishioners of the Rev Dr Douglas Wingeier will be glad to know, and congratulate him for his honour of receiving the Distinguished Alumnus Award recently from Boston University School of Theology. This event took place at a special luncheon during the 50th reunion of the class of 1954 of the school in […]

  LONDON — Two Methodist pastors have taken up seats in Britain’s House of Lords. The Rev Leslie Griffiths, Superintendent Minister at Wesley’s Chapel in London, and the Rev J. Roger Roberts, a minister serving in the Welsh Dyffryn Conwy Circuit, were among the 46 people awarded “life peerages” for their service and contributions to […]

IT’S nice to sit down with a hot drink after a difficult day, though I suppose it’s all partly my fault. But if that Syntyche hadn’t … no, I mustn’t think that way. Clement was very clear when he said that we had to forgive and work together again in our little church. Forgiveness means […]

OBITUARY: REV WILLIAM DENVER STONE (Dec 11, 1926 – May 8, 2004) THE Rev William Denver Stone who passed away on May 8, 2004 at a nursing home in Greensboro, North Carolina at the age of 77, was a Methodist missionary for 32 years in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore before he retired in 1990. Something […]

“Voices from Scripture” is a work of fiction based on some references in Scripture to “minor” characters. As the Bible gives us few lines about these people, this series imagines what they would have been like, their personality, and what their thoughts could have been in the situations mentioned. It is hoped that as the […]

A picture taken in 1960 of the Rev David Tsutada (centre) on a visit to his alma mater, ACS. Others in the picture: his teachers, from left, Mr S. K. Pradhan, Mr Yap Ah Chuan, Dr Thio Chan Bee and the Rev C. B. Paul. – Methodist Church Archives picture, courtesy of Dr Eunice Thio. […]

Voices from Scripture is a work of fiction based on some references in Scripture to “minor” characters. As the Bible gives us few lines about these people, this series imagines what they would have been like, their personality, and what their thoughts could have been in the situations mentioned. It is hoped that as the […]

CLOSE to 85 volunteers with the Methodist Missions Society (MMS) and staff turned up for the Volunteers’ Appreciation Dinner at Methodist Centre on March 5, 2004. In the true spirit of Christian ministry as an act of love and worship to our Lord, MMS helpers from all walks of life – retirees, professionals, working adults, […]

LOUISE McKEE: Died within a few hours of her arrival in Singapore. – Methodist Church Archives picture. METHODIST Girls’ School pupils, past and present, will surely remember the Louise McKee Wing at Mt Sophia, and now at Blackmore Drive. But they may not know that Louise was the daughter of James N. McKee who accompanied […]

MORE than 140 people turned up for the valedictory service in honour of Dr Lee Soo Ann who retired from the Bible Society of Singapore (BSS) as its General Secretary last December. It was a moving scene when tributes were read out by BSS staff and leaders of other national bible societies and the United […]

I PRAISE and honour God for giving me the opportunity to give my testimony at the GC-WSCS Thanksgiving Service. I was married for five years and I was childless. My husband and I wanted to have a baby as early as possible. I was called “barren”. All of us know that the word “barren” is […]