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The new MWS Management Committee: Seated, from left, Mr Khoo, Mrs Ng, Mrs Tan, Mr Chan, Mr Lim and Mr Tambyah. Standing, from left, Mrs Poore, Mr Fong, Mr Peh, Mr Yen, Ms Lor and Mrs Woo. Not in picture: Dr Chen. — MWS picture.   THE Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) has adopted a resolution […]

The Retired Missionaries’ Reunion at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee.   NASHVILLE (Tennessee) — Retired Methodist missionaries from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore held a reunion in Nashville, Tennessee recently. Among them were the Rev and Mrs Allen Rice. He is a retired Methodist minister and his wife, Shan, was a Methodist missionary in Singapore […]

Hope and a voice for migrant workers   HOPE HAVEN — Christians’ response to the plight of migrant workers in Singapore — was launched at Kampong Kapor Methodist Church at its Tamil Ministry’s 10th anniversary celebrations on Aug 3, 2003. It aims to give a voice to these workers and to enable the hopeless to […]

A MAN’S daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father. When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed that the old man had been informed of his visit. “I […]

A fellowship of hymn lovers ministering the Word through music THE Methodist School of Music (MSM) will launch the Charles Wesley Circle – a fellowship of hymn lovers ministering the Word through music — at the Trinity Theological College Chapel on Sept 21 at 6.30 pm. The launch will include a buffet dinner, special music […]

Isabella accepted James’ call to teach in India IMAGINE being sent off by your mother to college at the age of 15 with $162.50, her blessing and the advice to “spend this carefully”. This is the moving beginning of a story of a poor but bright young lad who was later to become a dynamic […]

Mr Voon (right): “God had given me a second life and I would like to spend more time in the ministries that I am already involved in to reach out to more senior citizens.”   Why Voon Yan Seong, 64, is still serving fellow senior citizens Kum Yan MC leader was struggling with work pressure […]

Samuel and Susanna Wesley. – Interpreter picture.     OFTEN overshadowed by his famous older brother, Charles Wesley has emerged as perhaps “the greatest hymn writer of all ages”. Who is this Englishman who, according to Frank Baker, averaged writing 10 poetic lines a day for 50 years? Who wrote 8,989 hymns, 10 times the […]

Methodist Philatelic Society THE Methodist Philatelic Society was founded in 1970 by a group of people who had an interest in philately and Methodism and wished to marry the two. Its membership seeks to identify and study postage stamps, postmarks, postal covers and envelopes from around the world which are associated with Methodism and the […]

PASTOR CHAN: Remembered for his sermons. – Methodist Church Archives picture   OBITUARY: PASTOR CHAN WAH TECK PASTOR Chan Wah Teck, who passed away on June 6, 2003 at the age of 94, was born on May 26, 1909. Although he did not attend theological college, but felt deeply called to preach the Gospel, he […]

Here is an Everyday Methodist who shares her passion for church music and her strong desire to educate children and youth in the doctrinal principles of worship and music education. SINCE childhood, I had always dreamt of becoming a teacher. My educational pursuits led me, however, into the field of accounting. I eventually earned a […]

Visit to an English Methodist Circuit I WAS one of a group of five Singaporeans who went to England in April, at the invitation of a British Methodist pastor, the Rev David Jebb, to spend two weeks at a couple of Methodist churches there. On Easter Sunday, our last Sunday there, I was asked at […]