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Alvin Tay at the DISCIPLE 30th Anniversary book launch Good Friday and Easter used to be nothing more than a guaranteed long weekend that I looked forward to every year—for three straight days, no school or no work. When I was baptised in 1988, however, I began to understand the significance of Good Friday, Easter […]

Ps Ian Wong, his wife Eeleen, and their four beautiful daughters To the Chinese brothers and sisters in our Methodist Family, blessed Lunar New Year! Food is often at the centre of our celebrations, and many of us know the value of food hospitality. We will go to great lengths to make sure our guests […]

Lunar New Year, in the recent few years, has become a season of poignant reflection for me. It was during Lunar New Year that I saw my grandmother and grandfather for the last time, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. In my grandmother’s final years, she was really sick. My dad constantly nagged at me to visit […]

The Lunar New Year is the most important point on the Lunar calendar. The beginning of the lunar year has symbolised the act of starting over with renewed hopes for happiness and prosperity. It is also a time to renew ties with family and friends, through family reunion dinners and social visits. Chinese and many […]

Hakka Methodist Church As the rousing outro of “Give Us a Vision” faded away, which signalled the start of the 46th Session of the Chinese Annual Conference (CAC) held at Hakka Methodist Church from 15 to 18 Nov 2021. 2021 also marked the start of Rev Dr Gregory Goh’s second term as the CAC President. […]

Board of presidency report Originally planned as a physical conference to be held at Pasir Panjang Tamil Methodist Church, the Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) 46th Session took place online over Zoom in the interest of the delegates’ well-being and safety. Over two days between 12 and 13 Nov 2021, the Session was the first […]

Fellowship with fellow believers at the Antioch Chapel’s Bible Study session on Wednesdays “When I was sentenced to my third term of imprisonment, the longest so far, I realised that time was slipping by and I might not see my parents alive again when I got released.” This revelation in 2010 jolted Charlie Chua, now […]

Mdm Lim attending a worship service on Zoom “Zoomer” is a term that was coined in the past year or so to describe young digital natives, who live and breathe social media and are adept at using communication technologies. It was thus especially heartwarming to meet a 93-year-old who is at ease with using Zoom […]

Darryl with his family Towards the end of Sep 2021, the government announced that the home recovery programme (HRP) would be the default mode of management for children between the ages of five and 11 who had been diagnosed with COVID-19. I thought about the plight of the many kids with COVID-19, trapped at home […]

The first CCIS in 2004 Victor Ng’s work has been about telling the story of Jesus’ love through large scale projects like the Jesus Film Project and staged productions like Celebrate Christmas in Singapore. But he says acts of service in community outreach efforts is just as important in telling the same story. A conversation […]

Some of the joys of working in missions in the local church is to see members growing in their involvement in missions, such as in this missions education and exposure workshop in 2018 How did you get involved in missions?   Fresh out of university in the late 1980s, I had a vague sense of […]

BMC members with RC representatives in Changi Village The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on many families, upending livelihoods and causing financial and emotional stress. In view of this, the Inter-Racial, Religious Confidence Circles (IRCC) has been partnering with various religious groups to provide assistance to families in need. In conjunction with BMC’s celebration […]