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There will be a Heritage Trail by Bus and a Heritage Fair THE METHODIST HERITAGE DAY, to be held at the Old School (former Methodist Girls’ School site at Mt Sophia) on Oct 31, will have two main events – an Opening Ceremony incorporating a main Heritage Exhibition and a Heritage Fair, and a Heritage […]

TRINITY ANNUAL CONFERENCE PICTURES TAKEN AT LAST YEAR’S SESSION AS PART OF THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of e Methodist Church in Singapore, the Young Methodist Leaders’ Conference 2010 will be held at Pulai Springs Resort in Johor from Sept 9 to 12. The conference is open to those between the ages of 17 and 40. […]

THE ULTIMATE GOAL “The Christian has only one goal to achieve and that is running the “race” and completing it with the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit. We are coached daily to “seek after the heart of God”. This goal surpasses all others.” ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR GOALS were scored during the World Cup […]

THERE IS A FEAR that we are losing our young – to values and lifestyles foreign to us. They live in a new world, both exciting and dangerous. Stating this in his sermon “ rough All Generations” at this year’s National Day anksgiving Service at St Andrew’s Cathedral’s New Sanctuary on Aug 12, Bishop Dr […]

When Methodist missionary Rev James Hoover was sent to Sarawak in the early 1900s to help develop the fledgling Christian settlement, he faced many and diverse problems as well as opportunities. But the potential was already apparent. “ … WITH THE RESIDENT, I have put in a lot of hard, trying work this (1905) year, […]

MCS 125th Anniversary: Community Outreach Project THE METHODIST WELFARE SERVICES (MWS) NEEDS 1,600 more Befrienders urgently to disburse funds to chronically poor families and to visit them. To date, almost 800 volunteers from Methodist Churches all over Singapore have committed to visit these families under e Methodist Church in Singapore’s 125th Anniversary Community Outreach Project, once […]

Lively exchange at 125th Anniversary Dialogue THE METHODIST CHURCH IN SINGAPORE (MCS) faces three challenges today as it celebrates its 125th Anniversary. It needs to: • Acknowledge God’s absolute authority and supremacy in our lives, both personally and corporately; • Strengthen our “togetherness” both as a spiritual reality and as an operational reality; and • […]

‘RENEWAL OF THE CHURCH is seen by most thinking Christians to be essential, so that it becomes more and more the instrument of God in a relevant way in today’s world. In the 1968 Discipline of The Methodist Church in Malaysia and Singapore is a paragraph under the section “The Ministry” which needs to be […]

SPIRITUAL NUMBNESS “A biblical text like Numbers 7 reminds us that we approach God and His truth on His terms, not ours. It tells us that often it is the constant search for novelty and that which is sensational that numbs our souls to the things of God. Strangely and mysteriously, it is a repetitive […]

MORE THAN A THOUSAND VOICES SANG and praised God as a people called Methodists worshipped Him at the Combined 125th Anniversary Thanksgiving and Aldersgate Service at Paya Lebar Methodist Church on May 22, the highlight of Aldersgate Convention 2010. The large turnout of Methodists from churches of the three Annual Conferences and guests also saw […]

LAY LEADERS’ FELLOWSHIP WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be a member of the Methodist Church? Methodists often think of membership in terms of privileges, but they also need to remember and fulfil their responsibilities which are clearly spelt out in e Book of Discipline. Those who want to become members of the Methodist Church are […]

Missionary Rev J. R. Denyes accompanied Presiding Elder, Dr B. F. West, on a visit to the recently established Christian colony in Sarawak in late 1902, and describes his observations of life in the early years of the work that would later become the Methodist Chinese Church and Conference in Sibu ‘AS WE CAME UP […]