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Youth Gambling Prevention Road Show, organised by Methodist Children and Youth Centre, hits off with students in schools A PROGRAMME to warn youths of the dangers of gambling has got off to a good start. The Methodist Children and Youth Centre (MCYC) officially launched the Youth Gambling Prevention Road Show at Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) […]

Aldersgate Hymn Festival 2007: Let the music begin! The MSM Ringers leading a procession down the aisle, handbells chiming the start of the Hymn Festival. A lovely evening – and a thousand tongues thrilled THE Aldersgate Hymn Festival, a jubilee of Wesleyan poetry and song, thrilled a thousand tongues and ears at Victoria Concert Hall on […]

Speaker David Wilkinson peppered with many questions IT WAS the most well-attended Aldersgate Convention to date. It also saw much more participation from the participants in terms of interaction and questions asked. And many of the questions were “profound”, in the words of the speaker himself. The Rev Dr David Wilkinson, who addressed participants at […]

“Is your life full of difficulties and temptations? Then be happy, for when the way is rough, your patience has a chance to grow. So let it grow, and don’t try to squirm out of your problems.” (James 1:2, Living Bible). A PROBLEM gives your life a jolt and knocks you off your accustomed track. […]

The Rev Trevor Hancock, Methodist Missionary who served in Sarawak, gives us an eye-opening account of Thomas Coke, Methodism’s first bishop in America, whose zeal for preaching and missions was worthy of the founder of Methodism, John Wesley. ‘… IN THE main street of the small Welsh town of Brecon there is a plaque on […]

ON HOLY SATURDAY, April 7, 2007, about 4,500 students from the 15 Methodist schools and some 1,000 members from the Methodist churches came together as a Christian family to “Walk for Love and Walk for the School”. MethodistWalk 2007 was organised by the Methodist Schools’ Foundation (MSF) for the students to raise funds for equipment […]

THE Permanent Secretary of the Public Service Division in the Prime Minister’s Office, Ms Lim Soo Hoon, was named Her World’s “Woman Of The Year” on March 6, 2007. Ms Lim, who worships at Barker Road Methodist Church with her family, is a mother of two teenage boys. Older son Samuel, now 17, was diagnosed […]

Bishop James Thoburn’s sister, Isabella, who founded the women’s college in Lucknow, India, remembered their mother’s strict training which stood the family in good stead through hard times. Preferring a low profile but always ready to render Christian service, she was a pillar of strength, a worthy tribute for Mother’s Day. After her husband’s business […]

  CHARLES (top) AND JOHN WESLEY: They created many thousands of hymns in their life time   THE Wesley brothers, as we are all familiar with, never did leave behind for their constituents a crystallised systematic theological understanding of their faith expressions. Unlike John Calvin who wrote Institutio Christianae Religionis (Institutes of the Christian Religion), […]

THERE is yet another attempt, with media hype and all, to try to destabilise the foundations of Christianity. In a new Discovery TV documentary, Hollywood producer James Cameron who made the movie “The Titanic”, and Jewish director Simcha Jacobovici attempt to prove that Jesus’ burial cave and body were discovered near Jerusalem. They further cite […]

Methodist work in Poerbolinggo, an East Java town, had started in 1916 in response to a request from the Chinese community for a teacher whose salary was met by the local school organisation. To this school was appointed the Rev Leroy Akerson, a young missionary who had begun his ministry in Banka for a year […]

HE FOUND the place easily enough. Well, so much of the Master’s recent work had been focused on this nondescript Palestinian town that all the others had been talking about it and gave him detailed directions. He himself hadn’t been asked to do anything specific, until now. Rather, his own work had been on another […]