Highlights

The Rev Goh Aik Hiang, Associate Pastor of Queenstown CMC, recording his sermon in an empty hall before the circuit breaker began on 7 April 2020 Church in a time of COVID-19 On 20 March 2020, The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) announced that all church services in their 46 churches would be suspended.  Bishop […]

Appreciating the Faith MC cleaners “Auntie, jiak ba buay?” That’s my best attempt at making conversation with one of the aunties in our cleaning staff. If the conversation goes on beyond that, I’ll have to steal glances at my co-workers to help me out as my Hokkien really “cannot make it”. Auntie Ah Keow is […]

Joash Lee of Faith MC Comms Since the first live streaming session for our Watchnight Service 2017, the video team at Faith MC has grown steadily.  In the last quarter of 2019, in order to improve the skills of the team, we planned more multi-cam setups and began training the crew more purposefully by recording […]

Participants at the Asian Young Women’s Leadership Development Seminar Asian Young Women’s Leadership Development Seminar Three dozen young ladies from Singapore and nine other Asian countries gathered to ponder over this question: “What is my purpose?” They were participants of the annual Asian Young Women’s Leadership Development (AYWLD) seminar, which aims to grow young women […]

Anniversary Sunday combined service at MGS’s M. E. Lau Hall. In July 2019, Covenant Community Methodist Church (CCMC) began to mark the milestone of its 25th anniversary by embarking on a Community Clay Covenant Project, which serves as a reminder that God is our Potter and we are clay formed by His hands. This project […]

Listening to Bishop Dr Chong Chin Chung speak at the Laity session on 17 Aug 2019 In the previous issue of Methodist Message, it was reported that we are not ready at the present time for a one-Conference MCS. What all the efforts in these past months have highlighted to the leadership is that much […]

The Conversation was attended by ~250 persons from 100 churches, of whom a quarter were from 18 Methodist Churches. Together in God’s Mission—this was Bishop Dr Chong Chin Chung’s call to the Church in Methodist Message’s May issue. And those who came for the Micah Conversation, which was held from 19 to 20 July 2019 […]

Imam Syed Hassan Al-Attas (fourth from right, in white) and his family opening their hearts and home to visitors from MCS and other faith communities on 5 June 2019 “We Christians believe in the faith tremendous that in Christ Jesus, God is breaking down the walls, and barriers, and partitions, and prejudices that separate us […]

The Methodist Festival Choir and Orchestra. Bishop Emeritus (BE) Dr Robert Solomon rounded off the three-day Aldersgate SG 2019 event with his sermon during the Celebration Service on 25 May at Paya Lebar Methodist Church. As this year’s Aldersgate SG centred around the topic of missions, BE Dr Solomon highlighted that the Great Commission has […]

A time to celebrate, praise and learn. Methodists in Singapore gathered from 23 to 25 May 2019 to celebrate our Wesleyan heritage and commemorate what it means to be Methodist. The annual Aldersgate SG event is usually organised around 24 May, the day in 1738 when Methodism’s founder John Wesley felt his heart “strangely warmed” […]

Methodism was a movement, not an institution—we have been reminded of this again and again. Most recently, Bishop Emeritus Dr Hwa Yung, who spoke at Aldersgate SG 2019, referred to a Methodist Message article from June 2016, “Rethinking the Methodist Church in Singapore”, by Mr Tan Gee Paw, member of Barker Road Methodist Church and […]

From left: Bishop Emeritus Dr Robert Solomon, Bishop Emeritus Dr Wee Boon Hup and Bishop Dr Chong Chin Chung It was a historic occasion. Almost 250 pastors and leaders from the three Annual Conferences (ACs) gathered at Toa Payoh Chinese Methodist Church to listen to the perspectives of three bishops’ on the MCS Structural Review […]