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PASIR PANJANG TAMIL METHODIST CHURCH PICTURE   Members of Pasir Panjang Tamil Methodist Church and guests at the 75th Anniversary Service at its Wishart Road premises on June 2, 2002. The Rev Dr J. Daniel, who was pastor of the church for more than 30 years, delivered the sermon. He urged the congregation to continue […]

A rousing Hallelujah Chorus to end the 70th Anniversary Service. — Pentecost Methodist Church picture.   Pentecost Methodist Church celebrates PECIALLY composed lyrics were sung at a celebratory service at the Kallang Theatre on May 19, 2002: “It all began at old Geylang town …” From Geylang to Joo Chiat. From Joo Chiat to Pasir […]

Members of the Singapore delegation: They responded favourably to the Fourth World Federation of Chinese Methodist Churches Mission Conference. – Methodist Message picture by TAN WEE PIN, a member of the MM Editorial Board and Editor of the CAC News.   THE Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) was well represented at a mission conference in […]

FIRST ASIAN METHODIST CONVENTION IN SEOUL: June 14-18, 2002 THE time has come for the Methodists in Asia to proclaim the Gospel of Christ with one heart and one voice so that God can be glorified. This was stated by Bishop Dr Robert Solomon in his keynote address to the 300 participants at the First […]

The Rev Khoo speaking at the Penang conference. – Methodist Message picture by TAN WEE PIN.   THE Chinese Annual Conference (CAC) of The Methodist Church in Singapore was elected at the recent mission conference in Penang to head the World Federation of Chinese Methodist Churches (WFCMC) for the next five years. The responsibility falls […]

ASIAN Methodists now have a common platform to do mission work and a voice in world forums with the recent formation of the Asian Methodist Council (AMC). The AMC was established at the First Asian Methodist Convention in Seoul. Some 300 participants from 14 Asian countries attended the convention from June 14 to 18, 2002. […]

WSCS members guiding some young women at a sewing class. — Methodist Message picture. ALL Methodist women who have a desire to see women’s needs met have been invited to volunteer their services with the Methodist Women’s Ministries. Extending the invitation, Mrs Laureen Ong, President of the General Conference Women’s Society of Christian Service (GC-WSCS), […]

METHODIST MESSAGE PICTURE THE Rev Dr John Barrett, the new Vice-Chairman of the World Methodist Council (WMC), receiving a bound copy of Methodist Message 2001 from Bishop Dr Robert Solomon when he and Mrs Barrett paid a courtesy call on the Bishop recently. He was elected the WMC Vice-Chairman at the 18th World Methodist Conference […]

AS I stared at Ground Zero, New York City, looking at the huge hole in the ground where the World Trade Center once stood, I was filled with a sense of dread. It was eerie and psychologically very disturbing. But I was also feeling rather numb and anesthetized. It must have been all the repetitions […]

TRINITY Annual Conference (TRAC) is once again organising the “Individually Directed Silent Retreat” this year following its success last year. It will again be held at St Francis Xavier Major Seminary in Ponggol, this time from Sept 5 (6 pm) to Sept 8 (11 am). Most of the retreat will be spent in silent listening […]

OUR age may be characterised as the age of euphemisms. In some circles the use of politically correct expressions has been developed into a fine art. Foreign students are now called international students; the blind are politely referred to as the visually disabled, the lame the physically disabled; the Third World has become the Two […]

PENTECOST SPECIAL HOW do you turn fear into confidence? Bitterness into joy? Rudeness into civility? What turned a small band of downcast fishermen into bold heroes of faith? PENTECOST reminds us of the power of God to transform lives. Pentecost is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The Season of Pentecost continues the celebration begun […]