News

It is easy in a season of Christmas fun and food to forget the really poor and those helplessly sick. Miss May Lilly was in charge of the Methodist Girls’ School when it met in the Middle Road chapel more than a hundred years ago. Visiting some of her destitute pupils and their families, she […]

THE METHODIST CHURCH IN SINGAPORE (MCS) has given $20,000 to the victims of the recent natural disasters in the Philippines and Indonesia. e Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippines received $10,000, the United Methodist Church of the Philippines got $5,000, and the Methodist Church in Indonesia was given $5,000. In separate letters accompanying three bank […]

MY CHILDREN ASKED ME THIS RIDDLE. “What flies and yet does not move?” I could not solve the riddle. They answered, “Time, it flies but it doesn’t move.” Is that true I asked myself. Surely not. The reality of this comes especially as we come to the close of the year. This is the time […]

One Methodist’s perspective TWITTER IS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON on the Internet where one posts messages to answer the question “What are you doing now?” and this can be read by anyone in the world. Twitterers send tweets, short 160-character messages, to the Twitter website, where it then appears on its homepage, to be monitored by […]

AFTER MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AT THE HELM, the Rev Dr John Barrett will be retiring at the end of this year as Principal of ACS (International). He will, however, continue to serve on the School Board when Mr Kerr Fulton-Peebles succeeds him on Jan 1, 2010.

SPIRITUAL GROWTH “Searching the Scriptures begins with the awareness of a great need – the need for spiritual growth.” “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” – […]

KUALA LUMPUR – The Selayang Local Conference of the Tamil Annual Conference (TAC) was formed on March 28, 2009, making it the 48th Local Church of the TAC. Outside in the city it was wet and cold with heavy rain and traffic. Inside the spanking newly-refurbished building, there was warmth, an air of joy and […]

THE SECOND OF THREE HOPE FAIRS sponsored by Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC) was held at Pentecost Methodist Church on Aug 10, 2009. Supported by volunteers from Bedok, Christ, Living Hope and Pentecost Methodist churches, The Methodist Church in Singapore opened its doors to reach out to some 1,500 members and residents of the neighbouring communities […]

THE WORLD IS COMING to our island in the form of SYOG! From Aug 14 to 26 next year, Singapore will be hosting the first-ever Youth Olympic Games. Some 5,000 athletes and officials from around the globe will be coming, not counting the 500,000 visitors expected. is presents unparalleled opportunities for us to make Jesus […]

Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marvelled because of their unbelief. (Mark 6:5-6a, NKJV.) UNBELIEF PREVENTS EVEN GOD from performing mighty works. The people who had seen Jesus of Nazareth grow up could not accept the fact […]

TEN PRIMERS WERE CONFERRED e President’s Award by President S. R. Nathan at the Istana on July 20, 2009. is highest award in e Boys’ Brigade (BB) has been presented to the top percentile of the Boys from the Primers Programme (Post-Secondary level members) in the past five years. In order to attain this award, […]

EVANGELISM. Has it become an expensive enterprise? Though we have new methods of creative evangelism, I wonder whether we have lost the art of using the simple habits that open the doors for evangelism. Evangelism, in some churches, has not only become expensive but so impersonal! Christian groups and churches organise mega-evangelistic events – youth […]