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THE outlook of 20 Trackers changed drastically when they came face to face with the clients of the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS). When Rachel Toh signed up for a four-week internship at an MWS Home, she did not expect to feed some of the elderly through their nose and stomach tubes. Not even in her […]

TRACKERS, a youth discipleship programme organised by TRAC (Trinity Annual Conference) Youth Ministries, offers a three-month intensive mentoring programme to give our young people an opportunity to encounter God through Word, Spiritual Disciplines and Mission. Its goal is to effect value change in our young people – i.e. from the world’s values to Kingdom values. […]

IF YOUR son or daughter is a student at one of the Methodist schools, then you have chosen what is often referred to as a mission school for your child. What can you expect? What does a mission school offer that others may not? Here are some of the things you can expect. 1. A […]

“WE NEED to find ways to open our churches for prayer every day,” Bishop Dr Robert Solomon urged Methodist lay leaders recently. Speaking on the “Devotional Life in the Wesleyan Tradition” at a Lunch Fellowship for Lay Leaders and Local Church Executive Committee (LCEC) Chairmen at Methodist Centre on March 21, 2009, he addressed the […]

As a young man studying in ACS, Chen Chang Lok was a favourite student of the Principal, the Rev Kingsley Pease. After completing his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree at the University of Chicago, he returned to Singapore in 1919. His experience of a holier-than-thou attitude of certain missionaries moved him to write this letter to […]

MESSAGE OF HOPE ‘In all that we do, we do not forget to take every opportunity to proclaim the message of hope, the Good News of Jesus.’ THE Chinese Annual Conference’s theme for the 2009-2012 quadrennium is “To be a Disciple-Making Church: to Study God’s Word, to Show Mercy, to Act Justly and to be […]

MOSCOW – Metropolitan Kirill is the new Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. The 62-year-old Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad was elected at a Local Council meeting in Christ the Saviour Cathedral here on Jan 27. He received 508 ballots (72 per cent) out of 702 votes cast. To be elected Patriarch, a candidate […]

AS PART of Suicide Awareness Week this year, the SOS (Samaritans of Singapore) is planning to organise a workshop on “Working with Survivors on Suicide Grief” specially for Methodist pastors and leaders. There must be at least 20 participants before the SOS can conduct the three-hour workshop, from 9 am to noon, at the SOS Training […]

Church gearing up for 30th Anniversary joy ALDERSGATE Methodist Church (AMC) is gearing up for its 30th Anniversary celebrations in May with a host of activities and programmes to remind its members of their “Journey of Faith”. This journey of the church pioneers was full of anxieties, trials and tribulations and it took 17 years […]

GROWING UP WITH KIDS AS A Christian mother of two sons, aged 21 and nine, I have been richly blessed by the Lord. The older boy is now studying in the United States, while the younger one is studying in Primary 4. Being a stay-at-home mother, I supervised the school work of my two sons […]

METHODIST School of Music (MSM) will be commemorating 12 fulfilling years of God’s blessings with a worship celebration. The theme, We Will Rejoice!, is particularly appropriate during these trying times as we hold steadfast to Christ who said, “… in the world you have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” […]

The following letter from the Rev Goh Hood Keng appears to be almost routine for an evangelistic preacher as he was – until we realise that he wrote as one who was being treated for Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) in Calcutta. Despite his condition (from which he was miraculously and mercifully cured) he continued to preach […]