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THE Most Rev Dr Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma, Metropolitan of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church in India, paid a courtesy call on Bishop Dr Robert Solomon at his Methodist Centre office on June 4, 2007. He was accompanied by the Rt Rev Dr Geevarghese Mar Theodosius, Episcopa (Bishop) of the church in India; the […]

  MELBOURNE – The 5th Session of the Chinese Methodist Church in Australia Annual Conference (CMCA), held here recently, has elected the Rev Albert Chiew as the new bishop, and Mr Joseph Ting as the Lay Leader. During the conference, the long-expected Annual Conference Building was officially declared opened by Bishop Dr Hwa Yung of […]

“Boldly Ventured Is Half Won” (Latin/ German proverb). IN MARCH this year, four young Singapore organists embarked on an adventure to San Diego and Orange County, California. They took part in the American Guild of Organists (AGO) / Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists. The purpose of this US-based competition was to encourage organists below […]

“ONE Heart, One Spirit” – the theme for this year’s Founder’s Day Challenge – was clearly reflected by the many participants and spectators at the event commemorating the founding of ACS Oldham Hall, Singapore’s oldest boarding school. Since its founding soon after 1886, Oldham Hall has seen the changing faces of Singapore – through hardship […]

TRAC-MALAYSIAN SENIORS FELLOWSHIP CAMP AT BUKIT TINGGI, PAHANG FORTY-THREE seniors from various Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC) churches waited eagerly at Newton car park for the coach on March 27, 2007 at 6.30 am to take them to Berjaya Hills Resort at Bukit Tinggi, Pahang for the TRAC-Malaysian Seniors Fellowship (MSF) camp. More than 300 participants […]

IT HAS taken time and effort during the past decade for St Francis Methodist School to grow and to give relatively disadvantaged students an opportunity to develop their potential, often unfulfilled elsewhere. With no external sources of funding, staff and students have been challenged to put in really extra effort, and in the last four […]

  PHNOM PENH – Singapore’s Ambassador to Cambodia, Mr Lawrence Anderson, visited The Methodist School of Cambodia on March 21, 2007. Accompanied by the Second Secretary, Mr Jonathan Lim, he was greeted at the school gate by the Rev Philip Lim, Country Coordinator of the Methodist Missions Society, and Mr Stephen Yeo, principal of the […]

THE “A” level results were released on March 2, 2007 to a jubilant cohort of 950 students, the largest in the history of Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC). By the grace of God and through the support of the community of parents, teachers and alumni, the Class of 2006 overcame the odds to set new benchmarks […]

BISHOP’S FELLOWSHIP WITH CHURCH LEADERS “SPIRITUAL formation has to do with making us holy.” With these words, Bishop Dr Robert Solomon engaged in a discussion with lay leaders on the topic “Teaching the Faith: Nurture and Formation”. He told the leaders at the lunch fellowship at Methodist Centre on March 31 that “spiritual formation is […]

Event celebrates Charles Wesley’s 300th birthday New arrangements composed by seven Asian musicians HOW better to celebrate the 300th birthday of Charles Wesley than to hear and sing his hymns in fresh new Asian settings? Singaporeans will have the chance to do just that at the Aldersgate Hymn Festival on May 20, 2007 at Victoria […]

BOYS’ BRIGADE CHARITY GOLF 2007 THE Boys’ Brigade Charity Golf 2007 was teed off on a sunny March 6 afternoon. The golfers played hard at the Tampines Course in Tanah Merah Country Club, which was not surprising especially when the hole-in-one prize was the attractive Lexus RX400h. This was the fourth Charity Golf game that […]

  NEW YORK – A United Methodist-related concert at New York’s Lincoln Center honoured hymn writer Charles Wesley as it raised funds for relief work. The 2007 Wesley Choral Festival, presented by Music Celebrations International, commemorated the 300th anniversary of Wesley’s birth. Events began with a Feb 15 gala dinner in Little Italy and culminated […]