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In 2020, The Methodist Church in Singapore set up Methodist Preschool Services Pte Ltd (MPSPL) to centralise the management of Methodist preschools. On 26 June 2023, Ang Mo Kio Methodist Preschool joined the MPSPL group as the seventh centre at the start of the new school term. The centre provides 4-hour and 6-hour preschool programmes and has been operating within the premise of Ang Mo Kio Methodist Church since 1982.

Methodist Girls' School (MGS) turns 136 years old this year. During its Founder's Day celebrations on 25 July 2023, in continuing the pioneering spirit and legacy of its founder Miss Sophia Blackmore in present times, the school will be launching a first-of-its-kind Intergenerational Learning Centre located on a school campus in Singapore.

Epworth Community Services originally started out as Methodist Children and Youth Centre (MCYC) around 1998. It was an outreach effort by Barker Road Methodist Church (BRMC) to the neighbouring community in Bukit Batok where MCYC was situated.

Music is an art that offers many proven benefits for the learning and development of the child. Research has shown that exposure to music from early childhood helps children speak with clearer articulation, develop varied vocabulary and grow depth in socio-emotional understanding.

The Chinese Annual Conference (CAC) May Day event has traditionally been a platform for special topical discussions and training, but this year, May Day took on a different purpose. When CAC President, Rev Dr Goh Nai Lat called for a meeting with the chairpersons of CAC Boards to discuss an all-of-CAC response to the changes in the law last year, it was clear that the family had to be at the centre of CAC's response.

Each year, we are reminded of our Methodist roots when we commemorate that day in the year 1738 when John Wesley's heart became strangely warmed on Aldersgate Street in London. As a Church, it is timely to reflect on our past and appreciate how God has grown the Methodist Movement. In this year's Aldersgate celebrations, we also looked to the future in search of answers about God in our vast universe and, with a basic hunger in our hearts and minds to connect with what is beyond our world, sought to challenge our own perceptions of our place in the present and in the future.

In early 1885, the work of the Methodists began in Singapore through missionaries Bishops James Thoburn and William Oldham. The early team of missionaries focused on education, social outreach and medical work.

Barker Road Methodist Church (BRMC) announced the launch of the Connect Experience 2023 (CE'23), with the objective of unifying its approach to small group ministry. The official launch took place on 22 April, kick-starting a sermon series on biblical koinonia or fellowship.

The mystique of space and galaxies is fascinating to adults and children alike. It invokes curiosity, sparks imagination and fuels the quest to explore, discover and learn about the unknown. That is the objective of the Methodist Preschool Signature Space Buds Programme.

On 24 March 2023, students and staff from ACS (International)'s Christian Fellowship (CF) led in a joint community effort with a community library in Holland Village, to engage preschoolers from the nearby Sparkletots branch through educational and fun activities.

Students, teachers, parents and alumni of Methodist schools and Methodist church members gathered at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) bright and early on 25 March, a Saturday morning, for MethodistWalk 2023.

Jusuf Kam passed away on the morning of 2 March 2023. He was 61 years old. Best-known for giving well-known Methodist works new tunes, he is survived by his wife, Susanna; son, Jovan; daughter, Nadia, and son-in-law, Joshua.