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FIFTEEN leaders from nine Trinity Annual Conferences (TRAC) churches have been attending a leadership-cum-ministry training session on the last Tuesday of the month since Feb 25, 2003. The session is called “I.D.E.A.S. For Leaders”. I.D.E.A.S. stands for Instruction (teaching), Disciple-making (leadership development), Experience (praying), Accountability (mentoring), and Service (goals projection). Each session begins at 9 […]

PASTORS’ FELLOWSHIP Clergy also need sabbath, says counsellor Anthony Yeo PASTORS need to have a sabbath, too, according to Mr Anthony Yeo, a well-known counsellor and part-time lecturer at Trinity Theological College. Mr Yeo, Clinical Director of Counselling at the Counselling and Care Centre, was speaking on the topic “The Pastor’s Well-Being” at the annual […]

Birth of Living Waters Methodist Church APRIL 20, 2003 — Easter Sunday — will always be a special day for the congregation worshipping at the “Preaching Point at ACS(I)” for it was the day that the congregation was constituted a new local church known as “Living Waters Methodist Church” (LWMC) – the 18th Local Conference […]

Fairfield MC’s outreach project held official inaugural service on June 1 WITH the singing of a great old hymn, “The church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord”, a new preaching point opened in Woodlands. After months of careful planning and preparation, the Fairfield Preaching Point (FPP), an outreach project of Fairfield Methodist Church (FMC), […]

BISHOP Dr Robert Solomon emphasised the need for Christians to exercise social responsibility for the love and sake of others, especially during this time when Singapore was fighting against SARS. He was responding to questions on the dreaded disease from Methodist students at a tea fellowship at Trinity Theological College (TTC) on April 11, 2003. […]

Mr Lawrence Ang, Chairman of the Local Church Executive Committee of Toa Payoh Chinese Methodist Church (centre, holding The Book of Discipline), making a point to his group members. – Methodist Message picture.   BISHOP’S LUNCH FELLOWSHIP FOR LAY LEADERS Laity are frontline troops and clergy support them: Bishop LOCAL church leaders have called for […]

Special festivals, exhibitions, conferences, lectures, worship, musical plays and stage shows among events METHODISTS all over the world are celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley, this month. The “Father of Methodism” has been described as the “single most influential Protestant leader” of the English-speaking world since the Reformation. He […]

NEW YORK – When the Rev Oscar Bolioli first served as President of the Methodist Church of Uruguay in the 1970s, the country’s military regime tried to expel him because of the church’s support for families of political prisoners and its outspokenness on human rights issues. Eventually, as the end of his term neared, he […]

Bishop Dr Solomon receiving the Certificate of Appreciation from PM Goh. Behind them are Dr Yaacob (left) and Mr Abu Bakar Maidin– ETF picture.   Methodist Church in Singapore contributes $20,000 THE National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS), of which The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) is a member, has donated $100,000 to the […]

THE REV DR NAGLE One of ACS’ most distinguished principals.   AFTER 80 years, Anglo-Chinese School welcomed the visit of the daughter of one of its most distinguished principals, the Rev Dr J. S. Nagle. On a sentimental journey, Ms Alice Nagle spent a week, from March 8 to 15, touring some of the historic […]

The congregation and the wooden cross. — Living Hope Methodist Church picture.   LIVING HOPE Methodist Church in Tampines held a ground-breaking service on Feb 22, 2003. The Rev Dr Isaac Lim, President of Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC), was the guest preacher. Assisting him in the service were the Rev Melvin Huang, District Superintendent (East), […]

AN EIGHT-MEMBER team from Kowloon Methodist Church, Hong Kong, visited our Methodist churches from March 15 to 23 to learn more about the work of our Youth Ministries. Led by their Minister-in-Charge, the Rev Wilson Chan Tak-cheong, the team members held discussions with pastors of our local churches, church workers and youths and exchanged ideas […]