Outreach

Flourish began in 2011 as a simple women's ministry passion project, sparked by a Mother's Day gift made by hand. What started as one act of love has since grown into a redemptive movement, empowering disadvantaged women in Cambodia through dignified work in crochet and sewing.

The work of missions provides answers to the questions, "Who am I?" and "Whose am I?", through sharing the gospel of salvation and teaching God's Word. Read three testimonies from the mission fields of Timor-Leste, Nepal and Cambodia.

On 27 February 2025, the Singapore Mission School (SMS) in Laos, one of the schools under Methodist Missions Society (MMS), reached another milestone in its 15-year history with the opening of its Kindergarten at new premises.

The year was 1981. Terence Wee, a 17-year-old student at Anglo-Chinese Junior College, was awarded the Methodist Scholarship (later renamed the MWS Bursary)—a financial assistance scheme by Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) to support children from low-income families with school-related expenses.

In the mission field of Khon Khaen, Thailand, the Little Sheep Childcare Centre founded by Methodist Missions Society, faced their own struggles to accommodate a child with special needs.

Chairperson of Methodist Welfare Services' Board of Governance and a regular volunteer at its nursing homes, Eugene Toh shares a personal reflection from a recent pastoral care visit.

Life is filled with different cues prompting certain actions—the shrill urgency of a bell warning of fire prompts us to run away while the tinkling of a bell signalling the arrival of the ice-cream cart draws us to it. Not unlike the ringing of a bell, the Christian receives a cue every Sunday.

At Wesley's death on 2 March 1791, Methodism had grown to 294 preachers and 71,668 members in Great Britain, 19 missionaries and 5,300 members on mission stations and 198 preachers and 43,265 members in America.

In 2007, Chiew Poh's husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer and she plunged into an existential crisis, paralysed by an unshakeable grief. Just as they were losing all hope, a profound encounter with Jesus Christ transformed their lives.

Elliot* remembers the day his world shattered – when his wife of 12 years called in November 2022 asking for a divorce. "Two days later, she packed her things and left for her hometown, walking out on me and my son," he shared.

Methodist Missions Society (MMS) was set up in 1991 as the missions agency of The Methodist Church in Singapore. Its strategy is to establish indigenous churches supported by mission endeavours in communities in our region where there is no Methodist presence.

Another quadrennium of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS) will end at the close of this year. Outgoing leaders, Alvin Tan and Col Quek Koh Eng, share their thoughts.