Outreach

A group of Methodist Welfare Services staff looking at a panel on the “Heritage Walk” on the third floor of the Methodist Centre. – Methodist Message picture.   MORE than 200 frontline and support staff of the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) attended a talk recently on “Our Heritage, Beliefs, Structure and Ministry” by the Patron […]

Signing the partnership agreement: From left, Mr Frederick Chieng, the Rev Seow Choon Seng, Bishop Dr Solomon and the Rev Dr Clarence Lim. Standing behind them are Mr Han Hai Kwang, a member of the Board of Missions of the Chinese Annual Conference (extreme left) and leaders of Foochow Methodist Church. — Foochow MC picture […]

  COME Dec 6, right up to Christmas Eve, the nights in Changi Village will come alive to the light of the Star in the East and the voices of carollers. This is Love Changi Christmas Light-up 2003. The organising churches comprising the Salvation Army, Changi Baptist, Changi Christian Fellowship and Living Hope Methodist Church, […]

Putting the finishing touches to a Christmas tree at last year’s Sharity Gift Box. – BB picture.   The Boys’ Brigade Sharity Gift Box — Nov 28 to Dec 18, 2003 THE Boys’ Brigade Sharity Gift Box (BBSGB) is one of the longest-running national community service projects in Singapore advocating the spirit of caring and […]

Ms Janet Lim (left) and Ms Judith Chua (centre) of the Ladies’ champion team from Paya Lebar Methodist Church receiving the Rosalyn Tay Trophy from Mrs Lucy Toh. — MWS picture.   DESPITE the economic gloom, and the recent SARS crisis, more “funds per head” were raised at this year’s MWS Annual Golf Tournament. With […]

Myanmar nationals fervent in worship at the first anniversary of the Myanmar service at Hakka Methodist Church. — Methodist Message picture. By LEONG WENG KAM     Congregation of 50 worship at Hakka MC 5 FOREIGN LANGUAGES The new service brings the total of non-traditional or foreign languages being used in Methodist churches to five. […]

The new MWS Management Committee: Seated, from left, Mr Khoo, Mrs Ng, Mrs Tan, Mr Chan, Mr Lim and Mr Tambyah. Standing, from left, Mrs Poore, Mr Fong, Mr Peh, Mr Yen, Ms Lor and Mrs Woo. Not in picture: Dr Chen. — MWS picture.   THE Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) has adopted a resolution […]

The Retired Missionaries’ Reunion at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee.   NASHVILLE (Tennessee) — Retired Methodist missionaries from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore held a reunion in Nashville, Tennessee recently. Among them were the Rev and Mrs Allen Rice. He is a retired Methodist minister and his wife, Shan, was a Methodist missionary in Singapore […]

Hope and a voice for migrant workers   HOPE HAVEN — Christians’ response to the plight of migrant workers in Singapore — was launched at Kampong Kapor Methodist Church at its Tamil Ministry’s 10th anniversary celebrations on Aug 3, 2003. It aims to give a voice to these workers and to enable the hopeless to […]

A fellowship of hymn lovers ministering the Word through music THE Methodist School of Music (MSM) will launch the Charles Wesley Circle – a fellowship of hymn lovers ministering the Word through music — at the Trinity Theological College Chapel on Sept 21 at 6.30 pm. The launch will include a buffet dinner, special music […]

Methodist Philatelic Society THE Methodist Philatelic Society was founded in 1970 by a group of people who had an interest in philately and Methodism and wished to marry the two. Its membership seeks to identify and study postage stamps, postmarks, postal covers and envelopes from around the world which are associated with Methodism and the […]

Visit to an English Methodist Circuit I WAS one of a group of five Singaporeans who went to England in April, at the invitation of a British Methodist pastor, the Rev David Jebb, to spend two weeks at a couple of Methodist churches there. On Easter Sunday, our last Sunday there, I was asked at […]