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Mrs Jolly Low playing for the ESN girls at Sophia Blackmore Hall. With her is Mrs Angeline Tambyah, 73, another volunteer pianist and teacher. – Methodist Message picture. At 92, Mrs Low still serves GC-WSCS by playing the piano “Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses Let us run the race not only for […]

EDITOR: Mrs Lee Foong Ming, a member of the Methodist Message Editorial Board and a member of Covenant Community Methodist Church, was involved in a road accident on July 24, 2006. She shared her testimony with Christian and non-Christian friends in an email. She agreed to have her testimony published in Methodist Message because, she […]

In this series we shall focus on a category of (generally) nameless and overlooked characters in the Old Testament – the servants. In the social and economic structures of the day, households were large establishments, comprising the family, together with the extended family of siblings, relatives, concubines, children and a host of servants. Throughout the […]

  NASHVILLE (Tennessee) – When band leader Lawrence Welk tapped Ralna English to sing his favourite hymn on his musical television show, the young performer had no idea that “How Great Thou Art’ would become her signature song in a career spanning decades. The song – and her album of the same name – brought […]

  NEW YORK – Scrabble, the popular word game, has a historic link to a United Methodist congregation. Among the first players of the game were members of Community United Methodist Church in the borough of Queens in New York City, according to the Rev Austin Armitstead, who served as pastor there from 1974 to […]

  DALLAS – The embodiment of James Pepper’s life during the past 18 years is spread out over the floor and tables of his apartment and in a special room set aside for him at Highland Park United Methodist Church, where he attends and volunteers. Since 1987, Mr Pepper, an investment manager, has painstakingly copied […]

  WHAT kind of a Christian woman would: ■ LEAVE her father’s church as a teenager and join up with the tradition that once persecuted him? ■ RISK her marriage by refusing to give in to her husband in a political quarrel? ■ DISOBEY her husband – and church law – by holding “irregular” prayer […]

‘The Garden of Remembrance fulfilled all my hopes as a beautiful and dignified home for my father’s memorial site.’ — Dr Nigel Stanley in an e-mail to Methodist Message. THE headstone of a well-known English doctor who joined a Singapore medical practice in 1929 and the Malayan Medical Service three years later and was killed by […]

  MONROVIA (Liberia) — Ms Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the 23rd President of Liberia, pledged to work for economic stability, create a brighter future for youth and children and empower women. “We will work to change,” she said. The first woman to be elected Head of State in Africa, Ms Johnson-Sirleaf, a Methodist, acknowledged many challenges lie ahead for her […]

A LITTLE boy grew up in a family of five in a one-room rental flat in Toa Payoh. He was brought up by his grandmother while his parents went out to work. They saved enough to support his medical studies. He was grateful to have made it with his average grades. He had become a […]

OBITUARY: TAN CHIN TUAN (Nov 21, 1908 – Nov 13, 2005) MR TAN CHIN TUAN, an Old Boy of Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) who had become almost iconic for his generosity to his alma mater, died on Nov 13, 2005. In his time, he made a series of donations amounting to more than $10 million for buildings […]

THE Rev Dr Clarence Lim, 65, who retired last month as Director of the Methodist Missions Society (MMS) of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS), is extremely happy and grateful that more Methodists are giving their money, time and service to the work of the MMS. “There is a marked steady increase in financial giving […]