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LIFE before becoming a Christian was fraught with uncertainties and fears. Fear of being incapable or unable to achieve goals and ideals; fear of peoples’ reactions and opinions of my actions; fear of the unknown and the continuous nagging feeling of whether the right choices in life were made. I have always had the firm […]

Mary Nind: One of most influential women in Methodist Church   Mary Clarke Nind – ‘Our Little Bishop’   METHODIST readers are, no doubt, acquainted with the beginnings of women’s work in Singapore and Malaysia pioneered by Sophia Blackmore from 1887. They will have heard of Methodist Girls’ School and Fairfield Girls’ School, as well […]

THE REV JAMES HOOVER: Made himself “all things to all men”. — Methodist Church Archives picture.   ‘ALTHOUGH the legendary Sarawak missionary, the Rev James Hoover, had not sent out any invitations for Saturday, March 14, 1925, he had entertained 30 callers before 4 pm. After reading this list of callers, we fear no sympathetic […]

A LONG-STANDING leader of the Singapore Hakka Methodist Church was recently awarded the Outstanding Educator Award by the National University of Singapore. He is Associate Professor Seah Kar Heng, 49, (left) and his name has a double meaning – church revival and teaching is his joy. Assoc Prof Seah, who politely declined to be interviewed, […]

SUNDAR SINGH: Most influential Indian Christian ever lived. DR JOHN SUNG: Greatest Chinese evangelist of the 20th century.   Two Asian men who had given so much of themselves in the 20th century WHILE speaking at a chapel of a local theological college, I mentioned the names of Sadhu Sundar Singh and Dr John Sung. […]

A MAN’S daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father. When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed that the old man had been informed of his visit. “I […]

Mr Chan (centre) performing on Teachers’ Day. — Fairfield Methodist Primary School picture.   David Chan this year’s only primary school teacher to win Outstanding Youth in Education Award Teaching in Fairfield Methodist Primary School has convinced him he has found his calling in life SOME may call it a strange twist of fate, but […]

Isabella accepted James’ call to teach in India IMAGINE being sent off by your mother to college at the age of 15 with $162.50, her blessing and the advice to “spend this carefully”. This is the moving beginning of a story of a poor but bright young lad who was later to become a dynamic […]

Mr Voon (right): “God had given me a second life and I would like to spend more time in the ministries that I am already involved in to reach out to more senior citizens.”   Why Voon Yan Seong, 64, is still serving fellow senior citizens Kum Yan MC leader was struggling with work pressure […]

Samuel and Susanna Wesley. – Interpreter picture.     OFTEN overshadowed by his famous older brother, Charles Wesley has emerged as perhaps “the greatest hymn writer of all ages”. Who is this Englishman who, according to Frank Baker, averaged writing 10 poetic lines a day for 50 years? Who wrote 8,989 hymns, 10 times the […]

PASTOR CHAN: Remembered for his sermons. – Methodist Church Archives picture   OBITUARY: PASTOR CHAN WAH TECK PASTOR Chan Wah Teck, who passed away on June 6, 2003 at the age of 94, was born on May 26, 1909. Although he did not attend theological college, but felt deeply called to preach the Gospel, he […]

Here is an Everyday Methodist who shares her passion for church music and her strong desire to educate children and youth in the doctrinal principles of worship and music education. SINCE childhood, I had always dreamt of becoming a teacher. My educational pursuits led me, however, into the field of accounting. I eventually earned a […]