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Mr and Mrs Chew Cheng Yong. — Methodist Church Archives picture, courtesy of Associate Professor Ernest Chew.   In this interesting memoir, the Rev William Shellabear’s younger daughter, Fanny, recounts the wedding of Mr Chew Cheng Yong to Mr Tan Kiong Keng’s eldest daughter, Siok Kim, “Besar”, the first Chinese Methodist wedding in Malacca nearly […]

Ms Yeo Cher Eng … “Literature is a ministry for me.”   Church worker Cher Eng’s winning literary works published as books A TWO-TIME winner of writing awards — the Golden Lion Award (Non-fictional) and Golden Point Award (Short Story) — Ms Yeo Cher Eng’s works have been collated and published in two books, “Seeking” […]

SIR ALAN WALKER: A Methodist preacher for 70 years.   NEW YORK – Sir Alan Walker, whose ministry spanned most of the 20th century, died in Sydney on Jan 29, 2003 at the age of 91. A Methodist minister, he was the first person to hold the position of World Director of Evangelism for the […]

  MRS Lorinne Reinoehl (above) celebrated her 100th birthday on Feb 25, 2003 at a nursing home in Claremont, California. She is the oldest past Head of Anglo-Chinese Middle/Primary School. Before her marriage to the Rev Waldo Reinoehl, she taught the ACS Cambridge classes at the start of her missionary service from 1927 before being […]

The Rev Raj with his wife Adarsh and Anjali, six months.   AT A time when some Western communities either actively oppose or barely tolerate Christian missionaries, the Rev Rajaspuran Mannar, 50, is in an unenviable position: he is in the midst of what he terms as the “post-Christian, post-modern culture” of North America. Stationed […]

TWO missionary pastors from Short Street Tamil Methodist Church came back recently on home leave. JASMINE DANIELS spoke to them to find out what they had been doing these past years.   HE LIVED on a tear-drop shaped island in the Indian Ocean, south of India. But the Rev George Barathan’s real voyage began with […]

Japanese student Y. Toyama sought the truth in one of our educational institutions in Japan.   ‘MOST consciously and most cheerfully I accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour. About nine years ago I believed that there must be in the universe an Almighty Power, and also believed the immortality of the soul. But as I […]

The Rev Zimmerman: Well-known as a choir director. — Methodist Message Archives picture.   OBITUARY: THE REV N. WILLIAM (BILL) ZIMMERMAN THE Rev William Zimmerman passed away on Nov 13, 2002 at the age of 76. He leaves his wife, Ruth Anne, four daughters – Karen, Alisa, Deborah, Cynthia – and two grand-daughters, Hillary and […]

THE CAC paid tribute to two of its women stalwarts when it held a Memorial Service for Madam Huang Kuan Eng and the Rev Tan Phek Geok on the second day of its 27th Session at Foochow Methodist Church. Madam Huang passed away on July 13, 2002 at the age of 89. She first served […]

I WAS practically crying all throughout the service. I am sure those who sat around me (except my husband) thought it must have been the way the Holy Communion was introduced. The worship leader had done a wonderful job describing the wonders of our salvation; how Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for us, and asked […]

A dramatic tale of how it brought ‘lost’ husband to wife after 35 years NEW YORK – The new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to re-open a church in urban Brooklyn, arrived in early October 1999, excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down […]

THE REV TAN PHEK GEOK: Served the church for almost 65 years.   OBITUARY: THE REV TAN PHEK GEOK THE Rev Tan Phek Geok, the first woman pastor to serve in Singapore, passed away early in the morning of Oct 18, 2002. The Rev Tan, who was with the Chinese Annual Conference (CAC), was ordained […]