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MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING JESUS CALLED US to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world (Matt 5:13-14). How do I, as a disciple of Jesus, follow this command? Live a life without shouting that I trust in a sovereign God who will provide all my needs In the aftermath […]

Jacqueline Woo obtains five distinctions at GCE ‘O’ Level exam IT WAS NOT EASY FOR JACQUELINE WOO to take her place among the achievers in Methodist Girls’ School (MGS). She did have some physical difficulties, but she overcame the odds to be among the 70.6 per cent of the cohort of MGS girls to obtain […]

MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING I FIRST HEARD GOD’S CALL to full-time ministry in 1990 while I was studying at a polytechnic. At this time I was also serving in church as a musician and worship leader. In 1995 after completing my National Service, I joined Forerunner’s stint programme for six months. It was during […]

OBITUARY: TRACEY K. JONES, Jr (1917-2009) He pastored Wesley Methodist Church in Singapore in the early 1950s THE REV TRACEY JONES, JR passed away on Dec 16 in Sarasota, Florida, the United States, at the age of 92. He served as a Methodist missionary and was Pastor of Wesley Methodist Church, Singapore for a quadrennium […]

MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING HOW MANY FACETS are there to a person? Can one be somebody in one setting and quite somebody else in another? Experience tells us that this is possible. It seems in business and professional life that this is not only so but must be so. To “be professional” is to […]

OBITUARY: LEE HAH ING (1914-2009) BORN TO A METHODIST PASTOR’S FAMILY in China in 1914, Mr Lee Hah Ing passed away after a long and blessed life on Sept 4, 2009. He was educated at ACS Ipoh, and after graduating from Raffles College, started a life-long career as a teacher – in ACS Telok Anson […]

MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING HE CALLED ME TO BE AN ACCOUNTANT! On completion of the “A” Levels, I was accepted by Turquand Youngs and Co, the largest public accounting practice in Singapore at that time, as “Junior Audit Clerk C”, the lowest rank in the professional order of the firm, working in the daytime […]

Remembered as missionary, teacher and principal   METHODIST MISSIONARY Rev Eugene McGraw, known in Malaysia by his nickname as “Mac”, passed away on July 6, 2009 at the age of 100. He is survived by his brother Glenn, his daughter Bonnie, his son, Paul, three grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. He had come out to […]

N – NURSE MY CALLING WAS LARGELY RELATED to my Christian heritage. My parents were Methodists who faithfully brought my brother and me to Sunday School week after week. From young I learned to do good and not evil. When I finished school in the 1960s, the majority of the girls were either nurses or […]

I’M A DOCTOR, and I have often been told that the practice of medicine is a calling, much like being called into Christian ministry. The truth of the matter is that as Christians, ALL of us have been called by God – whether bankers, teachers, hawkers, doctors or pastors. We have, first and foremost, been […]

MY CAREER – GOD’S CALLING All Christians are to do God’s work WHEN I WAS a young Christian, I had asked God boldly: “God, send me to wherever you want me to go and I shall obey. Call me to your service.” It would have been easier if God had spoken audibly, provided a “sign” […]

The Rev W. G. Shellabear here recounts his amusing experiences on a visit to China more than a hundred years ago. It is a useful reminder that missionaries must be prepared, like those of old, to face all manner of inconveniences in the course of their duty. THE JOURNEY FROM ‘FOOCHOW to Amoy, however, begins […]