The ice breakers were agonizing. One flat bonding activity after another. Immovable as a pew I stayed rooted to my seat. It was not the right attitude to have at the commencement dinner of the 2012 Love Singapore Pastors’ Prayer Summit. It was not because Ps Eugene Seow, the king of icebreakers, has handed his [...]
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Goh Ewe Kheng: servant leader
The session of the Pastors’ Conference organized by Tung Ling had ended. Pastors and leaders stood up to stretch, look for the restroom, or just stand around and chat. A grey haired man went about with a carton of packet drinks to serve the pastors. He dressed simply and looked ordinary, though he was a [...]
Zion Full Gospel Church: convenient city church with unusual origin and congregational mix
Unusual mix and origin
The building looked like a ship that is cruising on calm waters at Hoot Kiam Road. In the worship hall there were Africans, Australians, and Americans peppered among the locals in the 100 or so people who attended the 11am Sunday service. This mix is not unusual as surrounding the church’s location [...]
Woodlands Evangelical Free Church: shining light in the north
Much has changed
The last time I visited this church they were still called Bukit Timah Evangelical Free Church and they were located at King Albert Park. The pastor then was Rev Lee Twee Kim and his wife, Poh Choo, who was for a while my Sunday School teacher. When I was in Primary school, my [...]
Chapel of the Resurrection: a church with stretch marks
From Malan Rd to St Andrew’s Village
The 600-700 strong church was located at the St Andrews Junior College in Malan Road but have now moved with the school, to St Andrew’s Village at St. Francis Thomas Drive. Although I have heard about this very fruitful church, I have not been to their service before. [...]
Care Community Church: a family church in a heritage site
A unique place of worship
This is definitely the church with the most unique of locations. There are those that worship in the home, the shophouse, the industrial unit, the shopping mall, an association building, the cinema theatre, restaurants, schools, even the columbarium, but this is the first time I experienced worship in the Arts House [...]
Aldersgate Methodist Church: keeping tradition and yet stepping beyond
In the wrong place
It was a traditional service, but it took a step beyond the traditional.
Like clockwork it began at 8.30am and ended at 9.40am. That’s about an hour and a quarter, with the eucharist included. This was Aldersgate Methodist Church. It had been a long time ago when I last attended a Methodist service [...]
Almost two months into the sabbatical
Listening to my body
Almost two months have passed. Physically, I have rested well. This April and May has been months when I listened closely to my body. Whenever I felt tired, I laid in bed and napped or slept. Most mornings I do not force myself to wake up. So it has been usually 8.30am [...]
Centre of New Life: insightful Pentecostal pulpit
Two churches in one building
It was an interesting concept. Two churches sharing one building is not new. It had been tried in the Clementi Bible Center, shared by the Bible Church and the Mt Carmel Bible Presbyterian Church; and in Yishun Christian Church, shared between an Anglican and a Lutheran church. This was of a [...]
Lost shepherds in the city
Lost shepherds and waiting sheep
The Rt Revd Rennis Ponniah, the Vicar of St John’s-St. Margaret’s Church, and Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Singapore, gave an insightful message to priests and ordinands recently that was excerpted in the Diocesan Digest(Nov 2010). He was reminding the church of what it meant to be an Anglican priest [...]
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