Playing the trumpet 60 years ago saw Indra Raj Jeyaraj serving in the Brass and Wind Ensembles in church - and winning souls. Responding to a call to go beyond the church saw him as a litigator who helped start community hospitals and eldercare centres. More recently, he is actively promoting healthy and graceful aging from his own strenuous exercise regime.
[Published online 12 Nov 2024]
Two storms in life hit Vivien Goh. Her mother’s death left her to be caregiver to her father who had dementia. She took this on while holding a national role, teaching music to students and running the household. Later, she was diagnosed with cancer. She weathered both storms, testifying to God’s strong foundation laid in her life and to His abiding presence.
[Published online 12 Nov 2024]
Pastor Lilian’s story is one of active seeking after the Lord, for His plan and direction. It’s one of biding His time, and active preparation to get herself equipped, both by seeking ways to prepare herself, and being given opportunities to learn to do things out of her comfort zone.
[Published online 15 Oct 2024]
Edwin Choo recounts his journey from the time he was a young boy who came face to face with the brutal realities of war and personal tragedy. Today at the age of 89, Edwin can only give thanks and glory to the Lord for delivering him from trauma and fear to reassurance, comfort, peace and joy through God-led experiences, answered prayers and the many godly people whom the Lord brought into his life.
[Published online 15 Oct 2024]
From his early days, David always had a sense of God’s guiding hand. Though she passed away when David was just nine, his late mother left an indelible impression on him as she was dedicated to helping others. Now in his eighth decade, David has spent most of his life in helping others - church, community, family. He is determined to serve God wholeheartedly, and to go where he is called, to fulfill God’s purpose for him.
[Published online on 10 Sep 2024]
A quantity surveyor by profession, Wei Lien joined the church full-time and served for 10 years in the late 1970s, 80s. His job was diverse and he was the first one in and last one out of church every day. He looked after back-end logistics, organised evangelistic meetings, applied his professional skills to help with church renovations, and worked the soundboard every Sunday. Providing for his young family on a church salary was tough, but he soon experienced how God practised the ‘just in time’ principle, and they never found themselves wanting.
[Published online on 10 Sep 2024]
In his 14 years as PIC of Wesley Methodist Church, Melvin left his mark especially as a servant leader, preferring the “little things, things that matter, showing kindness and understanding … a spirit of Allelon or one another.” It is this, and the weekly discipline of praying together as a Body that has shaped the very basis of his spiritual leadership that Melvin will be fondly remembered for.
[Published online 13 Aug 2024]
For close to 50 years, Ian and Madeleine have lived an intertwined life in love, ministry and sacrificial service. Devoted to one another through all the ups and downs of life, they have served both in the marketplace and the mission field to impact lives with God’s love and light. Truly a journey of many God moments.
[Published online 13 August 2024]
With a prosperous career, a loving marriage and a close-knit family, Emily Lai was living a full and fulfilling life, and thought she had everything she needed. Little did she know that God had His own plans for her and was preparing her for His work and service in the latter half of her life.
[Published online 16 July 2024]
God used the four-decade long season of waiting to equip and build up Loh Hoe Peng for the missions field, as He led him on a journey of obedience, learning, listening and watching. Hoe Peng said: “This journey changed my life from church building in Singapore to church planting in Bolivia, and from armchair missions to actually being in the mission field."
[Published online 16 July 2024]
Pastor Mike’s pastoral career has been shaped by his ‘training’ in the business world and being involved in church ministries as a young Christian. Later on, Pastor Mike also had opportunities to hone both language and pastoral skills during his postings to different churches, to prepare him for the vocation that God had set him apart for.
[Published online 11 Jun 2024]
Tony Ting’s career spans close to five decades. The last 24 years were spent as a church counsellor at Wesley Methodist Church (WMC), before he retired in 2023. It was here at WMC that God used Tony mightily in building up Wesley Counselling Services, one of the most established and sought-after faith-based counselling agencies in Singapore.
[Published online 11 Jun 2024]
Philip lived his life for 20 odd years in England with little regard for God. But God never stopped pursuing him, and on his settling in Singapore, God discipled and transformed him through His Word, the church and the community.
[Published online 14 May 2024]
Their journey of faith began in the 1970s as young adults. In ministry and marriage, Isaac and Shirley have complemented one another as God used each of their giftings to work in synchrony to bless the church and the community.
[Published online 14 May 2024]
God plucked Sian Yee from a successful career in business to situate her in a sector that was completely at odds with the jobs she had held before. Find out what a mid-career switch did to Sian Yee and her faith journey, to give her a satisfaction and a zest for life and learning, that she had not encountered before.
[Published online 16 Apr 2024]
For 15 years, the Fongs have been ministering to the Yi people, an unreached people group and the largest minority in East Asia. How did God bring them together, and how has God prepared them for this journey? Witness the steadfast hand of God in the Fongs’ service to His kingdom.
[Published online 16 Apr 2024]
Sonny had no time for God, as he chased the rainbow in his pursuit of worldly success and material wealth. But God never gave up on him, delivering him from crises and has led him to serving Him today, as a lover of His Ways and His Word.
[Published online 12 Mar 2024]
God patiently led and moulded both Peter and Doris to become prayer intercessors even though they initially lacked the confidence. Today, they turn to God in all aspects of their lives, and are thankful for His never-failing grace and mercies that have seen them through crises.
[Published online 12 Mar 2024]
Often they were unsure about God’s plans for them, but they simply trusted and obeyed. The De Winnes’ journey of faith has led them through waiting on the Lord, crisis and challenges, marked by much prayer and perseverance. Only the Lord knows what’s next for them.
[Published online 18 Feb 2024]
Harriet was an ambitious, hard and impatient woman – a marred vessel when God, the Master Potter touched and reshaped her for His purposes. Just as the Lord has discipled her, today, she continues to disciple others through the person and work of Jesus Christ.
[Published online 18 Feb 2024]
Kim Liat takes on leadership roles that he is arrowed into; yet he perseveres through each of them with a faithful and generous heart. Find out about the faith principles he lives by, and how God, his Shepherd saved him in the darkest moments of his career.
[Published online 18 Feb 2024]
A newly-married English lady arriving on Singapore’s shores, Frances sought to involve herself in Wesley Methodist Church and its life. She did this amply – in the SG Ministry, on missions trips, in the community. How was she able to achieve all that she did?
[Published online 18 Feb 2024]
At the height of her career, Shuit Kuin prayed for the Lord to change her heart, so that she could turn her back on status, money and seeing the world. He did, and she stepped out. Since then, she has laid down all that she has cherished, and in obedience, have walked the path He called her to.
[Published online 18 Feb 2024]
In her 45 years of service to church, Dorothy taught in Sunday School, visited the elderly in their rental flats, sang to the residents of elderly homes, and accompanied her husband to wakes. Read what and who she credits her faithful 45 years of service to.
[Published online 18 Feb 2024]