Articles by

Christina Wong

Real Life, Real People

The boy who’s always been picked on – and the God who picked me

I’ve always been bullied. Growing up, I felt no one understood me. I always felt that my parents favoured other people. At least, to my young mind it looked that way – it seemed they always...

Discipleship

I could do things my way – but there’s a better way

Throughout the years, my heart has been yearning for things that God has not been giving to me. I yearned for a reputable career in the creative industry, but I’m now a full-time ministry...

Easter

7 places to go this Easter weekend

Good Friday and Easter are all about the death and resurrection of Jesus. Here are 7 churches telling that story in 7 different ways that weekend. 1. THE LEAP:Ā HOPE CHURCH SINGAPORE Jail, addiction...

Real Life, Real People

The credit analyst who left everything behind for an unpaid internship in Cambodia

When I was younger in the faith, I used to hateĀ the idea of working in the church office. ThatĀ was my only concept of what full-time ministry could look like.Ā I had the perception that it would...

Culture

I don’t like the way I look – but I’m learning to love who I am

ā€œYour daughter dances like an elephant,ā€ my dance instructor announced to my mother in front of everyone after class one day. I was 7. It was nothing new. Every week the instructorĀ did her best...

Do Good

Going the extra quack

“I thought I wouldn’t see you againĀ after the last time you came to my house during Chinese New Year,” saidĀ Madam Png Peck Hoon. I smiled guiltily and insisted that I’d been...

Finding Purpose

Stop comparing yourself to others – you’re better than that

HOW TO OVERCOME THE SPIRIT OF COMPARISON 1. Celebrate each other’s successes It’s generally easier for us to suffer with others easier than to rejoice with them. If someone is doing...

Surveys & Reports

This is no time to live carelessly: Bill Johnson at Kingdom Invasion

Christians don’t only have the ability to affect the atmosphere – we have the responsibility to change it, said Bill Johnson. The senior pastor of Bethel Church, speaking at the second...

Worldview

ā€œCivilised nations do not kill our own childrenā€: Lou Engle calls for Esthers to arise in Singapore

ā€œIn 1969, the Prime Minister of Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew) began to allow the legalisation of abortion and that decision was further sealed deeply by Roe v. Wade in 1973. But I prophesy that God is...