Articles by

Gabriel Ong

News

How can we pray for Afghanistan?

This sentence took hours. Honestly, I didn’t know how to begin this article. Have you seen the images and videos of Afghans falling from the sky? They had clung on to aircraft, even though...

Dating

30+, single, and trying not to settle

Online dating in one’s 30s is not for the faint-hearted. Repeating answers to the same few questions for months on end, labouring to shape an organic conversation out of a vacuum, doing my best not...

Illness

What going (almost) blind taught me

At the end of July last year, I underwent an operation to halt vision loss in my right eye. In crude terms, the operation involves the surgeon cutting a small slit in my eye to reduce its pressure....

Life & Death

Losing my mum to cancer: Seeing the good (and God) in suffering

I lost my mother to cancer last July. She was only 60. She was first diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer in her adrenal gland in 2012. We were thankful then that the cancer was discovered...

Outreach

See this island… united, regardless of generation

We come into this year’s National Day against the backdrop of much tumult: the pandemic rages on and the incident at River Valley High School is still fresh in our minds. Yet we have much to thank...

Sermons

Day of His Power 2021: Are we ready for the big reset?

The first-ever live-streamed Day of His Power (DOHP) saw prayers released, blessings declared and an especially memorable message from Joseph Chean who shared that the Church must reset itself in...

University

Uni freshies, here’s a list of Christian welcome events

Now that we’re into August, freshman season is well and truly underway. University is a whole new world of opportunity. What better way to get your feet wet than by having a spiritual community...

National Service

How not to waste your National Service

It seems strange that you would take advice on how to finish National Service (NS) well from someone who wasted much of his two years. But I really want to help you learn from my regrets, and the...

Culture

Just in time for the Olympics: The story behind a manga about failure and faith

When Manga Messiah came out in 2006, it proved to be a refreshing take on the gospel using the Japanese pop-culture medium of manga.  Fast forward 15 years later, and a brand new manga is making...