Articles by

Gracia Chiang

COVID-19

Top marathoner Mok Ying Ren says while he cannot outrun the virus, he hopes in God

For one week, I will be rostered to see suspected and confirmed patients of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with concomitant orthopaedic conditions. As I went home last week with the news that I had...

COVID-19

What do you do when your church has 7 coronavirus cases? Pray, says Grace AOG member

It was 7.50pm and the Ministry of Health had just announced that, for the second day running, there were more confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in my church, Grace Assembly of God. There are now...

News

Another church in the news: Here are some promises we can cling on to

Three. That’s the number of churches that have made headlines in less than a week – the latest being two staff from Grace Assembly of God (AOG) who were reported last night to have come down with...

News

Paya Lebar Methodist Church seals premises for “thorough sanitisation”, closes kindergarten

One of Singapore’s latest locally transmitted cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection, Case 41, was a 71-year-old man who visited Paya Lebar Methodist Church (PLMC) at Boundary Road,...

Real Life, Real People

In this test of Singapore’s strength as a nation, teacher tells students to “be more than”

  In 2003, my OBS was cancelled because of the outbreak of SARS. I was secretly happy because I wasn’t looking forward to it anyway. I remember being even happier when they closed...

COVID-19

What kind of world did I just wake up to?

I woke up this morning to a barrage of WhatsApp messages with photos, texts, memes and even some unkind, mocking comments about panic-buying at the supermarkets. I didn’t think too much of it...

Discipleship

What has this crisis revealed about us? Church leaders urge faith, not fear

TIMOTHY WEERASEKERA, CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH “The future is watching” My fellow Singaporeans, we’ve done this before. Some of us were just students when this happened last....

Finding Purpose

What if I can’t find my passion

How do I find my passion? I typed that question into Google my first-year in graduate school. I asked my professors. I asked my peers. They say, it should be what excites you in the morning. They...

COVID-19

How God gave us a new song for those who fear the coronavirus

It started when we first received a public letter from a Wuhan church (original letter in Chinese here) through WhatsApp. While browsing social media, I also came across a lengthy Facebook post by...