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Family

Eat With Your Family Day: Conversation starters and ideas to connect with one another

Usually held on the last Friday of each school term, the final Eat With Your Family Day for 2022 is coming up this Friday, November 18!  Read on for suggestions on how you can spend time with your...

Work

I wanted to stop being a workaholic

“Are you surviving?” my colleague would ask.  “No,” I replied, and we laughed it off, thinking it was just something everyone goes through during busy season at work. But the truth was,...

Dating

IG Live with Cliff Tam and Tam Wai Jia: Dealing with hurt and heartbreak

In Part 1 of our notes from our Instagram Live with Cliff and Wai Jia, we covered questions such as should girls make the first move, how do know when you’ve met “the one” and what...

Dating

IG Live with Cliff Tam and Tam Wai Jia: Your questions on dating and relationships answered

From strangers who connected online to now a couple celebrating 10 years of marriage, Cliff Tam and Tam Wai Jia’s long-distance love story has intrigued many.  We sit down with them for our...

Discipleship

My Game, His Glory: How Athletes in Action SG got its kickoff to reach the sports world

In 2009, my Bible study group and I played football every Wednesday with a motley crew of non-believing polytechnic students, to the point that we signed up for an eight-month-long sporting league...

Church Life

What would it take for our churches to be more welcoming?

In the racial group I was born into, there are very few Christians, whether in Singapore or beyond. As a result, most Christians in Singapore still do not know how to properly respond when they...

Surveys & Reports

Many who have changed church during the pandemic are young adults: State of the Church in Singapore 2022

As churches emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, a higher number have experienced “more outflow” of attendees compared to “more inflow” or “no change”, according to...

Real Life, Real People

Struggling with body image? It took me years to see the truth

Trigger warning: This article contains mention of self-harm. It was in secondary school when I took notice of the K-pop scene. I enjoyed the music and dance, but more than that, I admired the...

Dating

What we learnt from our disaster proposal (and how to avoid one)

“You OK for us to share this?” I asked nervously. “Yea, no worries,” shrugged Cliff, “It’s been so many years. And hopefully, it’ll resonate with someone!” Little did we expect for my...