Articles by

Wong Siqi

Relationships

Growing up in a lower-income family, I hated my life

My parents separated when I was 10. I was too young to understand anything about separation, but one thing I knew for sure was that our house now felt emptier. After the separation, my mother moved...

Relationships

“Missing out on mum”: Learning to love my mentally-ill mum

I missed out on a lot of things as a girl because of my mum’s mental illness. I didn’t have someone to talk to about boys, about my period, about skincare. And I never had someone to nag me about...

Faith

My struggle with becoming a full-time missionary

“Lord, please don’t ever call me to be a missionary!” This was my plea after my first mission trip as an 18-year-old onboard Operation Mobilisation’s (OM) ship Doulos. It had been an...

Culture

Kingdom Invasion: The power of prayer intercession

The 40-year cyclical review of Dr Billy Graham’s prophecy over Singapore in 1978 has been ongoing rhetoric across multiple local churches even in the days and months leading up to 2018,...

Faith

There’s no young people in my church … Should I leave?

This was written in response to Elizabeth Tan’s story, “3 questions to ask before changing church“. I read the article by Elizabeth in which she wrote about her decision to change...

Culture

My life was a disaster zone

I serve in the social services sector and a big part of my work requires me to support vulnerable communities overseas, together with my volunteers. Serving the nations has shown me that no human...

Faith

Fast? For what?

Since I was young, I’ve never recalled saying “no” to ice-cream – especially chocolate-flavoured ice-cream. Ice-cream was my go-to sugar rush and it never failed to provide comfort. Each...

Faith

I’m a new Christian and loving it

Before I came to know Christ, I went to temples with my family as I was not born into a Christian family. At that point of time, I didn’t know which god I was praying to because there was so...

Faith

Don’t wait until the deathbed

I wrote about my grandma’s health scare last year. Although the doctors found nothing wrong with her body, the scare took a toll on her mental health. My grandma became depressed, and her body...