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What good can come out of Geylang? Cai Yinzhou on life’s greatest adventure

“Who’s Yinzhou?” I asked in a newly formed chat group of social activists and do-gooders back in early August 2015. Someone had pointed out to me that he was in the group....

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From poor child to millionaire: A young entrepreneur asks “why am I rich?”

“I used to think of myself as poor,” said Dylan Wilk, co-founder of Human Nature, a social enterprise that he runs with his wife and her sister in the Philippines. As he shared about his life as...

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Philip Yancey: How can we race to show grace in a hostile world?

“People don’t perceive the Gospel as good news anymore,” renowned Christian author Philip Yancey announced matter-of-factly at the Eagles Leadership Conference last Friday. Things...

Missions

How I left my job to teach English in Southern Thailand

“Go, get out,” my Thai language teacher ordered, with indifference in her voice. Humiliated, I was told to leave her language class because I could not pronounce the tonal, tongue-twisting Thai...

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Micah Conversation 2019: What social justice is not

Have we mistaken social justice as the means for someone to come to know Jesus Christ? Or perhaps confused evangelism for social action, and social action for evangelism? Perceptions like these were...

Real Life, Real People

Kara Loft Sessions: The power of community and safe spaces to come as you are

Anyone meeting the owner of Kara Café & Dessert Bar would immediately be struck by her warmth and candour. But beneath her story of entrepreneurial success are many other untold tales of angst...

Work

Coffee with a cause: I tasted His goodness even when my business failed

Is this what God wants me to do? I spent two years pondering this question before I took the leap of faith to start Really Good Goods to really do good, by selling really good goods. Two years...

Faith

Integral mission: Can you feed the poor with a Bible?

When I made the decision to follow Jesus as a young teenager, I was captivated by what I often heard among other young Christians about “being on fire for God” and “living for Jesus”. It...

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What would Jesus do if he had a house in Geylang?

Standing outside an old building in the heart of Geylang, we wondered if we had come to the wrong place. But the address was right, and we saw YWAM’s signage by the lifts. So in we went, where we...