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Marriage

From homeless to seat of honour: The wedding feast that clothed the needy with dignity

In a generation where grand and lavish weddings easily become the talk of the town, newlyweds Abraham Yeo, 37, and Peng Cheng Yu, 24, recently garnered attention for a refreshingly different reason....

Finding Purpose

How I became a social entrepreneur

My dream of running a social enterprise began with a seed that was planted in 2008. When I was in university , I went on an overseas volunteer trip with MILK (Mainly I Love Kids) to impoverished Tala...

Worldview

This is my Father’s house, how dare I turn my back on it?

My dad is an environmentalist and I grew up slightly averse to all this creation care jargon. After all, this was “the work that took my father away”. As a follow-up to the previous article I...

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Who is my neighbour?

Working in the social service sector, you come across pretty heart-wrenching stuff regularly. But some things are sobering. I overheard one such conversation a couple years back. My colleagues were...

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The power of befriending

Can talking to a person really make their day? Since I’m the kind of person who highly treasures my personal space and me-time, my obvious answer to that would be, no. How can anyone enjoy having...

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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...