When I was 15, my route back from school always involved alighting at a bus stop, before winding past a few houses back to my apartment. There was a house under construction then, and on the daily...
I arrived safely in Germany, this time without luggage malfunctions, and settled down in the accommodation provided by another missionary I had met in Poland, Alena. In the metropolitan city of...
With Singapore’s doors closed to refugees, the various refugee crises around the world can seem like a distant problem. But this has not stopped many Singaporeans from opening up their hearts...
I’ll be the first to admit that news of atrocities taking place across the globe hardly shock me as much as they should. Being sheltered in relatively safe Singapore, we often do not find...
One night, in our shared accommodation in Przemyśl where around 20-40 missionaries around the globe lived together at any time, we set aside some time during worship to pray for the nation of...
Whether you’re a recent graduate or a student reveling in summer break, the question of how to use your time is bound to hound us all. Why not take this good chance to volunteer? Here’s a...
In the first week, I spent most of my time at a refugee camp in Przemyśl, a city next to the Ukrainian border in Poland. To get here, I had flown 16 hours from Singapore to Krakow (including a...
When the invasion first happened, many of my friends around me were posting about it on Instagram Stories (IGS). My Christian friends put out calls for prayer, and so I prayed. I saw it as my...
Returning to Singapore in March after working in Eswatini as a Risk Communication and Community Engagement specialist, Dr Tam Wai Jia marvels at how, in the hands of God, what seemed like losses...