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COVID-19

How COVID-19 casts a magnifying glass on life

Through this recent KTV cluster, I feel that God is revealing to me that COVID-19 has been nothing short of a magnifying glass. Rather than focusing on the magnifying glass (COVID-19), we ought to...

Missions

4 years, 31 countries: The fresh grad who exchanged the safe path for a journey on the seas

Have you tried to cook fried rice for 350 people for seven hours straight? Or washed thousands of dishes? As a psychology graduate, that was what Jiamin Choo-Fong found herself doing in her first...

Do Good

Brave? No, I was just answering a call to serve refugees in Iraq

About eight years ago, I had what I thought was a nightmare. I remember first seeing buildings being shuttered and deserted. Then I saw crowds of people fleeing from an unknown threat at what seemed...

Do Good

The story of Kitesong: When saying “yes” unlocks the dreams of your heart

When migrant workers were beginning to fall ill with COVID-19 in Singapore, Tam Wai Jia was teaching as an educator at medical school. The young doctor had left clinical work to focus on public...

Real Life, Real People

The Helping Hand: How the Father’s love freed a prisoner from his old ways

Ever since he was 15 years old, Jason Gwee had been going in and out of prison for drug abuse. His life was a vicious cycle of serving 2-3 years in prison, getting released and then eventually being...

Faith

4 ways Singaporeans are doing good while staying home (and how you can too!)

Five steps forward, ten steps back, it seems. While we’re in Phase 2 (Heightened Alert) and not a full-blown circuit breaker, it’s enough for most of our daily routines to be interrupted...

Faith

A small act of kindness, a world of difference: 22-year-old Emily Yap on why she volunteers

Not every 22-year-old gets to collaborate with the National Youth Council (NYC) and Temasek Trust in volunteering work. Fewer still, get featured on The Straits Times and receive a commendation by...

Faith

Look how these Catholic High School boys are supporting one another in quarantine

It’s always a little more painful when we learn that a young child has contracted an illness as deadly as COVID-19.  For instance, news came in just last night (May 21) that there were 30 new...

Missions

Daryl and Gina: A couple called to two different countries

She spent a year befriending women in the red light district of a Chinese city, hoping to be a bearer of God’s eternal light; while he served on the fringes of Thailand for four years at a shelter...