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Culture

The lies we believe about poverty

There was once I was catching up with a couple of friends in Jakarta when we ended up talking about the state of poverty in Southeast Asia and the possible issues we noticed. Impassioned by the...

Culture

Grappling with gratitude: How to spice thanks up

In a study now known as ā€œThe Gratitude Dispositionā€œ, three psychologists divided their participants into three groups with specific tasks: one group was to record only the positive...

Culture

Full-time under 30: This is also the real world

Christopher Chng is a 27-year-old Youth Worker at a local Methodist Church. Prior to his entry into full-time ministry, he was part of a discipleship training programme with missions organisation...

Relationships

How will you spend yourself this year?

If you havenā€™t heard it enough, welcome to 2018. I hope itā€™s been a good first few days for you. Thereā€™s a fixed ā€œbudgetā€ when it comes to days: We have only 365 each...

Faith

Iā€™m tired of missions, should I keep going back?

This December, I spent a week in a rural town on a mission trip. As I wasnā€™t able to make the trip last year, I made an intentional commitment to go this year. I was eager to catch up from...

Faith

Freely my father gave, even after he lost his job

From a young age, giving was always inculcated in our family. My dad would give my siblings and I a $1 coin each to put into the offering bag at Sunday school in Church. Every time we went to a...

Great gifts need no price tags

Christmas is coming and we all know what that means: Extensive and expensive shopping lists. Somehow, giving has become synonymous with spending money, and gifts are almost becoming more of an...

Faith

It takes a miracle to feed a whole village ā€“ and we did

Thereā€™s a good chance youā€™ve heard of the story about how God multiplied five loaves and two fish to feed 5000 people (John 6:1-14). If you havenā€™t, it goes something like this:...

Faith

An arts festival with purpose: Make room for the displaced this Christmas

Places are significant. Whether it be an actual physical space like our homes, a seat at the dinner table, or something less tangible like having a place in someoneā€™s heart, we all appreciate it...