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A heart for Comm.UnitySG: How God inspired a group of students to serve the homeless

There was a little boy sitting along the corridor with his mother, engrossed in some YouTube videos when we came to give them their dinner. Just as we turned our backs to head to another housing...

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A mother’s love for women of the red-light district

The idea of doing missions is often associated with overseas trips. But for Siew*, her mission field lies in the very streets of Singapore’s red-light district.ย  For the last six years, Siew...

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...

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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...

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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)ย 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...