Missions

Missions

“Why am I here when I could have been more useful back home?”: The nurse who spent her lockdown in South Africa

“I always thought I came with no expectations. But the truth is that we always have hidden expectations,” said 37-year-old Kamala Devi. On February 9, 2020, Kamala arrived in Johannesburg for her...

Missions

What brings you joy? One man’s search for more than the 5-minute life

Samuel Nee was 28 when he saw his life play out in five minutes. He and his wife, Marianne, were recently married. They had no kids, no house, no car and no loans. With no liabilities to tie him...

Real Life, Real People

Once broken and battling depression, she discovered new meaning to life

“As a teenager, I wasn’t sure how to find my identity as a person,” confessed Jolyn Kari Ng. “At that time, it was probably through my friends, how popular I was in school and how attractive...

Do Good

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.  For the last six years, Siew...

Finding Purpose

“Give me one more chance to fit in,” she pleaded: How one girl found a sense of belonging

Jemma* remembers the first time she felt different. It was in Primary 1, when students were supposed to get ready for their Mother Tongue classes. All the students studying Malay got up to go 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...

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...

Faith

“God is always at work”: A missionary in Myanmar sheds light on the deadly crackdown

Sometimes I put off reading the news, for fear of what I might find going on around the world. Take for instance #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar. Isn’t it tiring reading bad news?  On February 1,...

Faith

At 15, I heard God say: “I am sending you to the children of Israel”

When I was 15, my cell group leader urged us to read the Bible cover to cover. Taking up the challenge, I remember being so fascinated with the rich details. What left an indelible impression on me...