Mental Health

After a long battle with depression, I’m stepping into a new season of recovery

When a WhatsApp message announcing the restarting of our church’s physical worship service came at the end of June, it signified a long-awaited moment for many since the lockdown started....

Life & Death

Stricken with cancer at 22, I came to accept that my life is in God’s hands

In January 2019, I began experiencing nausea, vomiting and bloating in my abdomen all of a sudden. These symptoms persisted for three days. Feeling uneasy, I decided to visit the GP who then referred...

COVID-19

When COVID-19 disrupted my life

“The staffroom has been asking after you! How have you been in such messed up times?” That was what my ex-colleague recently asked me, out of concern at my seeming lack of a career. For around...

Mental Health

What I learnt about God from my depression

A big part of what makes suffering from depression so difficult is how isolating it feels. We crave to be fully understood in the depths of our emotions, and yet the pain we feel is so personal that...

Finding Purpose

“Beyond my wildest dreams”: Taking small steps towards my calling in mental health

In February, I resigned from my job as an instructor with a local university, setting my heart to embark on an amazing journey of adventure with God. The plan? Start a social enterprise to offer...

Discipleship

Vacation deprived? Now’s a good time to unpack our wanderlust

Spend any amount of time with friends in conversation or on social media, and one topic’s bound to come up: travel. You can see it in the #throwback posts and pictures of exotic locales. You...

Workplace

From fear to faith: My journey of serving in a COVID-19 ICU

It was about a week before the first COVID-19 case in Singapore, when my nurse manager assigned me to be part of the COVID-19 ICU nursing team in Singapore General Hospital. It was the first such...

Church Life

Back once again in the valley of decision: Online or onsite?

Back in February, we published an article, COVID-19 and the valley of decision: The unbearable pressure your Senior Pastor is under, in which we detailed the thought process a church leader faced...

Real Life, Real People

Diagnosed with Graves’ disease at 15, all I wanted to do was die

I had always thought I was a failure and a mistake. Diagnosed with Graves’ disease at the age of 15, I started hating life when I had to take medicine and go for blood tests regularly, unlike my...