Post-secondary

Pregnant at 18, I had an abortion before my A-levels

I was from an all-girls school. And like any teenage girl undergoing puberty, I was desperate for love and attention from boys. There was a boys’ school just across the road from mine, and many...

Discipleship

Supernatural encounters: The battle for my soul

It’s strange, but whenever I had supernatural encounters, they would come at a pivotal point in my journey with God. I will never forget the night I accepted Christ on 23 December 2008. I woke...

Personalities

Enjoy the Process: Krysta Joy on finding purpose, good tunes and redemption

Winner of 2017’s edition of the Noise Music Mentorship Programme, singer-songwriter Krysta Joy released her debut album, Enjoy the Process, in August 2019. We have a chat with the Burning Hearts...

Friendship

He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

Bruce and I have been close friends for over a decade. My journey with Bruce’s struggle with depression and anxiety started around 2010. We had just completed our National Service and came to a...

Sermons

Overcoming depression: Will I ever be okay?

In Singapore, 1 in 7 people have suffered from a mental disorder in their lifetime. This is an increase compared to the 1 in 8 ratio recorded by a landmark study six years earlier.  Most of these...

Disabilities

“My contentment is not in miracles”: Bethel’s Chris Gore on disabilities and disappointments

I have a severely disabled daughter. She’s physically and mentally disabled, and in a wheelchair. But how I deal with that disappointment is to make sure that I don’t get offended at God....

Illness

At 25, I became a caregiver and sole breadwinner

Nothing in life ever prepared me for what happened. I’m 25, the only child in the family and not married. Now I’m the sole breadwinner of the family with a disabled father. And it has not been...

Life & Death

Death, where is your sting?

On 25 February 2012, I experienced loss for the first time in my life. My maternal grandfather, or gong gong (公公), passed away after battling with pneumonia. I still vividly remember a gripping...

Mental Health

I saw hope even when it felt like I was drowning

It was during a season of transitions that I fell into depression. It wasn’t a sudden fall. It was happening, but I just hadn’t realised it. At the time, I was in NS (National Service) and in...