Be inspired by these ordinary people who have extraordinary stories. Wherever you are in life, every story in here is sure to give you hope!

15 years ago, I was living the ultimate influencer life — 500,000 hits on my blog, Singapore’s Top 10 blogger in 2011, winning international influencer competitions as Singapore’s...

Since young, I have lived with little. So life was the same every day: just waking up, eating at some kopitiam, going to school and going back home. That’s about it. I didn’t have a phone, I...

I’m 20, and I already feel the pressure to have it all together. I’ve grown up believing I need to be a strong, independent woman, the kind who supports other women, stands firm in her...
It was January 2023. A room full of pastors, leaders and ministry workers were gathered at the LoveSingapore Summit, when a Japanese pastor took to the stage with his interpreter. He knelt down and...
In October 2015, Pastor Takashi Funatogawa, or Pastor Tak as he is known to his Singaporean friends, was installed as the senior pastor of Sapporo Minami Evangelical Christ Church. He was only 34 at...
It was a lazy spring afternoon outside Ueno Station in Tokyo where our team had agreed to meet Pastor Kaoru Inoue. We hadn’t met him in person before, but based on photos we had seen online, we...

At 56, Richard Tan looks back on a past marked by gang involvement, substance abuse and drug trafficking — choices that led to a total of eight arrests in his life. Some 18 years since he left...

As a YouTuber, radio DJ and TV host, I always thought that I was quite open about my faith as a Christian. But one time after I spoke at a church, a young person came up to me and thanked me for...

I was born with multiple congenital heart defects. I had atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD) and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). Big jargon. Simply put, I had 3 holes in my...