Real Life, Real People

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!

Personalities

Why does my life look so good but feel so empty?

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...

Real Life, Real People

I survived on $2 a day… then everything changed

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...

Discipleship

To the woman who feels behind

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...

Outreach

Born into loss and debt, this drunkard became a pastor dreaming for 50,000 churches in Japan

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...

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From failure to faith: A Japanese pastor’s journey of redemption

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...

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“Jesus is my Boss”: The yakuza-turned-pastor who traded his finger for freedom

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...

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As an ex-convict, these are 5 lessons I’d tell my teenage self

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...

Personalities

Let’s Get Real: The story behind Malaysia’s first Christian vodcast

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...

Illness

Born with three holes in my heart, I’m a “medical anomaly” who was healed by Jesus

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...