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!

Real Life, Real People

How one lawyer found freedom from being obsessed with success

Handling billion-dollar transactions as a young lawyer. Becoming partner at her law firm within four and a half years of practice. Making the list of Singapore’s top 20 promising legal luminaries...

Dating

Finding love during a pandemic: What online dating taught us

When physical meetings were curtailed during the circuit breaker, online dating became a natural “safe distancing” for some couples. 4 young adults shared with us their experiences of...

Missions

Full-time under 30: A passion for dance and missions brought us together

I was only 20 years old, and it happened when I was in Perth doing a Performing Arts Discipleship Training School (DTS) with Youth With A Mission (YWAM). The focus of the week’s teaching was...

Disabilities

Brought back from the brink of death, he wrestled with the reality of losing his limbs

Within 24 hours of coming down with a high fever, Jason Leong was lying in the intensive care unit. Earlier that evening, he had noticed traces of blood in his urine, and his fingers, toes and lips...

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...

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...

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...

Real Life, Real People

“When you make a covenant with someone, there’s no back door”: How one couple found the courage to commit

Ken Tan and Angel Lee dated for 4 years before deciding to commit to marriage. Sharing about the impact that our broken families can have on our relationships, they talk about their journey from...