“Be tender-hearted, and be strong-hearted..” Those were about the last words my mentor gave me before our season ended, and one of the deepest lessons I am still learning in life. I find that the...
I experienced my first anxiety attack right after my mum passed away in front of me — from a brain haemorrhage in a Hong Kong hospital. For once in my life, things had actually been going along...
You have to believe you’re going to make it, God said to me. There are probably as many forms of escapism in the world as there are people. I’m quick to recognise it only because it is one...
One month after the passing of my mother in April 2011, I ended a year-long relationship with my boyfriend. The relationship had already been on the rocks for months. It was adding to the...
All names have been changed for confidentiality. “I need a break from church and from y’all to think about what happened,” a good friend wrote in a text message to me one day. And with that...
Names have been changed for privacy. I got to know Aunty Emma and Uncle Glen about four years ago when we were assigned to the same ushering team. At the time, Church had two services every Sunday,...
Are we as a Church taking care of people? After all, loving another as yourself is the second most important commandment we were given (Mark 12:28-31). Whatever ministry we are a part of, we...
“Uhm, hello – my name’s Eudora! What’s yours?” It was a Sunday in June when I found myself greeting a young man leaning against a wall in the mid-afternoon heat. As part of my youth...
When our loved ones fall terminally ill, it’s as though the rug has been pulled out underneath you. You know the world as you know it is about to change. And seeing them struggle, slowly...