Finding Purpose

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...

Finding Purpose

Called to care: My unconventional path into geriatric nursing

Before joining St Luke’s ElderCare (SLEC) as a nurse, I had taken a gap year after graduating from university in 2023. My educational path was a little longer than most — I started in junior...

Finding Purpose

Going from RSAF major to café owner, it’s been difficult but divine

You’re gonna have to read ANDY LIM’s life story (here!) to find out really just why he would leave behind a stable career in the RSAF for the rocky path of becoming an F&B...

Finding Purpose

The sunset that saved my life

I grew up in a household steeped in Eastern religions. Since young, I just followed whatever my parents did, worshipping idols, doing rituals, going to temples, and consulting mediums who claimed to...

Finding Purpose

What if I don’t wanna grow up?

I don’t want to grow up. I’ve definitely said this more times than I can count, usually with a huge sigh and an XL dose of sianness. It’s also become a common refrain amongst my friends,...

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...

Real Life, Real People

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...

Real Life, Real People

“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...