Finding Purpose

Finding Purpose

How can I discover my personal calling?

Purpose, destiny, calling… these are really big words. I wish I could tell you that I have everything figured out. But none of that would be true. In the last year especially, I’ve been trying to...

Finding Purpose

“Our past will never be wasted”: What God can do with your willingness

He was 27 when he first joined the Operation Mobilisation (OM) ship Doulos to set sail to the Philippines. Known as the largest floating library in the world at that time, the ship ended up being the...

Finding Purpose

Meet the couple behind local labels The Commandment Co. and wheniwasfour

When I was given the opportunity to interview Edwin and Li Ling, founders of local labels The Commandment Co. and wheniwasfour  respectively, I couldn’t wait. I’ve always been a fan of their...

Finding Purpose

“Don’t know where we’re going, but we know that You’re in control”: A couple’s journey from Europe to Asia

Ever since he was young, Gregory Low has always found himself thrust into different countries and cultures.  Born in Singapore to a family who supported mission work, the 33-year-old remembers...

Finding Purpose

After my A-Levels, my dreams were dashed and I couldn’t see the road ahead

Coming from a single-parent family and struggling with insecurity, I always felt alone and had many anxieties. I often sought for safety in the wrong places. I also often felt lost because I relied a...

Finding Purpose

What I learnt from trying to leave my first job (during the pandemic)

Barely 1.5 years into my first job out of university, I started having a nagging sense that I had to question my career path and rethink my job. It wasn’t until a year later, in the midst of a...

Workplace

Why we chose to teach in faith-based preschools

In recent years, church-based preschools have been facing an uphill challenge to survive. Changes in the early childhood education industry in recent years already heralded an end-of-the-road...

Finding Purpose

How does one end up swapping a law school scholarship for a degree in social sciences?

Studying law had been my dream for as long as I can remember.  I had always been fascinated by the job like having to pore over the facts and getting to craft and pick apart arguments (no doubt...

Missions

What brings you joy? One man’s search for more than the 5-minute life

Samuel Nee was 28 when he saw his life play out in five minutes. He and his wife, Marianne, were recently married. They had no kids, no house, no car and no loans. With no liabilities to tie him...