Finding Purpose

Do open doors always reflect God’s will for us?

When I was 21, God called me into full-time ministry. I obeyed, turning down a scholarship to study accountancy in the UK, and took on the job of a youth pastor and chaplain. I enjoyed my job very...

Personalities

The national swimmer who was drowning: Joscelin Yeo’s journey out of depression

I first started swimming at about 5 years old. My parents wanted us to be water-safe so they put us in swimming lessons. Then at about 8, I joined a club to do a little bit more. By the time I was...

Finding Purpose

Full-time under 30: Discerning His calling in every season

When I was younger, I struggled with the idea of calling. “What does God really want me to do with this life of mine?” was what I always asked myself and God.  When I was wrestling with...

Workplace

Where have all my dreams gone?

While thinking about dreams one day, I felt God remind me of something that happened two years ago, when I was still working in a student care centre. We’d started a dream wall in the centre...

Money Matters

Will God provide for me?

Recently, during one of my weekly cell group sessions, we shared openly about our struggles and worries. We were supposed to share how we were seeing God move in our lives and what we were thankful...

Workplace

6 lessons I learnt as a career consultant

As a full-time career consultant, I come across people from all walks of life each day. From helping homemakers return to the working field, to sharing in the troubles and disappointments of the...

Life & Death

Saving the safest place in the world

I had been asking God what was next. After years in the marketing industry, enjoying my job as I supported my husband in his full-time ministry as a pastor, I had known for some time that I needed to...

Finding Purpose

Has your life been shaped by a higher standard?

“The clay does not know what it’s meant to be until it emerges from the kiln.” This is what my husband and I often tell our pottery students when we introduce them to the art of ceramics....

Mental Health

I didn’t dare to let myself feel beautiful

All women desire to feel beautiful. Every day, we see hundreds of advertisements for skincare, make-up, clothes and slimming treatments. Even the Bible celebrates a woman’s beauty in passages such...