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With the TRAC and CAC ladies during a mission trip to Manila, Philippines, in 2012
Sheri Goh is the Editor of Methodist Message. / Photos courtesy of Dr Cheah Fung Fong
Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly
Dr Cheah Fung Fong and her family today
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hen asked what she would tell her younger self, Dr Cheah Fung Fong responded: “Love God, and love your family.”
It is a path she has faithfully walked—not just paid lip service to—over her many years of serving God. And she will stay the course in the coming years and beyond, after being elected the Vice President of the Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC) last November. The post of President of the Annual Conference is held by a member of clergy, and Vice President by a lay person. Fung Fong is the first female Vice President of TRAC, the connection of 21 English-speaking churches of The Methodist Church in Singapore.
privilege of reaching out to the kids in the community with the gospel and rooting them in the Word of God. Even after stepping down as the Children’s Ministry coordinator, she continued to serve in ministries involving children and youth. From 1998 to 2011, she was a Board Member of the Fairfield MC Kindergarten. While she was advisor to the Youth Ministry between 2003 and 2011, the ministry piloted the Pre-Teens ministry. She also served as the TRAC Board of Children’s Ministry chairperson from 2004 to 2016. She is currently serving as Fairfield MC’s Associate Lay Leader, after an earlier stint from 2007 to 2011.
A love for God Fung Fong has been serving at her home church, Fairfield Methodist Church (MC) for decades. Her firm belief in raising up the next generation and families to love God led her to serve in the Youth Ministry for years. In 1995, she took up the position of Children’s Ministry co-ordinator. “I believed that God would equip me as I stepped into a ministry that I had never previously served in, and God indeed did just that. He raised a team of like-minded fellow servants who believed that children are not just the leaders of tomorrow, but the disciples of the church today,” she shared. She and her Children’s Ministry team had the On a TRAC crisis relief trip to Pakistan in 2004
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