Missions ¢ Juliette Arulrajah is the MMS Area Director for Cambodia and Laos. She is also the Chairperson of the MMS Training Committee. / Photos courtesy of MMS
Kids Missions Adventures D ream s & Di s cove r i es! Thav Veasna (right) sharing about COSI, the children’s home in Cambodia where he grew up
Facilitator Cindy Ho shares about Timor Leste, one of MMS’s mission fields
“Dream from young to discover how God is calling us!” excitedly shared a Lower
KMA kicked off with creative investigative icebreakers
Primary participant in Kids Missions Adventures (KMA)
The children were then prepared to go on their own
after “travelling” to Timor-Leste on the zoom digital
mission adventures with the stirring “live” testimony of
platform and “interacting” with Rita, a young student
Thav Veasna. Veasna grew up at COSI (a children’s home)
at St Paul Methodist School. Rita has a dream to
in Cambodia, met Jesus, saw first-hand God’s intervention
make a difference in her community by becoming an
in his life and that of his family (including the miraculous
educator and is currently taking little practical steps to
healing of his terminally ill mother), his graduation to
fulfil that dream.
fulfil his dream of becoming a civil engineer, and then
and worship led by children from Grace Methodist Church.
hearing God’s call to serve as a Methodist pastor in In response to how God was calling us to reach out to
Cambodia for which God led him to Singapore and Trinity
children during the year-end school holidays, KMA was
Theological College, where he is currently studying.
organised by the Methodist Missions Society (MMS) in partnership with the Boards of Missions of the Chinese
“My daughter had such an interesting and fun-filled time
Annual
Annua
with the other 10 children in her breakout group,” said a
Conference (ETAC) and Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC),
mother after the event. Working in pairs, 72 facilitators
as well as the CAC Board of Family Life and TRAC Board
(aged between 20 and 70 from different churches)
of Children Ministry.
provided a meaningful God-centred time for the children in
Conference
(CAC),
Emmanuel
Tamil
their breakout groups. In these small groups, the children A first for Singapore Methodists, KMA was an engaging
shared their impressions about life in other nations as
and hands-on programme where 321 children (170 in
well as how this impacted them, prayed, learnt a Nepali
Lower Primary and 151 in Upper Primary) from the 46
song, and penned encouragement notes to a missionary
churches of our three Annual Conferences had mission
of their choice or to someone of a different culture.
adventures in three different countries (Cambodia, Nepal and Timor-Leste), moving seamlessly from one to
Sharing their “takeaways” readily and joyously after their
another from 10 a.m. to noon on 14 Nov 2020.
return from the breakout sessions, the children were
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