Church Profile—Telugu Methodist Church

Our congregation during on-site services Our Sunday School kids meeting via Zoom

Embracing Telugu-speaking expats for Christ

Telugu Methodist Church (Singapore) is committed to share the Gospel and win the Telugu-speaking friends for Christ. Over the last two decades, God has been good to the life and ministry of the church, helping us build the community, and our ministries have grown and taken various shapes in serving many people.

The migrant brothers in the hostels, along with the families from various neighborhoods, make up a beautiful worshipping fabric of the church congregation. In the recent past, the large influx of Telugu-speaking families and expats have paved the way for the church to step out and reach other families in order to embrace them with Christ’s love, subsequently equipping them to serve the Lord with their gifts and talents. The families comprise people with diverse career backgrounds such as in IT, banking, science and technology, engineering, business and marketing, construction, education, medicine and the humanities etc. This rich diversity provides great opportunities both to serve and to tap into the potential to build the worshipping community.

Our church community is a safe place to belong, worship, grow in the Lord and be His witnesses. The church organises regular prayers, Bible study for families and cell groups for brothers to build the community. Disciple Bible Training classes are conducted to equip disciples and sharpen their focus towards spiritual formation. The Sunday school ministry continues to nurture young minds to soar high with God’s Word and enjoy growing in His love.

The ministry among the migrant brothers and friends in need enable us to live out social holiness. During Christmas and other special occasions, goodie bags and the message of God’s love are shared. Whenever the need arises, proper medical care, skills support and counselling services are rendered to the brethren. During public holidays like Chinese New Year, special evangelistic meetings are held. On other occasions, outings, talks and fun events are conducted for the church family and their friends for spiritual edification and bonding. talks and kits have been made available for our dorm brothers. The church distributed food to show care and love in action. Every Sunday, the worship services are streamed live on the church’s YouTube channel, especially for our church brothers in the dorms who are unable to attend the services.

During these challenging times, the church remains steadfast in seeking God for opportunities to partner with and sow the seeds of the gospel among the church brethren, establishing them in the faith and fellowship with discipleship as its key component.

A new initiative of the church, “CONNECT”, aims to connect with the church brethren, both local and overseas, to help them discover their potential for ministry and mobilise them for theological education.

If you know of a Telugu-speaking person of family who is looking for a church or in need of pastoral assistance, please contact us.

TELUGU METHODIST CHURCH

(Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference)

8 Short Street, S(188214) 8611-7374

www.sgtmc.org contact@sgtmc.org Telugu Methodist Church Singapore

Our ongoing ministries

Sunday worship service: 7 p.m. Sunday School: 11 a.m. WSCS Prayers: Fridays, 8 p.m. Cell groups: Saturdays, 8 p.m. Bible Study: every second Friday, 8 p.m. Maids Prayer Fellowship: second and fourth Sundays Missions Prayer: last Friday of the month, 8 p.m.

ACS (International) Singapore is a distinctive international secondary school open to all Singaporeans & other nationalities, offering an all-round English-based education for students aged 12 to 18 years leading to the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP).

61 Jalan Hitam Manis, Singapore 278475

Mr Gavin Kinch

Principal

Mrs Tan Siew Hoon

Vice-Principal

Dr Kristopher Achter

Vice-Principal

Mr Chia Choong Kiat

Acting Vice-Principal

For more information

Please contact Joseph Ng or Serene Lim at +65 6472 1477 or admissions@acsinternational.edu.sg

2022 Admissions Now Open

Building Through Belief, this school of choice provides

• Exceptional examination results, very strong value-added achievement and an allround holistic education • 50:50 mix of local and international teachers who uphold the dual Methodist ethos and ACS heritage • Small class sizes with overall student-teacher ratio of 8.7 : 1 • 40 different CCAs – 16 Sporting, 12 Visual and Performing Arts, 12 Special

Interest Groups • Over 25 overseas trips per year • Over 200 formal student leadership positions • Scholarships for 4 Singaporeans to undertake the IBDP

Achievements include

• Students with perfect score of 45 points in IBDP • 20 “Top in the World” awards in IGCSE examinations over each of the past nine years • Students accepted to Oxford and Cambridge universities for the past eight years • Admissions to top universities in the UK, the US, Australia and Singapore • PSLE and Singapore GCE ‘O’ Level students achieve outstanding value-added examination results for the IBDP with improved pathways to good universities • Successes at national level in Athletics, Touch Rugby, Debating, Orchestra,

Volleyball, Taekwondo, Ice Hockey, Fencing, Swimming, Artistic Swimming,

Rhythmic Gymnastics and Wushu.

What the parents say…

“ACS (International) ignites students' passion to learn through building strong relationships with deeply devoted and highly experienced teachers and excellent pedagogic and sporting infrastructure. The school has achieved a fine blend of academic rigour and holistic learning. The emphasis on CCAs and community service as well as the ample opportunities for student leadership makes ACS (International) a 'cut above' and the preferred choice for our children. ”

Larisa and Shivinder Singh

“Sending our daughter to ACS (International) was the best decision we made. She used to be shy and introverted and has now become a confident, caring and motivated student leader. ” Debra and Samuel Koh

“We deeply appreciate the contribution ACS (International) has made towards making our son confident, capable and thoughtful. The school has provided an environment of personal care, support and encouragement to nurture him into a compassionate young man. We are also very proud of his academic, leadership, co-curricular and public speaking skill development. ”

Anju Uppal

“We like the holistic learning environment of ACS (International). Apart from academics, the school gives the students plenty of learning opportunities outside the walls of the classroom through service trips in continents as far as Africa, school projects and events, CCAs, student leadership roles and more. Our children thoroughly enjoy the IB programme, the holistic environment of the school, and are very proud to be students of ACS (International). The school has helped our children to grow and mature in so many ways, whilst equipping them with the necessary skills needed for their university studies and future endeavours. We are very glad to have sent both of our children to ACS (International). ”