charged a token amount to ensure commitment from the students. I wondered why they were so nice to charge so little and yet had to suffer when we were being defiant. Little did we know then that
they
were
planting
little
seeds into our lives.”
LIVING HOPE METHODIST CHURCH
Making mighty connections A children’s English coaching programme with a difference
Jeffrey says: “When John 3:16 was read to me during my teens,
Terence Chua worships at Living Hope Methodist Church and is a student at Trinity Theological College.
I felt valued and loved knowing that someone whom I didn’t know had died for me so that I could go to heaven. I looked at the many brothers-
and
sisters-in-Christ
around me who loved me so much even though I didn’t really know them.” Jeffrey has words of appreciation and encouragement for his tutors and mentors. “Thank you for your many years of being a faithful servant. Though it was tough and arduous, your faithfulness to the Lord has made
Mighty Connection is an English coaching programme for primary schoolers
an impact on my life and in the lives of many more that you may not be aware of. Continue to plant the seeds. They will one day take root, grow, and be ready to be
I
t was 2014 and Margaret Lim was serving in the Children’s Ministry— the weekly Sunday School—at Living Hope Methodist Church (LHMC). By then, her years of ministry were many but not for the first time,
she wondered if more work for the Lord could and should be done.
harvested.” Now a youth leader, Jeffrey hopes
There were already two major annual events on the Children’s Ministry
that God will use him to guide
calendar—the game-based Mighty Olympics and a children’s camp
other youths and let them know
called the Mighty Kidz Camp. But these were events mostly for the
what he has learned.
Sunday School children. There was no specific outreach to the children living in the neighbourhood who were non-churchgoers.
Philip hopes more will step forward To every Christian, outreach brings to mind Jesus’ final charge in
to volunteer as teachers.
Matthew 28:19 to his disciples before his ascension. Could the HDB “Today,
the
children
from
this
neighbourhood, who once were
blocks encircling LHMC’s idyllic location at Tampines Street 33 be counted as their ‘Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria’?
lost, have found God. This is the best gift we can give to them”.
“There was no reason not to reach out,” Margaret recalls. But what form should the outreach take?
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