MCS 125^th Anniversary Community Outreach

Meaningful sustained help needed

THIS YEAR, AS THE METHODIST CHURCH IN SINGAPORE (MCS) celebrates 125 years of God’s blessings, we want to remember families like the Ngs (see main story) and as a Christ-centred community, we want to make a galvanised effort to alleviate chronic poverty in our society.

The MCS has asked the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) to run a Community Outreach project which aims to mobilise local churches and their members into active service; to give and/or befriend these chronically poor individuals and families. 

The MCS hopes to raise enough funds to provide sustained financial help to about 800 families for one year and perhaps even beyond. This can be done by local churches organising fund-raising activities or encouraging members to make individual pledges to help meet the target of $1.25 million.

Church members are also encouraged to volunteer as befrienders to help disburse the funds. By visiting the families regularly to give them the funds, we can also provide other forms of encouragement and support that may just be the springboard from which some of the poor can lift themselves off the poverty wheel.

For more details on the Outreach project, please refer to the official MCS 125^th Anniversary Community Outreach brochure or visit our website, www.mws.org.sg