After much consultation and planning
with church leaders and school principals, the Methodist Schools'
Foundation (MSF) is thrilled to organise this walk with a difference:
Walk for Love; Walk for School.Walk for Love; Walk for School
TEXT: JONI ONG
PICTURES: METHODIST SCHOOLS' FOUNDATION
GOOD people of our churches and
schools! Please mark this date - Saturday, April 7, 2007. Yes,
it is Holy Saturday and it is time to gather as a community for
MethodistWalk 2007!
After much consultation and planning
with church leaders and school principals, the Methodist Schools'
Foundation (MSF) is thrilled to organise this walk with a difference:
Walk for Love; Walk for School.
The walk will be flagged off at 7.30 am on April 7, and the starting
point is at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) at 121 Dover Road.
The church-school partnership is so precious and special in our
Methodist community. Fifteen Methodist schools provide excellent
education rooted in Christian love and values to the thousands
of children entrusted to them each year.
Forty-three churches and four preaching points help to support
the schools through their prayers, offerings and various ministries.
In coming together for this walk, they will be affirming their
partnership in Christ and with one another.
Walk for Love … love for God, love for one another. Walk
for School … so that our students express gratitude for the
privilege of studying in a conducive environment with the necessary
updated facilities and equipment.
More importantly, it will be a WALK for JESUS. Holy Saturday has
traditionally been a time of reflection and waiting, the time
of weeping that lasts for the night while awaiting the joy that
comes in the morning (Psa 30:5).
It is not Easter yet, so it is not time for celebration. Instead,
we would like to encourage that we meditate on Jesus lying in
the tomb and let our "sense" of the mystery of death
shape our reflection.
Let us think about all the people we love and how we can develop
closer bonds. Let us think about strengthening our relationship
with Jesus.
Funds raised by the schools will benefit the respective schools
directly (100 per cent), while funds raised by the churches will
go to the MSF Endowment Fund from which investment income generated
will be distributed annually to the schools.
You are encouraged to help keep the tradition of Christian education
alive for the young lives around us. Please donate generously.
All donations above $100 are entitled to double tax-exempt.
Come and be pleasantly surprised by the programme that has been
planned for you. Even as it would be a reflective walk, it also
promises to be an energising one. Friendships will be forged,
families bonded, participants challenged.
For more information on the MSF and how to donate, please call
Annie at 6478-4808 or visit www. methodist.org.sg
Joni Ong is the Chairman of the Methodist Schools' Foundation.
A group of boys starting
to walk in the 2nd MethodistWalk at the Anglo-Chinese Junior College
starting point
in May 2004.
The Anglo-Chinese Junior
College Orchestra in attendance at the 2nd MethodistWalk in May
2004. In the background are students waiting for the flag-off.
Bishop
and three Presidents will be there
ONE need not walk at a MethodistWalk
- you can run if you so wish!
News from the grapevine seems to indicate that running is high
on the agenda for many … and taking the lead will be the
three Presidents of the Annual Conferences - the Rev Khoo Cheng
Hoot of the Chinese Annual Conference (CAC), the Rev James Nagulan
of Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC), and the Rev Wee Boon
Hup of Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC).
Thanks very much … but Bishop Dr Robert Solomon and some
of the principals will be taking a stroll …