WELFARE SERVICES
MWS partners Methodists to do more
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UNITY is strength and a people united can achieve great things. Mountains can be moved if every one simply takes care of one little stone. What more in times of adversity?
Through these trying times, the Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) is collaborating with even more partners to give the underprivileged and the needy a better life. The MWS works with schools, grassroots organisations, self-help groups, voluntary welfare organisations and government agencies. Among its work partners are also private companies and individuals who volunteer at the centres.
Surely the most significant partner the MWS has is the Methodist community. Since the MWS was set up in 1982, this unity in spirit and labour has benefited and blessed many people in need – disfranchised children, families in crisis and the sick and the elderly.
Annual Bursary Programme – 270 needy children receive more than $90,000:
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Operating centres together – serving thousands every year:
Seven Methodist churches cooperate with the MWS to either provide a service or run a centre for the people in need. Apart from Christalite Methodist Home which provides shelter for the destitute, these family service and student care centres provide support and aid to thousands of disadvantaged families and children who need that little bit of help to cope with life’s demands.
The centres are: Kampong Kapor FSC (with Kampong Kapor MC), Covenant FSC (with Paya Lebar MC), Sembawang FSC (with Covenant Community MC), Tampines FSC (with Pentecost MC), Christalite Methodist Home (Christ MC), D’Joy Student Care (with Hinghwa MC) and iConnect Student Care (with Toa Payoh Methodist MC).
More Methodist groups and individuals are getting directly involved in the lives of the people the MWS serves, through volunteering and donating funds.
Worthy of special mention are the Trackers from the Trinity Annual Conference’s Board of Youth Ministry. The eyes of 20 teenagers and young adults were opened to the realities of
It is also very encouraging that many members of local churches such as Wesley, Aldersgate, Barker Road, Covenant Community, Living Waters, Paya Lebar and Grace Methodist Church, visit the residents of the MWS’s Bethany Methodist Nursing Home regularly, bringing hope and cheer to the elderly sick there.
We invite all Methodists to come alongside the MWS so that even more can be done to serve the community. If your church is interested to be part of the MWS’ social concerns ministry, please call 6478-4700 or email us at volunteer@mws.com.sg
Pearl Lee is the Communications Consultant, Methodist Welfare Services.