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Dear family, A very blessed Lunar New Year to you and your loved ones! We are in the season of celebration, feasting and reunions but this year, Lunar New Year doesn’t really feel like Lunar New Year. Annual rituals of gathering with family and friends are replaced with zoom meetings […]

With a prayerful heart, we thank God that our spiritual siblings are safe. We also pray that as Christians, we will use this opportunity to confront any harmful theologies that may have unwittingly encouraged acts of violent extremism. For while we have averted the violence against the body this time, […]

What do Ruth, the good Samaritan, Zacchaeus, the Roman Centurion, the Ethiopian eunuch and the Syrophoenician woman have in common? In this season of epiphany, what lessons must we take to heart as touchstones to remind us who we are as followers of Christ even as 2021 started off with […]

Dear siblings in Christ, This past week, we saw disturbing reports of overt discrimination towards the lgbtq community in Singapore. A transgender youth faced discrimination at school and was allegedly prevented access to hormone replacement therapy despite having parental consent. A local salad bar had a small rainbow flag displayed […]

Dear friends, As we welcome a new year and get ready for the Lunar New Year festivities, some of you may be busy spring cleaning. If you have household items that are still in good working condition but no longer have a need for them, please consider taking part in […]

Dear friends, As we enter the season of Epiphany, we are taking time to celebrate the manifestation of God in earthly form. Through the birth of Christ, God entered into our time and space. As Rachel Held Evans wrote, “We could not become like God, so God became like us.” […]

Dear siblings, As we count down the final hours of 2020, we look forward to 2021. And even as we celebrate the New Year, we continue to celebrate Christmas – how the Word became flesh in this newborn child in the manger. Christmas lasts for 12 days and on the […]

Dear FCC Family, Our Christmas celebration this year will be a special one. It is not our usual Christmas where we gather as one big family to celebrate together, but this year is a year that is far from usual. We wanted to find a way to celebrate Christmas with […]

“Everything exposed to the light itself becomes light.” (Ephesians 5:13) Dear siblings, We’re entering into the fourth week of Advent and Christmas is just round the corner. I was reflecting about the first Christmas where the people of God were languishing in darkness, both political and spiritual. It felt like […]

Dear siblings, A few weeks ago, we invited all of you to consider what it means to give through donating small household appliances to the T-mart elderlies that we regularly donate and deliver groceries to. A very big thanks to all of you for your generosity! We more than fulfilled […]