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Dear friends, This Sunday, we will be celebrating IDAHOT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) and we will be exploring what it means to confront our fears, both within ourselves and of others, and how that is an important step towards healing and wholeness. In one of our lectionary […]

Dear friends, How are you in this season of Easter? In the midst of all the talk regarding healing, restoration and wholeness, do you sometimes still feel tired, discouraged and broken? Life can be tough, and healing, restoration and wholeness in the various areas of our lives can often feel […]

In the season of Easter, join us in reflecting about healing, restoration and wholeness. But how do we get to the point of healing, restoration and wholeness? Does it happen in an instant, and does it require some action on our part? We would explore 2 healing stories this Sunday, […]

Dear friends, Hallelujah! Christ is risen! The Easter season has arrived and it is a time of new beginnings. A time for us to remember and celebrate the new life we have in Christ. Resurrection is not only about Jesus rising. Jesus Christ sweeps us all up within God’s resurrecting […]

Dear friends, As we journey through Holy Week, let us enter into the events we commemorate as a way to encounter God anew. Holy Week is about beginnings as well as endings. We grieve at the fire that burned down the spire of Notre Dame in Paris. We struggle with […]

Dear friends, This Sunday is Palm Sunday, and marks Jesus’ journey into Jerusalem, and the beginning of Holy Week. While people lined the streets shouting Hosanna, Jesus knew this journey would be one marked with suffering. Too often we jump quickly from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, without journeying through […]

Dear friends, I was very blessed to be in Japan recently and witnessed the blooming of the sakura. It reminded me of what Jesus said: “Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it […]

“From all this grief and loss, we pray that a greater love will blossom” Free Community Church 24 March 2019

Dear friends, Grief and loss. These are experiences that we cannot run away from in life. In the past few weeks, we have heard news of great grief and great loss – the Ethiopian Airlines crash on 10 March, and the shootings at the mosques in Christchurch 5 days later […]

Dear friends, We are very excited to announce that we will be holding our very first Mandarin Witness Worship Service this coming Sunday at FCC! We will still be having our regular English service at 10:30am and the Mandarin service will be at 2:30pm. Our Mandarin-speaking fellowship has been growing […]