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HISTORY The Methodist Church in Singapore started out as a Missionary initiative at the South India Conference in India by James Thoburn in 1885 . William Fitzjames Oldham established the mission and the church's first English Language Boy s school in 1886 , which is the Anglo-Chinese School . Two girls schools Methodist Girls' School and Fairfield Methodist Girls' School were established in 1887 and 1888 respectively . The mission develop local Vernacular s, a Clinic and Hostels for homeless Girl s and foreign boys. The mission therefore spread to the Malay Peninsula and Sarawak in the 1890s . The Methodist Mission in Singapore and Malaya expanded, and it first became a Conference , and later throughout Southeast Asia which let to the establishment of the Southeast Asian Central Conference in 1950 . The Malaysia n and Singapore components of the mission had its autonomy in 1968 , thus becoming an Asia n church with a bishop that was elected from the Minister s. In 1976 , the church was restructed into the Methodist Church in Singapore and the Methodist Church In Malaysia . CONFERENCES The Methodist Church in Singapore has three conferences annually, the Trinity Annual Conference for the English churches, the Chinese Annual Conference for Chinese churches and the Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference for Tamil churches. This is headed by a bishop which is elected by a bishop at its general conference. Each conference is headed by a president. SCHOOLS There are thirteen Primary and Secondary School s and a Junior College by the Methodist Church which is represented by the Methodist Schools Foundation. Six of the schools are part of the Anglo-Chinese School family which includes a Junior College . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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