The seed that was planted in the 1980s by Faith Methodist Church (FMC) as a grassroots ministry bore fruit as a church 25 years later. Though the growing process, from taking roots to bearing fruits, had not been smooth and easy, God ensured that His plan for Agape Methodist Church would be fulfilled.
Having a birthday celebration at the bomb shelter of Block 852
Sometimes, the team felt like giving up, but had chosen to remain faithful. They recognised the spiritual darkness that loomed over this vast estate. Their perseverance bore fruit when, in 1995, JPP baptised their very first worshipper. The congregation gradually grew as the pioneers continued to reach out to the community through monthly door-to-door invitations, partnerships with Lakeside and evangelistic events.
Loading and unloading the church van
On 6 December 1998, some leaders of FMC decided it was time to pave the way for JPP to become a local conference. They gathered a team and started the Jurong Ministry (JM). They rented the Jurong Point Cinema during early Sunday mornings and started an English congregation together with the existing Chinese and Children services of JPP.
Jurong Ministry grew and expanded after they settled in Jurong Point and finally, on 4 December 2005, Agape Methodist Church became the 20th Local Conference of the Trinity Annual Conference of The Methodist Church in Singapore.
Having a birthday celebration at the bomb shelter of Block 852
Sometimes, the team felt like giving up, but had chosen to remain faithful. They recognised the spiritual darkness that loomed over this vast estate. Their perseverance bore fruit when, in 1995, JPP baptised their very first worshipper. The congregation gradually grew as the pioneers continued to reach out to the community through monthly door-to-door invitations, partnerships with Lakeside and evangelistic events.
有时，团队感到想要放弃，但他们选择坚持忠心。他们意识到这片广阔社区上空笼罩着属灵的黑暗。他们的坚持最终结出了果实——1995年，裕廊福音站（JPP）为他们的第一位崇拜者施洗。随着开拓者们通过每月的逐户邀请、与湖畔家庭中心的合作以及布道活动继续接触社区，会众逐渐增长。
Loading and unloading the church van
On 6 December 1998, some leaders of FMC decided it was time to pave the way for JPP to become a local conference. They gathered a team and started the Jurong Ministry (JM). They rented the Jurong Point Cinema during early Sunday mornings and started an English congregation together with the existing Chinese and Children services of JPP.
Jurong Ministry grew and expanded after they settled in Jurong Point and finally, on 4 December 2005, Agape Methodist Church became the 20th Local Conference of the Trinity Annual Conference of The Methodist Church in Singapore.
1998年12月6日，思珍堂卫理公会（FMC）的一些领袖决定为裕廊福音站（JPP）成为地方教会铺平道路。他们组建了一个团队，并启动了裕廊事工（Jurong Ministry，简称JM）。他们在每周日清晨租用裕廊坊的电影院，与JPP现有的华语和儿童崇拜一起开始了英语崇拜。
裕廊事工在落户裕廊坊后不断的发展，最终在2005年12月4日，爱加倍卫理公会正式成为新加坡卫理公会三一年议会的第20届地方教会。
It all began with a vision to reach out to the blue-collar Mandarin-speaking population of our society in the 1980s. A dedicated team of the Grassroots Ministry started to reach out to the paper box factory at Lengkok Bahru, Commonwealth area. By 1993, the ministry grew to become a Chinese Ministry, which later came to be known as the Jurong Preaching Point (JPP). The formation of the Lakeside Family Centre, a social arm of FMC, had joined forces with JPP to cast a wider net to reach out, serve, and share God’s love with the needy in Jurong.
JPP first met in the house of one of its members, affectionately known as Aunty Nancy. JPP’s growth led to relocating the service to a bomb shelter to accommodate everyone on Sundays – the congregation and the children for 2 years. Bomb shelter, hence, became part of the church’s history.
FMC’s vision, ‘Faith Horizon 2000’ spotted Jurong as a fertile ground for congregational growth. The need for both English and Mandarin congregations was then created to integrate into the JPP. Under this direction, the Methodist seed took root in Jurong and germinated at God’s perfect timing.
On 6 December 1998, the Golden Village @ Jurong Point was designated as the venue for JPP Sunday services. And almost 7 years later, JPP matured and grew to become a ‘local church’. Seven (7) represents perfection biblically. It was all in God’s perfect timing.
On 4 December 2005, Agape Methodist Church was born and formally constituted as the 20th Local Conference (Church) of the Trinity Annual Conference of The Methodist Church in Singapore. This date also marked the first footprint of a Methodist church on the Jurong soil. And in less than a year, God made another move for Agape and blessed the church with a building at Yung Ho Road. The building was renamed ‘the Agape’ – the home of the Agape Methodist Church. As a result of having a home base in place, God’s work and service to the community continued unabatedly.
“Since 2023, Agape Methodist Church (AgMC) adopted the vision “To Be a Disciple Making Church”.
The biblical basis for the church direction is Matthew 28:16-20 which says: “16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age”
Based on Matthew 28:16-20, Agape Methodist Church believes that:
Of this vision, a three-year strategic focus is planned as follow:
a) Year 2025: Shine as Lights (Philippians 2:14)
b) Year 2026: Mature as Disciples (Colossians 1:28)
c) Year 2027: Love as Servants (Galatians 5:13) “
The church logo reflects God-inspired strokes of unconditional love for the church and the community. Mrs Dolly Chia (one of the first members of Agape Methodist Church) could testify as to how God inspired her to design the logo that binds the Agape Family as one with God’s love – Love God and love others.
“ … I dreamt of a heart–shaped object resting on a floating wooden plank. From the dream, I sensed that God was revealing to us that His love would be present in the church, once it was officially constituted,” said Dolly.
The dream happened concurrent to the time the leaders sought the Lord for a name for the church. To this, Dolly further testified that ‘it was no coincidence that the leaders should finally decide on the name “Agape”, which means unconditional love … the Lord enabled me as well with the inspiration to design a logo, which was subsequently adopted.’
The heart-shaped image situated between and slightly above the letters “A” and “C” doubles as the letter “M” for ‘Methodist’ while the former two letters represent ‘Agape’ and ‘Church’ respectively. The heart-shaped M looking like something is dripping from its side indicates Christ’s blood, which was shed on the cross, dripping onto our Church, to make her whole.
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