Heavenly Father, whose blessed Son was revealed that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us the sons of God and heirs of eternal life: grant that we, having this hope, may purify ourselves even as he is pure; that when he shall appear in power and great glory we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

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The Vicar Writes …

26 Oct 2025

“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!”
(Psalm 95:6)

Dear St Hilda’s Family,

Blessings to you and your loved ones! We give thanks to the Lord for our sermon series through the book of Ephesians where Paul reminds us to work towards the unity of the Spirit with all humility, gentleness and love for one another. (Ephesians 4:2-3)

It has been almost three months that we started our new 10.15 service. I would like to thank all who have been serving faithfully every week. It has been a big change for many but your commitment to serving the Lord and his church has been unwavering. Thank you very much!

Our services are providing a spiritual home for a diverse group of worshippers, in age and in preference of worship style. At the same time, the Lord has blessed us with a diversity of gifts and is calling us to offer these gifts unto him.

Over the next few weeks, I will be writing to you with a threefold call: a call for reverence, for unity, and for service.

I will begin with a call for reverence.
We all want to give all honor to God and enable our brothers and sisters to give their undivided attention to the Lord. We have therefore given instructions to our hospitality teams to ask those who are arriving late for service to kindly wait in the entrance area during the time of Confession & Absolution and during the reading of Scripture. These are very solemn moments in our service where we want to reduce movement in the hall to a minimum out of reverence for the Lord. Starting this week, we will make two rows at the back of Bethel Hall available where those who are arriving late can conveniently find your seats. It is important for us as a community to develop an understanding in love for those who come late because you will have good reasons for being late, and we are glad that you want to join in worship, still. But we appeal to your understanding to enter the hall with reverence.

Another solemn moment in our service is the celebration of Holy Communion. It is both, a deep personal encounter with God and a wonderful expression of communal worship. In more traditional churches, people would kneel all throughout, spending time in prayer. You can hear a needle drop on the floor. In St Hilda’s Church, we love the celebration of Holy Communion, and we sometimes make it a very communal moment, especially after we have received the elements. While others are still coming forward, we greet our friends on our way back to the seat, checking in and even chatting with them. This joyful expression of community can affect others who wish to focus on the Lord in a quiet time of prayer.

Allow me to suggest that the Lord has given us the Manna House where we can spend time with one another in joyful fellowship after the service. Let us
make use of God’s provision and maintain reverence during the celebration of Holy Communion.

A short note to those of us with young children. An intergenerational service certainly includes your children, especially after they return from Sunday School. Children express themselves in different ways, and we cannot expect that they behave in the same way as adults. Children bring joy in their innocence. Bringing them up to be perfectly behaved in a church service is super-hard. May I encourage you – in love – to teach your children to add to the reverence of the community during these solemn moments.

In closing, may I appeal to all of us to encourage one another and to be slow to criticise. Those who serve give their best and deserve our encouragement. Let us put forth humility, gentleness and love for the sake of the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

With much love,
Ps Martin

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WORSHIP SERVICES

Weekly Holy Communion Church Services

• Saturday Evening Service (SES) at 5pm in the Church Sanctuary.
• Sunday at 8am in the Church Sanctuary.
• Sunday at 10.15am in the Bethel Hall.

Online (Non Holy Communion) Services

Available on Sundays from 3pm instead of 8am.
YouTube channel: bit.ly/shconline

The podcast (audio of the sermon only) will be available each Tuesday.

Podcast: https://sthildas.org.sg/glory-to-god/podcasts/

Private Worship

The church sanctuary is open for prayer and worship during the week.

You may book your time slot by calling the church office at 63443463.

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“Be Still and Know You are God”

5 Dec 2022
 
A Testimony from Ps Allison Chee
 
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
 
My journey with God ……
 
I want to give thanks and praise to God, my beloved family, the family of God at St Hilda’s and the wider body of Christ for praying for me, especially during these past few weeks. My diagnosis must have come as a shock to many of you and I think some may have asked “why?”, “what happened?” “how come?” But thanks be to God – I was so filled with the overflowing love of God during my stay in hospital because I knew that many of you at St Hilda’s were covering me in prayer. The song that God placed in heart was the chorus of “Still” – “when the oceans rise and thunders roar, I will soar with you above the storm, Father You are King over the flood, I will be still and know You are God”. I felt so assured that all I needed was to just be still and know that He is in control, and I will soar with Him above the storm. I felt very calm and carefree throughout my stay in hospital.

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