Thereafter, the mission initiated a number of related activities: schools for boys and girls established by Oldham and Sohia Blackmore, with hostel accommodation churches organized in all the main local dialects (Malay, Tamil, Hokkien, Cantonese and Foochow) and William Shellabear’s Mission Press and pioneer scripture translations and publishing work.įollowing the initial thrust in Singapore, work spread to the towns and rubber estates in Peninsula Malaya.
Evangelistic meetings were followed by the first Quarterly Conference on 23 February. Thoburn headed the party which sailed unheralded into Singapore harbor on 7 February 1885. Oldham as pioneer missionary to Singapore.
The Methodist Church in Singapore goes back to 1884 when, on James Thoburn’s initiative, the South India Conference appointed William F.
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