The Methodist church in Singapore is divided into three
conferences:
Trinity Annual Conference or TRAC (Primarily English
churches)
Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference or ETAC (Primarily for Tamil
people)
Chinese Annual Conference or CAC (Primarily churches which started
as Chinese language churches).
The above DO NOT mean that churches within a conference speaks only
that language ie. CAC churches also have English
congregation.
They also do not mean that each church occupies different
buildings. Some churches (buildings) houses congregation from the
different annual conferences (eg Toa Payoh Methodist church, which
I believe houses congegations from all three conferences).
The Methodist church has a conference fund for members to
contribute, set currently at $65 per adult member. Each member is
strongly encourage to contribute as this goes towards the running
of the church admin and pastor's salary. Where offering and tithing
is concern, I am sure there are Methodist congregations that very
strongly "ENCOURAGE" the 10% guideline. My own church however do
not have such encouragement. We give as we feel the need to give.
There has never been any sermon preached on giving 10% in that
sense of the word. Nonetheless, weekly contribution is still
relatively strong.
.... and no, we don't have GIRO or PAYPAL for tithing.....
