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| The Anglican Chinese Churches in Singapore began in 1856, and were the harvest of St. Andrew's Church Mission, after a stirring sermon preached on Whitsunday by the Residency Chaplain William Humphrey. | |
The FooChow speaking missionary work started in 1902 when Rev R. Richards was in charge of St. Andrew's Mission. He had with him seven catechists and one of them was Guok E. Sing who was assigned to work among the FooChow and HingHua speaking Chinese in Singapore. Two other catechists, Kiong Cheng Choon and Ong Siew Bee were assigned to minister to Hokkien Chinese. In July 1910, Dong Bing Seng was engaged from FooChow, China to work among the FooChow speaking community in Singapore, and Rev Ng Ho Le was the priest ministering to the Hokkien Congregation. The FooChow and Hokkien services were held in St. Peter's Church at Stamford Road, at the former site of the National Library. In 1937, the Government decided to acquire St. Peter's Church. The Church thus purchased a piece of land at the junction of Horne Road and Tyrwhitt Road for the construction of Holy Trinity Church. |
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| The church building was completed in 1941 and a Dedication Service was conducted on 20th July by the Archdeacon Graham White, assisted by Rev A.J. Bennitt, Rev John Lee and Rev Ng Ho Le. Our church was named Holy Trinity as both priests in charge, Rev Ng Ho Le(Hokkien) and Rev John Lee(FooChow) were ordained on Trinity Sunday and the services were held in three languages, namely FooChow, Hokkien and English. The English Service was assisted by Deaconess E.G. Collier, who spent the major part of her life in FooChow as a CMS missionary. During the Japansese occupation of Singapore from 1943 to 1945, the foreign aid we were depended on was completely cut off and the Church had to learn to stand on her feet and became self-supporting. |  |
The FooChow Congregation was granted Parish status in 1958. It was the first Chinese Church to become a Parish in the Diocese of Singapore and Malaya. On 9th March, 1963, the Hokkien Congregation merged with the Church of the Good Shepherd to form a combined Parish. It was agreed that this was an interim plan and they should be seperated after 5 years, to merge with FooChow Parish. The Hokkien and FooChow Parish finally joined together and formed the Holy Trinity Parish in 1984. The English Service was part of FooChow parish then. Revd John Chew was appointed the first Vicar of the Holy Trinity Parish. The English Service later became a congregation and formed part of the Holy Trinity Church family in the 1990s. |
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