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Kampong Kapor Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Singapore. Formed in 1894, it was one of the first Peranakan churches and the fourth Methodist church in Singapore. In its early years, the church catered only to Peranakan or Straits Chinese, with services conducted in Peranakan or Baba Malay in a Gothic-style building located at Middle Road. In 1930, the church moved to its current building at Kampong Kapor, where it now offers services to all ethnic groups. The church features a pipe organ, one of only ten in Singapore. The church building at Kampong Kapor was given conservation status in 1989 and the earlier building at Middle Road was awarded historic site status in 2000.〔http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1722_2010-11-09.html〕 ==History== Founded as a church in 1894, it began in November 1890, in the downstairs study room of the Deaconess Home in Sophia Room. Upon request, Miss Sophia Blackmore, missionary to Singapore (and also the founder of the Methodist Girls' School ), started a Sunday Malay language worship service. The little group included 25 “native” girls from the mission hostel, boys from Epworth Home and Malay-speaking Christian workers from the neaby Mission Press and the 2 missionaries.〔http://www.kkmc.org.sg/about/our-history/〕 On Thursday 25 January 1894, this little group moved to “The Christian Institute” at 155 Middle Road to function as a church. At 7.30pm that evening, 6 full and 16 preparatory members were organised as the first Malay Quarterly Conference chaired by the presiding elder, Rev R W Munson. The “Malay Church” was formed with (Cpt) Rev William Shellabear undertaking pastoral charge. 3 days later, the Sunday school was officially organised with about 40 students. “Sunday” school was carried out on weekdays as well. Rev Shellabear and about a dozen young men held street and kampong meetings in Malay. Meanwhile, Miss Blackmore and her team of women as well as women missionaries made a deep impression on Baba women and children as they distributed tracts, sang hymns, visited several hundred “native” Straits-born Chinese women in their homes and held Sunday School for “native” children in their homes and along five-foot ways.〔 The church soon outgrew the Middle Road building. As a result, a new building was constructed in Kampong Kapor Road. It was completed in 1930 and the church became known as The Straits Chinese Methodist Church (Bickley Memorial). This reflected the largely Chinese membership and the large donation which the family and friends of Bishop George Harvey Bickley made for the building.〔 In 1957, the Board of Stewards decided that as the church caters not only to Straits Chinese but also to other ethnic groups, the church should be known as Kampong Kapor Methodist Church (Bishop Bickley Memorial), a name that it retains today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kampong Kapor Methodist Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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