Community College (Topic: “Dying Alone”)

Yishun North Point, Wed 3 April, 2019.

Life Worth Living. Two things we must do alone, believing and dying (Martin Luther). It is estimated to be 83,000 elders living alone* by 2030 (9% of total population). Pipit Road community is 50 – 60 strong at Blk 94.

God’s call to help lower income seniors resocialise especially among the dialect-speaking in their twilight years. Immediate aim: prepare the sick and dying (single, abandoned, disabled) for eternity.

All players around the table agreed: end of life can be a gloriously transformed season free from fear, frustration, bitterness, etc and transformed into modal excellence to the very end through a “listening mission” …

… focused on deliverables including:

(1.) monthly inter-church chaplaincy by Audrey Lai from Oikos Fellowship on Pipit Sundays and Bernalyn Favre from Melchizedek Ministries on the Geneva model,

(2.) weekly follow up by Gary Tan from JFFCC on door-to-door evangelism and Estelle Weiss from CLS Geneva on Swiss euthanasia as a growing trend in medically-assisted end-of-life options.

(3.) church-in-flats vision by Andy Lee from Antioch Hub on social structure change and the potential for community penetration through free home improvements.

*https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/elderly-living-alone-higher-risk-dying-prematurely-study

** Dying Alone (Japanese with English subs) https://youtu.be/gep6UGZm6h4