Archive for 'Mission'
Focus on Italy
There is perhaps no country in Europe that captures the imagination like Italy. Think of Rome and you think of history. Think of Florence and you think of art. Think of Milan and you think of [...]
Cry freedom
It started with Tunisia, a small Muslim country in North Africa with a population of just over ten million, and spread rapidly to Egypt, the largest and one of the oldest nations in the Arabic-speaking world. [...]
The summer of 2011
Albanian summer It’s 9am and I’m already sweltering. I’m teaching an English lesson to a group of intelligent, eloquent sixteen to twenty-year-olds. Aware of Albania’s deeply corrupt school system (one boy said ‘I don’t work at all, but [...]
One mission
When we at Bethel Church, Clydach were considering how better to reach our community with the gospel, one idea was to run a week-long mission. It had been a very long time since we’d done anything [...]
A new season
Moving to Sapporo, Japan, in March 2010 marked a new season in our lives. But Nathanael first arrived in Sapporo over thirty-one years ago in ‘Angel hospital’ down the road from where we now live. His [...]
Where have all the young men gone?
The title of this article encapsulates a current concern in church as well as mission: the lack of British young men coming forward for preaching and mission ministries. The answer is not simple or clear. I [...]
You no longer belong to evil but to good
Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, recounts the story of the French convict, Jean Valjean who, after serving nineteen years in prison for stealing, is released and taken in by a bishop. In the middle of the night, [...]
Dark times for Pakistan’s Christians
It was on 14 August 1947 that Pakistan gained its independence. Founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah sealed it when he told the Pakistani Constituent Assembly: You are free; you are free to go to your temples, [...]
A beautiful thing to me
The words of the title are taken from Mark 14:6 which record Jesus’ assessment of the act of devotion by the woman who poured the jar of expensive perfume over Him. Some criticised the act as [...]
An ordinary girl with extraordinary faith
She came to China the hard way. There was no train, no plane and no boat. There was certainly no welcome. In fact, she didn’t even know if she’d arrive at all. ‘Jane’ risked her life crossing the [...]
A little known quarryman in Wales
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So you have no children?
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The great harvest
I live and worship in Yeadon, in a church born out of the revival. It
Feminine Threads
I was interested in the above review of Diana Severance's book. Althou
Being counted for Christ
I would pray that god give me courage to do more thanks for this artic