Archive for 'Tag Archives: 'Mission''
Yazidis: A Study in Survival
Fifteen of us crowded into the kitchen. A gaggle of women worked away busily, sleeves rolled up, aprons flowing and the incessant chatter filled the happy room. We took our seats around two circular wooden tables. They [...]
Working with street children in Brazil
The heat, humidity and dirtiness of my new city are difficult to live with at times. The mosquitoes and ants love me so I am frequently scratching new bites. I often still struggle to communicate because [...]
David Bogue: the forgotten man (1750-1825)
David Bogue is ‘one of the greatest of the forgotten figures of Church History’ (Iain Murray) and especially of the history of missions. After the Moravians, William Carey, rightly, took centre stage. However, Bogue was very [...]
Evangelizing the Welsh Valleys, 1870-90
From about 1850 onwards all the religious denominations in Wales faced a huge problem. By 1914 the population had increased from 1.2 million to 2.5 million, most of whom now worked in the coalfields instead of [...]
Mission Wales
Through Mission Wales the Evangelical Movement of Wales helps churches take the gospel to their community, providing advice, personnel, specifically-written evangelistic literature, and financial support. We particularly want to support smaller churches in places where there [...]
Henry Martyn and the word of God
As the word of God is beamed into Middle Eastern lands in our day, so Henry Martyn (1781-1812) brought its penetrating light into Iran (Persia). Through that same word of God he had come to abhor [...]
Reaching the unreached
Two Christmas dinners each attended by around eighty South Asian Muslims, with a simple gospel explanation about the coming of Christ into the world. A church with a weekly footfall of 800, less than 300 of [...]
Materialism: Reflections on returning home
To live in a developing country for a long period of time is both an education and a challenge. It gives a perspective on life that I had never been exposed to before. The facets of [...]
Apostle to China: Griffith John
Griffith John was born in Swansea in 1831. When he was eight-years-old, he was accepted into membership at Ebenezer Independent chapel in the town, and by the time he was sixteen was known as ‘the boy [...]
My new life in Peru
In October 2011 we returned to Arequipa Peru, my husband’s home city and the place where I had previously worked in mission for three years before returning to the UK, my homeland, to marry Eduardo and [...]
The Trinity and worship
I would personally rather sing of a 'latent' Christ in the Psalms God
The Trinity and worship
A very helpful article. I've been thinking much more about the Trinity
United we stand
It all depends on what you mean by 'biblical separation' ? !
Amazing and essential
Thank you. There are several good books currently on the Holy Trinity.
Robert Jermain Thomas: an inextinguishable light
Yes, there is much that we do not know, but if you read my book, I do