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Reaching rural Wales

Reaching rural Wales

As you travel through Wales, especially its beautiful countryside, you will notice, dotted on the hills round about, isolated farms, so remote, not only from each other, but from the rest of the community. The thought [...]

The summer of 2011

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

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 [...]

You no longer belong to evil but to good

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, [...]

Pillar Community Church

Pillar Community Church

Pillar Community Church is billed as ‘the church for people who don’t go to church’, or ‘the church that started out at Starbucks’. Pillar is part of the New Breed Church Planting network, based on the [...]

Mission Wales

Mission Wales

The Evangelical Movement of Wales is committed to helping and encouraging you and your church to reach out. Many have fears about the physical demands on small churches, young churches or ageing congregations. Others are concerned [...]

Acts 29

Acts 29

For many of us, mission is still mainly about what is done in far away places by particular kinds of people. This enduring image needs to be consigned to the wastepaper bin at the earliest opportunity! [...]

Reflections on the EMW mission in Narberth

Reflections on the EMW mission in Narberth

You could start with the bones of the mission – the facts and figures: It ran from Tuesday 17 October to Sunday 1 November 2,500 news sheets with local testimonies and invitation cards were distributed There [...]

£21,640

£21,640

There are over 2,350 verses in the Bible that relate to managing money, debt, wealth and possessions. Jesus spoke about these issues more than anything else and they represent approximately 8% of the Bible but are [...]