Gareth & Malou February 2025 update
Having spent 6 weeks in Trinidad onboard Logos Hope, we shall spend this month in the UK. If we are near any of you, do get in touch and/or come and visit. With our love and prayers, Gareth and …
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Gareth & Malou January 2025 plus retrospective 2024
2024 Statistics and 2024 retrospective Beds: 41 (41 in 2023) Sermons/lectures/talks given: 227 (166 in 2023) Flights taken: 51 (51 in 2023) Nations visited: 14 (10 in 2023): England, Scotland, South Africa, Tunisia*, Romania (2x), Netherlands, Vietnam*, Philippines (2x), Kenya, …
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Gareth and Malou December 2024 update
As we draw ever closer to Christmas, I have been struck again by this description of Jesus: ‘He is the visible image of the invisible God’. Anyone who searches for God needs only to find Jesus who is God in human flesh. As …
Gareth & Malou’s November update
Greetings from onboard MV Doulos Hope MV Doulos Hope ministering in SE Asia in the Philippines where we arrived exactly one month ago on October 1. There have been some special ministry opportunities including the Preachers’ Workshop which had more …
Gareth & Malou’s update September 2024
Last Wednesday evening, we arrived back from a ministry tour to 3 African capital cities comprising 16 meetings. The vibrancy and energy of the African church is well known and while we often hear it described as a mile wide …
Gareth and Malou’s update: October 2024
Teaching many native missionaries for 1 hour via translation at 5.30am in S Asia was a better experience than I had anticipated! To start in the dark and finish after sunrise will remain a special memory for me. Despite the …
Gareth and Malou’s Update: August 2024
As you can see below, this month is dominated by a visit to Africa with a variety of ministry in and around three capital cities. In Nairobi (see photo below), I have been invited to give the morning Bible readings …
Gareth and Malou’s update: July 2024
The funeral of Mrs Margaret Bolton, Gareth’s Mum, took place soon after our return from the Philippines. A good number attended St Andrew’s church where one of Gareth’s cousins, Rev Andrew Loat, led the prayers and his brother, Tim Loat, …
Gareth and Malou’s update: June 2024
Dear Friends, in the early hours of Tuesday May 7, and just a few weeks before her 101st birthday, my mother passed away in her bungalow in the Dorset village where she and my late father had retired 40 years …
Gareth and Malou’s update: May 2024
Greetings from Dorset where the birds and the flowers are declaring spring has arrived although the weather is not so sure! This month we will visit Vietnam for the first time and then travel to the Philippines to speak at …