2017 August update
I am writing this from our cabin on board Logos Hope on a warm, wet and stormy day in Freeport, Bahamas. The week ahead will be busy and varied but, I trust, a blessing. It includes continuing a series from …
2017 July update
I am writing this while travelling back on the bus from Oak Hall’s visit to Slovenia. Although a favourite tourist destination, according to Operation World, Slovenia is the 14th least reached country in the world. It was encouraging that on …
2017 June update
We will spend most of the month of June in three southern African countries. There will be a great variety of speaking opportunities with OM (a selection of which is listed below) plus much travelling. As usual, our main prayer …
2017 May update
Greetings on May Day, the start of the second third of 2017. We recently returned from a month’s ministry in S Asia. Although the media usually portrays Pakistan negatively, we were surprised to find much freedom. Twice Gareth preached outside …
2017 April update
‘Since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you’ (Colossians 1:9). It is verses like this that encourage us in the midst of a challenging and opportunity filled environment here in the teaming, sweltering city …
2017 March update
We have just returned from a visit to Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and from Vientiane, the capital of Laos. In Bangkok, it was a privilege to speak in a missions’ conference entitled ‘We are the History Makers’, held at …
2017 February update
Our application for visas for Pakistan took far longer than we had expected. Although the submission was made last year on December 21, Gareth’s visa arrived on February 3. As a consequence, the invitation to minister in Pakistan in January …
2017 January update
So first we look back and see God’s faithful protection, especially during an attempted mugging in Africa, the theft of our laptop while we were asleep in Asia and some unusual health episodes that seemed to disappear as quickly as …
2016 December update
It’s amazing how much you can achieve in a short time if you have energy and support. In 6 days on Malou’s typhoon hit island, we managed to distribute (see above) 10 x 25kg sacks of rice to pastors, 450 …
2016 November update
We recently returned from a busy visit to Serbia having 35 lectures and other meetings over one week. For the next three weeks we have meetings in Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines. While Gareth then returns to the UK to …