2016 July update
At the beginning of the year, we had little idea we would be ministering for the first time in the African nations of Ethiopia, Madagascar and Zimbabwe. On this, the first day of the second half of the year, we …
2016 June Update
While preparing recently to speak on the execution of John the Baptist (Mark 6), I was reminded again of the price some pay for keeping the faith and speaking the truth. Many around the world today face the similar challenges …
2016 May update
Greetings from Ethiopia, a country which is four times larger than the UK and one of only two in Africa that has never been colonised. It also served as one of the earliest gateways for the gospel into Africa (Acts …
2016 April update
While in India, in the early hours of March 29th sometime between 1.00-2.30am, thieves cut through the mosquito netting covering our bedroom window and then inserted a long stick through the external horizontal metal security bars. Hanging from the end …
2016 March update
In a few hours’ time we return to the UK having ministered on four islands of the Philippines plus at a weekend in the UAE. Having spoken in one church 8 times in less than 48 hours to many hundreds …
2016 February update
We recently arrived in the Philippines where we have gone from experiencing -8° in Macedonia to +32° in Manila! We plan to visit and minister on 4 of the 7000 islands. As we approach the 20th anniversary of our charity …
2016 January update
I rarely recall hearing a talk about this guy and have only ever discovered one (rather obscure) song that includes him. He never appears in any nativity play and never features on any Christmas card. Yet what he had to …
2015 December update
In the Bible we read that Jesus said, ‘Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father’ (John14:9). Jesus is God’s Selfie! The verb ‘to see’ in the Bible is sometimes a metaphor for the verb ‘to meet’. May we …
Nov 2015 update
October saw our first visit to Colombia, S America’s fourth largest country. We experienced first-hand some of the recent church growth after finding that two of the churches we ministered in were only a few months old. There was a …
October 2015 update
What is Christianity? Driving almost 3000 miles, we visited some very diverse Christian communities in the north, mid-west and SE corner of the USA. Now in South America, I am writing this on a …