Discipling Salima
Salima and I have started reading the Bible together. We are currently reading the Creation story and she was incredibly moved by it.
Ramadan 2023 – 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World
A few weeks ago a Muslim lady came to our church door, she had met Jesus in a dream, been dramatically healed and now wanted to follow Jesus.
That night, I had a dream
I was standing in a courtroom and I was waiting to be judged.
The judge came into the room and He was beautiful. He sat next to me and gave me a piece of paper.
Tips for working with an interpreter
Take heart that our embodied message is powerful and beautiful, even if the verbal translation ends up being jerky sometimes!
A Time to Gather
Reflections on a gathering of a small number of church planting teams serving cross culturally in the Middle East.
Displacing Cultural Assumptions
After a long search for my missing keys, I finally found them. “Eureka!” I shouted, “I’ve found it!”
My Middle Eastern friend looked up, puzzled. “What did you just say?”
An unreached story, by ChatGPT
With all the interest around the advanced language model ChatGPT in recent weeks, we decided to try out to see how ChatGPT would handle the task of writing about churches reaching unreached people groups in the UK
Unreached Network Online 2023
This year’s Unreached Conference will focus on God’s mission to create peace between all peoples, through Jesus Christ, and how we can play our part.
Abu Akleh and the Religious Other
Her death is a tragedy that has startled the world in profound ways, but it has also caused passionate conversation about the way we manage religious differences.
Cross Cultural Safeguarding: Seminar Recording and Other Resources
Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. (James 1:27 NLT)
To conform or not to conform
All Things to All People. To conform or contextualise, that is the question.
Elías Diep
You have already been so generous in your giving that I hesitate to write about this, but I know there may be one or two who would like to help.
Ethnographic Reflection Aida Refugee Camp
They extracted all they wanted from the art. The stripping reminded me of the stripping of Christ before he walked to the cross.
Storying the Black Revival
“I want to hear more about this hidden God challenge! For missionaries like us, it becomes so important to understand the challenges.”
Teaching English for Mission, New Course Starting in January 2023
Make Jesus know in the UK or overseas
Refugees who Reform, Aboud and Nunu
Stories of love, escape and a passion to find Jesus and make Him known.
Hearing God in the Noise – Embracing a New Normal
“This new normal means stripping myself of my own strength and saying ‘I can’t do this without you’”
Understanding Islam
This course provides an opportunity to hear from people who have years of experience working and living in Muslim communities as well as Muslim speakers from a variety of backgrounds to enable people to be equipped to build bridges, develop meaningful relationships and introduce faith related dialogue.
Uniquely Placed: Single Overseas Part 2
Gayle and Dan share their journey of going and living overseas as single people.
Uniquely Placed: Single Overseas Part 1
Dan has been in a Middle Eastern context for over five years. Having gone young and single, he desires to stay long term, making his journey healthy and sustainable.
Speaking to the Heart
As our good friends leave to spend some time in Greece today, pray that they are able to make good connections that ‘Speak to the Heart’.