Turning Tables and Temples

Isn’t it amazing what you can see through an image formed in an artist’s imagination and the graphic crafted by the skill of their hands? My thanks go to Chris Bambrough for his skill and for allowing me to share the picture he created. The Jerusalem temple was certainly one of the ancient world’s most…

Colburn Community Support

Time for Some Good News If asked, most of us might describe missionaries as people who travelled to distant lands to support struggling communities in whatever way they could, and often at great personal cost. Throughout history, many resourceful individuals have helped local people to overcome the challenges of poverty and limited local services by…

Soil, Plants and Shoots

If asked what substance is of greatest value in this world most of us would come up with a list of rare gemstones and precious metals, valued because of their beauty, purity, and scarcity. Today we might think of lithium for batteries or plutonium for reactors alongside gold and diamonds. But I would imagine that…

From Yorkshire To Perthshire

by Stuart Harrison. With a soft Scottish lilt, Stuart smiled as he shared his recollections of how he had seen God at work in the rolling hills of rural Perthshire in the 1980’s. They had taken a different approach to growing church and community and had seen many lives changed and rural isolation overcome. “Is…

A Prayer For You: For Courage

With its distinctive navy blue ribbon, the George Cross medal is the highest award for bravery, granted in recognition of “acts of greatest heroism or of the most courage in circumstances of extreme danger”. Few have received it and only 12 of its individual recipients* are alive today. The actions of these people, who despite…