We arrived in the Philippines during a time of great political tension and unrest soon after the fall of a long dictatorship. How excited and…Read More
Covid-19 And The Poor
For hundreds of thousands of people living in remote villages or city slums, escaping the coronavirus is extremely difficult. Socially isolating is not realistic when…Read More
The New Norm
As I attempt to prepare myself to leave Cambodia, I’ve been trying to recall what it was like in my first year here. It is…Read More
Good Books Change The Culture
Good books change the culture — God’s book changes lives. The first Assembly missionaries working in Papua New Guinea in the 1960s were initiators of literacy-…Read More
Chileans Need Christ Too
Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.…Read More
Change In A Different Culture
I read recently that the one constant in life is change! Life, no matter where we live, is in constant change, often leaving us feeling…Read More
Living In Another World
It’s interesting, to look back over the 29 years that we’ve been in Christian ministry and see the journey that the Lord has taken us…Read More
We arrived in the Philippines during a time of great political tension and unrest soon after the fall of a long dictatorship. How excited and thankful we felt, when we walked off the plane from Sydney onto Philippine soil, that the country had remained open and that we had made it there! Our...
For hundreds of thousands of people living in remote villages or city slums, escaping the coronavirus is extremely difficult. Socially isolating is not realistic when people are jammed together in poor communities and the next-door neighbour is barely a metre away. However, by teaching them the...
As I attempt to prepare myself to leave Cambodia, I’ve been trying to recall what it was like in my first year here. It is only in looking back (and in listening to what other people comment on) that I realise things that once seemed new are now ‘the norm’ — or at least, as close to the norm as...
Good books change the culture — God’s book changes lives. The first Assembly missionaries working in Papua New Guinea in the 1960s were initiators of literacy- teaching methods and the production and printing of hymn books and other literature for new churches across many denominations. They were...
Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very...
I read recently that the one constant in life is change! Life, no matter where we live, is in constant change, often leaving us feeling overwhelmed. However, for those of us who serve in mission there are added complexities related to change. We change, our passport countries change, and our...