Missional Living
Wineskins
Mark 2:22 you know better than to put new wine into old wine-skins. They would burst. The wine would be spilled out and the wine-skins ruined. New wine needs fresh wine-skins.
Structure is important! Think of all the routines/structure/boxes that you have going on in your life – whether they are self-appointed or imposed by others. [...]
Smile
Picture from the New York Times.
We smile because we can’t speak. At least not in the same language, not quite, not yet. So we try with our eyes and our hands and expressions to communicate - to show that we are interested, to welcome, to befriend. I’ve learned a couple of words, but their English [...]
For the least of these…
Then the King will say, ‘I’m telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.’
Matthew 25:40
He did tell us to get ready. He reminded us that the harvest was plentiful, and that as we went out – we’d reap it.
A couple [...]
Encourage The Oppressed
“Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow”. Isaiah 1:17
Yesterday, along with about 60 other women, I went on a bus tour. I wasn’t going to see any grand tourist destination but quite the opposite. I went on a tour of 10 ministries which are reaching [...]
Catching The Call Again
For the past two summers I have led mission trips to Romania, both have been incredible trips. This most recent trip brought me renewed vision & focus. My summer in England had felt long and challenging. I was in need of the adventure when it came.
I took 15 of the students I lead. We were [...]
Shopping
In Starbucks having coffee – I saw a friend and I said to her, “I love what you’re wearing”. She said it cost a pound. ONE POUND from a well know clothes store.
Now that got me thinking and speaking – and I said this store probably exploited people. Then I felt bad for saying that [...]
The Responsibilty of “Much”.
I spent 6 months in the Philippines a few years ago and was privileged to meet some amazing people; the most physically poor yet spiritually rich I have ever met. The first day I arrived we were taken on ‘outreach’, which involved going into the slums, telling people about Jesus, and praying for them. The [...]
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
My husband James and I and our two small children are about to sell up, leave our family and friends and go to South Wales to do a year of mission training, with the long term vision of going to Australia to work amongst Aborigines. What was once, to me, an interesting but quite far [...]
Calling
I just got back from 3 weeks in India. 3 completely transforming, inspiring weeks, where I felt so close to God, so intimate with him. I had spent a lot of time as a teenager dreaming about being out in the developing world, reading books about missionaries and dreaming about leading a mission focus life [...]
