Welcome ... I’ve always been more attracted to the ordinary than the spectacular. For a long time I’ve sensed my ministry in life as continually trying to seek and understand, express and share, an awareness and appreciation of God in the everyday. I think this is important, not only for the sake of my own taste, but for everyone. If our talking about, and living for, God only appeals to the religious, then most people will be missed. If we know anything about Jesus it is that he went out of his way to encompass the ordinary, so that no-one would be overlooked. So, as I write here, I’ve no idea what I will say or where it will lead. No doubt I will reflect a lot on ‘Christian’ things, but I’m not particularly interested in narrowly religious questions, nor about church affairs. There will, probably, be much football, film and TV. An ordinary life indeed, but one looking for ‘rumours of glory’, I’m asking myself the questions I’ve listed above, and invite you to do the same…

Sunday, 15 November 2009

News from the Caribbean...


Little time to wax lyrical I'm afraid but our first 4 days in Haiti have been hot, busy, chotic and challenging.  As well as preaching at 1st Baptist Church, Cap Haitian (membership 6,000) I've had chance to attend a local funeral (and get stuck in a river en route home), participate in an HIV/AIDS conference and  pray with a small group of street boys, held in a local prison (40 men in a 10m x 10m cell). Our group have also been able to get on with much practical work around the clinic/hospital/children's home ... more to come no doubt.
This country is beautiful and desperate, dark and light, a builder of faith and a challenger of courage.
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