Mission – Ministry – Life
Hi everyone, This week I’m going to tell you about life here in Nauta. It is very different to England. Most of the houses are made of wood with a metal roof. In our house we collect the rain off the roof to use for water, because it doesn’t just come out the tap. Last... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone Last weekend I went to Iquitos. It’s a bumpy 2 hour journey from Nauta along the only long road here. I’ve been before but it is such a big place for a small bear I normally hide in a rucksack. But Neil was away and Lori and I spent a few days with... Continue Reading →
Recently I had the opportunity to spend a bit of time at an event put on by a team from the US. It was a fascinating experience on lots of levels, the team and I come from very different cultures and styles of church and yet we are all guests in a third culture. The... Continue Reading →
I’ve been on a real jungle adventure. Normally I’ve been living with Lori and Neil in Nauta but recently we went on a long trip up river. Over three days we kept travelling and each day things seemed more different. At the first stop we went to a church anniversary service which included two weddings... Continue Reading →
I read Jane Vella “Learning to listen, learning to teach” (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass 2002) earlier in the summer in which she sets out 12 principles of effective learning. Vella’s book and the principles it sets out (which are part of a trajectory which includes ‘Training for Transformation’ and Paulo Freire) have played a key... Continue Reading →
Hello everyone, Nugget here again. I wanted to tell you about what I’ve been up to over the last two weeks. Last week I joined in with a group of local pastors and church leaders who were here for a training week. I went to most of the classes but I had a few good... Continue Reading →
Over the last week we’ve been reading “The Very Worst Missionary” a memoir by Jamie Wright who was a missionary in Costa Rica for 5 years. It’s a really readable book (warning: it uses some colourful language) and raises many questions about the whole way that global missions are done. There are three things that... Continue Reading →
It’s clear we live in a time of significant change. Changes in the culture of the Western World: politics, migration, secularism and decline of Christian faith. Changes in the global church: as the centre of gravity moves to the global south with overseas mission now a global effort not the preserve of European or North... Continue Reading →
Hello I’m Nugget Lori and Neil allowed me to stow away on this trip to Peru and are letting me write a few of my own blog posts. We are in the Amazon which is a long, long way from home. We went on three airplanes to get here. The longest one took all day,... Continue Reading →
Since I’m on holiday at the moment I thought I’d post a few observations about packing based on our experience in the Amazon. Packing is always a balance between having stuff for every eventuality and traveling light. Age, destination and personality all come into it so there’s no right answer but……. Take clothes that don’t... Continue Reading →
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