Mission – Ministry – Life
Hello everyone, I think I forgot to tell you that I was coming back to Peru. And this time I’ve got a friend with me. Paddington came to stay with us at Christmas and was really interested in coming back to Peru, especially since he’s never visited this part of the jungle before. So far... Continue Reading →
Travelling to Iquitos is a regular feature of our diary - we have made the journey three or four times in the last two weeks. Occasionally it is uneventful but more often it isn’t. It has been raining overnight and the first part of our journey involves a walk along the mud road from our... Continue Reading →
We are now safely back in our Nauta home and adjusting to being in the heat again after leaving Europe in snow and ice. Each time we return we notice how things are slowly changing here. In the last 6 weeks one of the shops on the ‘high street’ has closed but another business has... Continue Reading →
Strangely some of the hardest parts of the New Testament are those parts that were designed to be the most practical. Often based on household codes they were to help the new communities of Jesus followers to be communities of character and to be seen to be living Godly lives. Why? Because the character of... Continue Reading →
I’m a poor host but I’m learning to be a better guest. Nothing has struck me as forcefully about the need to rethink how we approach mission than the idea of the missionary as a guest. Perhaps it’s my western hero complex that wants to go to another country to ‘make a difference’ but going... Continue Reading →
Another short series of blog posts before we return to Perú next week (and Nugget gets back to blogging) this time looking at a couple of things I believe we need to grapple with if we are to be effective global witnesses. First up, how much the world is changing. If you live in the... Continue Reading →
We can’t talk about global mission without talking about the local church. When all the paraphernalia of mission agencies is removed the call to share the good news and make disciples is a call to the church. I’ve blogged before (here) about some practical steps churches can take to get involved in global mission but wanted... Continue Reading →
Global mission is in a time of change; while most of the resources are still held in the west the dynamic mission movements are increasingly non-western. We might anticipate that over the next decade sending from the UK will continue to reduce (except for short term visits), incoming mission into the UK will increase and... Continue Reading →
Do we still need to send people overseas? Isn’t it a bad use of resources to send expensive western missionaries when others are able to manage it much more cheaply. Isn’t it a model that better suited a colonial approach to the world? Isn’t it time to let other sending countries like Brazil and South... Continue Reading →
Part of my time recently has been thinking about ‘the western mission movement’ and how it needs to change. These next few posts are some thoughts around that. First up: some of the issues we need to grapple with as we look to the future: Who calls the shots? The western mission movement has a... Continue Reading →
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