Jansi and Freeda and their children's home.
India is a busy place. Everyone you see on the street seems to be going some where. Boys and girls dressed in their cotton school uniforms rushing to school. Workers, men and women, carrying great bundles on their heads and backs. Motorcycles moving in and out of cars. Engines reving, horns being blown, it all sounds a bit like a great orchestral piece of music.
In the midst of all this movement of people we too make our way out of the city of Chennai to drive for...
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This is the life, this is India. You've never lived till you've travelled by train especially second class. I'm not brave enough to try third class, thats where they hang out the windows in their droves.
Lying back listening to the rhythm of the wheels on the track as the train moves through the night can easily put you to sleep. I always feel the train is talking to me. You know reliving the day, perhaps helping me to pray, pray the things I don't want to say....
You know what its like, your packing for a trip and the phone rings. The last thing you want is a conversation. You need to get that bag packed. the secret of course is not to take too much stuff with you. Travelling light becomes an art. Take enough to get you by for a few days them be ready to wash a shirt or two out and let them dry. the secret is if you keep the case light you can take it into the plane with you and when you get out at te other end there's no...
We visited St Andrew's in Fife yesterday to catch up with some of the congregation who are at the CLAN Gathering for this past week. They've taken over at least two houses and a group of them are living together in community. I was really encouraged to hear how God has been blessing them this
week. I 'm sure they are all going to return to Bo'ness with a renewed vision for the work of the gospel in Scotland. Erica you make a mean omlette, you really are a...
There is always something happening around the church building here in St Andrew's Bo'ness. Its great to see the building being used and cared for by a wide variety of people. Take for instance today. Elizabeth Ann was down looking after the garden and watering the plans
Apart from the staff members who were working out of the building, we had a young teenager in for a few hours getting coaching on work experience. Then we a visit from the BBC Children in Need...
I was just reflecting today that Madeline Makola is quite an amazing person. In the face of all that she endured she is still in one piece and able to let he past go. I guess she is the one qualified to answer the post i made a few days ago surrounding the steam train. Have a listen to her as she speaks to a BBC reporter about her feelings towards the man who locked her in the boot of her car for ten days. It is really worth listening to even if you've heard it...
I had a wonderfully inspiring day yesterday. Its really exciting and quite humbling to think of the extent of the vision that we have for Sanctuary First. We were working on the website design today and I tell you its going to be a fantastic worship resource for the church. I've been recruiting writers to help me put together the content. I believe this is going to be a resource that will match well into our Church Without Walls programmes.So keep praying for the...