Yesterday I paid a visit to the CLAN Gathering in St Andrew's Fife. Kenny Borthwick the Minister of the Church of Scotland in Wester Hailes Edinburgh was one of the founding members of this Christian Event. In 1999 it started with 400 people today around 8000 people from all over the UK attend. I was there because I was invited to the Church Leaders Lunch, I also got the opportunity to share for a short time something of the vision of the CWW Gathering 2008.In the...
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Here is the video of the Royal visit to Iquitos. I believe it was a great success. Amazon Hope 1 was hardly in the water again, after being extended by 10 metres, before the Royal visit took place. Princess Anne who has been an interested supporter in the project and has visited Amazon Hope 2 when it was in Plymouth in 2005 was delighted to make the journey to Peru to see for herself, at first hand, the work of the Vine Trust in partnership with Scripture Union. The...
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I've just hung up the telephone. It was Willie McPherson, he was calling me from a shipyard in the jungle city of Iquitos. This is last truly minute dot com up the Amazon. Tomorrow the ship is going to be relaunched. Amazon Hope 1 has been cut in two and an additional 10 metres has been added to the vessel. This we hope will make it even more versatile as we take health care to the remotest parts of the Amazon Rain Forest. [kml_flashembed...
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So what has the bike and the guitar got in common ? Well you could argue my study? You could say that they both belong to me! Yet maybe the most profound thing is that both have the ability to move you on, from where you are to where you should be. Take a song for instance, often the lyrics help us face the past in such a way, to allow us to change the future. And wheels? Well they move us further than we could ever expect. I've covered thousands of miles on...
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Well I had a great time today. This week I'm presenting "Beam into Bogle" on ValleyFM all this week from 9.00am -10.00am. It's great having your own radio show.I really enjoyed playing my tunes this morning. I try to have a guest in the studio every day. I was glad to have Neil McLennan, the station manager, around this morning to ease me into the way of things. Tomorrow my guest is Cathy Peattie MSP. I'm looking forward to chatting with Cathy and getting her views...
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