Imagine that you only have 80% of the context of a conversation or a story. How do you answer your neighbour’s questions about Jesus when you’ve only understood 80% of the dream that they just told you about? Or how do you counsel someone suffering after a traumatic experience when you’ve only understood 80% of their story? How do you share 80% of your testimony? Or 80% of the Gospel?
Read MoreWhile gathering with a group of young leaders, the resounding theme we heard each of them express regardless of their different jobs, current ministry and church involvement was a feeling of deep disconnect.
Read More30 plus years later, at the drop of a hat I can still sing so many of the songs I learned as a little girl growing up in the 80’s in Sunday School. Can you see the group of little people gathered in tiny wooden chairs
Read MoreRemember that time we sat around and cast vision for what the new year would hold.
Read MoreIn our own home, bathrooms are both a blessing and a burden. I can say, from experience as a mother, there have been many times when I have yearned for the solitude and sanctuary of a hot bath but instead have found that the drain is completely clogged with hair and fuzz and slime and, is that LEGO? How did they ever get LEGO that far down the…?
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Read MoreRise Up! It’s Your Coronation Day.
I sat on the blue printed picnic blanket in the tree lined park, leaves rimmed golden with Autumn’s breath dancing along with the children giggling and running around me.
Read MoreAs a child, I was labelled “bossy” and “strong-willed”, two words that I dislike to this day and that sometimes still have the power to conjure up some very negative emotions. I’ve since learned that those labels were, in fact, leadership qualities…
Read MoreWe walked through the woods together talking through the details of this difficult day. The moon shone through the trees and it was strangely quiet considering the island was bursting with over 100 little campers…
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