Mission workers
-
Dramatic Events in Thailand
Posted: 15 May 2012 by maycocklp
How did this group of young Karen Christians (right) come to be performing an evangelistic drama to villagers in Northeast Thailand, hundreds of miles from the closest Karen settlement? These 6 young leaders were part of the Karen Baptist...
-
Slums bulldozed in Kathmandu
Posted: 11 May 2012 by butterworthkm
Earlier this week bulldozers moved in to flatten the slum housing that has grown up near the Bagmati river in Kathmandu. We have been sending our medical students to these urban slums as part of their field experience work, and Martin cycles...
-
R&R in Jinja
Posted: 10 May 2012 by benndd
Rest, relaxation, recuperation, recreation – choose any two but suffice to say we have recently returned from five days R & R in Jinja. We stayed in a relatively small guest house with a very pretty garden and an amazing view over Lake...
-
Paris in the Spring Time
Posted: 27 April 2012 by hallidaypr
Remarkably, Philip has been home for the whole month of April! Having been on the road for around 40% of the time since September, it has been great for him to work from Massy and so also be able to renew his passport, visit the dentist, do some...
-
"I'm a miracle, standing before you!"
Posted: 17 April 2012 by hattonpv
An update from Phillip & Vivienne Hatton, BMS workers in Metz, France We hope you all had a great Easter. On Good Friday we repeated what we did last year and invited those who wished to come to our home for hot cross buns and other...
-
Palms and processions
Posted: 12 April 2012 by andersonah
John 17: 20 & 21: “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world...
-
Police, protection and plans
Posted: 4 April 2012 by benndd
Our last update was about visiting the police quarters and this police linked theme seems to have continued….. On Tuesday mornings the BUU Secretariat has Devotions – all those who work there take it in turns to lead a time of Bible...
-
Playing it by ear
Posted: 28 March 2012 by shrubsholebg
Yesterday I drove to the Congo border to a town called Nyabagando where I had been asked to speak at a Scripture Union day for 100 young people at the secondary school about spiritual gifts. It was typically Ugandan in that I was told...
-
Beginnings and New Beginnings
Posted: 23 March 2012 by hallidaypr
It is six months now since we launched our new NGO programmes in Kosovo, among one of the the country’s poorest and most marginalised ethnic-minority groups. The research undertaken by our team there had revealed that one of the most...
-
International Womens Day in Kampala - reaching out to women in the police community
Posted: 21 March 2012 by benndd
Thursday March 8th was International Women’s Day and in Uganda it was a public holiday. For a number of our friends, we understand it is the one day in the year that the husband does the cooking. However, many women here do not live...