From time to time, I have the privilege of spending time with a church community who are commissioning people to go off around the world to work with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Last Sunday, was just such an occasion. I drove over to Cambridge to be with Bar Hill Church as they prayed for their members John and Sheena Grummit who are heading off to work in Papua New Guinea.

The Grummits write:

This morning we had our commissioning service at Bar Hill Church, one of three churches that supports us. Eddie Arthur (right), director of Wycliffe UK came to speak and pray us off with Ruth Adams (left), our minister. It was great to have him there and hear a very encouraging message about building up the church from Ephesians.

So, now we’ve been commissioned we should be ready to go… but a look at our bedroom reveals that there’s still about 17 hours’ of packing to go. And, surprise, surprise, that’s exactly what we’ve got left in Bar Hill!

John and Sheena are good communicators and their blog should prove to be very interesting as they head off to PNG.

I’m glad that they found the message from Ephesians encouraging. From my point of view it was a little frustrating. Of late, I’ve taken to preaching without notes, but using the PowerPoint slides to guide me. However, there was a computer glitch and it was impossible to show my slides – so I effectively had to preach without notes. I notice that whenever I do this, I tend to get wordy and predictably my carefully prepared 10-15 minute sermon lasted for almost 20 mins. You can hear the whole service on the Bar Hill website. Or if you would like to listen to my sermon (I’ve increased the volume a little as the recording was very faint) you can click on the button below.

This is the second of my sermons for Highfield Church’s Mission in Action Sunday.

This is the first of my two sermons for Highfield Church’s Mission in Action Sunday. It is based on Matthew 22:36-40.

You can find the Highfield Church website here.

This is probably as near as I will ever get to publishing an autobiography. This 26 minute interview seems to cover most aspects of my life fairly adequately and may be of interest to you. Can my life really be summed up in less than half an hour?

If you would like to download the interview and listen to it later, you can do so here (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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This interview was originally recorded and broadcast by Premier Radio.

This is probably the funniest, if not the most profound, of my missionary stories. When you listen to it, you will understand why I’ve not included any photographs!

The recording was made during the Window On Wycliffe Course this week.

This is the third in a series of three talks (in French) on working across organizational boundaries. They were originally given at a seminar planning for Bible Translation in Burkina Faso.

Part two of my three part series (in French) on working across organisational boundaries.

This is the first in my series of three devotional talks on the subject of working across organisational boundaries. Be warned, this talk was given in something approximating to French!

The latest KouyaCast is a sermon from Above Bar Church in 2006 based on Mark 6:33-56. I linked to this sermon at the time, noting that it contains one of my best ever mistakes.

This is the sermon I gave at Flackwell Heath Church, which is where we worship when we are not travelling,  on November 29. 2009. It starts with the opening verses of Hebrews and goes on to talk about how God speaks to us.