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Africa

Winters in Congo

Jeff and Michelle Winters are part of the team I’m working with here in Brazzaville. Their website has some  stuff about Congo which you might find interesting. Given that I’m unlikely to get out of the city very much and won’t have much by way of photographs or video to post, the Winters photo album […]

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Observations

Confusing Geography

If you find African geography confusing, don’t feel bad about it, so do I. Take the Congo for example. First, the Congo is a river; that’s easy enough. But there are also two countries called Congo, the Republic of Congo (where I am now) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (where I am not, but […]

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Do Not Use

Essential Equipment for Mission

Thanks to Andrew Jones for this picture. To think I’ve spent all these years training people in linguistics, anthropology and other stuff, without ever seeing that folding organs could be a valuable aid for mission work. Any ideas of other important things I’ve forgotten?

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Bible Translation Mission

Being Missional 1. Bible Translation

It’s always interesting to see how other people list this blog. I quite like Tim and Ali, who list us under ‘cool blogs’.  I don’t think I’ve been cool since I had hair. But the classification that pleases me most, is probably, the one on Brian Russell’s blog, where we are listed under missional church. […]

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Church: World Mission

Happy Birthday

One of my favourite blogs celebrates its second birthday today. Congratulations to Brian Russell and the wonderful Real Meal Blog. Keep it up my friend!

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Church: UK Reviews Theology

Spurgeon

I’ve just come across a great resource for anyone interested in the work of C. H. Spurgeon. There are lots of good things here including a listing of Spurgeon’s sermons (with some examples to read), some other articles by Spurgeon and some writing about him. Well worth a look.

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Africa

Congo

This time next week I’ll be on a flight to Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo where I’ll be running a planning workshop. If you’d like to get a feel for the place before I go, Linguistica has just posted an interesting piece on literacy work in a Congolese language. The picture is from her […]

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Church: UK Church: World Mission

Emerging/Missional Church Links

Following on from this morning’s Solent Gospel Partnership seminar on the emerging church (good job Roger); I thought I’d post a list of a few links that I’ve found useful in following up on this subject. Please feel free to add other links in the comments section. I don’t always agree with everything I find […]

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Do Not Use

Global Warming

I found this picture on connexions The blog of Richard Hall, a Methodist Minister in South Wales. I’ve added connexions to my blogroll and heartily encourage you to take a look at what Richard is writing. There is some good stuff to be found there.

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Mission Reviews Theology

Michael Frost

There is an excellent series of talks by Michael Frost available here. They are well worth listening to if you are interested in how the church needs to meet the challenges of the post-modern world. Michael is co-author of The Shaping of Things to Come (one of the best books I’ve read in the last […]