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Video: This Is Us

If you can’t see the video above, you can find it here (it’s a one minute introduction to us and to what we do).

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A Dog’s Tale

I’m due to fly out to join Sue tomorrow morning. This is the first time that I’ve had the opportunity to go to Madagascar, so I’m really excited. But the last few days have been a little stressful.A couple of weeks ago, Bassam had a small operation to remove a growth on her leg which […]

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What Price Our Foundation Stories?

Dynamic, independent, driven Christians can be a huge pain in the neck. They want to do things their own way, they don’t fit in with established traditions or structures and they make everyone else feel very uncomfortable. On the other hand, they can see solutions to things that other people hadn’t even realised were problems and can achieve things that your normal, everyday people just miss.

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Liminality

It’s rather having only a few weeks left in a future-focussed role. I mean, I don’t actually have much of a future to focus on (in the role that is). These are some reflections that I recently shared with the Wycliffe UK staff.

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Here I Go Again

What could be more fun on a July morning than running the High Wycombe half-marathon? How about running the High Wycombe half marathon and collecting donations for Medair’s work in Madagascar? Madagascar is one of the world’s most beautiful places yet it is the third most vulnerable country to natural disasters after Bangladesh and India. […]

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There Is No Such Thing as A Free Blog

It is almost ten years since I wrote the first post on Kouya.net. It started off as a way of sharing our work with Wycliffe Bible Translators, but it has evolved into one of the few regular blogs which discusses cutting edge mission thinking. Since the early days we have published over 2,000 posts, that’s […]

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Notes From a Fallen World

It’s going to be a great day; Sam and Bec are getting married. There will be a worship service, food, wine and a ceilidh. Best of all, a great young couple get to start out on one of life’s great adventures. I’m not a great one for ceremonies and such, but marriage is great and […]

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Church: World Mission

Almost But Not Quite

Albert Mohler has written an interesting article about mission in the twenty-first century, which manages to ignore the most important aspects of the modern mission movement.

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What’s Next: Crowdsourcing a Future!

Generally, if you want to know what we are doing, this blog may not be much help (though, its a pretty good place to find out what we are thinking.) The best way to actually keep up with our movements is through our regular news emails, which you can sign up for on the right […]

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Madagascar

A Few Personal Thoughts

  This is the monthly note that I wrote to Wycliffe Bible Translators staff around the world this month: By the time you read this, Sue should be in Madagascar and I’ll be at home with the dog. I always enjoy the first few days of Sue’s trips. I quite enjoy my own company and it’s […]