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Yesterday I visited my favourite place in Iquitos Puerto Allegria. The setting is idilic. Here in this home run by Union Biblica and funded by Vine Trust boys of all ages who have no homes to call their own can begin to find a family and discover security and love. It was wonderful to see [...]

You’ll have noticed that I’ve been making one or two comments on the blog about the 400th Anniversary of the King James version of the Bible. Its actually been quite wonderful to begin to rediscover the shear wonder and magic of the language especially when it is read out loud in church. We’ve been doing [...]

I’m going to represent the Vine Trust at the funeral of Tom Dunn a retired naval architect who was strategic in making the dream of the Trust’s medical work in Peru a reality. Some people make an impression on you not by what they say but by the things they do. Tom for me was [...]

There is never a dull moment in life of a parish minister. I was sharing with you my visit to London a couple of weeks ago. This was an opportunity to tell more people about the story of the Vine Trust and also to engage the support of big business and also parliamentarians as we [...]

I’ve started writing up my experience of the Lausanne Congress. The theme of the congress was ” God in Christ reconciling the world to himself ” this text is found in 2 Corinthians 5.19 . Its an amazing text for it gives us a great hint about the nature of God. God is in the [...]

Today we were given a research document that outlines the number of people groups in the world who have never heard the Gospel. Many of these groups don’t have a language that has been written down. In other words people of an oral tradition. This means that although we as Christians emphasise the importance of [...]

My colleague Neil MacLennan who heads up Sanctus Media the production company that has grown out of the ministry here in St Andrew’s Bo’ness has worked his magic yet again and has figured out a way to allow our weekly streamed service to now be streamed on an iphone or an ipad. How cool is [...]

Looking through the photograohs on my iphone this weekend just reminded me of all the excellent experiences that I was able to enjoy over the past few days. It was a real privelege to be able to attend the 2010 Edinburgh Missionary Conference and begin to write about some of the important issues that still [...]

The Edinburgh 2010 Missionary Conference is now underway. I had the opportunity to drop into the conference for a little while yesterday morning. Its actually quite an impressive sight to see so many different nationalities taking part. In comparion with the Lausanne Conference which will meet in Cape Town later in the year, where there [...]

Re-imagining Preaching as a Process Part 2 This article forms part of the Lausanne Global Conversation check it out All of us are living through what can only be described as the greatest communication revolution in the history of the human race. Technology allows us to communicate in ways that were only before dreamt of [...]