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It’s just gone 11.30pm and I’m in Lima. This has been quite an historic weekend. For the first time ever the Vine Trust and Union Biblica have come together for a joint meeting to discuss vision and strategy. For the past two days I’ve been down at Kawai where Union Biblica have a boys home [...]

Here I am reporting the devastating news. One of our homes for abandoned boys in Peru has been washed away by the severe flooding which has taken place in the “Sacred Valley”. Fortunately the boys were all on holiday at Kawia and the home was empty. The home was [...]

What makes good friend?

French authorities forced a series of evictions of asylum-seekers and migrants living in makeshift encampments around Calais today.
No doubt you may have seen the pictures as they were broadcast as part of the News. So what is it that makes people risk everything to try and win British Citizenship? Maybe we have so much [...]

My friends Wilfred and Shanti Davidar took us out for dinner the other evening. We ended up at JCs Cafe in Chennai. Its actually quite a cool place. It was also quite busy. It is run by a Christian businessman, who is seeking to reach out to a group of people who are seeking to [...]

The last few days just seem to have flown by. I visited the Leprosy Colony at Chengelpod. It’s a facinating story how the Colony has been able to develop and survive. It is always a moving scene busting these people. We also spent some time at the Raphe Ministry. The group of women work [...]

India is a busy place. Everyone you see on the street seems to be going some where. Boys and girls dressed in their cotton school uniforms rushing to school. Workers, men and women, carrying great bundles on their heads and backs. Motorcycles moving in and out of cars. Engines reving, horns being blown, it all [...]

I was just reflecting today that Madeline Makola is quite an amazing person. In the face of all that she endured she is still in one piece and able to let he past go. I guess she is the one qualified to answer the post i made a few days ago surrounding the steam train. [...]

Just finished picking the set of songs for my radio show later on today. I love this opportunity to get behind a microphone and share some music and tell stories and speak with my guests.
Today’s guest is Stuart Murdoch the Baptist minister in the town. I think we’ll have a bit of banter. It will [...]

ARCHBISHOP TUTU AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Certainly history was in the making yesterday morning as the little frail looking man dressed in purple appeared in the play pen. By the end of his address the general Assembly gave him a standing ovation. ” Turn the wilderness into a garden of wonderful flowers.” He thanked all those [...]