Vine Trust Launch in Westminster Palace

posted: 4 Nov 2010 comments: 0category:

Its getting late and I'll be up early in the morning to catch the early flight to London. Tomorrow will be our official launch of the Vine Trust in London. Our launch is being sponsored by the All Parliamentary Group for Peru. The host for this event is our local MP Michael Connarty who is the Chair of the Group. Its part of our 25th Anniversary Celebrations that have been going on throughout the year. We're also delighted that our Patron HRH The Princess Royal will be...
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Could God Use Scotland To Reconcile The World?

posted: 2 Nov 2010 comments: 1category:

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 business of reconciling, he is the great cosmic peacemaker. Yet so often religion is blamed for the cause of so much war and violence. The truth is God is able to do what none of us can do...
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After Weeling Comes Frankfurt and Food!

posted: 1 Nov 2010 comments: 0category:

Weeling is a township on the edge of nowhere. I don't think I'll forget it in a hurry. It's situated on a flat plain no shelter from the wind or the sun. And it certainly hasn't be sheltered from the hard economics of the world recession. It is as far as the sophisticated world of high finance and power are concerned a million miles away from the prosperous white South Africa of Clarence. The town we left in a hurry last might in search if food and...
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