As I'm continuing to study this semester, I'm reminded of short-term missions and how often they can be 'interesting'. Personally, I've only been on two trips that you could call short-term mission trips. They were both for a week, which is about as short as they usually get. One trip was to Vanuatu and the …
Hello 2022, how are you? Well, time will tell on that one. My apologies for beginning the year of blog posts with such unfashionable rhyming. As usual at this time of year, I run through the books I've read (or finished) in the past twelve months. Unusually, however, I actually cracked my #yearlyreadinggoal and read …
If you knew how long I’d been looking at the computer screen and trying to work out where to start, you’d probably think it was because I didn’t know very much about Jim and Elisabeth. In actual fact, I’ve read a fair bit about them. Looking on my bookshelf I can see five of Elisabeth’s …
Gladys Aylward, otherwise known as ‘The Little Woman’, had a film made about her life called The inn of the sixth happiness (staring Ingrid Bergman). I went to watch it once but then discovered that it went for almost three hours. That was the end of that. You can watch the trailer here though, which …