Our church has been busy this week running our 13th consecutive children’s holiday program called “Going Bananas”. This year we have been blessed with a team of 75 leaders (teens and adults) and up to 160 children. It has been wonderful to see the “body of Christ” in action as children, teenagers, young adults and [...]
I commend the great work that “China Heart” does amongst the poor, needy and orphans in China. The short term mission teams called “Mercy Teams” are a wonderful way to show God’s care and practical help to children who are struggling. Please check out the China Heart website : http://www.chinaheartint.org/ Also: http://www.amccsm.org/
I returned from my mission trip with CCSM on the weekend. The international team visited an orphange in central China and spent around two weeks caring for children from babies to teenagers. It was a very humbling experience and even though it was a short time I’m sure the team through the Holy Spirit did [...]
It is just over a week before I head back to China for my fourth visit to an orphanage. I will be part of an international team who meet up in Hong Kong and will travel to the orphanage and spend two weeks with the children and carers. Although some conditions have improved over my [...]
I’ve returned to Australia after being in China with a “China Heart” team (see earlier posting). I’m feeling a bit tired as it was full on working with the over one hundred children at the orphanage many of them with disabilities. It’s also different living closely with 21 other Mercy team members from five different [...]
The Viva Network is a global organisation working to give children better care and to raise issues to do with children’s poverty and children’s needs. The website also includes information on motivating an interest in children’s ministry at a local level as well. This site is certainly worth looking at to gain a better understanding [...]
I take off tonight for Hong Kong and will be away for two weeks in China. I have arranged for my wife Sue to publish some blogs while I’m away so there will be something happening while I’m away from internet access. If you’re a regular reader of this blog and find it helpful sometimes, [...]
There is less than a week now till I head off to China for my third short-mission trip with an organisation called Chinese Church Support Ministries. I will be part of an international team which will be working at an children’s orphange in China. The team will be involved in what’s known as a “Mercy [...]
The subject of a sermon I am giving this Sunday is “Good News For All”. My Bible passage is Acts 14 where Paul and Barnabas are on their first missionary journey to Iconium, Lystra, Derbe, and Antioch. As we’ll have a number of families with children of all ages present (school holidays here) I’ve decided [...]
