New Year Reads

Looking to get your new year off to a good start? Set yourself in the right frame of mind for 2007? Let me share with you my late December-January (re-)reading list: “Israel Gaither: Man with A Mission” – a Christmas gift from my inlaws…biography of Commissioner Gather, former Cheif of Staff and current USA National … More New Year Reads

Pre-Christmas Snippets

A few snippets for you……————————————Our band and other corps members have responded heroically to our Christmas programme again this year. We’ve had a good time and had lots of good positive witness opportunities. A highlight for me was at a local Christmas Fayre in Portishead…I was giving out some ”novelty” gospel tracts in the form … More Pre-Christmas Snippets

A Word for Youth and Youth Workers

Little word from the Lord: weigh it and test it….that which rings true is of the Lord, that which doesn’t is me:—————————————————–“Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. … More A Word for Youth and Youth Workers

I’ve been tagged!

I’ve got a few ‘more serious’ things to blog later, but Chris has tagged me so one must respond to these things :o) The challenge is to tell you all 5 things that you don’t know about me! I’ll try and make them all ‘windswept and interesting!’ Here goes: 1) I have been writing and … More I’ve been tagged!

An Army Cup of Tai Chi

So I casually pick up my recent edition of the Salvationist and have my weekly rummage through. Then, I come to the page describing the recent visit of the Officers from the International College for Officers visiting Reading Central to conduct the meetings. Fine…nice. But shock, horror, blow me down with a feather, I read … More An Army Cup of Tai Chi