Our visitor at the weekend mentioned a Catherine Booth quote that I hadn’t come across. He said the source of it was in Harold Begbie’s biography of William Booth and she is supposed to have said it on her death bed. Apparently, she said (to her daughter Kate) “Why can God not keep a thing … More Life and Death

We’ve had a Major Howard Webber visiting our corps from THQ this weekend. Howard is an ‘evangelism mission partner’ and works with various corps in the Territory. His visit had been arranged since the beginning of the year and he duly came. On a personal level, my interaction with him has shown me such a … More Wick’s Mission Weekend

Just wanted to re-post some great thoughts with good clarity from Soldier Anthony Castle, written a few months ago by him and posted here in January (see the blog list, right): Some days I wake up and it seems real simple… Soldiership isn’t about us.Soldiership is about God and His love for the lost. He … More Keeping it Real

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Its been a busy week or so on the Clark front. Had some good friends to visit for the week and had a good time with them. On top of all that, we’ve been doing some Spring Cleaning. I discovered some boxes that we hadn’t unpacked yet since we moved….about 5 or 6 boxes. As … More Clearing Clutter

As I said in my last post, I’ve been praying and asking God to speak to me through my dreams. Its perfectly normal for God to do this…he often did it in the bible. Joel (and later Peter) prophesied that God’s people would dream dreams and see visions. Here is a dream I want to … More Have a pray about this….

Oops….I forgot to let you know I was on furlough (holiday)…but I’m back now. We’ve had a good couple of weeks away with plenty of opportunity just to sit back, reflect, think, read, talk, pray, think and read some more, pray again, have a bit more talk…all with the odd ice-cream and latte thrown in … More Amazed

We’ve been praying for months for their to be an opening in our local High School. Serving around 1000 pupils, its the only high school in the town. The links so far have been tenuous. Out of the blue (or as a result of prayer….take your pick) we get a phonecall last week asking if … More High School ministry