What kind of Africa Connection 10 December 2010
Posted by Bill Lovett in Understanding Others.Tags: CMS, community, mission, Prayer
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- Kofi deGraf-Johnston deals with a question
What kind of connection with Africa is needed? This is what we took away from the Mid Africa Conference 2010 in Swanwick Derbyshire. The depth. The breadth. The frequency.
Roger Bowen gave us some startling quotes as he led us to reflect on “Mission and Worship”. “Without worship – you shrink. It is as brutal as that” from Peter Shaeffer’s Equus. Or try Ralph Waldo Emerson “What we are worshipping, we are becoming”. (Goodness, imagine a BMW or iPad with arms and legs walking down the street.) But more on this on another occasion. Back to connections.
Old Friends and New Directions 20 February 2010
Posted by Bill Lovett in Understanding Others.Tags: African spirituality, CMS, mission, witness
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Sometimes old friends suggest new directions. This is what we had when CMS-UK came to visit. Steve Burgess came to visit us in February. He is no Africa
Steve makes a point to Bill
newbie. He was in Kenya for 23 years, and now travels regularly throughout east Africa for CMS-UK. (more…)
Leaving Half-Way House 17 June 2008
Posted by Bill Lovett in On the Pilgrim's Road.Tags: CMS, mission training, Redcliffe College
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Farewell Redcliffe College. We are leaving, but so are quite a lot of others. We have to be candid and say that we did not want to come. We wanted to go to Uganda straight from work. The prospect of moving and (more…)
“Been on Holiday Yet?” 23 August 2007
Posted by Bill Lovett in Understanding Others.Tags: African spirituality, CMS, culture
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That’s the kind of question that gets asked around this time of year. And the answer is either “yes, to Costa…” or “not yet, but we’re booked to go to …”. Two week’s in Gloucester doing company induction could be supposed to be a break from work. But is hardly a break as such.
For Bill and Wanda spent two weeks in July in Redcliffe College at the CMS Induction fortnight, for new staff, Mission Partners In Training, and for people going short term. We’ve worked abroad before (Pakistan, Nepal), so some things were no so new. But other things were.
