Mumbai – city of giants? 25 September 2010
Posted by Bill Lovett in On the Pilgrim's Road.Tags: development, Hospital, India, witness
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- Bill at Lok Hospital
Mumbai or Bombay. Imagine the volume of Hyde Park Corner, add the intensity of M25 roadworks, throw in torrential rain, rickshaw wallahs, stray cows, and you have Mumbai. Everything is large squalid and splendid, huge apartment blocks, alongside myriads of people scurrying hither and thither. Chaos it is not, it is just that the scale is different. Call it Third World if you must, but what we saw could only be appreciated in comparison with inner-urban London, and had nothing in common to rural Uganda, to Kisiizi.
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…)
Kisiizi Spirituality 6 February 2010
Posted by Bill Lovett in On the Pilgrim's Road.Tags: African spirituality, culture, faith in Uganda, witness
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Hi again. Interested in “spirituality” – well, many are. In post-modern Europe,
What's going on in this church service!
spiritualities have grwon to a modest extent, as connection with religion, churches and synagogues have declined. Here, such distinctions are not valid. Faith, religion church, and implicit spiritualities within all thrive. Even in the dear old Anglican church here, you can really say “Yes Jim, its Anglican, but not as we knew it.“
This posting is just to point you in the direction of our new page Spirituality Here. On that page we are adding further pages of material, observations as we see them. And of course, they will be as we see them, and not reflecting CMS, Kisiizi Hospital or anyone lese.
This is a very important topic. It warrents not a quick posting that’s gone next month, but detailed examination.
Children’s Mission 2009 3 August 2009
Posted by Bill Lovett in Hospital News.Tags: evangelism, faith in Uganda, witness
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Crowds of kids
Had Children’s Mission recently? What do you do when you expect 5000 and you get possibly 7000? Pray. Pray for no crowd stampedes. Pray that there’ll be enough food. That the helpers have enough stamina to manage the crowds. That there’ll be no unseasonal downpours. And of course – that the children will understand the Gospel message and commit themselves in a meaningful way to new life in God. Well these prayers were answered, despite the threatening chaos.
