Your support for the charity allowed us to sponsor children’s Christmas programmes in Ukraine, Pakistan and Central Asia this winter. This particular children’s programme in Central Asia (pictured above) provided hot food, sweets and a drink of tea for 65 children and 65 parents. The cost was only about one [...]
When I visited Abyei in August 2012 I met pastor Santino Jok along with many others who had run for their lives when the North Sudan troops had come in and opened fire on a defenceless civilian population. It was so sad to see every single building totally destroyed except [...]
On my recent visit to Pakistan with one of my trustees we met Agnes who had experienced outrageous injustice. Agnes was a nurse who was always ready to help the poor and needy people living in her vicinity. There was an old lady in Agnes’ town who had a piece [...]
On my recent visit to the brick kilns in Pakistan I saw Shahid and his brother Ilya helping their enslaved parents to make bricks. Surely it’s not right for children as young as 4 and 6 to be forced to make bricks? There are literally thousands of Christian families enslaved [...]
A friend of mine once said, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”. It’s a bit of a mouthful but it reminds me to keep our focus on the main thing. With so many extremely poor and needy people it’s easy to forget the main [...]
I have recently returned from Ukraine where I visited 9 children’s institutions performing tricks, telling bible stories and listening to children pray to follow Jesus. I have come to realise how much I depend upon a whole team of people to achieve our aim to help the poor and vulnerable. [...]
On a recent trip to Central Asia I watched this lady baking bread in an outdoor oven. They light a fire and once the walls are heated and the wood becomes glowing embers they put the bread on the side walls and cook it. This idealistic picture is in stark [...]
I wrote in April about the terrifying ordeal of the residents of Joseph Christian colony which was attacked by an inflamed Muslim mob that burnt and destroyed 178 homes, causing 258 families to flee for their lives. SLMP, one of the organisations we support in Pakistan wanted to help these [...]
In 2003 I met a missionary’s daughter called Julia Symons who wanted to help widows living in rural areas of Zambia looking after Aids orphans. She had the idea of taking a pastor with her and walking to the rural villages with a rucksack full of practical and spiritual helps [...]
I remember listening to a sermon several years ago where the preacher said that 80% of all believers in the United States come to faith before the age of 15. That figure really stuck in my mind. It simply emphasises the importance of all those who are involved in children’s [...]
