Posted by Paul Williams Part of The Crowded House network of churches, Urban Life is a church seeking to bring Gospel hope and transformation in an inner-city area of Derby, UK. Recently we caught up with Andy Thomson, a member of the team at Urban Life, and asked him how things are going...
Posted by Paul Williams Our correspondent continues his penetrating cultural enquiry and its implications for the church and mission. He asks: Is our goal a multicultural church where we are all brothers and sisters together? Sounds good but in practice I think it reflects an...
Posted by Paul Williams Today our correspondent assesses the possibility of being a follower of Jesus in an Islamic cultural and religious context. He goes on to consider the wider question of what it means to be a follower of Jesus in host settings that are full of religious symbols, but which...
Posted by Paul Williams Continuing our series on ministry among Kurds in the UK and Kurdistan, our correspondent looks at the impact of the Gospel on one man, and considers its wider implications. Life is becoming saturated with poignant moments...
Posted by Paul Williams Andy’s text read, “OOOOH. GOD HAS HIS HAND ON OUR DEAR FRIEND. HE IS THE ULTIMATE SEEKER! SUCH GREAT TIME JUST NOW. HALLELUJAH. HE IS NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM.” Andy had just dropped a dear Kurdish friend back home and spent some time talking to him...
Posted by Paul Williams A UK church is discovering that being drawn to ministry among Kurds, and mission in general, is not the preserve of a few, but the privilege and responsibility of everyone in every church. Here, our contributor assesses some of the pitfalls of missionary biographies...
Posted by Paul Williams A church family in the north of England shares its story as they begin to minister to Kurds. Kurdish men kiss. Greeting each other they offer a firm handshake followed by a cheek-to-cheek greeting; once, twice, three times depending on the friendship. It was...
Posted by Andrei Petrine. Click here for the Russian version [Editor's note: This is the English language version of a post originally submitted in Russian. As part of the internationalisation of our site, we are inviting contributors and network leaders whose first language is not English, to...
Posted by Andrei Petrine. Click here for the English version. [Editor's Note: as part of the internationalisation of our website, we're inviting contributions and translations of current pages from contributors whose first language is not English. This is the first of these. We plan to have...