Arab World

What can one say to someone in a who is in a situation like this violated pregnant and refugee

This year I celebrated the tenth anniversary of the rather dubious distinction of being blacklisted (refused entry as a risk to nationalsecurity) by the country where my family and I had served as part of the Interserve fellowship for nearly a decade.

I have been privileged to serve the national church in the Middle East and to see God at work. Under the local leadership of the Anglican Methodist Orthodox and Presbyterian churches I helped pastors and directors of church-run non-government organisations (NGOs) inparticular through administration for community development projects.

From then a combination of nudges from the Holy Spirit doors opening providentially perceiving an alignment of my spiritual gifts and personality with potential roles and a deep desire to serve God and to invest my life in significant ways led me to cross-cultural service.

Gods call is to be a particular kind of person. This is where we should start to look for His call the practical will unfold as we remain faithful and obedient.

Here is a noisy place. Kids cars donkeys horns calls to prayer. But I arrived home to an unfamiliar noise last month and went to investigate. I followed it all the way to my balcony and discovered that I was hearing the noise of a chainsaw doing its work on my flame trees. And they were due to bloom in two weeks