Galloping towards Gomorrah?
I struggle with feelings of alienation as I try to reconnect with my Australian heritage. My curate at St Matthew’s in the 80s, Tim Thorburn, has turned 60. He worked with me in 1984-85 and went on to lead the…
Kingdom Thoughts
Christian school in Mozambique
In May 2015 I visited Mozambique to look at the work of a GWC graduate, Rev Inocencio Varine. Since returning to Mozambique in 2005, Inocencio has planted 17 churches. I met the pastors of several of them. The story was the…
A Stranger in Zion
When I arrived in Estcourt on a Saturday evening after a day of travelling, all I could think about was dinner, some work on my next day’s sermon and sleep. GWC had sent me to visit graduate Sipho Mfusi in…
Does prayer work?
I left before dawn and we drove all day to reach Chimanimani in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe. Driving was Panganayi Sithole, a graduate of George Whitefield College (GWC) who now leads a large Baptist congregation in Harare. His wife,…
The Hope Centre Completed
The Hope Centre is complete. Thank you, all of you who made it possible with your gifts. It is also close to paid for. The 2019 students moved in at the end of January. I said when we started that…