Out of the blue

May 11, 2015

We have spent some quality time over the past couple of months with the Loron believers in northern Ivory Coast. It has been very encouraging, although there have been some challenges along the way. • Translation Today we printed a working copy of the Gospel of Matthew in the Loron language. The three men on […]

Outreach to another Loron Village

March 21, 2015

Our internet connection is good at the minute here in the village – weekends are sometimes a little better – so I just want to give a brief update on how things are going for us in West Africa. I returned to Burkina Faso from Northern Ireland in early February and visited with our missionaries […]

New Bible Translation and Literacy Project

February 2, 2015

Most of the Loron people of Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso still follow traditional African religious practices. However, in recent years, over 500 Loron men, women and children (from a total population of around 10,000), have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. There is a growing thirst among the Loron believers to have […]

The old and the new

January 11, 2015

WE’RE RUNNING A LITTLE BEHIND SCHEDULE, but it’s never too late for us to thank you for your prayers, encouragement and support during 2014. So many things happened during the year that it has been difficult keeping track of them all. Here are a few of the highlights… We started the year in Senegal and […]

7/7 Literacy

December 14, 2014

Over the past few years Marina has taught quite a number of Loron teenagers and adults how to read and write in their own language. It’s a long, slow process, but progress has been encouraging and currently there are over thirty men, women and young people attending literacy classes in several different villages. Classes can […]

Loron Baptism, 2014

December 12, 2014

In early November the Loron Christians organised a baptism for another group of new believers, along with some older believers. Forty eight people altogether, from several different Loron churches, were baptised. I was invited to help, which was, indeed, a thrill. Here’s a short video (50secs) of a few of those who participated…

Coast to Coast

October 1, 2014

Marina and I are currently on opposite sides of the African continent. I’m on the west coast in Senegal visiting our missionaries living in and around Dakar, the capital. And Marina is on the east coast, over 10,000kms away ‘by an unknown road’ (Google), in Mozambique, participating in a literacy seminar/workshop for NTM missionaries working […]

Can you see the smoke?

September 30, 2014

(Video, 97 secs)

‘Impossible’ Situations

August 4, 2014

Robert the Bruce was discouraged to the point of despondency. After many futile efforts to resist English domination of his native Scotland he had reached a deep level of frustration and disillusionment. With his wife in captivity, his home village under enemy control and cowering ignominiously in a cave on Rathlin Island just off the […]

In case you missed it…

July 17, 2014

Earlier this year we visited NTM missionaries working in Guinea, West Africa. As we were travelling to the airport on our way home we had to take quite a detour because a large truck had broken down on a bridge, and the road was completely blocked. We didn’t know that we were going to experience […]