The dominoes fell quickly on the Covid19 change, we all struggled to adapt, some seem to get ahead of the curve and others feel like they are dragging in perpetual catch-up forever. I ended up spending my last 3 months doing one mamoth project. As the world debated...
The delights of holding the ‘Missionary’ title
And the real shortcomings of that word too.
Learning to walk a line true to my faith and how it can be expressed in the culture around me as a living every day and ordinary mission overseas.
We all respond
The Isolated Mary
These little figures of Mary and Joseph have been travelling around our house for a few days as they make their way to Bethlehem. As I placed their forms before a map and was hit afresh how isolated Mary became. I’ve never really identified well with Mary. A...
The source
The words are akin to old friends, faintly resonating with faded sermon points and plastic chair discussions, steeped in theology lectures and justified talk-points. This weary book has seem many days and it’s battered cover shows the scars of it’s...
Decorative Windows
It’s Easter Saturday and in a spare 10 minutes I grab my materials and toss them on the corner of the bed – a chalk marker, a pile of inch paper triangles and a glue stick. It takes 2 tries to get the wavy line right and I run out of triangles. It looks...
Little hands for lent and holy week.
I must admit I have rather a fondness for seasons of preparation, the church year, and the slow approach to an event that merits more than just a days examining. For many Advent is exactly what I’m describing, but for others Lent holds an equally dear place in...
A decade in my heart : 10 years a missionary
It’s mid February and I’m cleaning garden furniture as my son draws a rainbow waterfall on the concrete. Today is unseasonably balmy. Today is also 10 years since I stepped onto Serbian soil for the first time, landed to a much cooler February where the...
Under the cloud
“And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, whenever they set out from the camp” (numbers 10:34) “Under a cloud” first conjures images of being in poor standing for me, having wandered from outspokenness to offense, in...
A word of power
For the last few years I’ve joined in with the idea of choosing a word for the year. It’s been an interesting that often the meaning the word starts out with isn’t at all what it means to me by the time summer and autumn have given way to winters...
Modern Women of Faith – An interview
The lovely Erin from Ragamuffin Royalty interviewed me by e-mail a few weeks back. She asked me to share a bit about life here and how God has shaped my journey. I walked into the interview not really knowing what she was looking for and received a list of questions...
Nowhere remains the same
When I first came to Serbia foreigners were a boast – I was asked to simply turn up at times so they could show that a British girl had come to them. There were other foreigners in the city, NGO volunteers, exchange students, and travelling ministers, mostly...