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• Christ-less Eternity
  01/05/2009 12:00 am
  In Australia we have seen many news reports focusing on the problems that exist within Health Services. Whilst there may be room for improvement, trust us when we say that once you have experienced the health services in Vietnam, you will be grateful for what you have here in Australia.
• Text Production Manager for a Bible Translation Project
  07/04/2009 12:00 am
  This morning I have to write my own job description: Text Production Manager for a Bible Translation Project. I start thinking about task lists. I consider clustering them in groups. I envision placing them in order of importance. Suddenly my administrative daydream has become a monster nightmare of tedium!
• Go Forth with Joy.....Journey of Faith
  26/02/2009 12:00 pm
  “You have served in Hong Kong for over 4 years?” “Yes, that was unbelievable!” I remembered when I fi rst arrived to HK in the sweltering summer of 2004. It was hot (37°c) with humidity of 95%, people everywhere, the noise and pollution was unbelievable. I wondered how I was going to survive in such conditions for the next four years.
• Serving as an English Sensei
  01/02/2009 9:00 am
  Over the next 10 Friday’s, I will run English conversational classes in a church called Kibo No Oka*, twenty minutes walk from Fuzukumi Station, south of Sapporo city. Kibo No Oka is led by Takemoto-sensei. The average size for a Japanese evangelical church is about 30 people. Kibo No Oka, however, is considered one of the biggest evangelical churches, with weekly attendance of 100 and average age of 53.
• A Cambodian Odyssey
  13/11/2008 12:28 am
  The hot, humid air hit us as we set foot on to Cambodian soil. We were confronted with the dusty and chaotic roads as we made our way to the OMF team centre. It was amusing to watch the interweaving traffic at intersections, paying no heed to the lights. Yet there seemed to be a method to the madness.
• Review: OMF National Conference, 29-31 Aug 08
  13/11/2008 12:23 am
  Not long ago we saw the heroic efforts of thousands of athletes at the peak of their fitness, beamed into our living rooms. We marvelled at the human body and what it is able to do. Following on from the example of Liddell, the theme of this year’s conference was “Proclaiming His Glory to the Nations”, Isaiah 66:19.
• Significant in God’s global plan in your second half
  12/09/2008 7:37 am
  When it was mentioned to me after eight years of retirement from thirty years of full time teaching that I should consider going to the Philippines and doing a stint in an International school for the children of Missionaries, I gave an emphatic no. Now in August 2008 I have come back for a second year.
• Running the race
  04/07/2008 12:49 am
  Eric Liddell’s life inspired the film, “Chariots of Fire,” released in 1981, winning four academic awards. His life began in China, born in 1902 in Tientsin, the son of missionary parents. He died in 1945 in a Japanese internment camp at Weihsien a few months before the end of the Second World War. What made Eric Liddell so great?
• Language learning - Why Bother?
  06/06/2008 7:42 am
  Wang sat opposite me in our living room listening intently. He had many questions and had been brought to us by a Christian friend called Chen, who was a new believer. I had only been learning language for a short time and although I could understand his questions, I could not answer him adequately. I had never felt so frustrated.
• English Teaching in East Asia: More than a job, not less than a journey
  23/04/2008 1:46 pm
  All teachers love that moment when a student’s face lights up, when concepts and information fall into place and understanding occurs. “Teacher, when you explain it and we practise it, I can understand!”