A STORY OUT OF AFRICA

Darkest Africa. A dying pagan. A rumour of good news.

It took only a moment to tell the Story of Redemption, but long enough to pass from death to life. A new King, new citizenship. The woman ‘declared for God’ in the midst of death, forbidding ancestor worship at her burial. A seed which bore fruit in a land of rising light in the midst of darkness, godly worship in the place of animism, care for man through education.

All because of the ‘old, old story of Jesus and His love’, a desire for God’s kingdom to flourish rather than man’s.

FELLOW TRAVELLERS

Two men, both with a mission, both lacking higher education but a compulsion to tell the story of God's salvation, setting out to change lives and so the world.

My grandpa Swazi and William Booth sailing to Africa in the early 1900's. What conversations they must have had. My grandmother comments that my grandfather greatly valued spending time with him. Knowing my grandfather I think it was mutual.

Both left a legacy of lives rebuilt and so also the part of the world they inhabited.

THEOLOGY

It has a tendency to dampen man's sense of urgency about the proclamation of God's story of redemption.

HEAVENLY CHOIRS

The wonder of God's redemption is the song most gladly sung by the angels.

EVOLUTION?

Is it possible that man should evolve to a being who takes the lives of even his own offspring?

EARTH'S RESOURCES

Creation is subservient to a slave trader who refuses to obey his own master.

SCIENCE

Should be the wind under the wings of art in all its forms of beauty.

SOCIETY

If leaders court the ungodly we must not be surprised if we live in a society governed after the likeness of their father.

FAMILY BUSINESS

The mission statement of God's business is that of the redemption of man and nature, both renewed to serve Him, the work of creation restored.

No man is exempt from serving his time, his task to tell the story of God's faithfulness in bringing salvation to His world in the person of His Son, given over to death to redeem hostile humanity, risen again to bring His children home to a reconciled Father.

The only business to last forever.

HOLINESS

The pursuit of becoming more conformed to the likeness of God's messiah son, our kinsman redeemer, is the only progress we should countenance.

SADNESS

The saddest sight in this world is the sight of an 'unredeemed' Christian. They are anathema to God.

TAKE MY YOLK....

We are to be harnessed to those alone who bear the load of redemption of man and nature.

HEALING

We were created to be a dwelling place of the likeness of God on earth, man in His image. Unwillingness to submit to God's order, disobedience, stripped us naked and wounded us, bringing self-engendered diseases in its wake. Fear overtook us and broods over our existence.

Healing the body and mind seeks to restore this dwelling place, becoming a meeting place for God and man, until we gain the perfect one, fully complete. We yearn for this completeness and seek a 'heaven-made house' but our earthly bodies have boundaries set by our man-madeness, hedged in by our falleness and mortality.

A perfect, immortal body is one of the fruits of the Messiah's obedience unto death; the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the promise that it will be ours too, when the sons of God are made manifest.
Romans 8.