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Writing from the community

Guest pieces, volunteer writers, and testimonies — gathered every other week and sent out to members and friends. Anyone who writes from a place where being named is unsafe publishes under a letter instead.
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What sending actually costs a church

We used to think the hard part was the money. It is not. The hard part is the ten years afterwards, when the family comes home and nobody remembers why they left.

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Ruth Hale

Coordinates sending for a church in the north of England

United Kingdom · 2 days ago · 6 min

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Guest writing

The hour nobody wants

Three in the morning is the slot the prayer room struggles to fill. I have taken it for six years. It has done more for me than for anyone I pray for.

Josef Adamec · Translation consultant, thirty years in the work · 1 week ago · 4 min

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Volunteer writers

Engineering a school from my kitchen table

I have never seen the building. I have checked every drawing of it. Remote volunteering is not a lesser kind of going — it is the only way some of us can go at all.

Priya Nair · Structural engineer, volunteers remotely · 5 days ago · 5 min

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Volunteer writers

In praise of learning a language badly

For two years I said everything wrong. People forgave me constantly, and in forgiving me they taught me more about grace than any sermon I have preached since.

A. Alvarez · Church planting in South East Asia · 2 weeks ago · 7 min

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Testimonies

What I could not say at home

I have written this under a letter rather than a name. That is not fear of God's opinion of me. It is care for the people who would suffer for my honesty.

R. · Name withheld · 3 days ago · 5 min

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Testimonies

Forty years in one parish

I never went anywhere. I have driven forty-one people to Heathrow and prayed for every one of them since. I used to think that was second best.

Tom Hale · Retired, and still driving people to the airport · 3 weeks ago · 8 min

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Testimonies

The clinic that keeps breaking down

The van has failed on me in six villages. In every one of them somebody came out with tools, or tea, or a cousin who knew engines. The breakdowns built the trust.

G. Okonkwo · Runs a mobile clinic in East Africa · 1 month ago · 4 min

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Members write most of this. If you have something worth saying — about the work, or about faith, or about what it costs — we would rather hear it from you than write it ourselves.