Many of us at FNC on Sunday night were disturbed by the images we watched from the Democratic Republic of the Congo – graphic evidence of the human cost of the ongoing conflict there.

Here are some links to brief video clips sourced via the BBC that show more of the same. They are helpful in that they give us a bigger picture of the situation there:

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As many of you are aware, Katherine and I will be leaving for Jordan on Tuesday 25th November. It promises to be an exciting time away.

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Working through Acts 16-19 at FNC, we’ve been doing a bunch of thinking about Paul’s gospel work of planting and establishing churches.
I got to wondering how Paul would broached the whole issue of Jesus and the gospel when he first arrived in a town or city. Picture the situation. Here’s a town with loads of gentile religious people worshipping all kinds of pagan gods, and a bunch of traditional Jews meeting week by week in their synagogue.
None of them were likely to have even heard of Jesus and what he has done.

How does Paul open the door to speak about the gospel?

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Via a contact with Langham Partnership International comes this request for urgent prayer for Zimbarbwe:

Urgent prayer request for Zimbabwe

News coming out of Zimbabwe this past week is truly shocking. Colleagues in the churches with whom we have worked in the Langham Preaching and Keswick programmes are sending messages urging us to pray this week, indicating that Presidential run-off elections on Friday June 27th will mark a watershed in the nation’s history…

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Connect ’09 —> SWACtacular —> preaching and living the Word.

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For the last 5 weeks Katherine and I have been overseas with Voice of the Martyrs for the purpose of producing yet another Underground Reality DVD; this time in Colombia.

Want to know more? Have a read…

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There has been quite a bit of information flying around over the last few days about the experiences of B & K in South America.

There was (and still is) real concern for their ongoing personal safety, much to thank and praise God for in their experiences in that place, things to pray for for the locals where they are, and more.

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As many of your know Brad and Katherine are heading for South America to encourage the persecuted Christians there, and help make a doco with VOM.

We’ve just heard by SMS that they have both been disturbed (“freaked out”) by the briefing as they travelled to C..

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No matter what you think about the Federal government’s apology to the stolen generations this coming Wednesday, ministry to indigenous Australians is not something we can ignore.

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It’s time to get brainstorming about the year and beyond at FNC!

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