There is a displacement crisis in sub-Saharan Africa with more than 16.2 million Christians having to flee their homes due to violence and conflict. Last year OPEN DOORS launched the “Arise Africa” campaign in response to the call from the African church to help them stop the violence and start the healing.

The Arise Africa petition calls for protection, justice and restoration for believers. 200,000 have already signed from 193 countries.

http://opendoorsuk.org/ariseafrica

Church decline in England and Wales has not only stopped, but the Church is growing, as Gen Z leads an exciting turnaround in church attendance. Church attendance has risen by 50 per cent over the last six years, busting the myth of church decline. The findings come in The Quiet Revival, a survey commissioned by Bible Society and conducted by YouGov

Channel View

A place to Pray , Read, Reflect, Write, Think in a quiet atmosphere

https://freepeterandbarbie.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1bxTId13qCpjKB4kxaBPABpnpNXdwjQxAXDmgQAXhJG3tblUuqtfG54UQ_aem_FDWbHUAYjLA4kdIFAccsIA

https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/resources/new-to-bible

Various groups have cultures of their own be it a family culture, a local culture or a national culture.

During March we plan to look at the book in the Bible called Philippians to what kind of culture the writer was trying to encourage in the church at Philippi, located in a Roman colony of about 10,000 people

But the final nail in the coffin of Larry Sanger’s dwindling resistance to belief in God, came when he began to study the Bible.

“I adopted the YouVersion Bible app”, Larry writes, “and immediately made Bible study a serious hobby.”

“I found the Bible far more interesting and—to my shock—coherent than I was expecting. I found it could sustain interrogation; who knew?” 

Larry set out to re-examine the arguments for the existence of God. Then, as he began to read the gospels, he was converted “quiet and uncomfortable” to Christianity,