prayer
Day 2
I woke up this morning feeling quite good, not too hungry. I put off breakfast until about 8:15 (an unusual move for me I usually eat as I wake!) my morning was good. As I work from home I am alone a lot. I hate this at most times of the day but today with … Continue reading
Tearfund: Rice and Beans Challenge
Hi this is Chris’ wife Linda Hoskins. For the next week any blogs you see here will be written by me. Starting tomorrow myself and our friend Dave will begin the Tearfund rice and beans challenge. The basics of this is to bring more awareness to ourselves about those who are going through severe poverty. … Continue reading
Out and about in Karachi; A Photo Essay
As well as spending time visiting the Diocese of Lahore and some of the communities affected by the flooding in the Sindh Province, we spent some time in Karachi city itself. Our first day in Karachi ended up being more touristy than we expected – our meetings for the day had to be postponed until … Continue reading
Diocese of Karachi; A Photo Essay
Whilst in Karachi, we spent a substantial amount of time visiting with the Diocese of Karachi. Including their Cathedral compound, their seminary, Girls school and Drug Rehab centre. Peace Out!
A contrasting evening
Last night was an incredibly hard night. It was moving, challenging, heart-breaking, blessed, it’s hard to describe. To read more about it though you can go to www.cofswmc.wordpress.com and I thouroughly encourage you to! Tonight was such a contrast to last night (we’ll blog about today’s experiences on the World Mission Council blog later). … Continue reading
You Never Let Go
There were so many things I planned to blog about tonight. Things that have challenged me, filled me with joy, saddened me, frustrated me, infuriated me. Instead, I find myself too moved to write anything. Too spent to put it into words. Just…..undone. While we were travelling back to the compound tonight, a song struck … Continue reading
Beauty and Brokenness
While we driving home from projects in the flood ravaged Sindh I found my self reflecting on the depth of the beauty and of brokenness that is present in Pakistan. I’ll unpack that many times over the next few days, for the moment I want to share the lyrics of a song that popped into … Continue reading
Why on Earth am I in Pakistan?
You may have worked out, via this blog, twitter, facebook or foursquare that I am currently in Pakistan. You may not, howrver, know why. You see, it seems I wrote a long post about this visit then, being the smart lad that I am, forgot to save and/ or post it. How does that even … Continue reading
A visit to the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly
So last Monday I went to visit the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly, I mentioned a wee bit of ehat thr event means to me in my last Blog post and will delve a bit deep into that in another post, this post is going to be just about last Monday! The theme of … Continue reading
Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly 2011
Tomorrow I’m headjing to the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly for the day. I have 2 reasons for going, I’m leading a Worship session in the morning based around the idea of exploring worship through photography. Thr second reason is that I’ll be spending the remainder of the day wandering around taking photos of … Continue reading