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The Carbon Fast – Tearfund Lent Campaign
For Lent this year Tearfund are running a Carbon Fast Campaign. It’s a suggestion from them to try and make an impact, however small it may be, to use this time of Lent to affect a tangible change on the lives of those around the world who are worst affected by climate change. Each day … Continue reading
Day 5…We did it!
Well this is the final day of the challenge. I can’t say it has been a good day. Health wise my circulation began to go very strange yesterday. This intensified today and by the afternoon my hands and feet were blue and white. This was followed by a near fainting episode and back pain and … Continue reading
Day 4
Well day 4 and I feel much less angry today. In fact I don’t even feel hungry. I made breakfast ate half and couldn’t stomach it. Made lunch ate half and just looked at the rest. Thought about dinner couldn’t bring myself to eat it so didn’t even make it. I have had a lot … Continue reading
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
Day 1 (and counting….!)
Well we are nearly through our first day of the challenge! It started out well with 20g of porridge and a nice glass of water. That wasn’t too different from my normal start to the day(perhaps a lot less than usual). Lunch and Dinner consisted of 30g of rice and 60g (cooked weight) of beans. … 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
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 day in the Sindh Province; A Photo Essay
I’ve been back from Pakistan for almost 3 days now, just today getting a chance to sit down and start processing the photos I took. I’ve only kept 2,300 out of the 5000+ that I took over there, so it should only take a few days! I’m going to upload a few photo essays as … 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