Chris Hoskins on March 21st, 2009

I’m sitting on a hard concrete floor at the AECC (Aberdeen conference centre). I’m here with the youth group from Portlethen to take part in the Aberdeen Cyrenians sponsored sleepout.
Its a good event that regularly raises thousands for work with the homeless in Aberdeen, and keeps multiple youth ministers/workers an teachers up all night trying [...]

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Chris Hoskins on January 27th, 2009

Over the last few months I’ve been wrestling with the question: ‘can community exist online?’ Specifically in a Christian context.
With the rise in the last few years in social networking technology more and more people are referring to their online community. I do it, I’m sure many of you have at somepoint as well. But [...]

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Chris Hoskins on January 18th, 2009

Heres my latest project photo:
I took this photo as some of the Sunday Evening youth group were walking up through the graveyard to the Church hall this evening. I love the eerie, ghostly effect the long exposure gives the 3 figures, can you see them all?
I won’t be able to put my next 4 photos [...]

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Chris Hoskins on December 26th, 2008

Hope all of you had a good Christmas. I certainly had a very enjoyble day, from being woken at 8am by Linda’s excited parents, to an awesome dinner where I ate loads, to trying out my new Gorilla Tripod. We were notciably absent from any sort of Church activity :-/ I’m ny required to do [...]

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Chris Hoskins on December 22nd, 2008

An account of the first full day on the recent COSY pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

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