• News June 10

    Not long ago as I wrote my newsletter, news was coming in of major floods in western Cumbria. Then just last week while in the Czech Republic floods once again made the headlines: central Europe was being inundated, with incessant rain falling day after day. The town of Bohumin. where our friends Lukáš and Petra live, was surrounded by water with Petra unable to make the short drive into nearby Ostrava. Yet here in Cumbria we’ve experienced the driest season for many a year, with sparrows currently taking dust-baths in my front garden! (And a pheasant with 12 chicks taking residence in the bushes.)
    But as I write we are recovering from the shock of seeing a Cumbrian taxi driver go on the rampage with a shotgun, killing a dozen people before turning the gun...

  • Email, free will, and feelings

    Yesterday was not a good day. It started OK, but then I made the mistake of sending an email which took on a life of its own, gleefully multiplying like testosterone-fueled rabbits. (Not sure the analogy is a good one, but you get the idea.) Once I had clicked the ‘send’ button and it had winged its way into cyberspace there was nothing I could do to get it back, and there it was, breeding in the distance with disdain for its author. Some of you received sixty copies. It was a bit like saying something on the spur of the moment which you later regret, like a friend of mine who, on meeting the wife of one of his company directors for the first time, remarked: ‘Well, you’re not as...

  • Czech Summer Event, 2010

    Stars in the church or lights in the world?

    with special guest film and drama artist Garold Andersen



    and amazing UK singer Jules Rendell

     

     

     

     

    + Petr Studnička, John Nuttall, Martyn Cripps, John de Jong, and others from the AMM Team

    Saturday 31 July (evening)  - Friday 6 August (lunchtime) 2010
    Hotel...

  • News March 10
    THANK YOU
    A big thank you to those of you who continue to support AMM through your prayers and giving. Yelly and I are well. I will be sending all our UK supporters a detailed Annual Report for last year in the next month; if you're not supporting the Ministry but would like a copy, do drop let me know. A few weeks ago I was ministering at a YWAM School in Switzerland, and since I last wrote we've also had two successful events in the Czech Republic. (Time flies!) Just a few things to note:
     
    BUDAPEST
    On Sunday I will travel to Budapest to teach for a week at another YWAM School of Worship. I have students from Macedonia, Korea and the USA. Should be interesting! This is one of those trips that we are...

  • A Winter's Tale: thoughts for 2010

    It is now winter. We are experiencing the coldest and most prolonged winter for 50 years. Snow blankets everything. It is cold - very cold. During this season growth comes to a halt, travel comes to a halt, it is hard to keep warm, wildlife struggles to survive, it is easy to run out of fuel and illness is purged as viruses freeze to death. Christmas is a recent and yet somehow distant memory: we sang ‘In the bleak mid-winter’ and remembered Christ’s birth, forgetting perhaps that he was born in a season when the world was experiencing a long spiritual winter - 400 years since the last prophet had spoken.

    Life - as my drummer friend Terl Bryant often reminds us - consists of rhythms, of cycles, of seasons. The human body is ruled by rhythm - every day we sleep and wake, breathe...