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Chris Mabey fell in love with April on the school bus, and through her family’s welcome and hospitality (and a good deal of very delicious food) he also fell in love with Burma, from where her family self-exiled to come and live in the UK in 1964, when April was 13.
Krish Kandiah and his wife were for many years emergency foster carers, meaning that numbers in their house could change quite rapidly - scared, often traumatised children being dropped off by the police at all hours, often after having been plucked, quite suddenly, out of really difficult situations. The challenge was always to find the key to making them feel safe….something in which all members of the family played their […]
Most of us probably know very little about seafarers - the job they do, the risks they take, what their life is like. But, as Europe Regional Director of the Mission to Seafarers, managing chaplains and operational staff across the UK and Europe, Ijeoma Ajibade is only too aware of all those things. And life for seafarers during the pandemic has been, and continues to be, extremely, and especially challenging.
With at least 120,000 young people known to be currently homeless in the UK (and there may be tens of thousands more that slip under the radar), the work of Centrepoint is more important than ever. CEO Seyi Obakin has been at the charity since 2003 and is utterly passionate about his work. For him, it has never been ‘just a job’; and he absolutely sees the hand of God […]
For me, one of the highlights of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2018 was The Kingdom Choir’s stunning, stripped back rendition of Ben E King’s Stand By Me. That was the first I, and many of us, knew about Karen Gibson, the choir’s founder and musical director, despite the choir having been going at that point for more than 20 years, but after 1.9 billion […]
Peter Rouch is a man of great energy and enthusiasm, and Church Army must be delighted to have him as their new CEO!
In 2005, Rev Harold Good OBE, former President of the Methodist church in Ireland, was asked to be an independent witness to the decommissioning of IRA weapons in Northern Ireland, spending a week with IRA quartermasters and others, literally watching, minute-by-minute, as their weapons were put beyond use. During the decommissioning process Harold gave everyone involved a copy of the prayer of St Francis: Make me an instrument of your […]
Pam Rhodes has been presenting Songs of Praise for more than half the show’s 60 year history, interviewing everyone from the Pope to Dolly Parton.
