Our next stop in India was the Leaders and Wives’ conference in Bangalore. The Commission group of Newfrontiers churches, formerly served by Guy Miller, but now by Vinu Paul, based in Mumbai, had gathered from about 80 churches scattered around […]
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A five week trip: Part 1
Last month Wendy and I returned from a five-week overseas trip, which I thought it would be good to report. We started in Athens, Greece, where we gathered the leaders of the various Newfrontiers teams now scattered throughout the nations. […]
My recent visit to Turkey
It was a great privilege to travel again to Turkey and be with the Newfrontiers churches growing in Istanbul. Such an important nation, currently experiencing major far reaching political developments, placed so significantly between East and West. On Friday […]
You foolish Galatians – who has bewitched you?
During my years at Bible College the cessationist faculty in their endeavour to squash any interest in charismatic life would argue that only the irresponsible, immature and flamboyant Corinthians were involved in a preoccupation with charismata. From their point of […]
My Recent Visit to South Africa
Since the mid 1980’s I’ve enjoyed frequently preaching in South Africa. Last month provided my most recent opportunity. Jubilee Church in Cape Town, the Newfrontiers church, formerly led by Simon Pettit but now led by a fine eldership team headed […]
Our recent visit to the States and Mexico
Twenty years ago John and Linda Lanferman uprooted and moved to St Louis to plant Jubilee church. Wendy and I had lived in nearby Columbia Missouri for two years (1993/95) and on our return to the UK, with a growing […]
Arriving back in Sussex
Last March I wrote a blog announcing our intention to move our home base from Kingston-Upon-Thames to The Kings Church mid Sussex. Having agreed the sale of our house in mid January 2016, I naively expressed the hope that we […]
Restoration in the Church
Newfrontiers when originally formed expressed its goals and purpose with five main strategies, namely; restoration of the church, making disciples, training leaders, planting churches and reaching nations. More recently some of my friends have thought the first of these has […]
The Referendum and the Believer
Victoria, British Columbia is a remarkable place, which many Americans visit to experience a taste of the U.K. London buses, scones and cream and other English phenomena are in evidence and a British atmosphere pervades. Philippi was similar, an outpost […]
