Life used to be more straightforward than this! I used to spend weeks getting ready for our annual Stoneleigh Bible Weeks, preach and pray my way through them, and then collapse for the rest of August on a nice long holiday break.
News
Together on a Mission 2008
This week I am hosting Together on a Mission here in Brighton. To keep up to date please see Adrian Warnock’s blog. Adrian will be live blogging from the conference.
God-glorifying rescue!
A week before they were due to go to Calcutta to get visas to be with us in Brighton, John and Esther Pradhan, who are church planting in Nepal, had a terrifying experience.
Memorable visit to Yalta
I have just returned from a memorable visit to Yalta in the Crimea, famously used by Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt for their historic 2nd world war meeting.
Back from Dubai
Dubai has to be one of the most extraordinary places in the world. Under the inspired guidance of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also the current Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Dubai has blossomed and flourished and become a phenomenal major world city.
Off to Dubai
Christmas was absolutely delightful for the Virgo household. On Saturday 22nd December Simon, our third son, married Caroline Green at Canterbury. The sun shone, the wind dropped, the rain held off, the temperature rose a few degrees and we were delighted that we were able to have photographs in the sunshine.
Tis the season to be jolly
I wonder if you have stumbled on Ben Witherington’s contribution to a fun Christmas. I was surprised (especially having enormously appreciated his scholarly commentary on Galatians, Grace in Galatia and read it from cover to cover last summer) to find his hilarious selection of puns.
Mark Driscoll at Brighton
The last time I checked, the Pope was still a Catholic, the death rate was still hovering at around 100% and the chances of getting Mark Driscoll to speak at a conference in the UK in 2008 were averaging at zero.
What a summer!
Yes, it’s been a long time since I contributed to this blog but what a summer it’s been. Our Brighton leaders’ conference Together on a Mission was a remarkable success and now approaching 40,000 downloads are being listened to around the world.
