Access to the NHS
Posted on 1st October 2014
In August 2013, InterHealth wrote to its users about the UK Department of Health's consultation on access to NHS care in England.
The UK government has recently published its response to the consultation and is in the process of finalising the details. These currently include a number of proposed changes...
Introduce Your Friends to Mission
Posted on 1st September 2014
21 Easy Ways to Introduce Your Friends to the Nations (and Five Ways to Ensure They Stay Away)
We all feel it, don't we? You experience something beautiful, cool, or amazing, and you've just got to share it with someone. Maybe it's a book, place, thought, or discovery. Whatever, you want...
Stop for the One
Posted on 1st August 2014
A call to stop for the one, living a life of intimacy with Jesus each day
We are called to love. We are called to be loved. To be so loved by Jesus, that his love overflows out of us to those who we encounter. We are called to be Jesus'...
Doing Re-entry Well
Posted on 1st July 2014
Anyone who has returned from overseas mission work or is involved with returnees knows that the transition isn't always easy. What is it about this particular process that makes it somehow more complicated or less straightforward to express than other changes we go through in life? And what can we...
Let My people Go
Posted on 1st June 2014
Mobilising for Anti-Trafficking Mission Work
One child is trafficked every 30 seconds. Awareness raising campaigns have made the anti-trafficking movement a growing global movement, yet the needs remain overwhelming and the workers are few.
Justice issues are an integral part of mission. The problem of human trafficking and modern-day slavery is...
Mental Health and Mission
Posted on 1st May 2014
Can people with mental health problems go on mission overseas?
My friend Philip (pseudonym) is a young married man with a good education, doing well in his profession, and active in church service. To look at him you may never guess that for many years he has suffered with a significant...
Tech Fasting
Posted on 1st April 2014
We picked up that Hannah Coggins, mission teacher in Madagascar, undertook a technology fast when she first arrived on the field. We were keen to find out what this involved, the reasons behind it and the benefits realised.
Hannah writes "Yes, we did a 3 month tech fast, although here...
3 Steps to Avoiding Burnout
Posted on 1st March 2014
"So, given your experience with missions in India, what advice would you give me that's different than what most people would say?"
There I was with what seemed like the million dollar question. My best friend was sitting across from me at our favorite restaurant, asking me for hope. This would...
Welcome Home
Posted on 1st February 2014
They were so vulnerable and wounded, barely able to make eye contact. They'd gone overseas directly after college, bright with hope and the thrill of obedience. And here they were, three years later, looking so lost and alone, feeling all the weight of their supposed failure.
When missionaries come off the...
It's a Funny Old World
Posted on 1st January 2014
It could have happened anywhere, but for former LAM missionary Ken Muholland, having it occur in front of his students in a foreign seminary was just a bit too much. Ken, who is now Dean of Columbia Biblical Seminary in South Carolina, allowed their oldest daughter to paint his toenails...
