As many of you know, we have three main aims for Bringing Good News: To advance the proclamation of the gospel To relieve poverty and suffering To encourage self sufficiency That third priority - "to encourage self-sufficiency through small income generating businesses" - has been one of the harder aspects of [...]
Through your gifts we are supporting six simple schools in the brick kilns and next year I hope we can make it seven. These simple schools are helping the children of families forced to work in the brick kilns. Most of the parents are illiterate. It is an attempt to [...]
A friend of mine once said, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”. It’s a bit of a mouthful but it reminds me to keep our focus on the main thing. With so many extremely poor and needy people it’s easy to forget the main [...]
I remember listening to a sermon several years ago where the preacher said that 80% of all believers in the United States come to faith before the age of 15. That figure really stuck in my mind. It simply emphasises the importance of all those who are involved in children’s [...]
I don't often write about Central Asia or show pictures of the people we are helping so that they do not get in trouble with the authorities. However we are still quietly helping a number of different people and projects in these countries. A friend of mine who works in [...]
Helen and Rachel recently did a sponsored bike ride from London to Brighton to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation. This gave me the idea to do a sponsored bike ride with Helen on Saturday 22nd Sept. to raise funds for the terrible suffering of the Nuba people. We [...]
