So we Guillebauds are back in the UK for the summer, and I’d love to connect with any of you. As you’ll see from the speaking schedule below, it’s pretty flat out, but if you can make it along at all, it’d be great to see you. Contact me for any further details. Have a…

What an incredibly memorable ten days we’ve just had! 20 folks from the USA, Greece, Sweden, Rwanda, Brazil and Kenya flew in to form the Surge team for a superb and sometimes surreal outreach in Burundi. The idea was to use football as the World Cup kicked off as a tool for reconciliation, and as…

Christ for all Nations were in town last week doing a massive outreach. There were some enormous crowds, bigger than any I’ve seen here in my 15 years here (their website says 150,000 and even if that’s a little evangelAstic (!), I’d say maybe 100,000). The speaker, Daniel Kolenda, did a great job. I’m not…

(Tour du Burundi 2014, outside King’s Conference Centre, about to kick off) I’ve entitled this post ‘Gloriously Alive’ for two reasons:  Firstly, because that’s how we all felt as cyclists last week as we sweated our guts out up brutal hills, and then sped down steep inclines with the ubiquitous stunning views. The feelings of…

What a day! I wasn’t going to blog on this Tour du Burundi, just wanting to enjoy a week of fun away from technology with a bunch of great guys – but below you’ll see why I’ve chosen to after all. It started off at a beautiful lakeside hotel after a reasonable night’s sleep post…

Last week saw Bill and Susalee Sasser and Nigel Mallon bring out another superb dental team to work with our rockstar Harvest-for-Christ-ers up in Muyinga in the far North. They plundered people’s mouths, yanking teeth by the dozen, and pausing occasionally to take photos of some of the more unusual orifices, as seen below with…

Below is one entry from my upcoming devotional book ‘Choose Life!’, which will be available this coming June: Romans 9:17 “I raised you up for this purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Evariste Galois might have been as well-known as Albert…

These totally incomplete notes below are forming into a sermon entitled ‘JOURNEYING WITH GOD – CERTAINLY UNCERTAIN AND CAREFULLY CARELESS’ out of Hebrews 11 – famous named heroes of the faith and then the anonymous ones who were sawed in two, stoned, afflicted, etc. Anyways, as ever there are some juicy quotes, and as I…

Meet this precious little boy called Sylvestre: About 1 year ago, he fell face first into a fire and became stuck for several minutes. As you can imagine, he was tragically and critically burned. He has had to travel to Uganda for a few surgeries, and is currently stable.  Last week a friend in the…

‘SHAMMAH’ means ‘The Lord is there’. And so after several years, at last on Saturday Shammah Health Center was formally opened. YFC’s Future Hope orphanage and school now also boasts a high quality clinic. The Governor of Gitega came to open it, and several hundred of us also were there to enjoy a special day. …

Dear fantastic GLO supporter, I just want to say a HUGE THANK YOU for all your support to us out here in Burundi over the years – for your prayers, your encouragements, and your financial backing. As a sign of my gratitude, I’d love to send you a FREE COPY of my latest book, ‘Sacrifice’. …

This is a powerful entry from my new devotional ‘Choose Life’, on daily choices, which will be out in a few months: Mercy or Sacrifice? Hosea 6:6 “For I desire mercy, not sacrifice.”After the end of apartheid in South Africa, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up. During one hearing, in the presence of…

Jacques is a friend of mine. He’s a gifted young Burundian leader with big dreams and huge potential. His smile is genuine and his manner relaxed, but they bely what has happened to him in his life…It was 29th October 1993, a week after the President of Burundi had been assassinated. The whole country was…

It’s been a crazy week, full of highs and lows, of laughter and of tears. Palmetto Medical Initiative (PMI) is a superb charity working out of South Carolina that I hooked up with a few years ago. They’ve now teamed up with our local partner, Partners Trust International (PTI), to build a hospital in the…

“Hutus to the right, Tutsis to the left, NOW!” It was 30th April 1997. The rebels, about two thousand of them, had streamed into Buta’s Catholic seminary and school. They were shooting at anyone and everyone, drunk and high on drugs, intent on decimating the place. Why? We were with Father Zacharie, a brother who…