Her life began down a toilet. Back in 1994, as the war continued to wreak havoc in Burundi, a nurse was in the public lavatories of a hospital when she spotted something down the toilet. It was a premature baby that had been abandoned, and somehow it – no, she – was still alive. The…

WARNING OF GRAPHIC IMAGES – Horrific indeed, I tremble and feel sick as I put them in. They are at the bottom if you want to avoid seeing them;  but it’s reality, and seeing it just makes me want to pray more… Another reason for posting this is that tomorrow is the International Day of…

I love living and working in Burundi, but sometimes I hate it for what it throws up. Today, within minutes of getting to the office, I had an old friend show up. He was emaciated, haggard, shabbily dressed, and obviously not in great shape. I knew it wouldn’t be a mere social call – rather…

Greetings! Many of you are already thinking of Christmas presents, and have written asking if we have our usual ‘alternative’ ones. The answer is yes, so here are some options – and we’ll get you a card to send to the relevant person: How about a goat for £25/$40 for our transformational pygmy outreach? Milk, manure,…

Are you an 8-cow saint? I’m working on a daily devotional which will be published next year, am 310/365th of the way through, so nearly there. Thought I’d share a taster today: Deuteronomy 7:7,8 “The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for…

Less than a month ago, you guys were praying for our incredible courageous evangelists (thanks so much for that!) as they went about Burundi serving communities, building houses, washing wounds, preaching, healing, casting out demons, and more. Here’s the topline summary from Onesphore, founder of Harvest for Christ: “From 3rd to 17th August, we sent…

Our massive summer outreach has come to an end today. There will doubtless be many more amazing stories to share, but I thought I’d paste the blog of my very good Canadian mates Josh and Nadine, who were two of only four white people who joined the c.760 Burundians in the bush over the last…

The amazing work continues in Burundi! There are 6 days to go, and this’ll be the last update from me until the full results come in a few weeks from now, but it’s just so encouraging to share, and key in terms of prayers yielding fruit. Here’s the latest from Onesphore, who writes: “Bururi province…

Hot off the Press from Onesphore in Burundi, he writes:   Hello  Simon!   Here are two selected testimonies from a whole load of stories of what’s going on this week around the country:   Our team were reaching out to the people of Busoni in Kirundo, who were seemingly quite resistant until they came…

As a reminder for your prayers, hundreds of our guys are out in the bush these next two weeks in Burundi, and below is from Onesphore, founder of Harvest for Christ, who wrote to me the following: “We’ve sent all the young evangelists out now, on busses, motorbikes, bicycles or on foot walking many kilometres…

PLEASE PRAY! For the next two weeks, we are sending out about 761 young evangelists in 42 teams around the country to do preach the gospel and serve the community. To me it’s the most obviously exciting and fruitful activity we do, and is as stunning as anything going on around the world. Last year…

A number of you are requesting to know our summer movements, so here they are below, do come along or invite others to come and listen at one of the venues, it’ll be great to see you: July 1st – 925am from Brussels, Terminal 1, pick up by Tracy, back to hers to collect our…

Yesterday was a very exciting day in my calendar, one that had provided focus for the last nine months. Coeur d’Alene Idaho Ironman 2013. It was the culmination of many hours of training, discipline, focus and anticipation. It was the day to determine whether I could stretch myself further physically than I ever have done…

I will never forget last week. As many of you know, I’ve been ill for quite a while (9 weeks in all, much of it spent in bed), and last Monday I was meant to be leading a group of ten cyclists around my adoptive country (just got granted citizenship!) on the inaugural ‘Tour du…

Sunday – I phoned Ladd and told him to get ready to lead the team. The realisation has dawned on me that I simply can’t do this thing. I don’t know how my fatigue thingy is going at the moment because this week’s flu has masked it. I’ve got blocked ears, am churning out masses…