Lots of people ask me what a typical day is like in Burundi. People find it hard to imagine what I really do! Well, the answer is that there is no typical day. Every day is beautifully varied because life is so unpredictable out here. But below is how today went, which gives a flavour…

Our summer in England almost didn’t happen because of the rain. The sun only just came out in time for the Olympics, which was certainly a blessing, but how we cursed that rain…! Not so now. Thank God for the rain! As we come to the end of the dry season, I’m so very grateful…

Please do just take 30secs to put your email in on the right hand side under ‘Follow by email’ to subscribe to these blogs so they will come to you directly each time. Thanks.   Meet John (name changed), who works for us. As I wrote of him in my book ‘Dangerously Alive’, he was…

At the beginning of September 1979, aged 6, we moved as a family to Paris and I was dropped off at my new school, clueless as to what was about to hit me. I didn’t speak a word of French and was stunned into cowered silence for probably two months… Well, we’ve just done the…

What I love so much about Burundi life is that I get to meet and potentially work with superb people of faith and vision to positively impact this nation, both for this life and into eternity. Yesterday I sat and listened to my friend John tell me how he’d started importing Friesian crossbred cows from…

We arrived last week with 16 suitcases of stuff to begin the next chapter of our lives in Burundi. That’s not too bad compared to the new US family up the road who have brought 24 suitcases (but they’re starting from scratch), or some others who ship stuff in crates or eve whole containers –…

So this Wednesday at 4am we’ll head off from Southampton to Heathrow to fly back to Burundi via Belgium. A whole new chapter is about to begin. I’m blown away by how many people pray for us and support us, so I wanted to fill you in on a very personal level, particularly as a…

Please read, this is hot off the press!!! These are stories from the last few weeks:   Remember I asked you to pray for our 615 evangelists sent out at the beginning of the month? Yesterday I emailed Onesphore, the leader of Harvest for Christ, for some stories from all that went all. There’ll be…

I’m writing this shortly before the end of our fabulous family holiday at my folks’ pad in France. It feels a little bit like the calm before the storm, and I wanted to share a little with you where we are at. Over the last few years I have written relatively few ‘Warriors’ emails as…

Reports are trickling in from our 615 evangelists upcountry in Burundi as they spend two weeks doing outreach in markets, fields, homes etc. I’m just sending this as a reminder to ask for your prayers for them. As ever there is some opposition, and a few of our guys have been arrested. Onesphore (the movement…

As the Olympics kick off and many of us spend hours watching athletes in action, I’m fairly confident that apparently insignificant Burundi is at least as exciting a place to be as London in the coming two weeks. Picture 615 young people gathering tomorrow, Saturday, praying together, and then being commissioned to go up into…

This talk is well worth a listen at http://s3.stmarks-battersea.org.uk/Audio/Sermon/2012-07-22_06.00pm.mp3, but if you don’t have time, here’s a short section to stir you up: In the film, Chariots of Fire, there is a marked contrast between the two leading characters, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddle. On one occasion, before a race, a friend says to Abrahams: “I…

Following on from the success of Bike for Burundi, we’ll now be going for a Bike in Burundi! I’m planning to launch the nation’s first ever ‘Tour du Burundi’ (hopefully will get our keen cyclist President to join us for a day!) some time in the early months of 2013, which will surely soon displace…

This man was born in a gypsy tent, of humble origins, and yet ended up being invited to the White House by two presidents. Rodney ‘Gypsy’ Smith came into the world in 1860 in Epping Forest, just outside London. Forty five times he crossed the Atlantic to preach the gospel to millions of people on…

The Bike for Burundi blog is turning into a book, which could be out within weeks, as I’m nearly finalized. I just need a strong title. Some of you will be horrified by what I proposed: ‘Bonking on a Bike for Burundi’ (‘bonking’ is the technical term for losing all energy in cycling). Anyways, it’s…