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The age of assumption

The age of assumption

In the portfolio of things I do to keep busy, I work with the NZ office of a busy mission organisation. I'm responsible for keeping a steady stream of prayer communications coming out of the field and into the hands/mouths/prayers of a group of faithful pray-ers. .

  • An unreached people group

    In May 2015, Craig Bellamy, former rugby league player and now current coach of the Melbourne Storm in the Australian NRL, wrote a column in The Australian newspaper that said sports chaplains are a much-needed resource in rugby league.

  • Get a backbone boys

    In some very unscientific research I've done lately, a few of my female friends have told me they're sick of guys who don't want to grow up.

  • Life on board Logos Hope

    Can you imagine living with 400 people from over 50 countries in a big floating metal box, sailing around the world to bring knowledge, help and hope?

  • I did something strange

    I did something strange the other night. Well, really I did three strange things in a row. They weren’t all on the same day or even at night either. The first was that I picked up a grapefruit from the side of the road...

  • 'Coming of age' or something like that

    So last year was momentous. I turned 21. Yes, I was excited to finally be able to drink alcohol in America. Woot. Like a true female, I bought into the hype and turned my 'coming of age' into a week about myself.

  • Life on the inside

    Life is a strange and complex slice of bread. We spread out our layers upon layers of flavour in it only to discover that it is falling apart.

  • Thoughts from inside prison

    His name is Zeus. Well, not literally Zeus, but it's close enough to the truth. He is a real person, but even without privacy laws I wouldn't want to tell you his real name.

  • A pressure cooker in dry dock

    Logos Hope entered the floating dry dock shipyard in Subic Bay, Philippines for her annual maintenance work. Little did I know that the ship life I once knew would be radically changed.

  • Abandoned by God

    Whenever I feel abandoned I hear on repeat the voices quoting Bible verses about how He will never leave me nor forsake me and that I should not let my feelings get the best of me.

  • Time to pop the tall poppy

    New Zealand likes to cut down its tall poppies. It appears that I could be the only one here who is willing to rise above the toxic culture embedded in the soil of New Zealand and speak out.

  • What's the point?

    What is the point of going to school? We've all fallen asleep in class at least once in our lives! Sometimes (in fact more often than not) the teaching we receive seems completely irrelevant to the issues we are facing.