One of the stranger things to make its way to the editor’s desk this month was the rather zany (for want of a better word) video from which a picture is shown here.
It is safe to say that the photo is probably quite unlike any other you have seen recently! But all credit to the ministry team behind it, for it has achieved its purpose – raising the profile of world mission. Now not only do the members of St Giles’ Church, Normanton, where the video originated, have more awareness of the mission work going on in Namugongo, Uganda – but so do you. You may even be inspired to find out more about the Uganda Martyrs’ School there, which commemorates 32 young men who in 1886 were burned to death for refusing to renounce their faith.
Retaining a global vision as Christians can be a challenge at the best of times, and during a pandemic it can be even more difficult. This month we report from India. It is easy in Western countries where vaccination programmes are well-advanced to forget how the pandemic continues to afflict much of the world. On the day these words are written, 817,345 new Covid cases have been reported globally, with the average for the past week being 786,739.
