‘If you really want to help us …’
A Pakistani Christian leader called Ashley said to me 21 years ago: ‘Mike, if you really want to help our community, help us educate our children.’
What a challenge for me – especially after many years committed to evangelism in South Asia with Operation Mobilisation. We are deeply grateful for the spiritual foundations in discipleship and leadership formed in those years, which continue to inspire us.
Two tears on the face of Victoria Beckham
The BBC gave a high profile to raising millions for charity through an evening of entertainment under the banner of Sport Relief in July.
They were five magnificent hours dedicated to making people pick up the phone and pledge money for the poor, the needy and the suffering; five prime-time hours in which more than £11 million were donated to good causes at home and overseas.
Holy molars!
When I lived in Bombay several years ago, a rumour went around the city of a miraculous multiplying chapatti that had turned up on Juhu Beach to the north of the city.
The story received wide publicity in the newspapers and by word of mouth. Someone had been walking on the beach and found a chapatti - common Indian flat bread. When he picked it up, it amazingly divided into two, and then each of the two divided again. Pretty soon there were said to be millions of miracle chapattis.