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09 Dec

Armed robber continues

Earlier I introduced you to Adam [and then promptly digressed] – I am returning to him as I learnt a lot from our relationship. So much so that 10 years and 12,000 miles later we are still in contact.
In prison ministry I was often asked if I was being paid to do what I did [...]

01 Nov

Mentoring is Effective: A Serial Killer Apologises

I recently came across this short piece in New Life – which is Australia’s Christian Newspaper.

Way back in 2002 ….. two serial killers were
shooting in random fashion. One was the
older John Allen Muhammad who, with his
young 17 year old protégée Lee Boyd
Malvo, killed ten people and injured three
others in October of that year.
Malvo managed [...]

26 Oct

Accountability is Essential

The dictionary definition of accountable is: Adjective: liable to account, responsible, explicable.
My first experience of youth group leadership (in the late 1980’s) did not give me a good example.experience of accountability in action. The theory was good in that I was accountable to the senior pastor of the church. The weakness was in the practical [...]

14 Sep

Be a brick! Mentoring in action

I have a theory that if we could all see ourselves as a brick then many of our pastoral and growth needs could be met – let me explain.

First though a question – how many bricks does a single brick ‘touch’ in a standard brick [this definition excludes half bricks] wall? No, it isn’t a [...]

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