God’s Treasures at New Hope Uganda

“Treasures in Jars of Clay” is one of the projects at New Hope Uganda, working with children and young people with special needs and disabilities.

A New Church in Bordeaux

Start an international church!” they said. “We’re doing it to reach French people!” We listened politely, but we weren’t convinced.

The Marriage Party

In modern Muslim society, it is a rare and beautiful thing when a husband shows affection to his wife, but it can be a death knell for the man’s mother, with whom they live.

Encouraging and Equipping Thai Christians to Reach International Students

Every Tuesday lunchtime at a university in central Bangkok, a small group of students meets together. They study the Bible, share and pray together and talk about how they can live for Christ on their campus. These students are not Thai, instead they come from Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, China and Germany and they use English as they meet. They are part of a growing number of internationals coming to study at Thai universities.

A Light Shines in Carrigtwohill

Imagine a growing town with schools, shops, industries, clubs, sports and everything else a modern town ought to have, except for one thing: a church that faithfully proclaims the gospel. Imagine a town that has in fact never had an evangelical church in it, even though it has a very long history.

Showing God’s Grace to the Fatherless

MusaweNkosi means “God’s grace” in Zulu. MusaweNkosi was started in 2001 to show God’s grace particularly to orphans and their carers in the rural areas around Empangeni, near Durban, South Africa in the face of  the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Giving Hope to Young People in Sierra Leone

One aspect of ministry in Sierra Leone is working with under 18s. It is both exhausting and refreshing. In any given week we are parent-figures, teachers, role-models, advocates, and facilitators-of-fun.

Gospel Outreach in Côte D’Ivoire and Mali

In March, which is the month when the temperatures are too hot for people to work in the fields, Fidel took a trip up north, near the borders with Mali and Burkina Faso. He joined four pastors in their evangelistic film campaign amongst a strongly Muslim and animistic population.

JAMBO!

CHELASHAW NEWS, SEPTEMBER 2017

Time to say Goodbye!

Chelashaw News, August 2017

Natasha Knibbs – Short-term at Kiwoko hospital

"Praise God for healing me!"

Pray For Paris, For Lagny, For France

On the night of 13 November 2015, as all our screens filled with the terrors of the attacks on the Bataclan, Paris restaurant terraces and the area around the Stade de France, our social media screens began to fill with one phrase: “Pray for Paris.”

I will build my church in Bordeaux

In 2013 our ministry was at red traffic lights. I was burnt out and, unknowingly, depressed. Pat had watched, concerned, as the storm clouds gathered.

Love in Action in Sierra Leone

Ebola: a small word with massive consequences. More than a year after emerging in West Africa, Ebola continues to be a human tragedy.

Learning to Love Others as God Loves Us

It was late on Christmas Eve when I got the call. Fabiano’s Mum was furious. Fabiano had just wrestled her to the ground to prise a dog out of her embrace and thrust his sister flying back towards the door as he stormed out back to his Dad’s.

A New Church in Castlebar

This summer marks four years since we moved back to the west of Ireland. We came to help start a new church in the town of Castlebar, in partnership with Calvary Mission.

Reaching Students In Grenoble

It’s 5.30pm on a Wednesday evening and most French students are making the journey home from a long hard day at university.

Paradise Lost?

Bordeaux is one of the most agreeable towns in the world to live in. You should be very happy to live here. You are in Paradise.” Such was the rather effusive praise that designer Philippe Starck gave to the city when he visited recently.

Women’s Ministry Around the World

Deborah Prisk is interviewed on the Gospel Coalition website about her work in France.

Green Fields, Green Shoots

The fields of the west of Ireland are green for a reason. Clouds roll in most days from the Atlantic and if you leave the house without an umbrella, you usually regret it. Yet spiritually this region has been a desert for 150 years, with religious culture hindering people from finding a living faith in Jesus.