Adventure Awaits: The Waiting Game

I remember the night well. I was sat in Deeside Christian Fellowship Church in Aberdeen, Scotland – It was 2006 and I was part of the Senior Youth Fellowship (SYF) group, sitting at the back-right of the dimly lit hall. One light shone brightly, illuminating the gentleman speaking at the front. He shared his experiences […]

Adventure Awaits: Embracing Challenge & Change

The morning of 28th December 2011 felt like any other. I was enjoying a few days off work between Christmas and New Year, and had savoured a longer lie in bed that morning. However, on rising, I was shocked to discover an unusual lump in my left breast. Understandably, it shook me a little, but […]

Adventure Awaits: Facing Opposition

(I recently shared an abbreviated version of this blogpost in A Modern Day Epidemic) In my late teens and early twenties, I was plagued with sickness after sickness. Nothing serious, usually just the flu. But I would catch it often, sometimes up to four times in one year. These bouts would floor me and leave […]

Adventure Awaits: Essential Tools for the Journey

In J.R.R. Tolkein’s novel, ‘The Hobbit’, we follow the journey of Bilbo Baggins, a small, unassuming fellow who enjoys his home comforts and relishes his food. He lives a quiet life of routine and respect until the wizened wizard, Gandalf, comes knocking on his door and invites him on an adventure. Gandalf had been tasked […]

Adventure Awaits: Designed for Adventure

Growing up, my family and I attended a small, conservative church not far from our home. It was a community of warm, friendly people who loved God and diligently taught His Word. There, I built a firm foundation of Biblical knowledge and had the privilege of being mentored and invested in by the older generations. […]

Adventure Awaits: Beginning the Adventure

In 2011, I visited California, and the United States, for the very first time. I had gone to Redding to visit a friend and spent ten great days exploring on foot, reading in coffee shops, and driving a stretch of the west coast in an electric blue Ford Mustang convertible (a particularly noteworthy upgrade from […]

Adventure Awaits: Created for Adventure

Just before my youngest brother graduated from university, I called him one afternoon for a chat. We had not talked for a month or two, and, being his (only) protective big sister, I like to get the lowdown on all his recent endeavours, challenges and misdemeanours. Plus, of course, hear the latest on his love […]

Making Way for Miracles

A number of years ago I had the opportunity to visit Montenegro as part of a short-term missions team. My local church in Scotland was partnered with a church in the Montenegrin capital city, Podgorica, but our work was primarily with three Balkan refugee camps in the eastern town of Berane. The first team that […]

The Power of Position

Michael Apted’s movie, Amazing Grace, features the life and works of William Wilberforce, an English politician who led the movement to abolish the slave trade in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. Following his conversion to Evangelical Christianity in 1785, Wilberforce toyed with the notion of leaving politics and a life in the public […]