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 […]

Rather You Than Me

I have lots of great memories from my childhood. There was the day I became a big sister for the first time, or when I was told a third sibling was on the way. I remember laughing until I cried on a family holiday a few years later as the three of us attempted to […]

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 me with no energy, resulting in weeks off sick from work and, most disappointingly, […]

The Repeat Examination

Since moving to Germany last year, money has been tight. It has been one of the greatest tests of my faith, yet the provision of such has been at the heart of the majority of my testimonies. I wrote about a particularly challenging need in August of last year (you can read about it in Um, […]

The Depth of a Hug

In 2014, I participated in a four-month Internship with Metro World Child in New York City. The experience was one of the most challenging, exhausting, but rewarding of my life thus far. But one instance, one moment left a crack in my heart like no other during those months. Every Saturday I rode Bus 19 […]