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12 Aug
[04-04-08] Tithe Your Holiday
Tithing is something Christians are generally familiar with but we usually apply it to our finances.[18-03-08] Just Trade Thailand
Tomorrow I'm flying off to Thailand, Cambodia and Hong Kong as part of my role with Just Trade to visit small businesses that providing employment for very vulnerable communities.[10-03-08] Climate Change
"In spring, it shouldn't be hot, but this year was really hot," says Murat.[24-01-08] China 2008
Duration: approx 2weeks Dates: 5th-17th Sept Cost: £430 + flights to Chengdu Be part of a team who are going to China to trek in the mountains of Tibet.[24-01-08] Trips for 2008
A number of Open Heaveners are already thinking about giving some of their holiday time to God and heading off on focused mission trips.[21-01-08] Update from Paul McKnight
Dear All, We finished our term of teaching in December and at Step Ahead we threw a party for about 60 or so friends, neighbours and students.[15-09-06] Prayer for Muslims
More and more world news is being dominated by conflict between the west and the Muslim world.[10-08-06] Trip to Albania
A team from Open Heaven will be heading out to Albania at the end of August where we will be linking up with and serving two churches.[30-01-06] Step Ahead Training Centre: Khao Lak, Thailand
Background to the Area Before the Tsunami the area of Khao Lak, in which the Step Ahead Training Centre is based, had a growing tourist industry alongside the well established local fishing businesses.[26-10-05] Phones 4 Life
A section from a recent letter from Simon Guillebaud, a missionary we support who is working in Burundi: "One of the most heart-wrenching and deeply-impacting moments in my life was when an African brother asked me for $4 for medicine for his sick baby boy.
Incubate Morocco Trip 2004
Brown, Lisa Raftery, Matthew Kay - went to Morocco, with the intention of running creative workshops for some children in a small town in the Atlas mountains. Travelling was an interesting experience since we had to take all the necessary art materials with us in five huge bags, because we weren't sure what we would be able to buy in Morocco.We spent the first couple of days acclimatising, praying and hanging out with God in Casablanca and Marrakech, then proceeded to where we staying for the week. We worked with 500 children in total, at a primary school, a nursery and a youth centre. We helped the kids to make a wide range of things including masks, tie-dyed bandanas and t-shirts (which we saw around the town for the rest of the week), clay models, shakers, too many things to list, a lot of which they had never done before - we even had to teach some of the younger ones how to use paintbrushes!
With some of the girls at the school we made felt and did printing and drawing on fabric, which we made into banners and presented to the school at the end of the week. All the teachers we worked with were really grateful, one remarking that it was "great for the children to get this opportunity to express themselves!" It was also a great privilege for us to be able to work with their children.
The Moroccan people we met were all really hospitable and we got invited to one of our translators' house for mint tea and biscuits; She is a Muslim and had been feeling quite down, but God showed her real joy as she worked with us and we even got the chance to pray with her before we left. We were blown away by how God completely exceeded our expectations by creating new relationships between the centre and the places we worked and healing fraught relationships between the centre and the government officials in the town who have tried to close the centre in the past but have been quite encouraging both while we were doing the project and afterwards. The trip was a fantastic experience and a blessing both for us and for the people we met and worked with in Morocco.
Posted by: Matthew Kay on Thursday Aug 12th, 2004
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