Journeyman

On Monday 3rd May I will be running a seminar at one of WEC’s open days – GO2010 The title of my seminar will be Learning, growing and sharing: The use of media in mission – The media of the twenty first century has its part to play in mission, giving new opportunities for sharing [...]

After my quite disappointing experience with a telephone salesman this morning I’ve been rethinking how the way we do business, buying and selling, has completely changed thanks to the ease of modern communication. It used to be that the big business deals were made over lunch, or on the golf course, but now almost all [...]

Dealing with sales people is one of the less enjoyable aspects of my job. This morning was a prime example as a guy phoned up to try to sell me some advertorial space in his publication. While the conversation started with him being very amiable and ready to ‘do me a deal’, it didn’t end [...]

So what makes a good presentation then? I’m thinking a lot about this at the moment as it looks as though this summer will be the busiest yet for talks and presentations, so I’m keen to spend some time thinking this through. Iain Dale transcribed a recent talk he had given on speech making. Opening [...]

My job has an interesting element to it, the ability to predict the future. Now before you get excited and start e-mailing for predictions for this year’s Derby winner (Kentucky Derby, Melbourne Cup, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, or any other horse race) I should be quite honest and let you know that I can’t. [...]

I’m in no doubt that my impending Africa trip is going to be a fantastic experience, but I’m a little disappointed to be going away right now. For the last few months we’ve been working really hard at updating the look and content of the Wycliffe Bible Translators material you’re most likely to come into [...]

Very often we do an admirable job of dealing with normal. When things carry on, the same today as it was yesterday, we’re happy and can cope. Occasionally, though, circumstances combine and a situation occurs that isn’t routine. We have a local recycling point. It’s about a mile away from home, so we store up [...]

Our church is having a stab at working through The Purpose Driven Life. It’s not a ‘you must do this’ kind of thing, or ‘the best book ever written (after the Bible)’ but rather a theme for the start of the year. Tany and I both had the book and have tried previously to work [...]

During the course of last year Wycliffe Bible Translators, in the UK, joined forces with Just Cards. This partnership has given people the opportunity to buy high quality, handmade, greetings cards at a reasonable price, while also donating 10% of the sale price to a chosen charity – hopefully Wycliffe UK. This morning I opened [...]

The ‘Go on lad’ advert, released by Hovis to mark the bread maker’s 122nd anniversary, has been recognised as ITV’s ‘Ad of the Decade’ The advert, which runs for 122 seconds, illustrates the changes to British life during the 122 year history of the company. In this advert I saw references to the Titanic, emancipation [...]