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  • New Year’s Day 2011 – Update

    Greetings from Oxford, on the first day of 2011!  We trust the New Year is beginning well for you. The ending of one year and the beginning of the next reminds us of both past experiences and fresh opportunities.  We anticipate with each of you the joys, surprises and unforeseen challenges of a new year.…

  • Fresh Expressions of Ministry: Fall Update – October 2010

    Three months have passed since our last email update. The seasons have changed, at least for us here in Northern Europe, and cooler days have brought out fall colour and what Ky refers to as ‘sideways light’.  Since my recovery in July, following two months of illness, God has also given us a fresh awareness…

  • Surgery, Recovery and Progress at last – July 2010

    Our thanks to everyone who has been praying for us so faithfully these last several weeks. Finally, it seems that things are getting a bit more back to ‘normal’! As we communicated with you in early June, I (Bill) was hospitalized for nine days in Spain beginning May 15th for pancreatitis and we returned to…

  • Phillippe Ouédraogo’s research with girls in Burkina Faso

    I am asked sometimes ‘what do you do at OCMS’? When I tell people that I mentor or tutor students they may not understand what that means. In this post, I provide a short profile of an OCMS student and an ‘abstract’ of his very important research. This is the kind of people we are…

  • June 2, 2010 Health Update – Bill’s Hospitalization and recovery

    For some of you this will be an update and for others new information, either way, thanks for your prayers and concerns the last several weeks.  Our son Daniel has written a number of scripts and he has taught me about the elements that contribute to successful stories and films. One of those elements is…

  • Reflections with Charles Wesley from Hospital in Spain – Pain

      June 2, 2010 I was hospitalized in Barcelona Spain on May 19th with Acute Pancreatitis. This was probably the most painful experience of my life, certainly the only time as an adult I have been in the hospital for anything other than an injury During my 9 day hospitalization. a colleague from the Oxford…

  • April 2010 Prevette Update – Arrival in the UK

    We arrived in Oxford UK on April 2, 2010 – thanks to all of you that helped to get us here to begin our next 4 years of overseas work and ministry.

  • Thoughts on a child in Haiti

    Jan. 22, 2010 I received an interesting and thoughtful email from my colleague Tim Southerland concerning prayer for children in Europe and around the world:  ‘I’m writing for our prayer emphasis today on children:   I saw on the news the young child pulled out of the rubble in Haiti.  The expression of celebration with hands…

  • Prevette Update – Christmas 2009

    December Update and Greetings for a Merry Christmas  Immanuel – ‘ God with us’ Jesus came with the good news that God is not a God who hides himself, that God is not a God whom only the philosophers may know, that God is the God who at all costs desires to be known, and…

  • Social Justice and Hillsong United

    I find it interesting that social justice issues – once the domain of the liberal churches, political activists  and non-governmental agencies  have found a home in conservative evangelical and Pentecostal churches.  As student sent me these links after seeing a movie from Hillsong United and finding a social conscience stirring within: http://www.theiheartfilm.com/trailers (the movie website itself)

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