Blog Links
We have two types of Blog Links on this website
- Personnel Blogs - Sites run by our own people serving overseas.
- External Blogs - Sites run by our partners, plus others that relate to our involvement or interests in the mission of the Church, and particularly overseas.
Selecting and clicking on either the Personnel Blogs or External Blogs navigation bar to the right, will reveal a list of the links currently in place to blog sites under the heading chosen. Clicking on any line within this drop-down list, will open that blog site in a separate window.
Alternatively, scan the list below, which provides links to the last 20 blogs with the latest posting appearing first.
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A message from our CEO
3/2/2012 13:17 Its been a transitional year at Feba as the way in which we work evolves. Were excited about the road ahead and we need your prayers read more
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Finish Line
3/2/2012 07:00 It’s exciting to hear about Bible translations being finished: to see the pictures of teary-eyed men and women holding up shiny New Testaments with crowds surrounding them to celebrate the launch, and to hear quotes about the life-changing impact of the Scriptures in people’s heart...
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Window on Wycliffe (13-18 February 2012)
1/2/2012 07:28 The Window on Wycliffe (WOW) event is an amazing opportunity for those thinking about short or long-term service with Wycliffe Bible Translators. It shows what makes up a Bible translation project and the different ways people can be involved. Three main threads run through the week: The Biblical...
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PRAYER FOCUS: 1 - 7 February 2012
1/2/2012 02:22 PRAYER FOCUS: 1 - 7 February 2012 Information in relation to mission and outreach in Ireland for Prayer Focus can be emailed to prayerfocus@presbyterianireland.org WEB ADDRESS: www.missionireland.org MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Pray for: The Moderator as he attends the following: Friday 3...
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Going back to Ivory Coast after 15 years
31/1/2012 12:02 Continuing my thoughts on our upcoming March trip to Ivory Coast, Ruth and I were asked to give a short update in our church Saintfield Road Presbyterian Church, Belfast last Sunday morning. This is what we said… Fifteen years ago John and I were teaching at Vavoua International School in...
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IT matters
29/1/2012 07:00 “‘Make straight a highway for our God’ (Isaiah 40:3-5). In our own way, that’s what we are called to do—to create a highspeed digital highway, as direct as possible, smoothing the way for translators’ work flow, so the peoples of the earth can receive God’s word and see the glory of...
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If your God is so great, why doesnt he speak my language
26/1/2012 11:21 These words were spoken by a Cakchiquel Indian in Guatemala to Cameron Townsend at the end of the First World War. It changed his life. Townsend abandoned his attempts to sell Bibles and began living among the Cakchiquels. He learned their complex language, created an alphabet for it, analyzed...
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God, When Will You Speak in My Tongue
26/1/2012 07:00 This poem is by James Lokuuda Kadanya, a speaker of the Toposa language of South Sudan. Toposa is still without Scripture. God, When Will You Speak in My Tongue? Far and near It is said that you, God, speak! How do you do that? Is it in their tongues? If it is truly so, God, [...]
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Stand Up for the Risen Lord
25/1/2012 12:50 It is very disappointing, to say the least, that the European Rugby decision-makers have decided that Ulster’s quarter-final match against Munster will be played at 1.45pm on Easter Sunday. Given the Christian commitment of so many Ulster supporters, as well as the players, it is worse than...
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The 'Real' Ballysally Coleraine
25/1/2012 12:17 Ballysally Presbyterian Church, Coleraine - Revd John Coulter Prayer and Praise for: · Pray for John Coulter, Jonny Doey and Julie-Anne Cromie who lead the work of outreach into this estate from Ballysally Presbyterian Church. Give thanks that the church has an effective outreach programme and...
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PRAYER FOCUS: 25 - 31 January 2012
25/1/2012 01:42 January 2012 Information in relation to mission and outreach in Ireland for Prayer Focus can be emailed to prayerfocus@presbyterianireland.org WEB ADDRESS: www.missionireland.org PRAYER FOCUS: 25 - 31 January 2012 MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Pray for: The Moderator as he attends the...
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Mixed feelings & Kouya celebration
24/1/2012 14:47 Reading Mark’s latest post about how enthusiastic he and Laura are to have finally arrived together in Tanzania to support Bible translation, has got me thinking some more about our planned trip back to Ivory Coast in March. We have mixed feelings about returning to Ivory Coast. We know why...
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Grab on to the Bible
24/1/2012 07:00 Many churches in the UK focused on getting back to Bible basics last year, as part of the celebrations for the anniversary of the Authorised Version. But in all the excitement, it’s easy to overlook the parts that made it hard to stay in the Bible in the first place. There are all those...
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Homosexuality, reparative therapy, and the Gospel
23/1/2012 16:57 After listening to a couple of recent editions of Sunday Sequence on Radio Ulster and the controversy surrounding the issue of homosexuality and reparative therapy, I was reminded of what I had read on Al Mohler’s blog a wee while ago. In his characteristically lucid style, Mohler states...
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Ignite make a difference....
22/1/2012 10:15 Hello again,Its been another busy week with the 'Ignite' team despite the weather (well, it is the rainy season!). After finishing the project, we invited the children to come and try out the equipment - such excitement..........the multi - purpose climbing frame!Note the creative use of the...
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How far would you go
22/1/2012 07:00 One of the stories in our latest magazine was about the astonishing transformation God worked among the Pinai-Hagahai when the word of God came to them. The translated Scriptures were distributed on solar-powered media players. Read what happened when one family’s media player broke…...
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Food and Poetry
20/1/2012 17:56 This evening friends have invited us to enjoy food and friendship with them at The Lonely Poet. Their website promises… Tucked away off the Kings Road, The Poet succeeds where so many others fail: offering a little bit of something for everyone. Warm and welcoming at any time of day, Poet...
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Radio: it's life-saving
20/1/2012 12:17 Following her recent visit to Nepal, Febas Development Advisor, Marina Santee, describes the difference a radio can make read more
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Myles Coverdale (c. 1488 20 January 1569)
20/1/2012 07:12 Myles Coverdale was the translator of the first complete Bible into English, published in 1535. His work followed on from other first mother-tongue translations of Europe – French, German and Dutch – and the work of Tyndale, whose New Testament was published ten years earlier. Coverdale began...
