It’s easier to bring up kids on the overseas mission field, says Dr Omar Djoeandy, Executive Director of SIM Australia. Dr Djoeandy and his wife brought up three kids on the mission field in Kenya, giving birth to their youngest child there. “Because of the high unemployment rate [in Kenya], wages are quite low, and [...]

It’s time… SOULINTHECITY Canberra 2008 starts this Tuesday! I’m still finishing off final planning arrangements (and making sure I haven’t forgotten anything…) for the main meeting venue. Then I’ll be out there from Sunday afternoon till…probably the next Sunday afternoon. After two and half years of thinking, praying and planning it’s finally here! I’ve got [...]

Tonight I was appointed as a director of Canberra Christian Radio Limited (CCRL), the autonomous body behind 1WAY FM, at their annual general meeting. I haven’t written much yet on my reflections of almost three weeks in my new job, and it’s 11 o’clock at night now so this certainly won’t be a long post. [...]

This is a repost of a post I made this afternoon on the Malones in Thailand website. We’ve been here in Thailand now for over a week, and it’s just under three weeks until I go back home to Canberra. People ask me how it’s going, and how I’m feeling, and really, at the moment [...]

Well, I have just spent all of last week at the Soul Survivor Sydney 2007 conference! Every single Soul conference that I’ve been to so far has been different from the last, and this one was no exception. Rather than being primarily a participant, I was this time primarily an organiser. I was on the [...]