Your children! There are plenty of people who would love to have children but for one reason or another are unable to. There are loads of people who have children but because of family circumstances they never see or have contact with their children. There are those who have sadly lost their children…I’m sure they think of their children [...]
Archive for the ‘children’ Category
Don’t Take Them For Granted #2
Posted: May 30, 2012 in family, love, music, life, Health, friendship, children, babyTags: Third Day, home, child, children, Health, parent, abuse, hurt, child abuse, Children Youth and Family, Philanthropy, Child poverty, UNICEF, Advocacy Groups, Child support, Child Welfare
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Baby Clothes!
Posted: May 19, 2012 in baby, children, clothing, friendship, life, love, ShoppingTags: baby, Baby shower, Business and Economy, children, Clothing, Infant, Pampers, shopping
What a strange title for a blog post I hear you say, especially considering I have no children! Well I must confess that I have an obsession with looking at baby clothes! And I’m not alone in this, my Mum has the same problem! I don’t know whether it’s because we’ve not got any children [...]
Poverty In The UK #4
Posted: May 11, 2012 in pray, family, love, music, life, religion, Health, friendship, work, blogging, prayer, politics, children, homeless, news, Food, poverty, UKTags: God, matt redman, poverty, United States, David Cameron, Poverty in the United Kingdom, Fuel poverty, Facts and Statistics, United State, Labour, Frank Field, Tony Blair
So in the last few days in my Poverty In The UK blog post series I’ve given you information about why there is poverty and I’ve given you some recent statistics of current poverty levels in the UK, but what now? First and foremost we must pray! That may seem a strange thing to start [...]
Poverty In The UK #2
Posted: May 9, 2012 in blogging, children, family, Food, Health, homeless, life, news, politics, poverty, UK, workTags: Debt, Financial services, poverty, recession, Tax credit, unemployment
Yesterday in the first part of my Poverty In The UK series of blog posts, I gave you the shocking news that there are millions of people living in the UK, as supposedly large economy, who are living in poverty. Today I want to have a look at some of the factors that cause poverty… [...]
Poverty In The UK #1
Posted: May 8, 2012 in children, family, Food, Health, life, news, politics, poverty, UKTags: David Cameron, Development, Facts and Statistics, Fuel poverty, Organisations, poverty, Poverty in the United Kingdom, Standard of living
The UK is the world’s six largest economy, yet 1 in 5 of the UK population live below our official poverty line, meaning that they experience life as a daily struggle. So what exactly is poverty? Most agree that poverty must be understood in relation to typical living standards in society: Individuals, families and groups in [...]
Missionaries At Home
Posted: May 7, 2012 in children, Food, friendship, Health, homeless, life, love, music, politics, religionTags: Christian, Ensign, God, Homelessness, Jesus, Lord, mission, Missionary, Newsboys
What do you think of when you hear the word missionary? Foreign lands? Travelling thousands of miles from home? Poverty? Homelessness? Starvation? Illness? Let me challenge you by saying, given the amount of poverty, homelessness and hunger in some of our cities and towns, is it not about time we did more missionary work on our [...]
It’s Getting Earlier
Posted: April 2, 2012 in blogging, children, cross, Easter, family, Food, friendship, holiday, life, love, religionTags: Christ, Christianity, Christmas, cross, crucifixion, Easter, holiday, Jesus, Religion and Spirituality
Next weekend is Easter when I’m sure many of you will be enjoying the odd Easter egg. But have you noticed how as soon as Christmas is over these days the shops seem to start trying to get us to buy Easter eggs? Do they think we’re going to buy Easter eggs in January, eat [...]
A Mother’s Day Request
Posted: March 18, 2012 in children, English Premier, family, football, friendship, Health, heart, hospital, life, love, Mother's Day, pray, prayer, sport, televisionTags: Bolton Wanderers F.C., death, FA Cup, Fabrice Muamba, Mother's Day, Muamba, Premier League, present, Tottenham Hotspur F.C., White Hart Lane
Today in the UK, it is Mother’s Day, so I’d like to wish all mother’s a very happy Mother’s Day! I’m sure like me, you thank your Mum often for all she has done, and continues to do for you, and have given your Mum an extra special present today to celebrate Mother’s Day. Tonight [...]
The Gift of a Family
Posted: February 8, 2012 in children, family, friendship, life, love, music, religionTags: adoption, child, Christianity, family, Foster care, God, home, Parenting, religion
In yesterday’s blog post Family…Who Needs Them?! I spoke about how within our own families, many of us have at least one person we feel we can turn to for help and support in any situation. In addition also reminded you that there are many folk who do not have the option of turning to a [...]
