Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

If you’ve been following my Tweets in the last week, you’ll be aware that I’ve been on holiday from work since Thursday of last week. The main reason I took the time off was because last Thursday my Dad, who suffers from vascular dementia was going into a local care home for a week’s respite [...]

I don’t know whether it’s because of what I’ve been focusing on in my blog posts this last week, I found myself doing something on Tuesday that I’ve never done before, and it even surprised me when I did it! When I was out on Tuesday lunchtime for my daily walk, I came across a [...]

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 [...]

Today in my Poverty In The UK blog post series, I just want to give you some facts about UK poverty… 4 million children – one in three – are currently living in poverty in the UK, one of the highest rates in the industrialised world. Poverty can have a profound impact on everyone affected, a [...]

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… [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At the start of this year, I shared with you my aims for this year (Welcome to 2012) – not my new year resolutions, but what I aim to achieve this year. Then at the end of both January and February, I gave you a monthly update on how I was doing. So now it’s [...]

I’ve used the following video of Michael W Smith‘s song We Can’t Wait Any Longer already this week, but I make no apology for using it again today as it gives a powerful message to each of us, to reach out any help the unloved…but will you accept that challenge? A silent call from a [...]

Yuko awezayo kusikia kilio chetu? Words sung by children in Michael W Smith‘s song We Can’t Wait Any Longer, but do you know what they mean? I’m guessing like me you don’t know what those words mean, but does that give us an excuse to ignore the people singing them? What if I now tell you what the children were [...]