Inspiring Christlikeness
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Langham Partnership News
God at work
on the edges
Inspired by Jesus to serve the marginalised
Staff Spotlight: Mercy Ireri working in Kenya
Word on the World
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Equipping a new generation of Bible teachers
Chair of Trustees Mary Evans
National Director John Libby
International Ministries Director Chris Wright
International Executive Director Mark Hunt
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Bekele working in Ethopia
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Langham Scholars
‘From PhD to special
A study by Chris Wright
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Programme Director Riad Kassis
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Susan Mathews working in India
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hy is this happening to me? Perhaps there’s unexpected illness, separation or a close bereavement, or maybe some community tragedy like a flood or fire? Transform’s “ fellow believers pages are filled with accounts of coping with a range of human disasters. Maybe you are going through some similar experience or maybe you are simply joining your cry to theirs as you ask the Lord for relief; or, if relief is not given, for the emotional, spiritual and practical resources to cope. This Transform follows a Langham Scholar to Kerala, India (subject to recent disastrous flooding) and a Langham author reaching the marginalised in Ethiopia; after, Word on the World guides us through some theological reflection. My reflection is conditioned by my journey through Job in my ‘Bible in a Year’ readings! His Comforters’ responses seem very much conditioned by the ‘Why do bad things happen to good people’ kind of argument: all this is happening to you because somehow, somewhere you must have upset God through your belief and behaviour. The fact that they are happening to you prove you are not as good as you think you are! I’m guessing, but I suspect many of us could sometimes offer similar suggestions? Of course, a more general biblical reflection would probably reverse this sense of entitlement to focus more along the lines of, ‘Why does anything good happen to people who are at heart fallen, corrupt and ‘bad’?’… At this point we could ‘follow the positive’ and start rejoicing in godly Grace and Love. But the accounts of the saints, here and elsewhere, force us to acknowledge the reality of the world and the situations which we are challenged to accept and attempt to explain. In Langham’s experience the theology underpinning our response is critical. If we follow the ‘good things: good people’ equivalence we end up affirming the ‘prosperity gospel’, the heresy which is corrupting so many ministries in the majority world. This, we might admit in our more honest
moments, also often colours our own thinking (or is this just me?). How inadequate this line of thought would seem to many of our brothers and sisters! How insulting to many Langham partners, including those in this issue? When we are subject to these situations, how openly can we ask ‘why am I experiencing this disaster or setback?’ Is this happening because I’m not where I’m supposed to be and this is the Lord’s correction, or is it because I’m precisely where I am meant to be because I’m called to engage in battle, not to settle for a comfortable life? As a Christian of some maturity you will have engaged with this question many times! Can I ask that as you read this issue and pray for those involved that you also rejoice that Langham’s ministries are part of the answer to your prayers? Thank you for your support. Can I ask that you do three things as you read this issue: pray for those who are featured; rejoice that Langham’s ministries are part of God’s answer to your prayers; and consider how you will use the Response slip to invest in God’s work? Thanks for your support With Christian greetings
John Libby National Director
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Bekele Deboch Anshiso is an experienced evangelist among some of the most deprived members of Ethiopian society. His thesis on Jesus’ identification with marginalised people has recently been published by the Langham Monographs imprint. He shares his life story, and his hopes for this important research:
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“It was more than 30 yeas ago that I heard about the life and ministry of British missionary Hudson Tayler, who worked in China. Pastor Tesfaye Gabbiso, one of a few first Ethiopian gospel singers, shared about Taylor’s single-minded life and ministry among the poor and destitute in China. He also said that Taylor’s work bore fruit ‘that would last forever’. I was greatly impressed by this testimony, and began praying that I would follow in his footsteps. “Even though, as a high school student, I had no money to go
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anywhere, I decided to go to the northern part of Ethiopia, the most unreached area in the country. I talked to a friend, Tefera, who is originally from there, who told me that people in the north do not know about Jesus.
Befriending the poor “I then sold my jacket, which was a gift from another friend, and Tefera was so impressed that he sold his beautiful watch to pay for transportation; and we travelled to different places in the north. “I was there for 25 years, evangelising
“I also continued to learn about the identity of Jesus our Lord who avoided all great titles for himself but chose to be a humble servant of many” and planting churches. One of the ways I used to reach young and poor people was to talk to shoe cleaners in different groups in small towns. I first made friendships with them, and they have remained my friends. “Having talked to my church’s leaders in Ethiopia, Dr John Stott invited me to join All Nations Christian College in England to study mission. I did this from 2004 – 2006. I then moved to Spurgeon’s College and did “Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark”.
Discipleship in the UK and Ethiopia “It was so great to study such a great lesson. I submitted my dissertation on 25 April 2008 in the morning, and returned to Ethiopia on the same day in the evening! For me, discipleship is following Jesus everywhere – from Spurgeon’s College in the UK, to the Ethiopian rural areas to make disciples in those young and small churches. “After three and half years’ ministry in Ethiopia, I joined Stellenbosch University in South Africa. I did my dissertation on “Jesus and the Marginalized and the Liminal1: The
Messianic Identity in Mark.” On the first day of our meeting before I began writing my dissertation, my supervisor, Professor Jeremy Punt, said “Bekele, for some people, studying for a PhD is the highest level of knowledge but for others it is just a beginning of learning something important”. This was very challenging to me. “I also continued to learn about the identity of Jesus our Lord who avoided all great titles for himself but chose to be a humble servant of many (Mark 10:45). He did not only identify himself with the marginalised and the liminal people in the lower level, but also he was extremely marginalised himself for us on the Romans’ cross. Unlike many religious leaders including his first followers and “Messiahs”of the first century as well as many so-called prophets and apostles of our day, Jesus rejected all the benefits and great titles for himself in order to serve all.
Many joys in the Lord “While I was at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, I was busy serving millions of marginalised and liminal (transient and displaced) Ethiopian
diaspora in many towns and rural areas of South Africa. The people are marginalised in many ways. I used to go to several towns and provinces during those five years to teach them in my mother tongue and to preach in the common language they understand. Finally, following the same Jesus, I have returned to my former ministry in Ethiopia although it is hard for me and my young family for many reasons. “Now I have found that it is a great privilege to experience what I learned about Jesus as one of His (Jesus’s) students. So, I do all things with many joys in the Lord! “Finally, reading and understanding my little book, my hope and greatest desire for myself, as well as for Christian leaders and preachers, is to deeply think of and understand Mark’s Jesus. He was ignored, and rejected all great titles for himself, identifying with all human beings by coming down from heaven to earth to be born in the small country of Israel.
Jesus among the despised, outcast and marginalised “He was not known as Jesus of Bethelehem in Judea – a region of the elite – but as Jesus of Nazareth, a small and unwanted town in Galilee, the region of the most despised and outcast people; eventually He died on the cross in order to lift us all up from the grave and to share his victory with those who declare or confess ‘Jesus is truly the Son of God’.” Bekele has a wife and three children, and he is a part time lecturer at of New Testament Studies at Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has published several articles in Amharic (Ethiopian national language) in Ethiopia, as well as in South Africa. To buy Jesus’ Identification with the Marginalized and the Liminal for yourself or to send a copy to someone else who would benefit from it, you can find it on Amazon.
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s Langham Scholar Susan Mathew was inspired by her time studying for a PhD at Durham University to start a pioneering school for special needs children back home in India.
Susan lives in the southern state of Kerala, where devastating floods in August killed hundreds and displaced a million people. Susan and her husband both teach at a seminary in Kerala, and have a 15-year-old son with Cerebral Palsy. When Transform interviewed Susan back in 2009, the project was just a dream – but now it’s a reality and eight years on, hundreds of families have been impacted. LPUKI’s Digital Content Producer Victoria Marsay recently caught up with Susan to find out more about her story: “I live in Kerala, the Southern state of India, with my husband Mathew and we have four boys, aged 22, 20, 17 and 15. Our youngest son Jyothish
was born five weeks prematurely and has Cerebral Palsy. In 2006 I began studying for a PhD at Durham University. We were there as a family in Durham during my studies, and I received support from the Langham Scholars programme from my second year onwards. “The first three years of Jyothish’s life were very difficult. It was hard to get enough support and care for him in our local area. So we travelled to distant places, we rented houses and stayed there for months just to get physical therapy. But when we reached England, we understood that the NHS gives good educational support, treatment and care to children with special needs. “So when we understood the difference between developing countries and developed countries, we wanted to start a centre to give families with special needs children the care and support we received in Durham.
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“In 2009, the final year of my PhD, we started a centre giving free physical therapy and care for children with Cerebral Palsy, but in 2010 we understood the need of children who are affected with different types of disabilities. So we opened our doors for all children who need our help - now we are giving support not only for children
with Cerebral Palsy, but also those who are mentally challenged, visually impaired, have Down’s Syndrome, autism and ADHD. We have 190 children at the moment, every day admissions are coming, the demand is increasing. “We are trying our level best to give them integral care and support. We are supporting not only children, but also their families. Some fathers have left the home just because their child has a disability. And there are social taboos, discriminations and problems because of the stigma attached to disabilities.
it’s also a challenge to look after the administration.”
PhD impacts children and families
A book to comfort Christians
She said her PhD has greatly impacted her ministry, “not only among the seminary students, but also among the children with special needs and their families who are in need”.
Despite her many responsibilities, Susan is also writing a book based on the passage in 2 Corinthians where Paul prays three times for God to remove the thorn in the flesh, but is told “My grace is sufficient for you and my power is made perfect in weakness”. She hopes her book will help comfort Christians who are experiencing different types of problems. She explained:
She added: “It was really a great experience living in Durham, and being a member of Langham Partnership and also being a member of Durham University. “Then last year, Langham Partnership gave me the opportunity to come to
From Durham PhD to special needs ministry in India God’s work continues despite devastating floods So we are giving the families counselling, occasional training, support and medical care. Last year we started a counselling and guidance centre for the teenagers.” The school, Deepti Special School and Rehabilitation Centre, was set up in partnership with Villa Real School, a special needs school in Consett, Durham. A team of teachers and teaching assistants from there helped set up the school in 2010. Susan and her family were not affected by the recent floods in Kerala, but she said some of their staff and students lost everything. She added: “The school was closed for about two weeks due to floods. Please do pray for the people affected – we visited relief camps and donated materials. We did counselling and other play activities for children, trying to help families to overcome the crisis.” Susan and her husband are also involved in teaching at Faith Theological Seminary, Kerala. “We are also teaching a course on ‘Disability Perspectives’ through the Senate of Serampore College. The students get to see how we are ministering to the children and their families. There are more than 40 staff working with us at the school, so
“There are people who are around the globe who are supporting us, praying for us, and also caring for us, and it’s really a great encouragement.” “For example, yesterday a parent of one of our children came to me and we were talking together and then she said, ‘I’ve been longing to speak to you for a few days because I was so depressed and I couldn’t move. I was thinking about the future and the future of my child’. I was also facing tension and a struggle for a few days but I realised that God wants me to go through such problems and realise the situation of people who are experiencing similar conditions and help them, comfort them, through the comfort we are receiving from God. Just like Paul says, we received comfort from God and we are passing on that same comfort to you. (1 Corinthians 1)” Susan is incredibly thankful that she is a Langham Scholar: “Langham Partnership helped me very much. I’m really glad that I’m part of the Langham family! Without Langham’s support I would not have finished my PhD. It’s God’s grace, and also I’m thankful for God’s work through Langham Partnership.”
the UK and study in Bristol - I used the library at Trinity College and worked on my research on disability. It was really an opportunity for me because I’m really busy here with the ministry, and with treatment of my son. “After coming back to India my son has had four operations, so he’s having his own health issues. So all these problems frustrated us very much but in the midst of that, when I was able to come to the UK and do my research it was really a great opportunity and I am thankful for Langham Partnership for helping me. “When we are in ministry like this in India, and when we are busy with all these ministries and our child who suffers with Cerebral Palsy, it’s a really great support. There are people who are around the globe who are supporting us, praying for us, and also caring for us, and it’s really a great encouragement.” Read more and watch the interview online – visit uk.langham.org
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Staff Spotlight:
Mercy Ireri How did Jesus find you?
Meet Langham Preaching’s East Africa coordinator Mercy Ireri, from Kenya.
“Mercy, you are old enough now to tell us your testimony,” Dad said to me one Saturday evening. I was 12 years of age. I stared at him, blankly. Deep within my heart, I knew I had never had a salvation experience. At that moment I realised that if I was to have such an experience, it had to begin with getting to know Jesus. I reasoned that for this to happen I would need to start reading my Bible. I enrolled for a Bible correspondence course. Two years later, I surrendered my life to Jesus fully.
What does serving Jesus look like for you this week? My weeks do not usually have any routine. I enjoy the variety that each week brings. When not travelling for Langham Preaching events, I am at my
desk doing administration, generated mainly by emails or preparation for an upcoming seminar. In the midst of all of this, especially on Saturdays, I bake cakes to share with friends who pop in during the weekend. Baking is one of my favourite hobbies. At the end of each week, I attend a Bible Study that meets in my neighbourhood.
What do you enjoy about working with Langham Preaching? Firstly, it is the people. When I think of the kind of people that I interact with at all the levels of Langham Preaching’s leadership and then when I facilitate the seminars, I cannot help but think, “What an awesome privilege to serve with, and alongside, such people.” Secondly, it gives me an opportunity to serve with my spiritual gifts. I always thought that it was just natural for me to enjoy teaching and organising events – and then a friend, who participated in a seminar, pointed out to me, ‘’Mercy, do you realise that you have the spiritual gift of administration?’’
Share a resource that has helped you in your preaching (other than Langham!) It is not a single resource, but more of a full course. It is on the faithful handling of the Bible and organised by The Philip Project, a ministry of Friends International in the UK. I went through this course and it not only helped me through the many preaching practice sessions, it has also proved to be a stepping stone into my work with Langham Preaching.
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The
John Stott London Lecture
The John Stott London Lecture this year will be given by
Dr Tim Chester at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London,
on Thursday 15th November, with refreshments available from 6.30pm. Tickets at the door, ÂŁ6 or Students ÂŁ3.
Tim Chester will explore issues of how the gospel and our mission can engage our country and culture, in which Christian faith is increasingly treated with suspicion or contempt. Look out for the title and full description of his lecture, to be posted on our website, www.langham.org, very soon.
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Chris Wright seeks a biblical response to current challenging events When bad things happen Sometimes events in the news have an uncanny resemblance to things in the Bible – sometimes very tragically so. When that road bridge in Genoa, Italy, collapsed in August, killing 43 people, I couldn’t help thinking about what Jesus said about the tower that collapsed in Siloam, killing 18 people. Here’s the account in Luke 13:1-5. Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” The first incident was clearly a terrible moral evil – the murder of some worshippers by the same Roman governor who would crucify Jesus himself. The second incident was very likely some kind of tragic accident – the collapse of a tower, maybe while it was being built, killing construction workers or others just standing nearby.
interesting. “Do you think they… were worse sinners… or…more guilty than everybody else?” That is, did they deserve to get judged by God more than others? And Jesus answers, emphatically and twice, “No!” Jesus rejects jumping to the “easy” explanation that when disaster strikes, it must be God’s judgment on somebody’s sin. Yet it still amazes me that so many people, including Christians, do jump to that conclusion, or wonder if it might be so – either as a way of condemning others or sinking in self-inflicted guilt themselves. When the 2004 Tsunami hit South Asia, I was distressed to
Don’t sit in judgment Jesus addresses the assumption that people are sometimes quick to make, “God must have been judging them for their sins.” Sometimes people think that way, even negatively, when they themselves suffer some tragedy, “What have I done to deserve this?” The way Jesus responds is
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receive emails from Christian friends in the region wondering if it was God judging them. Of course, occasionally in the Bible God did use “natural” disasters as a form of judgment on sinful people. But we cannot reverse that and assume that any disaster today means God is specifically judging those who suffer or die (or not judging those who escape). Jesus simply denies that. In our fallen world, accidents happen. Sometimes we know the reason (and clearly part of the reason is often human sin – political corruption, negligence, folly, bribery, injustice, etc., as is being alleged in the case of the Genoa bridge, and the horrendous Grenfell Tower fire). And sometimes we simply never will understand. We are all sinners, and evil or accidents can happen to any of us at any time. That’s the point of Jesus’ final comment – which might seem harsh. He is not saying that God caused those accidents to make people repent. But that such things do alert us to how fragile our lives are every day and how suddenly we
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could be launched out of this life to face our Creator – and are we ready for that each moment? We should not jump to conclusions about others, but rather heed the warning for ourselves.
who go on trusting even in the midst of fears and doubts and when they cannot see or understand the ways of God. These are words from an email I received from a friend - a strong and godly believer serving God all his life whose wife recently died.
Don’t give up praying Accidental deaths are hard enough to relate to our faith in God. When God’s own people are intentionally killed, families destroyed, churches burned down – it gets even harder to go on believing that there is a God of love and justice. Will God ever put things right for those who have been so wronged? Recent weeks have brought us yet more incidents of gruesome attacks on Christians in Pakistan, Indonesia, and elsewhere. Why does God not stop such things? Will those who do them ever face justice? Will those who suffer them ever be vindicated? Is it worth going on and on praying about it all? Those are the questions Jesus anticipated when he told this little story in Luke 18:1-8. Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” I used to wonder what that last sentence had to do with the story – until I looked back at the context in Luke 17:20-37 (the chapter divisions
and subheadings in our Bibles can sometimes be unhelpful!). Jesus was warning his disciples that the Son of Man would face rejection and suffering (17:25), and that there might be a long delay in which life would apparently go on as “normal” (including much suffering for God’s people), before the Day of the Son of Man when God’s judgment will be executed – judging the wicked and vindicating the righteous (Jesus was drawing from the picture in Daniel 7). So then, says Jesus, even if it seems a long time and if it seems that God doesn’t care, don’t give up praying! (18:1). For when Christ does return, he wants to find those who have remained faithful, in witness and prayer even under persecution and death (18:8). And his story contrasts a lazy human judge who still managed to put things right for the widow, with the God who will ultimately put all things right for all creation and all history. It may seem delayed, but go on trusting God. When he acts, it will be quickly – even if not immediately or even in this life. I find that I have to hold on to that myself sometimes – when I pray for suffering believers in other parts of the world, and it just goes on and on. I have to trust, like Abraham, that “the God of all the earth will do right” (Gen 18:25). The Lord knows those who are his, and the Lord will in the end bring about total rectification for his broken world. I pray this too for suffering friends
The struggle I have is with the apparent randomness of life, and the gulf between the grand promises about intercessory prayer in the Gospels and our lived reality where evil rages on, and “answers to prayer” are often relatively trivial. This morning I read that great chapter Hebrews 11. The opening verse is “Faith is being sure of things we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (NIV). But I am not sure about our Christian hope, I am not certain about what is to come. But then in v. 8 of Abraham it says “he obeyed and went, not knowing where he was going”. I can identify with this, however paradoxical it sounds! So faith for me now is a matter of faithful obedience, living without certainties and with more questions than answers. All I can expect in my prayers is “Your will be done on earth. Your kingdom come.” I used to preach on this text (Isa 50:10) Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God. Now I have to walk the talk!* Perhaps my friend’s words may speak for you, and encourage you to go on trusting and praying – even in the dark. *Quoted with permission. My friend is open to interact with others who are grieving as he is. If you would like to contact him, please email me and I will put you in touch. chris.wright@ langham.org
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