Inside this issue
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Refuge and strength
Summer saved
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Into the unknown
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Called to the North
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Impact investment
Ask Steve
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Why I give: Biff Sharrock
Refuge and strength Gill Nichol speaks to Krish Kandiah on opening doors and hearts
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couple of weeks ago I was chatting to a colleague about my plans to attend an evening event at the organisation for which we both work. She later emailed me; her email went something like this: “If you stay all evening and don’t want to drive home, you’d be very welcome to stay here – unless there is an asylum seeker in the spare room again.” I knew she’d hosted an asylum seeker for several months last year, and that she volunteered at a refugee charity, but this – said so casually, so normally! I was humbled and challenged. How truly hospitable am I? Being hospitable – the desire to share God’s love with other people via practical action – is what Krish Kandiah calls “the golden thread through the Bible.” And it’s been the golden thread through his own life too through his work with Home for Good, Hong Kong new arrivals, Afghan refugees and now, most recently, with the crisis in Ukraine. Uzhhorod, Ukraine: 27 February 2022 – A little girl holding a woman’s hand clutches a doll at the Uzhhorod-Vysne Nemecke checkpoint on the UkraineSlovakia border, Zakarpattia Region, Western Ukraine. – Photo by Ukrinform.
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