London Monopoly Route

This post is just the London Monopoly route that my daugher and I took to go to each of the places on the London Monopoly Board. I’m posting this as a number of people have asked me about the route we took as they wondered about doing it and hopefully it will save some time! [...]

London Monopoly Route successfully completed!

Well my daughter, Becky, and I undertook to visit each place on the London Monopoly board yesterday. It was a great day and we had a wonderful experience doing the route. We did the trip to raise money to allow Becky to make a trip to the charity the church supports in Kenya.

Wendy’s blog: RUSHing to pack for RUSH

OK – reality has hit! I’m off to RUSH in 6 days time.  Had all the required jabs – so just Malaria tablets to go. 

Jimmy Carter, a great president who knew?

I can remember back to the end of the 1970′s and the huge change that occurred politically in both the UK and the US with the arrival on the scene of Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. History has tended to treat them both kindly, portraying both their predecessors as weak. This was especially true of [...]

Going off to an amazing project in Kenya

It’s very exciting. I’m off with a team of 10 of us from Springfield Church to RUSH in Kenya on the 12 Feb. RUSH is a project in the western part of Kenya in the town of Kakamega. We have been supporting the project, as a church for the past three years or so. RUSH [...]

More Good Samaritan Stories

The BBC has followed up its original article with 10 more stories of Good Samaritans

It’s obviously caused a lot of interest which I hope is good for the public good. Do tell me if you have any Good Samaritan stories of your own. I am sure that encouraging one another with stories helps us to act it out in life.

A Samaritan for the New Year

There was a great story on the BBC this Christmas. It concerned the writer, Bernard Hare, who’s mother was dying in Leeds. I got to the railway station to find I’d missed the last train. A train was going as far as Peterborough, but I would miss the connecting Leeds train by twenty minutes. I [...]

Helping the poor

There is a great article in this morning’s Telegraph by Ian Birrell on helping the homeless and the poor. It’s based on a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study  that looked at helping some of the hardest homelessness cases. Instead of dictating to those on the streets what they needed to do – they asked them. The [...]