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Covid-19

Christmas in The Valley of Vision

Here in the UK, it gets pretty dark pretty early. As I write this, it is officially the darkest night of the year. I took the kids for a walk this afternoon and it was dark before 4pm. We live in a semi-rural part of the country, so we made our way home by the occasional streetlamp and the twinkling of Christmas lights. I’ll come back to them later. It’s pretty dark over here. A new and more transmissible strain of COVID-19 has been detected … 36,000 more cases today. It’s pretty dark over here at the moment anyway. A...

Tom Habib

Bitter Hearts and Sweet Water

Sam Oldland

The local church I love and serve has been meeting online for 30 weeks. 30 Sundays preaching to a camera. 30 weeks of uncertain concern over the spiritual health of church members. 30 weeks of unfolding grief over many plans and hopes we carried into this year. 30 weeks in, and I find a new (for me) sinful attitude grasping for a foothold in my heart. Bitterness threatens to eclipse thankfulness, cloud my hopes for the future and shorten my temper. But thanks be to God! Because of his gospel I can deny bitterness any foothold, running instead to the...

Innovative Evangelism: Bringing the Gospel to TikTok

Taryn Hayes

In March 2020, at the onset of the COVID crisis, I wrote a TGC-AU article imploring us all to think outside of the box as we sought to find new ways of doing church and ministry at home, with our families, and from our computers. The article closed with these words: The opportunities for gospel work, care for those in need, and personal spiritual growth are boundless. Every one of us, whether single, married, young or old, employed or not, stands at a threshold of gospel opportunity. Let’s share our ideas and spur one another on toward love and good...

Are We Wasting the COVID Crisis?

Steve McAlpine

Here’s a thought: What if the church is wasting the COVID crisis? I’m not simply talking about different choices of how to do church. Nor am I talking about what the best model for evangelism, mission and pastoral care might be in the COVID crisis. What if we had used the COVID disrupter as a dry run to prepare our churches for the rise of increasingly restrictive government measures I’m talking about whether we wasted an opportunity to prepare ourselves for a far more reaching and hostile disrupter that a virus that swept up everyone, and required strict measures for...

Remember

Shebu John

As I type this, here in Melbourne Victoria Australia we are in stage 4 lockdown due to the pandemic. There is a roadmap our State Government has given and as of today, the numbers of new COVID-19 cases has finally dropped below ten. This is great news—especially for weary church leaders and yearning to gather again for Sunday services. Yet as one who believes this moment in History is not out of God’s hands I am also concerned that we not become like the people of old who forget the lessons of history. The Bible is filled with stories of...

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