“Many people are surprised that this event was organised by the church,” said Osoba Otaigbe, pastor of Tooting Junction Baptist Church, which organised the Figges Marsh festival in the Tooting neighbourhood of East London on Saturday. With a Latin band playing pulsing...
For the last two weeks, a band called Liz and the Lions from Herrnhut, Germany, has been doing musical outreach in London. Last night, the band performed at Kahaila, a local café on Brick Lane. Members of the folk-rock band have been collaborating for about a year and...
The chapel on the Youth With A Mission (YWAM) campus in Harpenden has witnessed over 80 years of history. Once part of the National Children’s Home facility here, it is a place that has seen children come and go, growing up, creating memories, and moving on into...
During this Olympic period, Forever/YWAM and More Than Gold have been working together to create lasting impact in the UK, by bringing teams from around the world to partner in short-term outreach with local churches and long-term projects. Once the outreach teams...
Multiculturalism. A hot potato, a word on everybody’s lips. How can people from many different nationalities and cultures get on together, live together and work together? The Forever/YWAM outreach at the 2012 Olympic Games is providing some answers, as multicultural...
When mission teams come to town, it’s expected that they will get involved in evangelism and taking the gospel into local communities, through performing arts and other “classic” forms of outreach. But mission teams also have a chance to shine and an opportunity to...
