Russian Cultural Visit
For a week at the end of September, we are delighted to be hosting a choir from Golgotha Baptist Church in Moscow. What is so good about this visit – apart from the lovely music that we are able to share together – is that meeting face to face, and spending time together allows for the beginning of real relationships.

So much of our involvement with issues in the wider world can be very impersonal. We know that topics about justice, fair trade, climate chaos and development issues matter, and we are glad to give time, energy and resources towards sharing in the life of God’s Kingdom, and allowing others to share in it too. But when it becomes impersonal, we are in danger of missing one the aspects that is central to life in the Kingdom – people as real people, not just figures or statistics or facts. At the heart of our conviction that God is concerned about justice and freedom is the conviction that God is interested in each individual as individual as well as their place in community and society. So, the chance to meet people from another culture, to share in the their lives, however briefly, and to welcome them into our own saves us from becoming impersonal in our work or detached in our prayers.

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