10 Things I’ve Learnt in My First Year As A Missionary
Last Saturday marked a milestone: one full, unbroken year for our family on the ground in Mexico. Here are 10…
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Edges Go To Mexico
Go and make disciples…
Beth Blogs: School, Saved and ‘Soccer’
Hello all! It’s been a while since I have appeared here, I am back with my version of the last…
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I wake up today thinking of autumn. It’s not because there are any reminders where I am. It’s still dark,…
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joys of fresh Well, it actually happened! There are 4 days left in the countdown to our flight and we’re…
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I’m not sure I like waiting much, do you? At first maybe it’s not so bad, while it’s still a…
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It’s with an odd sense of deja vu that I write this post. It all feels a bit familiar, and…
Keep readingA very different Christmas
It’s a funny old business, celebrating Christmas. Gearing up to it in a foreign country made us realise just how…
Keep readingThe Jungle Diaries: Week 4
At the risk of being repetitive, Week 4 started much as Week 3 ended – pretty tough going. For starters,…
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“I’m done with the heat! I’m done with Mexico, and I just want to go back to Edinburgh!” Our third…
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The end of another week in the jungle. It feels like we’ve been here for ages, but it’s good to…
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Buenos Días amigos! I am delighted to report that this update comes to you from…MEXICO! Yes, dear readers, we are…
Keep readingA decade in Scotland
We left Scotland today, car laden, waving goodbye to familiar streets; almost exactly a decade after we first came. Then…
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I commented recently that I feel as though my life and heart are being ploughed up by a tractor. On…
Keep readingBethany writes…
Who’s Bethany? Greetings! My name is Bethany, you may or may not know me well, so, in this first post…
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It took the tiniest movement of a finger. A click, and a new web page opened. It didn’t seem very…
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Reality Check
So, we went. Between 20th and 29th November 22, Matt and I were to be found mostly on the Yucatan…
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Looking Up
Hello again. It’s been quite a while since our last update! Nearly a whole year, in fact. A year mostly…
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Moving on whilst staying still
Another January emerges from the darkness of a Scottish winter morning. It’s our third January in Edinburgh. Somehow two and…
Keep readingA new season
There’s a pigeon sitting on the lamp post just outside our lounge window. He is grooming himself and has fluffed…
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We’re here at last. Oxgangs, South Edinburgh, that is. We saw the New Year in watching fireworks fizz up in…
Keep readingStorms and rainbows
Lockdown, it seems, is an experience of quite disparate highs and lows. At first we didn’t think life would feel…
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If you’ve seen Frozen 2 or been anywhere near Beth recently, you may already be humming the tune. ‘Into the…
Keep readingThe Good News and The Bad News
It’s been nearly two months since our last update. The truth is, I haven’t written before because it has rather…
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It has been nearly three months since Ben started his treatment for leukaemia. The rollercoaster has rattled on, never asking…
Keep readingA curve ball
‘Please, go to the doctor today!’ It was Claire who raised the alarm. Claire, of whom my sister rightly commented;…
Keep readingThe M word
No, not marriage this time. Money, I’m talking about money. Money is a strange phenomenon. It’s just coins and notes…
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I may be having a mid-life crisis. I blame my close friend Claire, a thoroughly beautiful and multi-talented woman who…
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The Greatest Showman is a big hit in our house, especially with Beth. The songs, the images, the ideas have…
Keep readingLooking back to look forward
Now that we know we’re moving to Mexico long term, it’s time to get prepared. With this in mind, I…
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Ok…deep breath…sweaty palms….here we go. The decision has been made… our answer is: YES. Yes to moving our family to…
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