On the road
50 years ago, with my grandma and siblings, pointing the way on the walk up from the beach.
Two weeks ago, with my wife and children on the walk down to the beach
(NB: taken just meters from the first photo).
At the bach/cottage
45 years ago, grandma with grandson (and grand-daughters) out the front of Uncle Grahame’s bach.
Two weeks ago, grandma with grandson out the back of Uncle Grahame’s bach.
Up Jackie’s Peak
45 years ago, with assorted family members looking out across the bay
(my mum at the back right and her dad – after whom I am named (‘Royston’) – in the middle)
One year ago, with my mum looking back the other way
(she climbed the peak at 81 years of age!)
nice chatting
Paul
About Me
the art of unpacking
After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.
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Lovely!
that it is, tkr – you need to go out there some time.