This month I started my 16th year working with Langham Preaching.
It still feels like a “pinch me” reality, as my brother described this work for me this past week. Or, in the words of the Apostle Paul, it has been “a grace given me”…
In recent times each year’s highlight has remained unchanged and undiminished. It is the release of the annual video-story by our friends in Langham USA (“here’s looking at you, Jeff and Ben!”).
Here they are—in reverse chronological order:
2024—from Argentina
2023—from Fiji
2022—from South Africa
[2021—the pandemic pause]
2020—from Romania
[2019—from Indonesia … too risky to post]
2018—from Bolivia
2017—from Ghana
2016—from Bosnia & Herzegovina
nice watching
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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