THE DAY THEY BROKE THE HOUSES
“They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.” Psalm 74:7 Twenty-four years. That is how long Henry Townsend had given to Abeokuta by 1867. He arrived in 1843 to a warm reception from Sodeke, the Egba war commander, who told him […]
THE WHITE MOTHER HAS COME!
“I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” Acts 21:13 There was no Ibadan waiting to receive them. There was a war-hardened city of over fifty thousand people, built by refugees from a fallen empire, ruled by warlords who had never seen […]
BUILDING A MISSIONARY HEART IN THE NEXT GENERATION
In the few years I have spent as a Christian missionary, I have come to realise that something is missing in many of our churches today. I believe this is one of the key reasons we are seeing fewer grounded and convincing young Christians in our time. If we do not change the narrative, we […]