Comments on: Images and Magic Moments  from my trip to Cambodia with Tearfund https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/02/images-magic-moments-trip-cambodia-tearfund/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 26 May 2015 13:20:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: The Secret History of Hagar: When God Secretly Comforts the Oppressed - Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/02/images-magic-moments-trip-cambodia-tearfund/#comment-60838 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:19:42 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61124#comment-60838 […] I am convinced that the same Gospel, the same promises are true for the world’s poorest as well as the world’s richest, but I am silent, because unlike Heidi Baker, who knows from experience that the same Gospel which is true in Southern California is true in Mozambique, I have not yet worked with the poorest people in Africa (though I have worked with the very poorest in India, with Mother Teresa, full time for 14 months, and hung out a little with the poor in Cambodia). […]

]]> By: When we are caterpillars in a ring of fire, and need rescue from above - Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/02/images-magic-moments-trip-cambodia-tearfund/#comment-60830 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:01:39 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61124#comment-60830 […] Loire Valley, France, with the family in February, (and returning to find we’d been burgled),  a week in Cambodia with Tearfund in March, a week in Spain on retreat in May (just […]

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/02/images-magic-moments-trip-cambodia-tearfund/#comment-60478 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 22:43:27 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61124#comment-60478 In reply to mari howard.

Wow, the Plasses sound amazing. Perhaps I shall meet them some day!

]]> By: mari howard https://anitamathias.com/2014/06/02/images-magic-moments-trip-cambodia-tearfund/#comment-60394 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 06:31:10 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=61124#comment-60394 Anita, I really like this. It’s ‘honest’ but ‘really honest’ as you give your reactions to your trip and admit very straightforwardly how this trip made you feel, and compared our society, and your own life, appear when compared to the lives of Christians in a ‘third world’ situation.

We have just been at Scargill, and I am sifting through what I experienced there! If you have time, do listen to the radio 4 Sunday service from June 1st, which came from Scargill: we were there. Adrian & Bridget are preciously authentic, not mere ‘speakers’ but people through whom the Holy Spirit really does speak and in a very accessible, earthy, way, challenging us all and caring for our emptiness, hurts and needs without ever making a meal of it. It’s on the iplayer.

best, Clare

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