Addressing fatherhood Biblically
Richard Underwood
Richard Underwood is a retired pastor, who served as General Secretary and Pastoral Director of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. Here, he speaks to John Woods, en Reviews Editor, following the publication of the latter’s new book Good, Bad, No Dad?
RU: What’s the first thing that comes into your mind when you hear the word “father”?
Ten questions with: Elaine Macdonald
en staff
Elaine Macdonald is a member of The Bridge Church, Cardiff. Influenced by her experience as a UCCF staff worker in the early 1990s, she is passionate about one-to-one discipleship. She is currently a member of the Evangelical Movement of Wales management board.
1. How did you become a Christian?
By my mid-twenties, I’d arrived at a place of believing in a creator, sustainer God, but had no sense of a personal, redeemer God. My upbringing had given me a clear sense of right and wrong, and I thought that if I lived as good a life as I could, all would be well in the end. I became a high school teacher, and a colleague who had become a good friend invited me to church (there was something different about her, and how she handled life). Someone preached on Psalm 139, God’s Spirit revealed to me who He was, and who I was. I was amazed that such a God would be interested in such a one as me. He became my rescuer, and His right hand holds me fast.
Ten questions with: Israel Oluwole Olofinjana
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Israel Oluwole Olofinjana is director of One People Commission, part of the Evangelical Alliance.
He is a Baptist minister and has led two multi-ethnic Baptist churches and an independent charismatic church. He is the founding director of Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World, a mission network initiative that provides cross-cultural training to reverse missionaries in Britain. He is a consultant to the executive team of Lausanne Europe, advising them on matters related to diaspora ministries in Europe.
And the winner is…
The en team were very pleased to receive 1,152 responses to the Readers’ Survey in the October issue. Such a large submission enables us to have confidence that data collected on the attitudes and demographics of en readers is robust. Thank you to those who took the time to complete the questionnaire.
One such respondent, Maggie Sleeman, was thrilled to hear she had won the prize draw promised to those who participated. The draw took place at a gathering of en staff in central London in January and the choice of either: a £200 book voucher, a Kindle Paperwhite (with £50 worth of Christian books) or a donation of £200 to a preferred charity, was offered to Maggie soon after. She chose the latter, and en had the privilege of transferring the funds to Christian Development Uganda, a UK-based charity with over thirty years’ experience supporting local partners with evangelism and community development projects among some of the neediest rural communities in south-west Uganda (christiandevelopmentuganda.org.uk).