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Tips from the Olympics - How to keep strong in your faith

Tips from the Olympics - How to keep strong in your faith

One of the great lessons we learn from Olympic athletes is to never give up. When the marathoner starts the 42km race he/she must endure the conditions and distance to finish the race. Hebrews Chapter 12 verses 1-3 explains the same important lesson: never give up. When we want to slow down or stop in our faith, the call is to endure and not grow weary. .

  • London: LWFCI Bridging the Gap – It's a congested road we travel as the message is promulgated to international visitors

    London: We tend to think of mission activities in terms of sending servants of the Lord out to far flung, third world countries to reach those who have never heard the Gospel. With the Olympics in town the world comes to one place every four years and regardless of where the people come from, there will be many who have never heard this "Good News".

  • A very different kind of Olympic Ministry in London where Christian outreach is part of the culture

    British culture throughout its history and social engagement has been thoroughly rooted in city, regional and rural communities within the Christian context.

  • Amazing who you meet at the Olympics in ministry

    From David Smethurst: One day after parking the car in the Olympic hub area I was passing through the security check and saw just ahead of me, John Eales (the great Australian Rugby captain) and Mark Waugh (the great Australian Cricket captain.

  • Remarkable testimonies of the Ministry in London

    From David Smethurst: Sundays I have been ministering in churches around greater London and the UK. Just before The Olympics I had the privilege to minister at a great Sports Outreach Sunday at the Hillingdon Church near Heathrow Airport where many responded to the gospel.

  • Olympic family members stand alone and some have given themselves to evangelism at these London Olympics

    Once an Olympian participant, always an Olympian participant. Any athlete who is selected as an Olympian but, does not participate in an Olympic event, is sadly not counted within this highly prised family.

  • London Olympic Opening Ceremony displaced England's salvation "on the hill" from a French to an industrial revolution

    The world was agog with the London Olympic Opening Ceremony which gave a presentation of a mix of British humour and the social mores of the development of the nation and in so doing industrialist Ismabard Brunel was presented preaching "on the hill" in place of the real preacher John Wesley.

  • Christian Olympians, the Media team and PSI searching for a monthly NZ sports writer

    The common denominator of the Olympics of every era is that provides a platform for the promotion of whatever is being heralded - Sport, Business, Enterprise, Economics, Security, Culture and Religion.

  • Preparation is the key

    Music is a language. It's a form of communication that is both a gift and a developed skill. The more I expand my vocabulary in this beautifully emotive dialect, the more I am able to express myself, with deeper interaction and with greater ease. Music is a beautiful collaboration of improvisation and preparation; and the more I play music, the more I realise that both these elements are equally important, and only benefit each other when developed.

  • Olympics – Ministry on the streets of London

    From David Smethurst: The day of the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in London is rushing up on us and London is getting ready to meet thousands of athletes, team players and visitors.

  • Old friends

    Earlier this week I joined a group of close friends for lunch. We have been friends for many years and when we get together we are never short of conversation. After four hours together I still feel like there were many topics of conversation not covered (we will have to save those for our next lunch).

  • My journey to Australia

    I remember sitting at home in Zimbabwe twelve years ago dreaming about going to university in Australia. I remember thinking at the time that Australia was somewhere different. Most people I knew wanted to attend school in the USA, Canada or Britain. But I wanted to go somewhere unusual and Australia was not the norm at that time. I wanted to experience what it would be like to live in country quite different to my own. It was a lot easier to qualify into a university overseas because at home, t