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Guest post – Training, pastoring and planting in Tanzania

One of the aims of Faithroots is to encourage training and planting in harder to reach and unreached places. Here in the UK this means a lot of our focus is on urban contexts but in some parts of the world the picture is reversed in terms of where the hard to reach places are.… Continue reading Guest post – Training, pastoring and planting in Tanzania

COVID and Omicron – what’s the mood?

Yesterday I ran one of my little surveys via twitter. Remember, these are not intended to give is a scientific analysis of the exact proportions of people that hold specific positions. Rather, they operate like a kind of focus group or dip check. That’s not a high number of votes and I expect proportions would… Continue reading COVID and Omicron – what’s the mood?

COVID19 update – will we need plan c?

One of the concerns I’ve raised over the past week or two is that we now seem to be on a trajectory towards even stricter COVID19 restrictions in England and presumably then across the United Kingdom. My concern is two-fold. The first is that such measures might become urgently necessary because I’m not convinced that… Continue reading COVID19 update – will we need plan c?

COVID-19 update 10/12/2021

Here’s the latest COVID-19 UK data. Earlier this week, I said that I thought the data might be pointing to a peak in the current Delta spike and so encouragingly we saw a fall in cases yesterday. Cases This is probably good news in the short term because one of my concerns following the recent… Continue reading COVID-19 update 10/12/2021

COVID19 update 02/12/2021

Daily reported cases returned to growth on the 1st December after a few days when numbers were tracking downward again. This might be a temporary bounce back or may suggest that we’ve got a little further to go before we hit the Herd Immunity Threshold (HIT) for under 15s. It’s also possible that the last… Continue reading COVID19 update 02/12/2021

Omicron – what should and shouldn’t we be looking out for?

We’re holding our breath a little at the moment to see what the level of threat from the Omicron variant is.  It seems that on an hourly basis we are hearing news and commentary that either encourages confidence that all will be well or panic that we are about to head back into a nightmare.… Continue reading Omicron – what should and shouldn’t we be looking out for?

COVID update 12/11/2021

After 18 consecutive days of falling case numbers, we’ve now had two days of increases in reported cases. It’s worth remembering that people who have been following the numbers were projecting further case growth after the return from Half Term. I stated here a few weeks ago that I wouldn’t be surprised to see some… Continue reading COVID update 12/11/2021