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catching up with the hartlands…

// August 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // Interview, Missions

I love the fact that these days you can sit on either side of the planet and have a conversation with another person as easily as if they were across the desk from you – and you can do it for free (if you discount the cost of the computer, software, broadband connection, wireless router… yeh great ‘free!’)

Every now and then I get the opportunity to Skype with Rich & Katie Hartland. They’ve been part of Hope City Church for years – Rich originally arriving as student early in the days of my student pastoring. He eventually became part of the student team in Sheffield, then when he and Katie got together, got involved in the kids ministry ending up in Leeds as we took things on. But it had been a call of God on their lives for a number of years to go out and work with a church and mission in the Phillipines.

Last year we had the awesome privlidge of sending them out with the knowledge that they would have at least 2 years support from us as a church to ensure they could get on and make a difference. And a difference they are making..

I’m going to interview Rich & Katie this week on skype as a way of catching up with how things are going – but before I do I thought it would be great to pull together some questions from those of you who are interested in missions work and want to know ask something a little more searching than – ‘so how’s things?’

So I’m hoping to interview them later this week – if you have a question – post it in the comments below. Then I’ll post the interview on skype to share with you all soon!