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‘Season’ is a word I like, mainly because (hopefully) it’s short and will change.

I love catching up with Michaela Morse-Wolfe every year at our weekend away. She is bubbly, fun and generous, with great stories and wisdom to share. This year, she told me a little about why she seemed a shadow of her former self.  I recently got back in touch, and she agreed to share this […]

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“I have found your daughter!” My testimony of adoption

Alice Swain’s tattoo of the word ‘Faith’ is a great conversation-starter, as Rhiannon Goulding experienced when they met at the Riverbank Women’s Conference back in June. When Alice shared her story, Rhiannon knew it would have a big impact on our Activate readers, as it has with many others.  So, here’s Alice Swain’s wonderful story

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‘The hardest days end up being the best days’: A lesson in patience from our holiday

When friends return from a family holiday and you ask, ‘How was it?’ the honest ones usually respond with something like this famous line by Charles Dickens: ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’!  Read how guest blogger, Debbie Van Den Berg learned a lesson in patience and resisting panic

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I didn’t make friends on holiday, but I only blame myself!

My job involves encouraging people to make friends and communicating the value of great small talk. Practise what I preach, right? Wrong! We’ve just been on a great Christian holiday abroad. My husband and kids were exemplary socialites, but I was a loner! Only one person approached me to chat, and that was to say,

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Find out which type of evangelist you are and get excited about it!

(Re-post from July 2017.) Picture in your mind for a moment an evangelist…   Did Billy Graham come to mind? Or someone with a loud, confident voice standing at a street corner? File that visual image for a moment. Now think back to the moment you came to believe for the first time. Who was

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