The New Through the Roof Podcast - March 2014
Philippa Lomas, our Youth Ambassador, has recorded a new podcast, featuring interviews with our CEO, Tim Wood, and our newest member of staff, Training Resources Developer, Ros Dakin. Take a listen, and find out what's going on at TTR. The file is an 8MB MP3, downloadable from the site, or follow the instructions below to get all of TTR's audio directly by podcast.
- Follow this link to download March's Through the Roof Podcast.
- Follow this link to visit our Podcast page on iTunes, and subscribe to receive it as soon as it's released
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Wheels at Work - Latif's Story
Here's the fourth and final of Phil Green's videos from Uganda. In this one, we look at Latif's story, and see how the team work to find just the right wheelchair for his needs.
Wheels for the World - Latifs' Story from Philip Green on Vimeo.
'No Turning Back!' - Our Spring 2014 Newsletter
Our Spring 2014 Vital Link is now available for download. This issue takes a look at recent work in Moldova and Ghana, welcomes two new members of staff, catches up with some supporters, and plenty more. Take a look!
Please note - the PDF also contains our latest product order form, and a leaflet about leaving a legacy to TTR
Follow this link to download the Spring 2014 Vital Link Newsletter as a PDF
Please get in touch (on 01372 749955 or by following this link to email us) if you have any problems downloading this, or if you’d like to receive future newsletters by post or email.
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'Love in Abundance' - March 2014 Come Fishing
Here's the March 2014 'Come Fishing' recording from Jenny Edwards and DCF - an hour full of music, prayer, inspiration, stories and news, to entertain and inspire.
Photo 'Daydream' is by Robert S. Donovan, used under Creative Commons License 2.0. Available from imcreator.com.
Enabling Church 2014 - 3rd June
Tickets are now available for the next Enabling Church conference, to be held at Bethel Convention Centre, Kelvin Way, West Bromwich, B70 7JW on 3rd June. For more details and to buy tickets, please go to the Churches for All website by following this link.
How can my church …
- Face the challenge of dementia?
- Enable disabled people?
- Include Deaf people?
- Support carers?
Every local church needs to become an ‘enabling church’ that welcomes, includes and involves people with dementia, disability, deafness, their families and those that care for them. The programme involves a majority of speakers with direct experience of a range of disabilities, either themselves or with close family members.
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International Missions in 2014
Wheels for the World and Integr8 will be undertaking several mission trips this year. Please get in touch with Reninca at Through the Roof to find out more.
- 2 - 12 April - Wheels for the World trip to Kimilili, Kenya - FULL
- 4 - 14 May - Integr8 trip to Elburgon, Kenya - FULL
- 11 - 21st June - Wheels trip to Kosovo - Still some spaces
- 20 - 27th Sept - Integr8 trip to Moldova - Still some spaces
More trips are in the planning stages, and we'll update this page once we have more details.
Wheels at Work - The Kakunyu School
Here's the third of Phil Green's videos from the Wheels distribution in Uganda. This time he's focussing on the Kakunyu school.
Wheels for the World - Kakunyu School from Philip Green on Vimeo.
No Half Measures! (Ros' Blog)
I’m continuing my study of John’s Gospel, finding tremendous encouragement in its pages, and also reading several authors who have mined its treasures before me and have light to shed on its words. Here is a thought on Chapter 2 from Jean Vanier’s book ‘Drawn Into the Mystery of Jesus Through the Gospel of John’:
“Jesus reveals that our final destiny is love, and that we are all called to a sacred wedding feast. But to live this celebration the waters of our humanity have to be transformed into the wine of Divine love.”
What a marvellous thought, that the destiny for which we were created is to know the overwhelming and unconditional love of our Father God. This got me thinking about both the work we do here at Through the Roof, and you, our friends and supporters.
It may be that people who are limited by physical difficulties or learning disabilities sometimes find it hard to see how they can play their part in God’s kingdom alongside those who have no such limitations and can, for example, freely go where they want without assistance, see and hear the people they are ministering to, and so on.
Yet the good news from the story of the wedding at Cana is that the very simple, basic and ordinary substance of our lives – the water, if you like, can be transformed by a single word from Jesus into the wine of His love. The only prerequisite is that we give it to Him and obey what He tells us to do with it.
If we take some time to still ourselves in God’s presence and very deliberately offer to Him all that we are and have, He will transform it into something that brings joy and celebration to all with whom we come into contact. The only proviso is that we be filled with water – and in chapter 4 Jesus explains that He is the source of the water that satisfies our deepest thirst. As we rest beside the well that is Jesus Himself, drawing on His life, He fills us with the water of His Spirit that can be transformed into the wine of His joy for us to share with a world that badly needs it.
And there is no stinginess in God. Those 6 jars that were filled with water held approximately 180 gallons. There was a superabundance of wine, more than enough for everyone at the feast, and according to the chief steward, it was not cheap plonk but “the best wine”.
That reminds me of another miracle Jesus performed, mentioned in John chapter 6. Five thousand men and their wives and children were in need of food, and the only person who had anything to eat was a young lad with five barley loaves and a couple of small fish. In the hands of Jesus that packed lunch was multiplied enough not only to feed the waiting crowd, but twelve basketfuls of the leftovers were collected up afterwards.
It seems that whether it’s humble bread or plain water, anything we give to Jesus is not only transformed in His hands but multiplied until there is an excess, way beyond what we need. Surely the only reason for that is so that we can be a blessing and give to those around us in need. And that applies whether or not we are limited by some kind of disability. A kind word to a carer, a simple testimony of what Jesus has done in our lives, or a sermon in front of a television audience of thousands – it makes no difference. Jesus can use whatever we are able to offer.
May the little that we do here at Through the Roof be multiplied in the hands of Jesus into an abundance to bring His food, His life, to those who need it and have not yet received from Him.
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