Chris Howles

Director of Cross-Cultural Training @OakHillLondon

Tweeting on all things Africa, mission, & global Christianity.

Doctorate @fullerseminary.
Founder @F_E_Nnet

[Chris Howles @ChrisHowles]

Happy June 3rd everyone - Uganda Martyrs Day. This years' celebrations were cancelled because of ebola, but normally today would be carnage in Namugongo, with a million or more Christian pilgrims there.

We were there for 10 martyrs days. Do I miss that experience? Yes and no!

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Tens of thousands of African Christian pilgrims, many walking for days to get here, are in an overnight praise rally before tomorrow commemorating the deaths of 25 brave faithful young Ugandan Martyrs 140 years ago. It's a profoundly moving sight.

Friends, see this Christianity.

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Very sorry to hear of the death of Sherwood Lingenfelter this week. I greatly enjoyed an afternoon with him and his wife Judith at Fuller Seminary back in 2019, and have enjoyed several of his books since.

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https://t.co/709jeWqQ4L

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This is an ignorant and lazy headline (at best).

This sort of thing has very real consequences for Ugandans in the tourist industries for years to come.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: The Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have reported 263 confirmed Ebola cases and 43 deaths as of May 30, according to Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya.

🔴 More on https://t.co/hGzrK2N8WC

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Projected population of European countries in 2100 - both with and without migration.

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By 2100, 46% of all people under 25 are projected to live in Africa, and a further 39% in Asia (leaving just 16% for every other continent combined)

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There are precious few recent missiology books from/for England, and even fewer (if any!) looking specifically at the North of England.

Some of you might be pleased/excited to see this!

[Chris Howles @ChrisHowles]

Fantastic project. Well done Jonny! May this serve mission and ministry strategy, practice and prayer for years to come!

[Jonny Pollock @jonnypollock]

This Friday is the end of a long process of mapping Irish churches to enable us to reflect missiologically in terms of reaching unreached towns on the island, and to support current work.

Want to know how it works, I've created a little video tutorial: https://t.co/h5unjCW9Lt

[Oak Hill College @OakHillLondon]

It's just 10 days until our School of Theology on Class and Ministry in the UK.

One of our plenaries, Class in the Local Church is being led by Jason Roach, Kevin Croft and Maegan Webb from @LondonCM - all with vast experience in this area.

Get tickets now (link below)

[Jonny Pollock @jonnypollock]

The Irish Church Map is live! I’ll share reflections in the coming weeks, but for now: have a look, send corrections, and ask questions... Please share!

https://t.co/zCG1aHMFCq

[Chris Howles @ChrisHowles]

A very special day, one we must cherish...

...a new Paul McCartney album is released (maybe the last?)

That we still have the very greatest postwar songwriter still writing/performing new music aged 83 is something we should sit back & enjoy.

And...it's great!

Thank you Paul.

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@Scott_W_Dunford That's a FASCINATING question. Or indeed where it would be if everyone in the world was a Christian (!!).... I'd guess Pakistan or. North West India?

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The Christian centre of gravity (the place on earth you must stand to have the equal number of Christians to your north and south, and east and west) is moving South-Eastwards by 150 yards every day!

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Todd Johnson, P192.

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"Pentecost stands as God’s judgment against every attempt to imprison Christianity inside one civilisation."

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"The miracle was not that everybody suddenly spoke one language. The miracle was that nobody had to abandon their language to encounter God..... The Spirit shattered the assumption that God belongs to one people alone."

Harvey Kwiyani on Acts 2.

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(quote from an unreleased, upcoming book I've got access to, will properly attribute when it's confirmed and released)

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"The polycentric, omnidirectional and hyperconnected impulse [of Christianity today] makes Christian mission harder to control, categorise and contain, because it is not one movement but many"

This shift we're living through accounts for so many missiology tensions we see today

[Ian Leslie @mrianleslie]

Wow. I am here for the Beatles-themed England WC26. https://t.co/dMwSrJgpwX

[Chris Howles @ChrisHowles]

A reminder that Vatican City has fewer Christians than any other country on the planet 😁😁

[World Insights @World_Insights1]

🇻🇦 Mosques in Vatican City

🇻🇦 2000 → 0
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Note: Vatican City has no mosques or Islamic prayer centres. It is the sovereign city-state of the Roman Catholic Church and the residence of the Pope, with an area of only about 0.49 km².