Acknowledgements Thanks to the Anglican Board of Mission and our Executive Director, the Rev’d Dr John Deane. ABM has always encouraged risk-taking in our work. John has been at the forefront of establishing relationships with many of our Partners across the world and has – at personal risk and cost – built a network of people who have changed the world for the better. Under his watch, ABM - and now AID – have maintained a deep commitment to the mission of God in Australia and abroad. To the team that allows these books to come into being, many thanks. Brad Chapman, Nettie Zanker, Rachel Buxton, Neil Thomas and Sue Daw-Thomas. Without you it simply wouldn’t be possible. To those generous souls who agreed to read and comment on the stories, and whose words are in the front, thank you! Cam and Anne and Meg and Ruth and Joan, I hope it doesn’t come back to bite you! To Vanessa, who almost always reads the stories first and provides honest and encouraging feedback. What would I do without you? In life and faith and work, we have always been a formidable team. Your illustrations illuminate these stories and your faith illuminates my life. I love you. To all those, around Australia and around the world, who genuinely seek to find out what God is doing and then choose to join in, thank you. The work of mission matters. The world is a little lighter because of you. To the faithful band of ABM/AID supporters who generously and sacrificially give to support the extraordinary work we share with our Partners, thank you. Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1.24-25 132
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