40 years on… 23. Dream big dreams
God speaks It was 3.15am on March 23rd 2000. I was in Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guinea in West Africa. I was there to visit a church that had been planted with Sierra Leonean refugees a few years earlier; they had fled over the border to escape the horrors of civil war. I was suddenly awoken with ‘Dream big dreams’ ringing in my ears. Audible? I am not sure, but it was very real. This posting is, thus, very personal. It was only the third month of the year and yet, since Christmas, I had visited South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone before reaching Guinea. I was monitoring some of the ministries to whom we, as a family of churches, had given money, a necessary discipline…