In this blog I will attempt to share my thinking on community work, church and mission. As a community worker and a Christian, there are times when people in my field of work can not see how I could promote self determination yet also have a clear faith.

Increasingly I have noticed that as human beings we are innately territorial....and we love our jargon. So much so that we create it almost to make sure that those in our group know and it becomes like a safety blanket or an exclusive elite club.

It happens wherever we go. Infact I know that there is some jargon in the community work realm that my mission colleagues may not know and look blankly at me. Likewise joining a mission organisation has meant that I have had to "Learn a new Lingo".

This blog will hopefully attempt to merge my knowledge and thinking from these different realms and hopefully formulate some of my thinking, in such a way that people from different spheres can grasp where I am coming from.....Hopefully.