There are two sites out there on the Internet that I would like to make special mention of here, one a new forum to highlight the activities and concerns of Christian missionaries everywhere and anywhere, and the other a cartoon blog which I feel deserves a plug because of the way it uses humour as the medium for the message. There are links to both of these websites over to the left on the sidebar.

Missions ConneXion was launched last week after John got himself “slapped upside the head” (as he tells the story) during a recent church missions adventure and was told to get on with it. The site looks good and has had a great first few days in terms of traffic and number of countries represented by the hits it has had. Do pay a visit and see what you think.

The Cartoon Blog of Dave Walker (whose self-portrait you see here) uses his own art work to illustrate his comments on a number of things, some of them church related, others of them just basically “life itself” related. He has a great appreciation of the mundane, ordinary and simple, and a great way of highlighting those things just as they are but with a touch of humour and tinge of poignancy thrown in for good measure. Sometimes he reminds me of the words of Ecclesiastes 3, the sense that everything is meaningless unless God is in it.
Dave, I think you do a great job and I certainly enjoy your work.

And now Dave has just launched his new website called We Blog Cartoons which offers some free cartoons for your blog. Here are three of them: