Today, the Bishop of St Alban's appointed me as Chaplain to the Gypsies, Travellers and Roma for our Diocese. This is a kind of official approval of the work I've been doing with these people over the last two years. Perhaps a good note on which to launch this blog.
The Luton Roma Church is a tiny mustard seed right now - just me and a few others meeting to pray in one Roma home. Tiny beginnings. But there's something stirring. Mum's decided to go for full immersion baptism on Easter Sunday. "Me kamav te bokuima!" "I want to be born again!" This is her way of thanking God for healing her son who a year ago had been seriously ill. At the time she saw a vision of the risen Jesus. The prayer meetings are important to her: she's turned down work that clashed with the time we meet, not least because it meant cleaning in a very dubious place in town. She's sacrificed income rather than compromise her faith. God will honour this!
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