Pernell’s gone global!

I “know” Pernell in the sense that we’ve talked on blogs/Facebook/Twitter for several years, and we have a number of mutual friends – both real life flesh & blood connections as well as online ones. I was sufficiently moved by the ministry of the Freeway, and Pernell’s obvious heart and passion as a follower of Jesus that I hooked up with him to tell him so, and he graciously responded. Since then we keep talking periodically, and I’ve regularly reference the FRWY on my blog:

http://johnnylaird.blogspot.com/search?q=pernell

I guess one reason why that connection feels so authentic is that we are both Sally Army guys. One distinctive of our tribe is that it is so remarkably joined together in terms of its relationships. You could probably write a thesis on the stuff that makes this so! There are a bunch of factors to do with our own particular Church culture, the regular & frequent movement of Pastoral leadership appointments, high levels of denominational loyalty, a sense of us being a global movement etc that connect us up in ways that may (or may not) be peculiar to the SA.

In terms of a UK equivalent film, site or listing… I’m not sure is the honest answer. There are many and varied expressions of Church across the denominations in the UK, but I can’t think of a place which draws them together in any way. I may be wrong on that, though.

Pernell’s a top man!

J