Lucy Shares her First Revelation of God
Lucy Cogley lives as part of our community, she is the wife of Christian, our Catalyst programme supervisor. When she shared this recent reflection, I was encouraged and wanted to share it with you all too. “I remember my first revelation of God as my father. I had been reading a book called “screwtape […]
Encouragement and Testimony from some of our Leavers
I wanted to share with you some short testimonies from ex-volunteers that were shared around the campfire a while back. Such wonderful insights and encouragement in here – “God provided everything that I needed in Ashburnham – travel, friends, new life and relationship with Him.” Giovanna from Brazil “You all bought something interesting to me. I […]
Applying to be a Volunteer at Ashburnham Place – Advise for Visa Applicants
During normal times, we have around 50 international volunteers at any one time within our community, and we try to be as diverse and international as possible. The majority of our volunteers are European and British as we are only granted a limited number of visas for people from the rest of the world. We […]
During this time, is the Catalyst Volunteer Program running?
In a short answer, yes it is. Things are a little different, as they are everywhere in the world right now, but we still feel confident that Ashburnham Place is a great place to come and serve for up to a year. The program will run a little differently over the next few months. Instead […]
Creative Jesus Evening
What a delightful evening we were treated to a couple of weeks ago. All the young people on our Catalyst discipleship program had been set the challenge of communicating who Jesus is in a creative way. They were instructed not to use the words ‘me’ or ‘I’, so it wasn’t about their relationship with Jesus, […]
In the Forest! An Insight to the Adventure in Creation Catalsyt Stream
I’m pleased to share with you a video made by Christopher from Germany, he graduated from the Catalyst volunteer programme in June 2019. * Which Catalyst stream were you a part of?I was part of the Adventure in Creation Stream. * What did you learn from your experience on Catalyst?The catalyst program showed me another […]
Edwianah is using her voice to Glorify God
I’m really happy to share with you the first project from our December 2019 graduation. This is Edwianah from Madagascar, she was with us for one year from January 2019 and gave a fabulous injection of positivity into our community. She may have been small in stature but she certainly made up for it in […]
Life at Ash! A Project from Lydie and Anita
Morning friends, time to share with you another project from graduation June 2019. This time we have the work of Lydie (France) and Anita (Austria), who were with us for 9 months. Which Catalyst stream were you a part of? We were both part of the creative ministry steam What did you learn from your experience […]
Graduation December 2019 – Beautiful Diversity!
With Christmas only a few days away the excitement is really starting to rise, as people think about the fun times that are to come over the next week and also the fact that the beautiful bubble, they’ve been living in for the last 6-12 months is about to pop, it can be bittersweet. We […]
Gideon Releases his first single “Home”, written at Ashburnham Place
Gideon, from Germany finished the Catalyst volunteer programme at the end of the summer 2019 and left us in early September. Whilst he was here, he wrote his first song and recorded it. Now it has been released on Spotify and iTunes (click the relevant link to purchase his song). I caught up with Gideon […]