Hello! My name is RevMel and I offer you a warm welcome to my website.
Whether you are a school chaplain or a minister, I hope you’ll find many resources to help you share the most powerful good news story that has ever been brought to humanity.
Dive in … and let’s start the adventure!
Storyboarding my Narrative Preaching journey in a new missionary community
From the first message, and the first illustrated story book … join me on an exciting new adventure.
No one is ever too old
for a story ...
- The Perfect HomeWatch Book 2 of The Little Books of Blessing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI0aVfC1j_o The Perfect Home | Little Books of Blessing – Book 2
- The Eternal Author’s Mysterious StoryWatch The Eternal Author's Mysterious Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxMErpqVjj4 The Eternal Author's Mysterious Story | Little Books of Blessing – Book 1
- Reflection: Post Narrative Message 2Within days of delivering my second Narrative sermon message I received some important feedback. Some of the members of the congregation felt like they were back in school, and that my messages – because they included extracts of children's stories – were not speaking to them. They felt I was too much in 'teacher' mode. … Read more
- Reflection: Post Message and Book 1"I'd like to tellyou a story …" On 9 February, at three services, ranging quite significantly in formality, I delivered my first narrative message: God's Mysterious Plan. I chose the lectionary reading from 1 Corinthians 2 focusing on verse 7: The wisdom we speak of is the mystery of God – his plan that was … Read more
- The Polluted KingdomYou will probably immediately notice that the cover of this new children's book is vastly different from the previous ones, being "The Eternal Author's Mysterious Story" and "The Perfect Home". Having both my sons on holidays, they were constantly commenting on the work I was doing on my laptop (while they worked on theirs). My … Read more