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Garth’s farewell to Amos Christmas concert
17th December 2020 – Garth’s farewell to Amos Christmas concert
you can view it on Vimeo here
Why Dave Bilbrough says Garth is like a stick of rock
“Garth, you are like a stick of rock,” says Dave Bilbrough
in his interview with Garth,
which you can listen to here
Dave and Garth discuss widely,
from the journey to find direction in life
and some of Garth’s early experiences,
the world of a troubadour or storyteller,
to prophecy, the Hebrew prophets and Jesus,
the challenging Christian community, the power of a song –
and what it means to be made in the image of God.
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Sermon, 19 March 2017, St Paul’s Cambridge
St Paul’s, Cambridge – 19th March 2017
Reading – Luke 4:14-30
Thanks for inviting me – St. Paul’s has been a great support to Amos and it’s good to look back with thanks over 30 years since the founding of Amos.
It makes me think, what is Amos’ manifesto – what is our foundation? Amos started in a practical way to enable me to visit places like Poland in the communist years; Mathari Valley, Kenya; Uganda – and I would come back and tell the stories to churches, colleges, anywhere that asked.
After a time of developing friendships the Amos Trustees decided to make an ongoing link with some of the places and to work with them as partners – supporting small projects. Those relationships proved to be very important and have helped to guide the development of Amos over the last 30 years.
But what has been the Amos manifesto and the guiding principles – there are certain passages of the Bible we particularly turn to.
Amos Trust at 30 years
It’s been a thirty year pilgrimage with Amos Trust, initially enabling me to visit situations around the world where I was invited, and then go back writing songs and telling stories – and that continues.
But it has been a pilgrimage of evolution for Amos – the next significant step was saying we will support partners around the world, and we found this meant that we learned even more from those partners. Read more…