For many of us, our daily lives are mixtures of happenings of which worship at church is but one part. Life takes us all over the place – even all over the world. We find ourselves in countless situations, some of our choosing and to our pleasure, others we would perhaps have avoided and yet others that are impossible to cope with.

Introduction
This conference was the third organised by the European Baptist Federation to address issues of human trafficking – particularly that concerned with trafficking for sexual exploitation. We came together from 17 countries, a mixture of places of origin and destination for trafficked women – although sadly some from the east could not obtain visas. The

I have been in Sudan for over three and a half years and this is enough to understand the country, the people, their culture, habits and traditions amongst other things. As you live with them day after day and rub shoulders with the people, you get to know what makes them happy, sad or angry.

Much of modern Africa is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Seventeen nations, a third of the continent, became independent in 1960. But there is an equally significant anniversary this year: the 125th anniversary of the Berlin Conference, which carved up Africa among the European powers. The decisions of that meeting – the climax of