A Talk given (online) by Ajith Fernando at the John Stott 100th Anniversary Service held at All Souls, Langham Place, UK, organised by the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion I discovered John Stott in the late 1960s in the library of my father who was a layman. I was a university student then and …
A Tribute by Ajith Fernando 15th January 2018 On 13th January 2018 at the age of at the age of seventy-one, Suriyakumaran Williams went to be with the Master he had served so faithfully and lovingly. He had battled Alzheimer’s disease for eight years. MY FRIEND And I lost a friend of fifty years. We …
October 2005 HUDSON TAYLOR CHALLENGES TODAY’S PREOCCUPATION WITH SELF Ajith Fernando We live in an era when selfishness has become respectable in society and even in the church. In fact a lot of the proclamation of the church today seems to be pandering to human selfishness. The church in Asia is also …
April 2011 Questions Regarding Discipleship Strategy of Robert Coleman For a Doctoral Student Please give your name, along with when and where you were in one of Dr. Coleman’s discipleship groups. Ajith Fernando—part of discipleship group from 1972 to 1974 at Asbury Theological Seminary What church did …
September 2010 INDRAMANY SOMAPALA: THE POSSIBILITIES OF GRACE Early last Sunday morning our friend Indramany Somapala called my wife Nelun before leaving for Church. She had forgotten Nelun’s birthday and wanted to give her belated wishes. A few minutes later she was in the presence of the God she dearly loved. She …
When I think Roger and June Hedlund, the word that comes to me is ENABLER. I was an unknown young youth worker who had written a New Testament studies Th.M. thesis on Exegetical Arguments for Universalism at Fuller Theological Seminary. I wrote a …
Ajith and Nelun Fernando 26th May 2013 Dear friends, Thanks so much for the invitation for the service on April 14th. Unfortunately the long time it takes now for letters to go overseas via snail mail and my travel schedule have combined to make me miss the deadline even for the presentation …
Roger Headland: American South Asian Ajith and Nelun Fernando 25th February 2010 Dear Roger, I praise God and rejoice with many who join you in wishing you a happy seventy-fifth birthday. May the Lord continue to use you to further the cause of his kingdom, especially in South Asia. God has …
FATHER LAKSHMAN HAS GONE HOME! One of God’s great warriors for the kingdom in Sri Lanka, Canon Dr Lakshman Pieris, went home to the Lord on 30th March 2014. He was a pioneer in seeking to use culturally sensitive means to reach unreached people in Sri Lanka with the gospel. He passionately shared …
April 1999 SAM SHERRARD: THIRTY-THREE YEARS OF COMMITMENT TO YOUTH Ajith Fernando After 31 years of ministry with Youth for Christ, the founder of YFC in Sri Lanka, Dr. Sam Sherrard, has left YFC in order to give himself full-time to pastoral ministry. For the last several years Sam worked with …