A Note from Muddy Pearl

About these books

Even the Sparrow by Jill Weber

How can we spend the uncertain weeks ahead well? What better opportunity for really drawing close to God, for a complete makeover of our prayer lives. In 40 beautifully written short chapters, each with an incredibly practical lesson on prayer, and some incredible stories of prayer trucks in gangland Canada and working with the elderly, Jill Weber describes her own experience of building a house and a life of prayer. With a glowing foreword by Danielle Strickland, and Jill now a senior leader in the 24-7 prayer community, this is highly recommended.

The Accidental Social Entrepreneur by Grant Smith

It’s one thing to isolate yourself in a flat in Edinburgh, quite another in the Kibera Slum in Nairobi, where over 60% of the city’s population live. Grant Smith, an ordinary bloke with a day job as a quantity surveyor, ran a charity in Nairobi for over twenty years in his spare time and then began businesses to end the endemic poverty cycle. He is now pursuing the incredible ambition of trying to develop affordable housing for the very poorest into Nairobi. A great read on mission and calling, written with a wry sense of humour and complete honesty about his failures and mistakes, this book will bring a smile and inspire, and will help put our current crisis into a world perspective.

Simply Pray by Johannes Hartl

So much uncertainty, so many unknowns. But we do know we desperately need to seek God in prayer. But when we kneel to pray, our head is bombarded with worries, anxieties, with questions. This incredibly simple but profound book on prayer has to be the one for now. Johannes Hartl leads you through his own simple prayer practices, starting with how to switch off distractions, how to put off self-consciousness and worries about what others might think, and seek instead an audience of One. Johannes leads the Augsburg House of Prayer, which has been praying for over seven years non-stop. His latest book, God Untamed, seems very prophetic for the current crisis and has a glowing foreword by Mark Sayers.