Sabbatical Day 1 (25 July): Well, here we are, first day of my first Sabbatical, and first post in my first blog.
The last two weeks on holiday in Norfolk have been useful in giving me time to skim-read some of useful books and draw up an outline for the talks I will be giving in Uganda.
In Uganda I am to speak at a Pastors' Conference organised by a local pastor, Nsubuga Davidson, who was part of a team from Smile International who visited us in Greenisland a few years ago.
The theme of the conference is Biblical Leadership and this is the programme:

1. Monday 5 August - 1 address of 1 hour 45 minutes (including translation) at Hoima
2. Tuesday 6 August - 2 addresses as above
3. Wednesday 7 August - 2 addresses as above
4. Friday 9 August - 2 addresses at Nansana covering some of the same materials as at hoima
5. Sunday 11 August - sermon of 1 hour 30 minutes (including translation) at pastor Davidson's Church.

In addition to the Bible itself, I've consulted the following bibliography:

Tokunboh Adeyemo: Africa Bible Commentary, 2006 Zondervan

Robert Banks & Bernice M Ledbetter: Reviewing Leadership, 2004 Baker Academic

Paul Beasley-Murray: Dynamic Leadership, 1990 Monarch Publications

Stephen Croft: Ministry in Three Dimensions, 1999, revised and reprinted 2010 Dartman Longman & Todd

Margaret Ford: Janani the making of a martyr, 1978 Marchall, Morgan & Scott

Grove Leadership Series (CPAS)
L5 Understanding and Using Power (2011 Roger Preece)
L9 The Cross-Shaped Leader (2012 Ian Rawley)
L11 Leading in Demanding Times (2013 Peter Shaw & Graham Shaw)

William O’Donovan: Biblical Christianity in African Perspective, 1992, revised and reprinted 2000

Hugh R Page (Ed): The Africana Bible, 2010 Fortress Press

Andrew Watson: The Fourfold Leadership of Jesus, 2008 The Bible Reading Fellowship

The biography of Archbishop Janani Luwum of Uganda has an interesting background. A copy was given to me in 1978 as a gift from Michael Lugör, a minister from the Sudan who was studying with me at Union Theological College in Belfast.Having kept it all those years, I now find it has a particular relevance!

Now, to begin drawing the talks together...