Contact Magazine

Contact Magazine has been running for many years and is issued three times a year. It is a magazine not only for members of AFCU but primarily for the wider military community and military families including those on operations. Contact Magazine aims to reach the wider military community such that it contains signposts to the grace and love of God and the message of the Good News of the gospel. Contact Magazine is designed to be read and passed on and to be given out to friends and colleagues who have not yet understood or connected with the Christian faith. It is also hoped that Contact will be an encouragement to serving AFCU members, as iron sharpens iron so one man sharpen another (Proverbs 27:17). It is story based and colourful and contains a wide range of articles.

Contact magazine is sent out to most Army garrisons and barracks, RN ships and bases, RAF stations and many messes. It's also available from the Red Shield. Please let the AFCU office know if your Mess or place of work would like Contact. Or if there are key places where Contact could be placed on offer for military personnel.

AFCU have perspex Contact magazine holders available, so if you know of a prominent place where the magazines can be made available for display so that they may be given away, and if you would like to maintain the supply of fresh copies, please contact the AFCU office.

The joint Editors, Simon and Rachel Farmer, are keen for Contact to be up to date and relevant so they are always in need of stories and articles. Please keep an eye out for good stories either written by yourself or others, or let them know where a story may be followed up. If you have an idea for a new column or a good photo story, Simon and Rachel would like to hear from you.

Download your own copies of Contact in PDF format.

Latest copy:

Spring 2012 Features: New Ethics -- Military Wives have a voice -- Fijians faith story -- Underwater worship [Size: 1.0MB]

Previously published:

Summer 2011 Features: Why get married? -- Forgiveness-what's the point? -- Signs of God's Grace-3 Para [Size: 5.54MB]	Winter 2011 Features: Should I pull the trigger? -- Making good marriages even better -- 'Broken soldier' turns it around [Size: 1.0MB]
Spring 2011 Features: RAF officer hands over the controls -- A soldier lives the Word -- Always going through it, but never going under [Size: 1.38MB]	Winter 2010 Features: Pray for those who minister to others -- Battle of Britain & Remembrance -- Army General on Rugby and Faith [Size: 4.81MB]
Spring 2010 Features: Why a Christian holiday? -- Visiting the Garden Tomb -- Religious roots in the Royal Navy [Size: 1.0MB]	Winter 2009 Features: Wounded soldiers return -- Bishop's invitation: ´2 Come as YOU are´ -- IRAQ: a time to remember [Size: 1.6MB]
Summer 2009 Features: Fireproof your marriage -- General Sir Richard Dannatt opens military conference -- God got my attention: ex marine turned priest [Size: 2.0MB]	Spring 2009 Features: Sailing close to the wind -- Alpha impacts MCTC -- Marriage under stress [Size: 4.02MB]
Winter 2008 Features: Two into one marriage? -- African armed forces join up in prayer -- Archbishop's Leap of faith for soldiers [Size: 3.49MB]	Summer 2008 Features: Olympic hopefuls? -- RSM, God and Op Telic 11 -- Cannon fodder verses Pew fodder [Size: 1.26MB]
Spring 2008 Features: Courage as the antedote to fear -- Alpha for Forces to Sierra Leone -- Reconciliation amongst combatants [Size: 1.1MB]	Winter 2007 Features: Pilot on mission of excellence -- Following in the ´footsteps´ of God! -- Christian ethics vs military praxis [Size: 3.7MB]