Tom Ashworth
Tom , a recent engineering graduate, is working with Interserve for a year in Central Asia. He is joining an existing team , helping them develop better quality housing and more effective construction practices in a remote part of the country. Interserve have 600 partners from nineteen countries in Asia and Arab world.
Church contact name Colin Havill
Penny Barrett
INF is Christian mission society serving Nepali people for 55 years through health and development work. INF started its work in Pokhara and also has five centres in the Mid western district of Nepal. INF helps people affected by TB, leprosy, disability, HIV/AIDS and drug abuse, facilitates development among poor communities, runs medical camps and provides training in anaesthesia, hospital maintenance, public health laboratory work, physiotherapy, speech therapy and surgery. Penny travels to the centres, giving excel and finance training to the nation finance staff and latterly providing support to non finance managers on understanding their financial reports. Penny also works with central staff on reviewing the funding position of all the programmes.
Church contact name Susan Smithson
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Philip & Diana Bingham
Philip and Diana Bingham, with Jessica (8) and Jonathan (6), are serving with the Church Mission Society (CMS), where Philip is the Mission Personnel Manager. He leads the team handling recruitment, selection, training and personnel support for CMS people in mission and is himself personnel officer for those serving in Europe and the Middle East.
Philip and Diana's main background with CMS is in Africa. They were mission partners in the Congo during the 1990s, but when war broke out in Congo in 1998, CMS asked them to work in the CMS office. For some years they jointly managed CMS' work in Central Africa. More recently Philip become personnel officer for Africa before taking on his current role, while Diana looked after the children and became increasingly involved in their local school. When CMS moved its office from London to Oxford earlier this year, Philip and Diana decided they should remain with CMS and have therefore moved to live in Abingdon.
Church contact name Barbara Harrison
Peter & Linda Dray
Peter works with University Christian Unions in Lancashire and Cumbria. Christian Unions are mission teams, and Peter works with students in CUs to resource and facilitate this. As part of this, he works with student leaders in CU, gives evangelistic talks, trains and motivates CU members, meets with non-Christians and supervises two Relay Workers (recent graduates working voluntarily on UCCF's year out scheme).
Church contact name Janet Lee
Francesca Elloway
Fran is Medical Co-ordinator for the Diocese of Aru, Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is currently responsible for 7 health centres each of which is basically nurse-run, and has inpatient, outpatient and maternity facilities. As well as co-ordinating the work of these Health centres (which cover 250 square miles) she also acts as their doctor. She is also involved in teaching at a number of different nursing schools in the area. Administratively she is responsible for the accounts of the health centres, and applying to funding bodies for grants, writing reports.
Emanuel Hospice
The hospice aims to show God's love and compassion in action, to alleviate the pain and suffering of dying adults and children, providing holistic care to both the patient and their loved ones and continues with bereavement support after death.
Christ Church runs Summer camps for the children from the Hospice every year - working with those who are terminally ill or affected by terminal illness.
Church contact name Olivia Murray
Julia Fulcher
Julia works for Trinity Fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya. Trinity Fellowship is committed to reaching Kenya's youth for Christ through evangelism, discipleship and nurturing them - physically and spiritually. I do a variety of jobs including assisting the Director's wife ( who is the Treasurer, Heads up the Mercy Ministry and runs Rondo Retreat Centre in the Kakamega Rain Forest ), assisting the Administrator of our mission school, teaching part time, being on the school Board and more.
Church contact name Sara Wadsworth
Jude Hama
Jude is General Director of Scripture Union, Ghana.
Church contact name Ian Brooks
Jock & Katy Hughes
Jock & Katy Hughes work for Wycliffe UK, which together with partners worldwide, aims to see a Bible translation programme begun in all the remaining languages that need one, by 2025. We at Christ Church support the Hughes family who, for the past 24 years, have been working in Bible translation in South East Asia. They work with a local team translating key passages of Scripture into the various languages of an island group and training the local translators
Church contact name Ian Brooks
Philbert & Godelieve Kalisa
Philbert founded the Christian charity REACH. The goal of REACH is to promote Healing, Reconciliation and Sustainable development in Rwanda and neighbouring countries. We do this through training for Healing and Reconciliation ( through teaching, running seminars and workshops on various topics.), Capacity Building of Unity groups and associations ( This is done after a series of Healing and reconciliation seminars where we encourage participants often coming from opposing sides of conflicts to form associations to work together in social, economic and cultural activities.) and Restorative Justice Initiatives ( through helping genocide offenders to enhance their sense of responsibility and commitment to repair the harm done to the lives of victims / survivors ).
Church contact name Sara Wadsworth
Emma & David McFaul
Emma and David McFaul live in Dagenham. Emma works in Dagenham Parish Church as a Youth and Family worker. She runs an outreach group for 11-18 called SCUDS that takes place on a Friday as well as going into an infant, primary and secondary school running clubs and doing assemblies. Her main family work is visiting the families of the SCUDS members and making links through a mums and toddler group where all the mums have no connection with church. Both David and Emma will be involved in a one off parent course which they hope to do on a more regular basis.
Church contact name Colin Havill
Huw & Mary Morgan
Mary and Huw Morgan went to Nepal in February 2008 to work with United Mission to Nepal as long-term mission partners. Mary will join the leadership team of UMN as their Human Resources Director and Huw will continue with medical education work there (and in India) that he's already been involved in. They will be based in Kathmandu, with Interserve as their sending agency. UMN's mission is: "To minister to the needs of the people of Nepal in the Name and Spirit of Christ, and to make Christ known by word and life, thereby strengthening the universal Church in its total ministry."
Church contact name Jeremy Bewley
Andy Nash
Andy is working for Latin Link in La Paz, Bolivia . He works part time in a restoration house for street children which helps them cope with after effects of life on streets and prepares them to return to their families if possible. He also mentors and trains youth leaders at the church along with running the youth programme there.
Church contact name Janet Lee
Sukesh & Jenny Pabari
Sukesh and Jenny Pabari are working with Emmanuel Baptist Church in
Kawangware, Nairobi. They are with a team of Kenyan brethren and are
planting a local church. Kawangware is a huge slum in the western edge of Nairobi with a population of some half a million people. A large
proportion of this population is under 18 so a lot of their work is with
children. They are engaged in street and door to door evangelism. Worship
services are held each Sunday in Kawangware with an attendance of some 60 to 70 people. During the week they hold enquirers' Bible studies and
children's clubs.
Church contact name Barbara Harrison
Stephen and Deborah Pacht
Stephen Pacht works for Jews for Jesus, an international evangelical mission with a call to preach the Gospel to Jewish people. Missionaries are also involved in teaching and training within the churches. Their mission statement reads: We seek to make the Messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue for our Jewish people worldwide.
The mission has 20 offices in a dozen countries, including Israel, the former Soviet Union, and the UK. Headquarters are in San Francisco. Stephen and Deborah live in North London with their four children.
Jews for Jesus Church contact name Rosemary Barker
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Jackie Rowe
Jackie is a retired mission partner for WEC who previously worked in the Middle East. She now provides hospitality to returning missionaries and works in her local church in Clacton Essex as a pastoral assistant.
Church contact name Colin Havill
UBS Pune
The link between Union Biblical Seminary in Pune, India and Christ Church goes back to the early 50's when Ann Tomlin was active in praying the Seminary into existence. It is the largest Evangelical post-graduate college in the sub-continent, and trains men and women for pastoral and holistic ministry in India, Nepal and even Myanmar. Graduates can be found in leadership in every significant Christian organisation and denomination in India, as well as in tribal mission in remote areas.
Monty and Rosemary Barker were invited to teach there in 1989, and have gone for increasing lengths of time every year since then, leading to a very fruitful partnership between UBS and Christ Church. Monty teaches Pastoral Counselling and Personality Development, and Rosemary teaches in the Wives Ministerial Training Programme. Each new batch of students receives a set of books paid for by Christ Church, which for many of them forms the backbone of their library for the rest of their years in ministry.
Church contact name Rosemary Barker
Luke Walton
Luke Walton, Bible Society's Arts Development Officer, is team leader for the Bible Advocacy Team with particular responsibility for work in the arts.Bible Society is keen to support, encourage and engage with anyone working within the visual arts who is using the Bible for inspiration.Bible Society is involved in credible participation and collaboration in film, theatre, fine art, installations and fashion.
Luke and Tasha live in Bristol with their two girls.
Church contact name Jeremy Bewley
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