Supporting mission at home and overseas

As Christian believers, we take seriously Jesus’ command at the end of Matthew’s gospel to make disciples of all nations. To this end we support a number of  organisations and individuals, as well as being involved practically with projects , both in the UK and around the world.
2019 9 Claire Bedford 1080

Claire is originally from North Devon and is a pharmacist. She trained at the University of Bath and Torbay Hospital. She has served with BMS since
 2013, first as a volunteer and since 2015 as a long-term mission worker. She has been at the Guinebor II hospital in Chad, developing the pharmacy service which is now under Chadian leadership, and she is working in various capacities as part of the hospital management team. Her home church is Upton Vale Baptist Church, Torquay

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Peter and Louise are working alongside the Baptist church leaders in Bangladesh. Peter previously trained as a Pastor whilst Louise has experience as a social worker. Using these skills, their roles involve training, teaching, support and pastoral care, as well as keeping strong partnership links between the Baptist churches in Bangladesh, BMS and their other partners. They also work with the College of Christian Theology, Bangladesh. Louise and Peter are from Worle Baptist Church in Weston-Super-Mare and have two sons, one of whom is now married.

Cally Magalhaes

Cally lives in São Paulo, Brazil, where she leads The Eagle Project working with young people in youth prisons to break the vicious circle of crime and drug abuse. She and her team work with groups of adolescents who are preparing for their release through a programme of psychodrama therapy workshops based on Restorative Justice, individual counselling and family visits. Cally and her team also support those who have recently been released and the families of prisoners.

Genesis Acaye

Genesis was born in Kitgum in northern Uganda. As a trained agriculturalist, he began working on agricultural projects for BMS World Mission in 2012, later joining as an International Mission Worker to his home country. Working through local church networks, Genesis now trains pastors, farmers, and community groups in sustainable methods of growing crops and raising livestock. With higher household incomes and better standards of living, children in previously isolated communities can attend school. Genesis also seeks to encourage those he teaches in their faith. He  is an active member of his church, involved in youth work, the choir and worship.

In our giving to mission organisations and projects we aim to give priority to:
1. Projects that combine community development with evangelism and church growth; or
2. Projects that encourage training and capacity development; or
3. Projects that assist struggling or persecuted Christians; and
4. Projects with which we can have a direct link

These are the organisations that we support currently:
 
Deepgruh Foundation, India
Reaching to the unreached in Central India.
BMS World Mission 
BMS works among some of the most marginalised and least evangelised people, in some of the most fragile places on earth.
Wycliffe Bible Translators 
Bible translation continues to play a significant part in world mission today - Wycliffe’s vision is that everyone will have access to God’s word in the language that speaks to them best.
Domboshawa Theological College 
The college focuses on training pastors and other church leaders for a variety of ministries.
The Leprosy Mission 
An international Christian organisation leading the fight against leprosy.
Bible Society 
On a global mission to bring the Bible to life for every man, woman and child.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
CSW works to defend, uphold and promote the right to freedom of religion or belief in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
SAT-7 
Providing inspirational, informative and educational television and digital media programmes for churches and individual Christians in the Middle East and North Africa.
Tearfund
Tearfund is a Christian charity that partners with churches in more than 50 of the world’s poorest countries. They seek to tackle poverty through sustainable development, responding to disasters and challenging injustice.

 

The church also runs Soundwaves Radio, our radio project that,
produces a wide variety of programmes,
so that people can hear of God's love in the non-threatening environment
and comfort of their own homes.

 

Updates

Here are the latest updates from those we support