International Mission Partners

Leaving your home and culture is always difficult. These people have obeyed the call of God to work abroad, and we have agreed to support them for as long as they believe that call remains valid. A document detailing their most recent prayer requests can be downloaded here.

Andy & Uta Buckler

Crosslinks and the French Reformed Church

www.crosslinks.org

They give thanks for the new building (which St George’s helped to fund) which is now in full use. They now have much more space, and it has been encouraging for all the church as they pulled together to bring it about. Andy has been asked to lead seminars in the French Reformed Church about Alpha and evangelism and he has been confirmed in his post, a big change from 5 years ago when they started there.

Charles & Jocelyne Montagu

Arab World Ministries, Worthing

awm.gospelcom.net

Charles is encouraged with his work on the 'Maarifa' (Knowledge) website which is a tool to share the gospel with Muslims keen to find out more about Jesus. He is actively following up several young men through correspondence and putting them in touch with local believers in their countries. He has also started teaching English one day a week in order to have opportunities to serve and witness to Muslims in the UK. Jocelyne is continuing to work with 'House of Refuge' in London, which provides shelter for female Muslim background believers who have lost their housing and family support as a result of their faith. She is also getting more involved in their local church and is pretty busy! Edward (18) finishes school in July and is unsure of what to do next, and Emily and Robert continue to enjoy school and their other interests.

Sharon Morad

World Medical Mission with Samaritan's Purse

www.samaritanspurse.uk.com

Sharon spent a year in a hospital in southern Ethiopia, and has just moved to Kijabe in Kenya. She was born and brought up there, so it's like coming home. She is a gynaecologist and obstetrician and has learned a lot from various places about how to care for women who have conditions we never see in this country, thankfully. Many women experience difficult and long labour, which can result in a hole developing between the bladder and the vagina which constantly leaks urine - a dreadful fate which renders them outcasts from the community. It is a tricky operation that can fix this, and Sharon has had the chance to learn about it in Bunia in Congo this summer.

In Kijabe, she has a colleague, Sara from USA, and is only on call one-in-four, rather than all the time as she was in Ethiopia. She is teaching both nurses and intern doctors, not just about their work but trying to help them have a more caring attitude towards their patients.

You can keep up to date with Sharon at her blog.

Hugh & Heather Nelson

World Horizons in Japan

www.worldhorizons.org

We continue to pastor a ‘small church with a big God’ in our rural, traditional, friendly town. We thank God for giving us our own family home here last year, and for answering prayers for more men to come to church. Now please pray for more of our friends, and particularly whole families, to believe. Jesus said, ‘Let the children come to me’: pray with us for outreach through twelve weekly ‘Happy Clubs’, where we teach English and Bible to over 100 children each week.

There is an unnatural amount of disunity and isolation amongst Christians in our area, although we are so few in number. Please pray for healing, protection and unity for God’s people here, and for strength and maturity in his church. One ‘impossible’ prayer we have is for outright gifts of land and money for a new church and family centre to bless this town – we currently rent an old building for church, and hold Happy Clubs in a local community centre. We thank God for all of you in St G’s and value our continuing contact.

Chip & Diane Cowles

Agape International, Global Movements Team

www.agape.org.uk

Chip and Diane work with Agape which is part of Campus Crusade for Christ International. They have a passion for cross-cultural missions to un-reached peoples (who have never had a chance to hear of Jesus because of geographic, linguistic or cultural barriers). They lived and worked in Northern Russia for 6 years amongst the Bashkort, a Turkic Muslim people-group. In the summer of 2007 they became part of the Global Movements team, which is focused on mobilizing labourers to the unreached. While working alongside the local campus team they are launching the Perspectives Exposure Course to promote missions awareness and understanding in local churches.