Missionaries we support at
St Peter's Church Farnborough, Hampshire
Church of England, Diocese of Guildford

LEEDS
Andrew, Paula and Children

Andrew and Paula live in Leeds where they are members of St. George's church, Leeds. Andrew's real gift is for Bible story telling and along with some preaching, school assembly work (sponsored by local churches) and various other projects, he has set up a ministry called tale2tell media with the aim of using his story telling gifts along with creative media and the arts to 'bring the Bible to life'. Paula works part time for two different companies doing their accounts. She is also attending college one night a week to complete her AAT technician qualification which should be done by mid 2009. They have three sons, two of whom are now working and their youngest is doing his GCSE's this year.

Charitable status: In 2007 tale2tell media became part of Leeds Christian Community Trust (LCCT) so gaining charitable status and some much needed production equipment and funding. "tale2tell media" projects presently in development include:

Bible Stories - a series where some of Andrew's original audio Bible stories are being filmed for use in schools and churches.

Animal Tales - for younger children. This will be a series of audio Bible stories told from the perspective of any animal that may have been involved or 'seen' what happened! Each CD will be packaged with beautiful illustrations by Polly Shepherd.

STRONGER (previously know as TNT) - creative short productions for teens and 20s. There will be both 'Bible story only' versions and 'teaching only' versions, both using creative visual imagery. These and most of the other products will be downloaded from the web making them more accessible.

3D Animations - Creative 3D animations of Bible stories. Initially, the team aim to produce a series of short Bible story based animations to develop their story telling and animation skills. Full Bible stories should start production in 2009. For more information please visit www.tale2tell.com OR www.audio-bibles.co.uk and look for 'Bible Stories CD'.

LONDON
Graham and Rosie

Graham and Rosie are both with the London City Mission and work in Tooting. Graham visits every home in his parish on a regular basis in order to build up contact with people and Rosie spends much time working alongside hospital chaplains in two local hospitals. Her role is also one of being available to talk to those who want to share with someone. They both have roles to play within their local church as well.

UK & Overseas Missionaries

Andrew and Miriam

Andrew and Miriam are in Iringa, Tanzania with Emmanuel International, coordinating various projects with EI's partner church the Diocese of Ruaha. They have been in Tanzania since 2005 and already feel well established and at home amongst the people, in the various projects and with their EI team colleagues. Andrew and Miriam have two boys, Benjamin born in July 2007 and Samuel, born in December 2008 who keep them very busy.

The projects they are involved in include supporting evangelists and pastors in a church planting and evangelism programme, Rainwater harvesting to provide much needed clean water to rural health centres and schools, and teaching health education both in rural communities and at the Amani Christian Training Centre, where Miriam has been teaching a health course to trainee evangelists.

Andrew and Miriam are responsible for overseeing the EI team in Tanzania, including volunteers from the UK as well as young people from Canada doing internships which are sponsored by the Canadian government. They also regularly host short term teams who come for 2-3 weeks to experience Christian development work and assist the church with projects.
Andrew and Miriam have recently returned to Tanzania following their furlough in the UK.
Find out more about Emmanuel International at www.eiuk.org.uk

Nick

Nick is with World Horizons, based in Llanelli South Wales. He is a member of the Global Journeys team that runs mission and prayer trips to many parts of the world, including North Africa, southern Europe and many parts of Asia. Previously Nick was in China, where he spent two years learning Mandarin and then worked for a Chinese-American manufacturing company that made high-tech medical devices.

World Horizons has spent many years praying for the Silk Road - the stretch of countries from China in the East through Central Asia to the Middle East, through which silk used to be traded a thousand years ago. This area still has many of the most unreached countries in the world, and is the focus of a lot of missionary effort and prayer.

World Horizons has a vision to plant praying and worshipping communities along the Silk Road and Nick's aim is to take people of all ages on trips to China and Central Asia to meet the people and pray for them. Please see www.worldhorizons.co.uk for more information and to sign up for a trip!

Jonathan, Esther and Family

Jonathan and Esther have been with OMS International for five years. Jonathan is Headmaster of Wesley International School. Esther keeps very busy caring for their four children, as well as being involved in the community using her physiotherapy skills as opportunities arise.

They returned to the field in July 2009, and since then have been busy getting settled back into their various roles and ministries there.

Jackie

Jackie is with a group called Action Partners in Cameroon. Jackie is a doctor working both in a hospital and in the community where the main emphasis is on education and prevention.

As an important focus of her work, she is serving on an Aids committee where she works closely with others in the community to improve the situation.

Much of her witness and ministry is to demonstrate the love of God amongst the Fulani tribespeople and she is spending more and more time in sharing bible stories with Fulani women, using pictures.

The women are curious and quite willing to listen. Several women when they see her now ask to see pictures of the prophets - Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus!

John and Robin

John and Robin live and work overseas. John has been involved in computer training for people with disabilities and Robin is a wife and mother building friendships with local people and helping disadvantaged women. They have two children and their eldest is now approaching school age and beginning to learn some local words. They have recently been involved in an English language project on an island off the mainland for some months, which has been a complete change for the whole family. They are now back at work on the mainland once again where John is starting a new rehabilitation project with the disabled in the community. This will include sewing, weaving, crafts etc as well as a possible opening for physiotherapy classes soon.

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