Our church supports a number of missionaries overseas while short term mission trips are also run at various times throughout the year. We also partner with Samaritan's Purse supplying shoe boxes for their "Operation Christmas Child" program.
Richard & Rachel Reed - Zambia
Richard is a teacher of mathematics and physics who has somehow found himself with a maintenance role. His days are filled with arranging small and large repairs and/or improvements to buildings, roads, grounds, vehicles, generators, tools, hospital equipment, furniture, and anything else that might not be functioning as it should or could be functioning better. He arranges for purchasing and transport of building materials, fuels etc and he helps administratively by calculating the monthly payroll. He takes opportunities offered for doing bible teaching and preaching and he is hoping to return to teaching at the local secondary school some time soon.
Rachel is one of two qualified midwives running a department that attends to almost 1000 births per year, as well as holding weekly antenatal, postnatal and family planning clinics. She also runs the Anti-Retroviral Therapy clinic for HIV positive patients every alternate week, assessing the health and wellbeing of each “client”, making sure they are following their drug regime correctly and dispensing their drugs for the next month. She also serves on both the Executive Committee and the Board of Management for the hospital. In her spare time she manages the household and does home kindergarten lessons with Melissa.
Natalia, Jackson and Kirrilee all attend Sakeji School, approximately 20km from Kalene Mission, as weekly boarders.
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Chris & Judy Ayers - Poland
Chris and Judy, together with their four children, are co-opted to SEND as part of a church planting team in Opole - Poland. At present most of their time is devoted to language study as they acclimatise to the country and settle the children in to their schools.
SEND's role in Poland is to plant multiplying evangelical churches and to build up existing churches. SEND is working alongside churches in Poland who share our evangelical faith. SEND is presently working in south western Poland in the cities of Lubin, Wroclaw and Opole.
There is a need for long and short-term personnel from around the world to join these church-planting teams. Long-term personal with strong relational skills would be active in friendship evangelism and discipleship, and others with strong skills in teaching, preaching and leadership training would facilitate formal training.
For more information about AMT, click here.
Wes & Esther Dale - Papua, Indonesia
Wes & Esther are involved in the work of Bible Translation of the Dani people of Papua, Indonesia. There are 17 language groups in the wider "Dani" area, each fully recognised as separate languages not just dialects. They currently are working with the language known as “Western Dani” or Lani. There are almost 1/4 million people in the Western Dani language group with over 800 churches.
The Old Testament was completed in 2005. A Childrens Bible was finished and distributed several years ago. Currently, they are preparing the full Western Dani Bible for publication by the Indonesian Bible Society.
For more information about World Team, click here.
Grahame & Elizabeth Martin - Papua New Guinea
Grahame & Elizabeth are involved in short-term missions with "Train to Teach Min. Inc", in Papua New Guinea (PNG) where they worked from 1966-87 and on a visitation basis every since.
They also teach at Sydney Missionary & Bible College, and Melbourne School of Theology on MA and D.Min intensive courses. They have also taught at Tabor College.
In 2010, their visits to PNG involved translation of John’s Gospel in the Nambo (Arufe) language and Bible teaching.
Grahame is involved in writing for the Evangelical Church of PNG covering the growth of churches among the Suki, Arammba, Zimakani peoples of the Fly river area of PNG.
Elizabeth is involved in pastoral care in Canterbury Gardens Community Church, runs regular PIONEERS mission prayer meetings, while Grahame gives Bible teaching at various churches in Melbourne, Sydney and North Queensland. He is also involved with Community of Hope ministry at new age festivals.
In 2011 they will be visiting Suki to kick-start the translation of the Old Testament which has basically been on hold for 10 years. They will also address women’s problems and run a leadership course for community and church leaders. We are hoping to take up a computer, batteries and solar panel for the translators.
In mid-year 2011, they are planning to go to Kiriwa (Arammba people) for Bible teaching during which Gavin McClay will run an agricultural course.
