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We are committed to mission and support career missionaries and encourage members of the fellowship to undertake short-term service in mission.
Neil and Lynn Rees work full-time for World Horizons and with their children, David and Laura, are based in Zafra, Spain. You can read their latest newsletter to the church here.
Robbie joined Trailblazers Sponsored Challenge, part of the Christian charity Saltmine Trust, in 2001. They use sponsored challenge events as the vehicle to release financial resources into Christian Mission, whilst raising its profile to a wider audience. Such events include sending hundreds of adventurers up Kilimanjaro, Ben Nevis, Kayaking down the Zambezi and many other amazing destinations. Recently Trailblazers saw over £1 million pounds raised in sponsorship, reaching those in most need through the Kingdom work of our partner charities.
Robbie now heads up the operation, working from his home in Poole with 3 other staff based in the south. Their vision is to release at least £1 million into Christian Mission on an annual basis by 2010 in order that many more lives can be positively impacted, if not saved.'
Trailblazers is no longer part of Saltmine Trust but is under the auspices of Rock UK .
Read Robbie's latest newsletter
John Padwick hjas now retired fron his work for the Organisation of African Instituted Churches through CMS (Church Mission Society) in Nairobi.
Read John's Christmas newsletter
Ken and Sandra Jones are voluntary representatives for ICC (International China Concern) in the north west of England. Earlier this year they spent three months in China, mainly giving help and support at the orphanage in Changsha. Contact them if you would like them to share about the work of ICC with your church.
Helen Murphy visited the Holy Spirit Church of East Africa during
October 2009. Helen has been out several times and is the Mission's main liaison with our brothers and sisters in Bukoyani. She is pictured here with Bishop Emmanuel Simwa, who was one of the three church leaders, who spent the month of April 2007 here, at the invitation and cost of Cottage Lane Mission. The others were women's leader, Keziah Osore, and the church pastor, Revd Dishon Osore, who sadly died in October 2007. I
The Mission has invited three more members of the Holy Spirit Church to visit Ormskirk. They will come in May /June 2010. This visit has now being postponed to summer 2011, as visas were not granted for 2010.
Keith and Maureen are involved in supporting orphans, widows and disadvantaged people
in India with Feed My People.
in Kenya with Maasai Evangelistic Association and
in Malawi with Step to Jesus Ministries.
Helen Murphy with Revd Peter Asava and members of the Holy Spirit Church in Bukoyani
We have close links with an indigenous African church ‘The Holy Spirit Church (HSC) of East Africa'. In 2007 we are celebrating 25 years of friendship. Over the years, 40 of our members have visited and stayed in the village of Bukoyani in rural North West Kenya, where the headquarters of the HSC is located, whilst over the same period 18 Kenyans have visited us.
We have supported a number of community projects in Bukoyani. The one that has gone on for most of the 25 years of our friendship has been an education sponsorship scheme. This enables approximately 17 young people, in any one year, to benefit from secondary education.
One or more people from our fellowship have visited Bukoyani each year for more than 20 years. During that time we have also conducted two youth exchanges with the village and in the last three years one of our members, Helen Murphy, has spent approximately three months a year in the village in six week blocks.
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