News and Mission Stories

Frontline Ministry

The conflict in Eastern Ukraine erupted early in 2014, when Russian-supported separatists took control of parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, known as the Donbass. It has claimed an estimated 13,000 lives, and displaced over one million people as refugees and internally displaced people. Although this war rumbles on it is now largely forgotten by our mainstream media. Yet the Lord’s people have found that gospel opportunities abound in this troubled area, as reports from two contacts show.

Great things growing from a mustard seed

GBM works in close partnership with OneHundredFold, helping to support Keith Charlton in his ministry and distributing some OneHundredFold resources through our Radio team. Ben Griffin, Director of Communications (UK) for OneHundredFold, tells us how the work has been growing and bearing fruit.

Training Matters

Theo and Sonja Donner have served in Medellín, Colombia since 1983. Theo teaches at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia (FUSBC) which is based in this rambling city of 2.4 million people. Like almost every part of the world, much of daily life in Colombia was shut down due to the coronavirus, although Medellín had at that time recorded relatively few cases.

Serving the Suffering Church

Phil and Carolyn began serving in West Africa in 2013. The region was relatively stable at the time, with good inter-communal relationships making it safe for local Christians and Western missionaries to live and work there. Tragically, the security situation has now deteriorated, bringing many changes to life and ministry.

Seeing the Fruit of Five Years’ Labour

P and S live and serve in a Central Asian republic, where they lead the student movement in the country. After four lean and difficult years, the last academic year has been exceptional in the amount of fruit they have seen. P writes to share these encouragements.

A Week in the Life

A and S serve in Serbia, where they have been planting a church for several years. What is life like in a small but growing church plant? And how does that affect family life with three young children? A describes her typical week.

Lockdown Lessons in Legionowo

In 2009 Andrzej and Monika Kempczyński were sent by Grace Baptist Chapel in Tottenham to plant a church in their native Poland. They continue serving faithfully in this ministry in Legionowo, a large town about 23km north of Warsaw. Andrzej reports on how God has been at work among them, despite the impact of coronavirus.

Serving Today – Preaching, radio, podcasts

Andrew Cook produces and presents GBM Radio’s programme Serving Today. This is a weekly programme for pastors and leaders in the Developing World, teaching the Bible clearly and addressing the issues that they face in their work.

GBM’s Serving Today’s radio programmes support those involved in preaching and teaching the Bible to God’s people mainly in the developing world.

Returning to Riga

When Daryl and Julia Jones made a missionary visit to Latvia to see the Firths and the Evans’s in Riga, it brought back memories of a previous visit twenty years ago.

As the plane took off our minds went back to the turn of the century when we made our first pastoral visit to Riga.

Hanson Manova

In October 2019 we enjoyed a visit from Hanson Manova, an Indian pastor from Namakkal in Tamil Nadu. Hanson trained in the evangelical theological seminary in Hosur near Bangalore, but has recently returned to his home town as an interim pastor to find a successor for his father, Stanley Jones, as pastor.