Helping Churches Support Their Missionaries Worldwide
Partnerships are often crucial in the work of mission. In recent years, Derek French of GBM Radio has had a fruitful partnership with Gerard and Philippa Chrispin and their prison ministry. Here Derek and Gerard explain how that has been working.
Jean Ellis has worked among the Austrian Deaf community for nearly thirty years. Here she explains how such communities work. The Deaf community – is there such a thing? What do you understand when you read these words? My understanding is a group of people who are not able to communicate easily through spoken language, but who do know and understand a signed language, meeting together in one way or another.
Joe Grimwood served as an Envision Internship with GBM in 2018, based some of the year at Mission Centre in Abingdon, and spending significant time on placements in other parts of the world. Having served on the Latvia team in September, from November to February he went to Manila to work alongside Brian and Necy Ellis and Cubao Reformed Baptist Church. Here he reflects on his time working among the urban poor.
Taking the Jeepney to Church The Philippines is a young country, in the sense that so many of its population are children and young people. Aries and Jodith Liboro have worked hard to reach the children and young people around