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MIssionary Support Team
MIST exists for three major reasons:
- serving our missionaries who minister outside of the ‘local’ life of
PBC
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bringing the needs of our missionaries to the attention of the church
- encouraging those within PBC to become more involved in mission
This past year has been an exciting one for MIST and marks a significant step forward for mission at PBC. MIST is now refocused on overseas missions and missionary service and support, working alongside PBC's National Mission Team (NMT) and also PBC's Local Mission team (Engage).
MIST has been very much looking at two new areas for involvement of the PBC membership; firstly the possibility of sending short-term teams from PBC to various locations, and secondly considering the possibility of developing some sort of partnership with an overseas church.
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As a result of a visit from Stuart Christine where he preached one Sunday morning about his work in South America, PBC were specifically challenged to become involved with two small Baptist churches in Iquitos, Peru. MIST and the Elders followed up the challenge, and subsequently two members of the leadership visited Iquitos in November 2007 so that they could report back to the church on the situation and the possibilities for PBC to be involved in that particular ministry.
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Mostar
Also during the early part of the year, our Youth Pastor, Alan Leese, supported by MIST, organised a team of young people from Energy to go on a mission trip to Bosnia Hercegovina. Seven young people with four leaders went to Mostar in July to work in Klub Novi Most, a youth drop-in centre for young people from all ethnic backgrounds. The team were able to build relationships with the local young people through games, crafts, BBQs, swimming etc and share something of the love of God with them.
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Garth
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Debbie and Jamie
Debbie and Jamie are working with WEC in the Gambia. They were home during summer '07 and were able to report on their ministry. PBC donated our “Thank Offering” in October '06 towards the purchase of a much needed new vehicle to replace their old car which had reached its sell-by date !!
Hannah
has used her gap year to visit
14 DEC 07 - - Fund raising for Anna's trip out to the Gambia
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Jonathan Gough
Jonathan Gough is the New Pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Northwich, after many years serving in Poland. He is married to Iwona (from Warsaw, Poland) and they have two daughters, Alexandra and Victoria and a border collie.
Jonathan is originally from Poynton in Cheshire. He studied at Moorlands Bible College and later at Haus Edelweiss Institute for Biblical Studies, near Vienna in Austria. For 16 years he was a pastor and seminary lecturer in Poland and speaks Polish fluently. For many years Jonathan had an itinerant preaching ministry to many parts of Poland and other Central and Eastern European Countries, and has also preached regularly in Iceland and North America.
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Africa
Rachel
has been working with the African Childrens Choir and is now
working as Network Training Facilitator in
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Tony and Ann
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Stuart and Georgie
BMS - Stuart
and Georgie, are our Link Missionaries with BMS World
Mission, working in South America. Before becoming a missionary Stuart
was a member of our church and it was here that he made his commitment in
baptism. He has worked in Brazil for many years, but in recent years
has been Regional Secretary for
In 1992 Georgie
began to develop a creative response to the problem of urban poverty in
the poor districts of
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BMS World Mission
BMS World Mission enables the Baptist Churches in the British Isles to respond to the call of God by sharing with all God's people in making known the Gospel Jesus Christ throughout the world, principally beyond the British Isles. BMS has over 200 workers serving overseas. They include 180 full time missionaries, 7 volunteers and 17 Youth Action Team members. BMS are working in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. PBC regularly supports BMS by prayer and giving.
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Tearfund
Tearfund
Back in 2006, Tearfund Sunday took up the theme of “Make Poverty History”.
Many British aid groups joined forces under this banner to highlight the
problem of poverty around the world. In the Sunday service, the MIST team
led a fast moving sound and visual presentation of poverty, concentrating
on
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Christmas.
Within PBC itself many good things have been going on over the year.
Last Christmas the PBC
Christmas Card raised monies for the ‘Send a Cow’ charity;
the £750 raised purchased a cow, plus training for its owner.
Sunday Club were involved in collecting Socks
for
16-Dec-07