World Mission

 

Mission Partners 2012:

Tim & Bianca Hopcraft – working with Agape in Leipzig, Germany

Tim & Bianca, along with their young children Matthew & Miranda have been working with students in Germany to encourage them in their faith and outreach.

See Tim & Bianca’s latest news: Hoppy Herald

See more about Agape: www.agape.org.uk

The Nason Family – working with MAF in Uganda:

Based in Uganda, Laurie is a pilot, flying around Uganda and surrounding countries supporting mission and humanitarian works. Recently swapped flying for IT Manager’s role.

See Laurie’s blog: http://nason-news.blogspot.com/

See more about MAF: www.maf.org/

 

Open Doors Founded by Brother Andrew, they are actively supporting persecuted Christians and their families around the world, and strengthening churches in countries where Christians are persecuted. We are especially supporting the Women’s Vocational Centre in Dohuk, Iraq – set up to provide livelihoods and employment skills for Christian women displaced by conflict. See latest news from Dohuk: See more about Open Doors: www.opendoorsuk.org

 

Watoto Ministries A church-based ministry in Uganda that is providing care and education for orphaned children. Uganda has a big problem with orphaned and abandoned children for various reasons including AIDS and violence. Our youth worker Gideon was actively involved in this ministry before spending time at St Mark’s. The St Mark’s Scout group have raised over £1000 to support children and the Watoto Choir will be visiting St Marks to perform on 22 June 2012. See more about Watoto: www.watotochurch.com

 

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Originally UK based, CAP now is active in several countries around the world, helping people to overcome debt. St Marks is jointly supporting Andrew Smith, with other churches, to work for CAP in Leamington. See more about CAP: www.capuk.org

 

Bethany Church, Moldova, via Moldova Ministries. The church has a wide range of social outreach programmes, which were witnessed first-hand by a team from St Marks that visited in summer 2010. See the latest news from Moldova Ministries:

 

CPAS Based in Leamington, a number of our congregation have strong links with CPAS. Many of our young people have grown in faith through being members and leaders on Ventures. See more about CPAS: www.cpas.org.uk

 

Bible Society Promoting and enabling Bible translation and distribution around the world. See more at: www.biblesociety.org.uk

 

Leamington Christian Mission Steff and Jeff have been tireless in providing support to the homeless and needy in Leamington for over 20 years. See their latest news at: See more about LCM: www.siloam.org.uk/017.htm

 

CORD A Leamington based ministry with a global impact in bringing relief and development. See more about CORD: www.cord.org.uk

 

TEAR Fund At the forefront of Christian motivated relief and development, TEAR Fund has projects bringing hope and a future to people in many parts of the world. See more about TEAR Fund: www.tearfund.org

 

Mike & Safaa Cloud St Marks supported Mike and Safaa for a number of years while they were working in Morocco with Crosslinks. Sadly they were expelled in 2010 and have now settled in USA, but continue to have involvement with the church in North Africa. We continue to support them in prayer. See their latest news: Any questions or comments about St Marks mission partners? Contact richardwbacon@gmail.com

 

At St. Mark’s we have a policy of giving away 10% of our general income to mission and other causes.