People We Support
At MMBC we define Mission as:
Anything we do and say as we reach out to God's world
with God's love in the power of God's Spirit.
Recognising the glorious uniqueness of each individual, mission is about being who each one of us is as a child of God, a person in Christ. Wherever we are, Jesus is too - Jesus presences himself in us.
We seek to recognise, encourage and prayerfully support those friends whose Christian work is known to us through the Baptist Church and other agencies. Here are details of a few friends we have links with:
Jo and Wendy Chapler - Jo became a Christian in Melton, and he and his wife Wendy were baptisted
in the church here. They now serve the Lord in Hungary - the country where Jo was born.
Following a move to the town of Papa, Jo was called to plant a Baptist church there. The
church has grown significantly in recent years and now Jo and Wendy are looking to God for
their next move. Jo writes "The Lord has blessed us greatly in the years we have worked for him.
We had seen people come to faith, new churches born, lives changed and Hungarian and British
Baptists sharing fellowship, their experience and expertise. I love the Lord and preach His
good news whenever and wherever I have chance. I will do that as long as He allows and
gives me strength to do so". Please pray for Jo and Wendy as they seek a new path for the future.
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Mary Pearce - Until July 2002 Mary was working in Chad among the Kera people.
She was a member of a team translating the New Testament which is being published.
She has just completed a PhD in Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London and
continues to teach phonology in the UK. She is hoping to return to Chad in January 2008
to be a linguistic consultant - teaching mostly in French. She will also be mentoring
individuals and language groups as well as continuing to carry out further research.
To find out more about Mary visit her website
home.btconnect.com/mary_pearce/
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John and Sue Wilson are working as full time Christian workers in France and are supported by
BMS World Mission. John is only one of over 280
personnel working in more than 35 countries who are supported by the BMS. John, Sue and their
family are living and working in Lyons where John is pastoring a church. John has visited Melton
and taken part in our Sunday morning services telling us a little of his work and the work of BMS
World Mission.
BMS World Mission works with the Fedédétation des Eglises Evangeliques Baptistes de France (FEEBF). BMS worked in Britanny as far back as the 1800s but, in more recent times, started sending workers to the country in 1988. Evangelical churches are very unevenly scattered across the country and are usually quiet small, averaging around 50 people. There are 111 Baptist churches. There is growing secularism in France, and an opposition to non-majority denominations like Baptists is also evident - many fellowships are regarded as sects. John and Sue produce a regular prayer letter detailed up to date news of their life and work in France. To find out more about them, email them through www.bmsworldmission.org/jswilson. |
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Dennis and Janet Bishop, members of MMBC, have links with a church in Mazabuka, Zambia.
Nathan and Joyce stayed with church members here 3 years ago, and met many of our church folk as
they visited housegroups and were invited for meals. Nathan preached at one of the services. Money
is being raised to help with building construction, and also to initiate self-help projects to
provide income, since unemployment is widespread ".