GLOBAL MISSION
Our heart is global.
Each year we financially partner with a number of organisations and individuals to help the important work they are doing in sharing the gospel with the nations. Find out more about some of our partners here.
Wycliffe Bible Translators
René and Lydia van den Berg
Rene and Lydia are Dutch members of Wycliffe Bible Translators. In 1985 they started work with a people group in Southeast Asia, doing grammar analysis, dictionary work and translation. The New Testament was dedicated in 2004, and some OT translation is still going on. For the past 20 years, they have been based in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, assisting expat colleagues and local Bible translators in the areas of linguistics, research, and some literacy and Scripture use activities. Since 2021 they are heavily involved in the training of six young Papua New Guinean linguists, who would like to become linguistics consultants, eventually able to take over some of René’s tasks. René and Lydia worshipped at St. Peter’s from 1995 to 1997 and come and visit us every time they are on furlough in the Netherlands.
Ian Cheffy
Ian is a Senior Literacy and Education Consultant with Wycliffe. For ten years, he and his late wife, Gill, worked in Cameroon where Ian was involved in literacy projects in local languages. In 1999, they moved back to the UK, living in Stokenchurch and working at the nearby Wycliffe Centre. Ian was involved in training and Gill in supporting families with children overseas. Although partly retired, Ian continues to work on literacy projects, so that people can read the Bible in their own language.
SIL Senegal
Mark and Audrey Skinner
Mark and Audrey have been members of Wycliffe since 1998 and were seconded to work with SIL in Senegal since April 2004. They retired in 2023 but continue to support SIL Senegal as volunteers, working remotely 2 days a week. Audrey coordinates the prayer support for our SIL teams and partners while Mark provides computer support for the SIL projects in Senegal.
Deep Roots focuses on helping young Ugandan Christians to grow. Born out of a vision God gave David Renno from St Peter’s and Asanasio from Kasese, in 2001 Dave and Asanasio began listening to young people and along with them devised group discussion materials which address their questions, using local illustrations. In 2017 David died but the team of Asanasio, Andrew, Joseph and Annet continue working with Now We Are Saved groups in schools, training adults as leaders called Ambassadors and broadcasting radio programmes.
Watch an update on the work of Deep Roots from November 2022, shared by Sue Finlay.
St Peter's supports a congregation in Jaffa/Tel Aviv that worships at Immanuel House (Beit Immanuel) in Jaffa.
Beit Immanuel Congregation (known as Beit Avinu – meaning House of our Father in Hebrew) is a community of Messianic Jews and Gentiles in Tel Aviv, Israel, whom St. Peter’s have been supporting both prayerfully and financially for many years.
Beit Avinu are a family-oriented ministry demonstrating the blessings of their rich heritage as the people of Israel together with the New Covenant commitment to Yeshua (Jesus) and the Spirit-led life. They are a community spreading the Gospel to the Jewish people and providing practical assistance to those in need.
Ruth Walne
Worldwide, 5 billion people lack access to safe, affordable, timely surgery. Many of them live in developing countries where healthcare infrastructure is limited or non-existent, or where there’s a shortage of trained healthcare providers. Fortunately, more than 44% of the world’s population lives within 100 miles of a coast — which is why Mercy Ships uses modern hospital ships to bring world-class volunteer medical professionals directly to the places they are needed most. They work closely with host nations to improve the way healthcare is delivered across the country by training and mentoring local medical staff, and improving local healthcare infrastructure, as well as completing thousands of urgent operations onboard the floating hospitals, The Africa Mercy and The Global Mercy.
Ruth Walne is in Sierra Leone, volunteering as a plaster technician on the Global Mercy ship. She is using her experience working for many years as Senior Sister in the plaster room at a local hospital as part of the orthopaedic team and is plastering children post-surgery. The children have very advanced deformities that require extensive surgery.
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