our mission interests

Wycliffe's vision is that:

By 2025, together with partners worldwide, we aim to see a Bible translation programme begun in all the remaining languages that need one.

Wycliffe UK is part of an international family of organisations with over 6,000 members from over 60 countries.

Worldwide Bible translation programmes are in progress in close to 2,000 languages, with Wycliffe personnel involved in just over 1,400 of these languages.

For over 50 years Wycliffe workers have worked with local communities across the globe, completing 721 translations, making God's Word available to more than 80 million people.

(Also see Mike & Oriels' section below)

Wycliffe Website

• Themselves to be godly and wise leaders of this large international team.
• Themselves as language learners of the Swahili language.
• Extra funding for the entire project so they can hire more translators and speed up the progress of the work.
• The strategy of translation work - there is a tension between accuracy which tends to make people cautious and slow and the desire to get the scriptures out asap which could allow for discrepancies in translation.
• The much delayed airport to be built in Mbeya which would save Mike and Oriel and other team members travelling distances of up to 550 miles on poor and often unsafe roads.

You can keep up to date with Mike and Oriel and the whole project via the web site: www.thetask.net

Since June 2005 Carreg Llwyd Church has been in partnership with Wycliffe Bible Translators in a commitment to support and encourage the work of Bible Translation amongst the Banyole people of Uganda. The mother tongue of the Banyole people is Lunyole and translation is progressing well.

In 2006 a group of 6 from Carreg Llwyd Church went to visit the Banyole and strengthened the growing bond between us by meeting the translators, translation committee and experiencing their way of life. We were given a wonderful warm welcome and this year (2008) a second trip is taking place to run a Pastors conference. We have also enjoyed a visit from the lead translator, Enoch Wandera in 2007, his first visit to the UK.

The whole church supports the project in any way they can from prayer to fund raising.

It is our desire that, through social care, evangelistic zeal and the translation of the Scriptures into Lunyole language, the local indigenous church of the Banyole people will be strongly established and will be enabled to reach out to its own people.

Peter hails from Wem, where he lived with his mother. He has been connected with Carreg Llwyd church for a very long time and the church has undertaken regular support for him, both financially and pastorally. He married Josi, a Brazilian lady working with YWAM, in 2006 and they are expecting their first child (summer 2008).

Peter is an artist and has a strong calling from God to serve Him in Forteleza, on the east coast of Brazil, by using his art skills. "Iparana Art Studio" has workshops for street children and puts on puppet shows at schools etc. as well as actually making the puppets. They also run a small Christian school (Josi's project).

Brazil can be a lawless place in which to work and Peter often asks for prayer concerning intruders, problems with neighbours and misunderstandings with authorities. Their commitment and perseverance amidst very tough conditions is admirable - they need our prayers very much.

You can learn more about Peter's work, view some of his paintings, and more. Please visit the Iparana Studio Web site

Operation Mobilisation (OM) is an interdenominational, evangelical Christian missionary organisation with work in over 110 countries.

Short-term opportunities usually involve some kind of evangelistic work, sometimes combined with social or practical work. There are more short term events in the summer, but there are all-year opportunities too.

For more details go to www.uk.om.org/shorts

For 6 month plus opportunities contact: interested@uk.om.org

For one week to 5 months contact: globalchallenge@uk.om.org

If you're 13-17 contact: teenstreet@uk.om.org

Chris Rogers has been serving with Operation Mobilisation for 14 years. The first 7 as volunteer, and then in 2001 Chris joined the team at the Quinta Headquarters (Weston Rhyn) full time. Chris has been working as receptionist/telephonist before moving to the Personnel Department. Her present role is ‘Enquiries and Applications Administrator’. So anyone who enquires about working with OM or going out with one of the teams will hear Chris’s warm and welcoming voice first.

Chris feels privileged to be at a place where she can hear first hand the amazing things God is doing worldwide, and to be able to play a small part in His great plan.

Visit the UK OM website: www.uk.om.org

Tearfund is a Christian relief and development agency working with a global network of local churches to help eradicate poverty.

Their ten-year vision is to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual poverty through a worldwide network of 100,000 local churches.

Tear Fund Website

The London City Mission exists to share with the people of London, patiently, sensitively and individually the transforming love of God in Jesus Christ, and to enable them to join his Church.

LCM Web site

The main ministry of Barnabas Fund is to send financial support to projects which help Christians where they suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution as a consequence of their faith. The projects aim to strengthen Christian individuals, churches and their communities by providing material and spiritual support in response to needs identified by local Christian leaders.

Barnabas Web site

Open Doors has been providing Bibles, Christian literature, training and practical support to the Persecuted Church worldwide since 1955. We are the world's largest outreach to persecuted Christians, working in the most high-risk places for Christians on earth, where the Gospel costs the most.

Open Doors Web site

The Rev. Ian Benson is a member of our congregation who now lives in London (although he is often in Oswestry visiting his mother). Ian coordinates the Missionary Training Service from his home. Ian has a heart for world evangelization especially amongst the hard to reach peoples of the world. After training, he worked with the South American Missionary Society for 14 years, first in church planting in the South of Chile, then in theological education by extension. By God's blessing, the courses he helped develop were used by thousands of pastors and Christian workers all over South America.

The Missionary Training Service helps prepare missionaries for the completion of world evangelisation. As a service to the Lord, its aim is, "That the nations might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit" (Romans 15:16).

We work with other mission agencies to fulfil our main objectives -

• Run an online database of all evangelical training courses world-wide, so that people can find out what training is available - in all main languages.
• Organize courses to train missionaries, especially tentmakers.
• Write, edit, publish and distribute missionary training materials.
• Train Christians to be lights in their street - for if we cannot give a witness where we live, in unity with other Christians, how can we do so effectively elsewhere?

Missionary Training Service website