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Mission and Evangelism Forum
(This forum draws together those across the District with a passion for mission and evangelism, and will be the link with the Connexional Fresh Expressions team.)
| Convenor | |||
| District Evangelism Enabler | Revd Beverly Hollings | 01924 826 130 | beverly.hollings@virgin.net |
| Fresh Expressions Group | Revd Fiona Spandler | 01423 504 362 | fionaspandler@talktalk.net |
The World Church & Other Relationships Forum
(This forum draws together those across the District concerned with the world church, with ethnic minority congregations using Methodist premises, and ecumenical and interfaith is sues.)
| Convenor | Mrs Anne Vautrey | 0113 266 7698 | anne.vautrey@talktalk.net |
| Ecumenical Officers | Revd Peter Bates |
01924 461 241 | |
| Revd Shaun Swithenbank | 01423 504 362 | shaun_swithenbank@yahoo.co.uk | |
| Interfaith Task Group | Dr Helen Reid | 0113 269 1130 | drhelenreid@yahoo.co.uk |
| Network Secretary | Mrs Nancy Reed | 01943 878 744 | nancyreed@btinternet.com |
| World Church | Mrs Eileen Beedle | 0113 293 3604 | eileen.beedle@ntlworld.com |
Ecumenical Contact Information
List of main contacts with phone/fax numbers and website addresses
Mission Partners
Maggie Patchett
Maggie, a member of Lidgett Park Methodist Church in the Leeds North East Circuit, is working in Belize, Central America, as a Mission Partner of the Methodist Church.
Click here for her blog. Click here for her November 2009 newsletter
Click here for her Christmas 2009 newsletter
Click here for her latest pictures]
Marlene Wilkinson
Marlene is a Mission Partner in Tonga, which has recently suffered political unrest. Her latest newsletter and children's letter were written in February 2010 .
Marlene is a Methodist minister teaching at Sia’atoutai Theology College in Tonga since January 2006. The college has a large residential community divided into ’villages’. At each village centre around a communal building, the students have garden plots for them to grow their own food and this is part of the college’s life. The community is made up of those who are studying for the ministry and those (in the majority) who are studying for diploma in Christianity as part of their education, and it is in this context that Marlene teaches. All lessons are conducted in English but for many of the students this is difficult. So Marlene spends many extra hours supporting them.
Before going to Tonga Marlene served as a minister in circuits in Oxford and Leeds, then in South Korea (1995-2002) and in Zambia (2003-2005)
Paul & Sarah Wright
Paul and Sarah Wright are Mission Partners who have been serving in Nepal since 1998. The Methodist Church has sent them to work in the United Mission to Nepal (UMN).
Paul works in Disaster Management through a small organisation called Nepal Christian Relief Services, a local partner of UMN. By working alongside local churches, they aim to offer relief to communities who have suffered disasters such as floods, landslides or fires. They are often able to reach out to small communities which bigger agencies are unable to help. They are funded by churches and organisations both locally and internationally. They are also planning to extend their work into risk reduction and rehabilitation. Paul has a special interest in climate change and wants to help raise awareness of the impact it has in countries like Nepal and increase understanding of what we can do in the West.
Sarah juggles being a full-time Mum with discipleship work. She teaches a Nepali women’s Bible Study, in a local Bible college and, with Paul, in a Nepali Sunday School.
Their children, Jack (71/2) and Asha (5) are now both in full time school.
Paul and Sarah belong to Otley Methodist Church and enjoy support and prayers from churches in the Otley and Aireborough Circuit.
Read more about UMN on their website: www.umn.org.np
Click here for their newsletter Christmas 2009
Click on the picture to enlarge it
Drs Graham and Jenny Longbottom
Graham and Jenny, from Woodside Methodist Church, Horsforth, are serving in the Solomon Islands.
Kate Beck
Kate, formerly a local preacher in the Otley & Aireborough Circuit, is working for Tearfund in Darfur.
Click here for her latest newsletter February 2010
Nigeria Health Care Project
This charity, sponsored by Wesley Guild, is based within the Leeds Methodist District.
The project exists:
- to provide primary health care facilities in areas of rural Nigeria which currently have poor or non-existent services
- to work with the World Church Office of the Methodist Church in Britain to form a creative partnership with Methodist Church Nigeria.
The project was launched in April 1992 in order to revive the work of the Wesley Guild in medical mission, which began at Ilesha Hospital in 1912. From just two (centres) projects in 1992, it is currently involved in funding 16 projects with three others on a waiting list for support when funds become available.
The project can provide a speaker anywhere in the district and no group is too small.
