David & Alisan Greef (CMS)
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David and Alisan Greef with Etienne and Caris are in Namibia where David works in the NETS Department of Distance Education as a coordinator of theological study groups. Alisan teaches the Bible to women in prison and helps out in a community shelter for abused children. Email address: dagreef@cms.org.au |
Robert & Margaret Love (Wycliffe)
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Robert and Margaret have been working for Wycliffe in PNG. They have one young son, Samuel. Robert is currently the Regional Director for Wycliffe in NSW. Email address: love@wycliffe.org |
Judy Lund (CMS)
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Judy ) is in Tanzania teaching in the Geography Department of the Christian university set up by the Anglican Church in Tanzania. St John’s University will have a strategic ministry as many of the students will be the future leaders of Tanzania and the University is endeavouring to teach them from a Christian world view. Email address: jlund@cms.org.au |
Karl and Lyn
Karl and Lyn with Xanthe, Daniel and Rebecca working in an organisation in India that enables women to escape the sex industry by learning skills to support themselves and their families
Jason and Jenny , Ainsley, Isaac and Jakiah
Working as a part of the team, planting churches that glorify God amongst Indonesia’s least reached people.
Derek and Anna
Derek and Anna with Liam are currently learning language and culture in South East Asia. They plan to move to a new area in coming months and aim to encourage people who have a hunger for truth and righteousness.
Katharine Crossle, AFES, Queensland University of Technology.
After 2 years at Southern Cross Uni Katharine moved to Brisbane and from 2011 is working at QUT (still with AFES).
Email address: Katharine@thebibletalks.com
TEAR & HOPE ENTERPRISES
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HOPE Enterprises is a Christian organisation based in Addis Ababa and other regional centres with schools and vocational training centres. TEAR supports Christian groups in many parts of the world and is involved in advocacy in Australia on a range of social issues.. Web site: www.tear.org.au |
Young Life in Armidale
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Young Life is a youth group that meets to encourage young people to come together, to be built up and to continue serving Jesus together. Brendan Hatte is the Area Director. Web site: www.younglife.org.au |
Scripture Union
Scripture Union is a volunteer movement aiming to work with churches so that people come to a personal faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, grow in Christian maturity and become both committed church members and servants of a world in need.
Web site: www.nsw.su.org.au
Diocese of North Kigezi
St Marks Chapel, along with our wider Armidale Anglican Diocese has a partnership with North Kigezi Diocese in far south western Uganda. The region is remote and poor and struggling to develop. Its natural environment has been cleared and replaced with eucalypts, bananas and grazing. It is heavily populated and over 60% are under the age of 20. The Church of Uganda remains a major social influence with 45% claiming allegiance. These factors combine to present many challenges to the church there.
St Marks support has mainly been directed towards ...
- Youth - personal and financial support and training for the Diocese Youth Director and training for church youth leaders.
- Children - Compassion in that Diocese is Chapel's recommended child support program.
- Women - funding support for the Mothers' Union development and training projects amongst women.
- Agricultural micro-enterprise - a project is being developed to establish a demonstration agri-forestry farm on Diocesan land.
As well as sharing in Chapel's Mission's Support Budget, further contributions can be made through the collection (clearly marked) or via direct debit and a team is being formed to carry out ongoing fundraising - stand by!
Bible Society
The Bible Society’s mission is to provide the Word of God to all people, in their own language, in a format they can use and at a price they can afford. The Bible Society is involved in over 780 translation projects worldwide providing God's Word in over 14 different formats and distributing over 1.5 million Scriptures worldwide daily
Web site: www.biblesocietynsw.com.au
Anglican Counselling Service
The Anglican Counselling Service, an activity of the Armidale Diocese, provides counselling services over a range of different areas. It receives some government funding (often tied to specific programs eg gambling or financial counselling), but relies on donations and other sources to provide its services. There are 3 counsellors in the Armidale area.
Web site: www.acsdarm.org.au
Scripture in Schools
Infants and Primary Schools in Armidale have a team of volunteers teaching Scripture each week. Seminars are also held in the High Schools.
Theological Students (former St Mark's members)
A number of former members of St Mark’s are studying at a variety of theological colleges.