Overseas Ministry Partners
Liz Burns | Kagera, Tanzania | CMS
Liz has been working in the Diocese of Kagera – Anglican Church of Tanzania since 2001. Currently she is the Coordinator of Mission and Evangelism which means many varied activities. Central to the work are the Team of Evangelists with whom she shares the ministry. Each of these seven men lead a church in their home parish in addition to working in itinerate mission and evangelism ministry. Door knocking, showing the Jesus Film (based on the Gospel of Luke), selling Bibles and starting Bible Studies are some of the activities that the Team are involved in as well as running teaching seminars on Leadership, Bible Reading, and Biblical Theology.
Other areas of ministry Liz is involved with include oversight of Sunday School leaders, Scripture teachers and Evangelistic meetings in the Diocese. Liz also runs a project to help young people attend school.
“It is a real privilege to see men and women come into relationship with Christ for the first time and others making steps forward in their relationship with Christ. God is opening doors and men and women are responding.”
To find out more about the work of Liz, visit her website at http://www.cms.org.au/missionary/africa/elizabeth-burns.
John & Jodie Lovell | Madrid, Spain | CMS
John and Jodi began training for ministry in 2005 with the expectation of being involved in Church Planting somewhere in Sydney. In their final year of study they were challenged to consider church planting overseas.
Before training for ministry John worked in telecommunications for 6 years in corporate sales and account management. During this time he also completed an Economics degree part time.
Jodi completed a degree in primary teaching and worked as a teacher in the south west of Sydney for a couple of years before Gemma was born in 2004. Since this time Jodi has been kept busy supporting John, raising their four girls, Gemma, Amber, Zoe and Jasmine, and serving in various ministries at church.
To find out more about the work of John & Jodie, visit their website at http://www.cms.org.au/missionary/europe/john-and-jodi-lovell/JohnandJodi or follow their updates on their blog at http://www.cms.org.au/missionary/europe/john-and-jodi-lovell/latestnews.
Kelvin & Roslyn Nicolle | St Petersburg, Russia | SIL
Kelvin and Roslyn, with their children Matthew and Elena, are based in St Petersburg where they support the SIL translation teams working in the north Eurasia region.
Kelvin hails from Adelaide, he had a special interest in languages and translation work since he was in High School. Roslyn grew up in Papua New Guinea where her parents also worked in translation. On her return to Carlingford Roslyn was a member of St Paul’s Carlingford for many years.
Kelvin and Roslyn left Australia in 1998 for Russia. They spent their first 7 years in Salekhard in the far north west of Siberia, on the Arctic Circle. Their work involved the translation of the native language of the Nenets, a nomadic group of around 40,000 people. The family relocated to St Petersburg in 2007 where Kelvin, has been regional director responsible for translation teams in the Russian Federation. He works with many teams in various locations in and out of Russia. Roslyn coordinates the member care for all the translation team members in the north Eurasian region.
Peter & Lidija Novak | Ljubljana, Slovenia | REC
Peter and Lidija have three children Erik, Karis and Lara. They live on the edge of the capital surrounded with beautiful mountains and scenery. Peter is working as a pastor of REC where his main responsibility is teaching the Bible and equipping the saints for works of service. Lidija is responsible for the children's ministry at church. We hope to see REC people be nurtured with God's word at every opportunity God gives us. We aim to reach people with the gospel of grace in a culture where grace is changed for works and penance.
Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, is about the size of Canberra. Like Slovenia generally, it suffers from a critical lack of faithful gospel witness, and evangelical believers are a tiny minority – 0.03%
Contact Peter and Lidija via email: lpnovak[at]siol.net or info[at]rec.si
Richard & Pinuccia Wilson | Trent, Italy | ECM
Richard grew up in Carlingford and attended St Pauls for six years, which gave him a solid Christ-centered base for his future ministry. After six years at Newcastle and Canberra, he moved to Trent in northern Italy in 1992.
Pinuccia comes from Sicily, where she lived (apart from four years at a Bible School in Switzerland) until she moved to Trent in 2000 to work as a pre-school relief teacher. They were married in 2004, with Stefania born the next year and Daniele in 2007.
Pinuccia continues to teach, usually part-time (it depends on what work she is offered), and is responsible for the children's and women's ministry in the church. Richard's role in the church is to help it to plant new churches in the rest of the province of Trent, usually by forming new groups and ministries, training people to take them over, and then leaving the group. He also has a ministry using the computer and Internet, running the main Internet site on the Bible in Italian, and distributing a free computer program to study the Bible in Italian. Through this, he distributes about 50 copies of the Bible every day.
To find out more about the work of Richard & Pinuccia, visit Richard's website at http://www.laparola.net/richard/ or follow his updates on his blog at http://richard.laparola.net/. To see Richard's work in providing the Bible online in Italian visit http://www.laparola.net/english.html
Chloë Wolfson| Cordoba, Spain | ECM