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Thursday 14 July, 2011 
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Michaela has a passion to raise awareness of issues of injustice, mobilising people to prayer and radical action. She is currently teaching at the ‘Youth with a Mission Biblical Studies Department in Muizenburg. She has also taught on DTS courses and led outreach teams to Thailand and parts of Africa.
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Thursday 14 July, 2011 
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Rick and Lauryn returned to PNG in 2009 having worked there previously. Rick is involved in training MAF pilots to fly in the difficult terrain of the New Guinea highlands. Lauryn is co-ordinator between the mission societies and MAF. She also provides pastoral care to the wives of pilots in their isolated locations.
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Thursday 14 July, 2011
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Gary and Glenys worked in Cameroon for 10 years, where they lived in villages and saw God take root in the lives of people as they did literacy, Scriptural use and community development work. They now serve as administrators on the Bible translation team. Glenys provides co-ordination of workers in 22 French speaking countries across Africa, providing pastoral care, crisis management, training and strategic planning. Gary has oversight of the translation work over nine countries. His work involves building relationships with people in government agencies and churches. He has responsibilities of pastoral care of the SIL leaders of these countries. |
Thursday 14 July, 2011
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Initially Edward and Suzanne worked in Central Asia with Interserve. Now they work in South East Asia. Edward is a Field leader and also teaches at the local Theological Seminary, a college to assist the young church in South East Asia in training pastors and church leaders. Suzanne is involved in teaching English. |
Thursday 14 July, 2011
Troy is on a one year internship with a missions agency before returning to NZ to complete the final year of his law degree. The agency he is working with’s first priority is the immediate relief of the victims of slavery. Through local justice systems, the agency Troy is with, endeavours to hold perpetrators accountable for their abuse and to provide aftercare for the victims physically and emotionally and to support their reintegration into society. The agency also endeavours to stem the flow of future oppression by strengthening local judicial systems and community structures.
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Thursday 14 July, 2011 
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Leonie originally went to Germany as part of a Youth with a Mission family ministry team in 1987. She stayed on, working with a church in the city of Duisburg, as a staff member, teaching, leading and co-ordinating a prayer ministry in the church and in the community.
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Thursday 14 July, 2011
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Jo and Steve are the founders of mainly music. After setting up Mainly Music groups in churches throughout NZ they moved to Melbourne in 2006 to set up groups throughout Australia, and internationally. In 2007 and 2008 Hillsborough Baptist supported the work financially with annual donations towards the Australian set-up costs. Mainly music is now self-supporting. We continue to support them as an extension of the work of our church.
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Thursday 14 July, 2011
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Bertin and Sue work with Youth with a Mission in London. Bertin has a heart for mobilising people into mission, evangelism and discipleship. He has led several overseas mission trips into Uganda, India and to Eastern Europe. He is involved in prison ministry and in a community ministry in Earls Court. |
Tuesday 12 July, 2011
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Originally from the Chinantec region in Mexico, Wilfrido came to Auckland for secondary school education, studied linguistics in Melbourne and then completed a Bible College of NZ course in Auckland.
He returned to Mexico in October 2007 where he is currently translating the Old Testament. He also works with church leaders and Mexican Bible Colleges helping future pastors understand the importance of providing scriptures for indigenous people in their own language. Anita, originally from America, is also a translator and involved in translating scriptures with the Zapotec people in Mexico. |
Tuesday 12 July, 2011
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David and Christine are now based in Auckland working with Wycliffe New Zealand.
They spent many years living with the Chinantec language group in an isolated mountainous area of southern Mexico, putting their language into written form, teaching them to read and publishing about 35 books or booklets in the Chinantec language, including the New Testament.
As a result over 1000 people are now Christians. David is still involved in translation work and editing the Chinantec dictionary. He and Christine also periodically do short term service in Lima, Peru, teaching in a University and training translators. |
Tuesday 12 July, 2011
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Roydon has been working with Interserve in Nepal as a Food Technologist, since 1985. He now works in Dhading in the Himalayan foothills mainly as advisor and mentor in local projects of food processing and preservation, as well as teaching about growing crops at high altitudes, nutritional value of foods, food storage etc. Roydon contributes to the life of a local Christian community. |
Tuesday 12 July, 2011
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Dave and Keren work with the Mara cluster of languages in a team working on several languages simultaneously. The Mara region, in the northwest of Tanzania, is the most densely populated with over 1.4 million people in this area and has the fewest number of churches of any region of Tanzania.
Websites for information on their current projects, and information from the leader of the team in Musoma, are at www.thetask.net and www.heartofthehills.org... |
Tuesday 12 July, 2011
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Keith and Marion are national leaders for Youth with a Mission in Germany. All four of their children were born in Germany. They travel by invitation into many parts of Germany advising, teaching and encouraging leaders in many sections of Christian work. They foster intercession groups and work in evangelism. Marion has a ministry in song writing and worship leading and often leads in special women’s events.
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