Address: PO Box 100,Inter-Church House, 35 Lower Marsh, London, SE1 7RT, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 (0)20 7620 4444
Fax: +44 (0)20 7620 0719
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.christian-aid.org.uk/
Description of Organisation:
Christian Aid was founded in 1945 and established by the British Council of Churches as a way of financing aid, development and relief programmes for the world's neediest people. At present, Christian Aid is the official agency of 40 British and Irish Churches. It works where the need is greatest, regardless of race or religious beliefs, in more than 60 countries. It is supported by individuals of many faiths and of none. Christian Aid does not run its own programmes overseas but works through those of local churches and other organisations which alleviate poverty and help poor people to find their own solutions. It is committed to tackling the root causes of poverty and as a result spends up to 10 per cent of its income on education and campaigning in the UK and Ireland.
Programmes & Events:
Christian Aid works primarily through regional and local organisations in the developing world. Areas of interest include relief, resettlement, agriculture, community development, food security, health, water resources, development education and popular campaigning. Some funds are available for development and education work in the UK and Ireland. International Affairs topics funded are: International Development, Non-military Assistance or Aid, Food, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Third World Issues. Grants are NOT given to individuals, except for a limited number of scholarships which are put forward by project "partners".
Area of work:
West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, South America, Central America, North America, Caribbean, Europe.
Number of staff: In UK & Ireland: 200, No staff are based overseas but has overseas "partners" in over 60 countries.
Chief Secretary: Captain Philip Johanson CA OBE
Address: Marlow House, Sidcup, DA15 7AD, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 (0)20 8309 9991
Fax: +44 (0)20 8309 3500
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.churcharmy.org.uk
Description of Organisation:
Church Army trains, employs and deploys evangelists to work throughout the UK and Ireland within five areas of focus: Area Evangelism: Church Planting: Homeless People: Older People: and Young People and Children. Its aims are to 'Share faith through Words and Action' and enable others to do the same.
Programmes & Events:
Area of work: Europe.
Number of staff: 350- full-time Church Army Evangelists 200- further staff.
Other offices:
Captain Charles Harris, Co-ordinator for Ireland, 4 Thornleigh Place, Lisburn, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland BT28 2FD.
Executive Leader: The Revd Canon Philip Mounstephen
Address: Watlington Road, Oxford, Oxon, OX4 6BZ, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 (0)1865 787400
Fax: +44 (0)1865 776375
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.cms-uk.org
Description of Organisation:
We are a community of people in mission who want the world to know Jesus. Founded in 1799 in the crucible of the anti-slavery movement, CMS has some 350 people currently serving through our mission programmes internationally, sharing Jesus and changing lives in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. The CMS Pioneer Mission Leadership Training programme trains pioneer leaders – both lay and ordained – for groundbreaking mission work in the UK and beyond. The 2,500 members of the CMS mission community aspire to live a life shaped by God’s mission wherever they are.
Church Mission Society incorporates two other mission organisations: Mid-Africa Ministry (MAM), formerly Ruanda Mission (merged 2002) and South America Mission Society (SAMS – merged 2010).
Programmes & Events:
Area of work:
East Africa, West Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, Europe, Latin/Central America, South America.
Number of staff: 68 in UK office.
General Director: The Revd John Dunnett
Address: Athena Drive,Tachbrook Park, Warwick, CV34 6NG, England
Tel: +44 1926 458 458
Fax: +44 1926 458 459
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.cpas.org.uk
Description of Organisation:
Founded in 1836, CPAS is a mission agency working across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, providing a wealth of resources for leaders of local churches. Our vision is to help build and develop the skills of the local church to become a nurturing community and evangelise people of all ages.
Programmes & Events:
Area of work:
UK and Republic of Ireland.
Number of staff: 65
Acting CEO: The Revd Alex Jacob
Address: Eagle Lodge,Hexgreave Hall Business Estate, Farnsfield, Notts, NG22 8LS, England
Tel: +44 1623 88 3960
Fax: +44 1623 88 4295
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.cmj.org.uk
Description of Organisation:
To encourage Jewish people to come to faith in Yeshua (Jesus) as their Messiah; to support them in serving him as Lord in the light of Godýs purposes for them; and to equip the Church to be involved in this mission.
Programmes & Events:
UK - CMJ has workers in London and Manchester.
Israel - CMJ is the largest and most well established evangelical Christian Ministry in Israel.
Christ Church - More than a Churchýý.more than a Guest House. Built in the nineteenth century and located just inside Jerusalem's Old City, near the Jaffa Gate, Christ Church and itýs Guest House is a haven of peace and tranquillity amidst the bustle of the nearby Arab Market.
The Heritage Ministry - this ministry uses three of CMJ'S historic sites, including a former Baron's Palace in Tel Aviv, to inform Israelis and visitors about the history and significance of the sites and the process which led up to the establishment of the State of Israel.
Shoresh Study Tours - the purpose of these is to provide outstanding short-term tours that will help Christians become better acquainted with the Jewish roots of their Jewish Messiah.
Galilee Retreat Centre - Beit Bracha (ýHouse of Blessingý) is a beautiful place for retreat, prayer and healing at Migdal, overlooking Capernaum, Tabgha, the Mount of the Beatitudes, Bethsaida and the Decapolis, Tiberias, Mt Arbel and the Sea of Galilee. The centre is for Jewish and Arab believers in Jesus from Israel as well as intercessory Prayer Tours for Christians from overseas.
Schools - in West Jerusalem through its Anglican International School, Jerusalem, located in one of its historic buildings, CMJ provides excellent Christian-based education for local and expatriate children. Associated on the same campus is Makor HaTikva School where many of the students are children of Messianic Believers and local Christians.
Area of work:
Southern Africa, Middle East, North America, Europe, Australia
Number of staff: 120
General Secretary: The Revd Andrew Lines
Address: 251 Lewisham Way, London, SE4 1XF, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 (0)20 8691 6111
Fax: +44 (0)20 8694 8023
Website: www.crosslinks.org
Description of Organisation:
Founded in 1922 as the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society, Crosslinks is committed to an evangelical basis of faith and aims to link resources to needs in churches across the world, thereby facilitating biblical mission in a number of different countries. Specific objectives include:
The small size of Crosslinks enables it to make decisions flexibly and speedily.
Programmes & Events:
Area of work:
West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, South America, North America, Europe.
Number of staff: 170
Other offices:
Crosslinks Ireland, Mr James Myles, Northern Ireland Co-ordinator, 60a Castlereagh Street, Belfast BT5 4NH, Northern Ireland, +44 28 9046 6489 [email protected]
President: Mrs Carol Gardner
Address: Townsend House,126 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 5LQ, England
Tel: +44 (0)20 7589 9628
Fax: +44 (0)20 7225 1458
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.gfsplatform.org.uk
Description of Organisation:
GFS was founded in 1875 with the aim of enabling girls and young women to develop their potential personally, socially and spiritually.
The Society provides housing schemes and community projects which enable young women to take control of their lives and to gain the skills necessary for independent living.
Parish based branches provide activities and an informal Christian background to develop personal skills and relationships.
Programmes & Events:
Area of work:
England and Wales.
Number of staff: 5 Full time 45 Part time 300 volunteers working in parishes.
Other offices:
West Africa, East Africa, Central South Africa, South Asia (Indian Subcontinent), East Asia, Australia and Pacific, North America, Caribbean, Europe.
Mission Director: The Revd Richard Bromley
Address: Unit 11 Ensign Business Centre,Westwood Way, Westwood Business Park, Coventry, CV4 8JA, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 24 7646 3940
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ics-uk.org
Description of Organisation:
An Evangelical Anglican mission society which supports the ministry of around seventy English-speaking, international congregations in several continents and ministers to holidaymakers in Europe and the Mediterranean.
Programmes & Events:
Managing the recruitment of and supporting Anglican Chaplains in countries where English is not the first language; and church planting of English-speaking, international congregations in Europe. Also organising and recruiting seasonal chaplains to pastor and minister to English-speaking holidaymakers in approximately twenty European and Mediterranean resorts. (Grants are not given to individuals).
Area of work:
Principally Europe; also Middle East and North Africa, South America, South Atlantic.
Number of staff: 6 staff in UK, supports the work of approximately 50 chaplains abroad.
Executive Officer: Mr David Friswell
Address: 15 Covell Close, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 2HU, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 01284 701 988
Email: [email protected]
Description of Organisation:
In existence since Bishop George Augustus Selwyn began evangelisation of the Islands of Melanesia in the 1840s, the organisation exists to support the work of the Church of Melanesia in whatever way it can, whether financially, or through supplying personnel. In practice these days their main aim is to encourage the ongoing relationship in a spirit of mutual support, exchanges of people, and, always, prayer.
Programmes & Events:
A regular annual grant of £40,000 constant hospitality and support to visitors from the Province of Melanesia and those en route to and from it. Encouragement of experience programmes etc.
Area of work:
Australia and Pacific.
Number of staff: 1 & 1/2 staff in UK.
Address: PO Box 70, Oxford, OX2 ONA, England
Tel: +44 (0)1865 556 071
Fax: +44 (0)1865 510 823
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.anglicanmissions.net
Description of Organisation:
NAME is the agreed follow-up to Section 2 (Mission and Evangelism) of the 1998 Lambeth Conference. A world-wide activist network of Anglican Bishops with their Dioceses. NAME's focus is to develop the Church's capacity for mission by helping Bishops to share vision and resources through agreed skilled exchanges and short term programmes.
Led by a board of Bishops and Archbishops drawn from across the Communion. The Chairman is Bishop French Chang-Him, with a programme committee of six.
Programmes & Events:
NAME's three key strategies:Area of work: Global.
Number of staff: Executive secretary, Admin Asst and Website Officer Advisory Staff: Director of Communications, seconded in advisory capacity from the Diocese of Oxford.
Secretary: The Revd Stephen Lyon
Address: C/O Partnership House,157 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8XA, England
Tel: +44 (0)20 7928 8681
Fax: +44 (0)20 7633 0185
Email: [email protected]
Description of Organisation:
The OBF was founded in 1841 to assist the financing of Anglican Bishoprics outside the British Isles. Today its task is:
Bishoprics may be within the Anglican Communion, United Churches of Churches in Communion with the See of Canterbury.
Programmes & Events:
The fund sends income to dioceses or provinces, from trust funds held specifically for these dioceses/provinces. Makes grants to bishoprics in any part of the world from a general fund to which bishops may apply for help for their stipends, other costs or to establish new or increase existing endowment funds. Holds endowment funds in trust for dioceses/provinces, and invested in Britain. Offers advice to bishops on endowment and investment policies.
Area of work:
West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, Australia and Pacific, South America, Caribbean.
Number of staff: 2 part-time staff.
Secretary: Mrs Chris Luxton
Address: St Mary Abbots Hall,Vicarage Gate, London, W8 4HN, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 (0)20 7937 5794
Fax: +44 (0)20 7937 4159
Email: [email protected]
Website: hometown.aol.co.uk/pngcpluxton/PNGChurchPartnership.htm
Description of Organisation:
PNG Church Partnership was founded as the New Guinea Mission in 1891, to support the Church in PNG - in prayer, by raising money and by sending staff - mostly for teaching and training posts these days. In 1977 the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea was inaugurated as an autonomous Province of the Anglican Communion, with five dioceses - and the mission changed its name to be more descriptive of the work, and future relationship.
Programmes & Events:
Area of work:
Australia and Pacific.
Number of staff: 1 full time staff in UK plus adhoc volunteers, 9 in PNG.
National Director: The Revd Stephen Dinsmore
Address: PO Box 69,Merriott, Somerset, TA18 9AP, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 (0) 1460 279737
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.somauk.org
Description of Organisation:
SOMA was established in 1978 with a vision to assist in the renewal of the Anglican Communion worldwide through short term mission. SOMA is now working from 10 sending countries, in about 70 different countries throughout the world.
Programmes & Events:
Our Mission Statement:
"SOMA works for the transformation of individuals and churches, and the healing of communities and their lands through the renewing power of the Holy Spirit by sending and receiving teams worldwide on short-term mission within the Anglican Communion."
We also from time to time arrange for individuals and teams to come to the UK to visit parishes and deaneries, under the 'Partners in Renewal' scheme. We also arrange international conferences to stimulate thinking about different aspects of mission.
Area of work:
West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), Europe.
Number of staff: 1 full time, 2 part time staff.
Other offices:
SOMA International Chairman: The Rt. Rev. Dr. Benjamin A. Kwashi
Bishopscourt, PO Box 6283, Jos, Plateau State 930001, Nigeria
Tel. (+234) (0) 73 464325
Mobile (+234) (0) 803 701 7928
e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
Other SOMA National Bodies in: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, Southern Africa, Uganda, USA
SOMA Regional Representatives in: Korea, South America
General Secretary: Mr Graeme King
Address: 36 Causton Street, London, SW1P 4ST, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 (0)20 7592 3900
Fax: +44 (0)20 7592 3939
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.spck.org.uk
Description of Organisation:
Established 1698 to produce and distribute Christian literature and to promote education both in Britain and around the world.
Today SPCK operates as a publisher of Christian books and a retailer of Christian resources in the UK, and has a grant-making arm (SPCK Worldwide working in association with Feed The Minds) which supports Christian communications and theological education around the world. SPCK is involved in a wide range of web-based activities including a website (www.assemblies.org.uk) which provides material free of charge for assemblies in primary and secondary schools.
The SPCK mission statement is to promote Christian knowledge by:
Programmes & Events:
Area of work:
West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, Australia and Pacific, South America, Central America, North America, Caribbean, Europe, Former USSR.
Number of staff: Publishing: 24; Bookselling: 200; SPCK Worldwide: 4 Finance/Admin 24.
Secretary: Mrs Shirley Eason
Address: 1 Hart House,The Hart, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7HJ, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 01252 726 994
Fax: +44 01252 726 994
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.jmeca.org.uk/
Description of Organisation:
JMECA seeks to encourage support through prayer, giving and personal service for the Anglican dioceses of Jerusalem, Iran, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Gulf. Gifts by subscription, gift aid or legacy resulting from the Association's appeal are allocated in consultation with the four dioceses and the Central Synod of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, and are used to maintain and develop pastoral, medical and educational work in areas where there is great need.
Programmes & Events:
Income used to maintain and develop pastoral, medical and educational work in areas where there is great need. Financial grants. Scholarships.
Area of work:
Middle East, North Africa, Cyprus.
Number of staff: 1
Chairman: The Revd Luke Lee
Address: The Vicarage,The Green, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, WD3 3HJ, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 01923 772 109
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.koreanmission.org
Description of Organisation:
The Korean Mission was founded in 1889 to support the Anglican Church in Korea, the first Bishop being Charles John Corfe.
Programmes & Events:
Area of work: Korea.
Number of staff: 1 part time honorary secretary & treasurer.
Secretary General: The Revd Canon Bill Christianson
Address: St Michael Paternoster Royal,College Hill, London, EC4R 2RL, ENGLAND
Tel: +44 (0)20 7248 5202
Fax: +44 (0)20 7248 4761
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.missiontoseafarers.org
Description of Organisation:
The Mission to Seafarers was founded in 1856 as the Missions to Seamen and combines a ministry of practical help with word and sacrament. The society's fulltime chaplains work in over 100 ports and part time Chaplains in a further 200 ports, showing God's love for seafarers who are away from their homes and families, by visiting ships, offering them a welcome at our centres, listening to their stories and problems, and giving spiritual and practical help. Through our centres, some run with other denominations, the seafarers welcome the opportunity to relax, meet people other than fellow crew members, worship with other Christians, enjoy some recreation and use email, telephone and postal facilities to keep in touch with their families. Chaplains help individual seafarers or crews with work-related problems, such as non-payment of wages, unsafe or unsatisfactory conditions or those being denied their human dignity. They speak out for justice and work with owners, managers and others who want to see such pactices eradicated.
Programmes & Events:
Area of work:
West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Middle East, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, Australia and Pacific, South America, North America, Caribbean, Europe,UK.
Number of staff: 89 full time staff/chaplains 200 part-time chaplains.
Other offices:
Ireland, Scotland, Wales.
General Secretary: Mrs Dipti Pender
Address: PO Box 1455, Peterborough, PE2 2WE, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 7932 824885
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.oxford-mission.org
Description of Organisation:
Founded in 1880. The Oxford Mission consists of two Religious Communities, the Brotherhood of St Paul (formerly of the Epiphany) and the Christa Sevika Sangha. It has houses in India and Bangladesh. Their work is pastoral, medical and educational and is carried on primarily in the Dioceses of Calcutta (India) and Barisal (Bangladesh). Its work is closely linked and complementary to that of the Church of North India and the Church of Bangladesh respectively.
India: Mr Stanford Francis: Father Francis Pandey BE and Sister-Superior Dorothy CSS.
Area of work:
South Asia (Indian subcontinent).
Number of staff: One part-time, UK.
General Secretary: The Reverend Duncan Dormor
Address: 5 Trinity Street, London, SE1 1DB, England
Tel: +44 20 7921 2200
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.uspg.org.uk
Description of Organisation:
USPG is an Anglican mission agency, privileged to be gifted with longstanding and diverse relationships with churches across the Anglican Communion in every continent.
It accompanies churches as they discern afresh the Gospel in their local context and as they define strategic mission priorities accordingly.
The outworking of these priorities is inevitably different in every place and can involve some of the following aspects: serving the community through via education and health, training future leaders, accessing advocacy platforms or strengthening global networks of theological dialogue.
USPG is acutely aware of its complex and lengthy history, and attentive to how this influences its approach today.
USPG bases its relationships with churches on a foundation of trust, respect and Christian fellowship. It seeks in those relationships mutual reciprocity and an openness to mutual challenge. A three-yearly global consultation helps to shape USPG’s mission direction, ensuring the ongoing deepening of a shared faith journey and growth together.
USPG’s Exchanging Places personnel programme facilitates the movement of people between Provinces of the Anglican Communion outside of Europe, with the aim of strengthening relationships, enhancing cross cultural mission and renewing faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Programmes & Events:
USPG has a busy annual calendar of events at uspg.org.uk/calendar.
Number of staff: 45