Our Link Missionaries

Church Missionary Society

We support a number of missionary organisations, the main one being the Church Missionary Society.

We have personal links with two families working respectively in Chile and Tanzania.

Chile

Graeme and Jane Peters, Benjamin (6/6/93), Samuel (30/9/98) & Martin (24/7/01)
Check their CMS Website

Working in a church in Concepción, Chile. Concepción is the third largest city in Chile with a  population of nearly 1,000,000 and is about 800 km south of Santiago. It is an important university city and a centre for the forestry and fishing industries. Graeme pastors the Churches of St John's and San Juan, as well as a smaller indigenous church in the hills behind Concepciòn. Graeme was ordained in 2001

The Peters continue to support the university student movement, Grupo Biblico Universitario, through teaching and workshops.

Graeme and Jane and family are currently in Australia on Furlough until April.

Their address in Chile is Casilla 1973, Concepcion, Chile

email: gjpeters@cms.org.au

Here are some of the students leaving for a GBU camp

This is the new Church building at the church they were ministering in in Valdivia

Here are their latest prayer points.

(last updated 3/6/08)

Give thanks for

• school holidays for the boys and generally good health during the first term.
  

• A number of people who have recently begun to attend St John’s services or have returned

Please Pray For:

• our bishop Tito Zavala, for wisdom and perseverance.   
  

• the power of the gospel to be active in breaking down barriers between the different congregations.

• the materials needed to rebuild the main church for the Pehuenche congregations up in the Mountains.

• the Marriage Encounter weekend ( 13-15th June), that couples will be touched by God’s love and have the desire to really get to know Him as well as strengthen their marriages.

• wisdom and courage to make the most of every opportunity we have to share the gospel.

• a youth retreat planned for the 21st June

Japan

Brad and Michelle Jackson 

with Tahlia (5/2/02), Bailey (12/8/03) &  Caleb (2/11/05) 

Brad & Michelle worked as AFES Staff workers at our local university, Deakin University up until the end of 2006 when they joined CMS to work in Kobe Japan

As well as studying language Brad is teaching English Bible studies with the Higashinada Baptist Church. Michelle is also teaching these classes, and discipling and encouraging women in the church. The Jacksons hope to be involved in high school and university ministry in the future.

The children are enrolled in a local school and pre-school

Praise God for:

• improved health for Michelle

• good relationships with local people

• The children settling in and beginning to pick up lannguage

Please Pray for:

• Language study for Brad and Michelle

• healing for Michelle

• Brad preaching in July for the first time in six years
  

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Tanzania

Ian and Fiona Oates

with Peter (20/6/1989), Sarah (17/4/1996)

Ian Oates is a Bible teacher at Amani Christian Training Centre (CTC), in Iringa, Tanzania. CTC prepares people for ministry and trains evangelists. Fiona is an architect and advises on the many diverse building and development projects run by the Diocese.

Siberia

Paul & Melody Kube (with Abigail)

Paul & Melody are working with indigenous people groups in the centre and north of Siberia.

Paul recently travelled to the Ket village of Kellog. Kellog is a very isolated village 800 kms north of Krasnoyarsk. Three hundred Ket people and 100 Russians live there. There are 1200 Ket people in total (including other villages). He is working with an Evenki reindeer herder with the hope of allowing the Kets to reintroduce reindeer herding, an occupation lost after WWII when most of the men didn't return from war or returned maimed.

Next year they will be in Melbourne doing further language and translation study at the Summer Institute of Linguistics/Wycliffe Bible Translators campus at Kangaroo Ground

Paul, Melody & Abigail with Yura and Alona and their son.