CHURCH LIFE: International Mission

Cornerstone is an international church, meaning we represent over 20 countries on Sunday mornings and support various international ministries. In addition to our main services, we host a Sunday morning Persian language service and Spanish and Mandarin speaking groups during the week.

Bringing God’s message to people around the world is essential to our mission, therefore we support and send over 15 International Workers to engage in cross-cultural ministry in Asia, Africa and beyond. Additionally, several of our church members engage in local Christian missions in Nottingham that serve those in need of psychological, spiritual, and holistic support.

INTERNATIONAL WORKERS

Joel & Bekah Callow (IFES, Greece)

Joel and Bekah Callow have lived in Athens since July 2009, working with students for UFM/IFES.

Ann & Paul Dean (South Africa)

Ann and Paul run a large ‘care in the community’ project amongst orphans in Ingwavuma, South Africa. The project aims to identify orphans in the Ingwavuma area and provide for their practical, social and spiritual needs. They help the orphans to obtain grants to continue their schooling. Ann is handing on the leadership of the project in preparation for a return to the UK later in 2011.

Please visit the Orphancare Website (www.orphancare.org.za) for more information

Chris & Kesia Pain (OMF, Japan)

Chris and Kesia are currently working with a Japanese church in Sapporo in preparation for church planting. Chris and Kesia's latest information and photographs can be found at sites.google.com/site/chrispain/updates.

OMF have produced a short video highlighting the desperate situation in Japan following the earthquake and tsunami on 11th March.

Thorsten & Kerstin Prill (Crosslinks, Namibia)

Thorsten and Kerstin are serving with Crosslinks at Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary (www.nets.edu.na). Thorsten is teaching while Kerstin is involved in college administration. Check out the video below for more up-to-date information. You can also download the latest NETS newsletter

Pete Stonelake (Niksic, Montenegro)

Pete is working with EUS (IFES Student Group) and local churches in Montenegro. He also works for the local University teaching translation between English and Serbian, and is involved in youth work at his church in Niksic.

Check out Pete's website: www.reetpetite.org.uk

Dave & Andrea Taylor (Malawi)

David And Andrea are setting up a 'business mission' organisation called Untangled. So far the journey has taken then to Malawi, South Africa and currently they are setting up the UK headquarters in Bedford. They help individuals in the developing world who are called to Christian ministry, but have no way to fund themselves. Untangled helps these individuals to set up small businesses that will provide for their needs, whilst also training them in ministry skills.

Click on the links below to see some short video clips for more information.

Video Clip 1 | Video Clip 2 | Video Clip 3

Alister & Sarah Torrens (Ukraine)

Alister and Sarah are working with ITEM (International Theological Education Ministries), teaching in Bible colleges across Easter Europe. Alister is also an active part member of a team of church planters.

Rachel & Sjoerd van Veen (SIM, Niger)

Working with SIM, Rachel and Sjoerd seek to reach the Fulani people by visiting and distributing evangelistic audio tapes to be aired on radio.

Check out their blog to find out more: http://lifeinniger.blogspot.com/

Sarah White (Malawi)

Sarah is a statistics research leader in the field of Malawin disease. Sarah shares her faith through her friendships, work and local church involvement.

Luke & Christina (Asia)

Luke & Christina are involved in evangelism in East Asia.

In addition to those mentioned above, we also have a number of members currently preparing for overseas missions.