Pip n Jay's love for our neighbours extends a lot further than our own streets. We support people on missions to serve other people throughout the world. Because this is so important, our support is financial, practical, emotional, and spiritual. We have given millions of pounds to support missions in the last 40 years, we have gone ourselves to get involved for a little or a long time, we maintain relationships with people who are away on missions, and we pray.
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Bulgaria team - mission accomplished! |
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 In September 2009, a team of Pip n Jay people visited a Shelter for Abused Women supported by mission partners Eurovangelism. They had lots of practical challenges to meet, and Sally McPherson shares how they got on:
We all had a great time in Bulgaria doing practical work on an ex-communist building that has been bought by Mission Possible and is being renovated as a shelter for abused women.
It was a very busy week but between us we:
- painted 12 en suite ceilings (3 coats of paint on each)
- painted 2 complete rooms (2 coats on ceilings and walls)
- painted 18 window frames and 12 door frames
- laid laminate floors in 12 bedrooms
- carried 50 mattresses, bed heads, sides and frames each up 2 floors
- dismantled 6 heavy desks and carried them down 2 floors
- unloaded a lorry load of chippings and laid on the path
- carried 30 crates of washing powder up 3 floors
- made up 16 flat pack wardrobes and 14 bedside cabinets, which then all had to be cleaned
- cleaned grouting from walls and tiles in 12 en suites
- peeled the protective stickers off 18 windows and 12 en suite doors
- cleaned 18 windows, inside and out
- scrubbed floors in all bedrooms, library and corridors
This means that the top floor is now nearing completion, just waiting for the builder to install the showers, wash basins and toilets in the en-suites and finish off the grouting. There is still a huge amount of work to be done on the 2 floors below but future teams will now be able to stay at the centre, which will increase productivity.
We certainly encouraged the Mission Possible team but they and indeed all the believers we met were a great blessing to us.
Thank you so much for your prayers. We will be reporting back to Pip n Jay during the morning and evening services on Sunday 18th October.
Contact Sally McPherson if you would like to know more. |
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Mission Possible, Bulgaria |
Shelter for Abused Women
Sally Macpherson writes:
Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, after a history of communism followed by a mafia-style government in the 1990s. Today, the wealth gap is increasing, with 35% of rural inhabitants unemployed and those in the city having to work two or three jobs to survive. Not only is Bulgaria the poorest member of the EU, it is also poorer than many of its neighbouring countries unable to enter the EU.
As well as the frustration of living in a society that hasn’t improved, morality is disintegrating. UNICEF say “domestic violence is widespread and serious” and NGOs estimate over 40% of the population suffers domestic violence. As society begins to accept this behaviour as the ‘norm’, more and more women and children are in desperate need of refuge and support.
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With our church motto “Seek First” from Matthew 6 v 33, Mission has always been a very important part of the life of Pip n Jay, and it is Missions Co-ordinator Ruth Richardson's priority to ensure that it remains so. Over the past 40 years, many people from Pip n Jay have heard God’s call to work in full time mission both in the UK and throughout the world. |
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In 2008 Caroline, one of our church members, spent two months in the Iris Mission School in Mozambique.(www.irismin.com). It was a very life changing experience for her. Now you have the chance to help Caroline make a difference to the lives of babies and children in Madagascar.
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Miracles on the streets of Coleraine |
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Jon Harrison writes: 
On Friday 7th March, 15 of us, representing 3 Bristol churches, got up very early to fly to Belfast, and then travel on to Coleraine (near the Giant’s Causeway) to see and take part the outreach work done by the Causeway Vineyard Church.
The group was made up of Greg Sharples, Phil Kelly (Year Team leader) and his family, the Year Team, some students and a few other hangers-on (including myself). The fact that I was able to go was miraculous in itself as due to the nature of my work I normally have to book holiday a year in advance, but that week was working on a solo project and managed to convince my manager that I could fit five days work into four days. The fact that I was going to Northern Ireland also excited me as when I was growing up in the early nineties, I could not have believed that the fighting and terrorism would ever have ended, and this helped remind me that even in the darkest areas of the world, Jesus is the Prince of Peace and is working to achieve this across the world. |
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