Our church covenant states: “Believing Christ has commissioned His Church to make disciples of all nations, we covenant to make the cause of missions at home and abroad a priority concern.”
One of our members, Timothy Duncan, will be returning to the UK in a week.
Tim is being trained in cross-cultural communications at North Cotes College. That means everything from understanding culture and language to basic survival training and other practical skills for living in far-flung places. He will also be equipped to apply valuable spiritual principles to life on the field. The practical side includes important subjects like linguistics, that is, the tools needed to analyse an unwritten language for the first time, to begin translating God’s Word into it. All of these have one goal, to share the Good News clearly among unreached people groups across barriers of language and culture. And all of these elements are vital for healthy churches in the long term.