• Outreach to people in our local community.
• Support for members of our congregation working further afield.
• Financial Giving to Christian organisations.

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Local Outreach Initiatives

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International Relationships (Mission partners) & Mission Giving

We allocate part of our resources for Mission Giving. We work with six established Church agencies both in the UK and overseas. We encourage Congregational involvement in each of these organisations by regular news updates from individuals in the Church, and by giving all of our loose collection at each morning service to one of these mission partners, on a six-monthly cycle.

Southover Church has longstanding connections with individuals working in Mission organisations all over the world. We maintain our relationship through the regular exchange of news and visitors between our congregation and our link partners.

Church Mission Society (CMS)  Website
Contact: John Price

Our primary contact is through Dr Pat Nickson. Pat has been our Link Missionary for 20 Years, working mainly in the DR Congo. Throughout the coups and unrest there, she has maintained her commitment to train community nurses, in order to educate communities about health. She has also operated at a pan-African level as an adviser, as well as somehow finding the time to be a part-time curate on Merseyside!

Bible Society  Website
Contact: Herbert Bennett

TEAR Fund  Website
Contact: Ian Hempshall

Solace Ministries  Website
Contact: Jonathan Lamb

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)  Website
Contact: Mary Nurse

Guy Brooking is a MAF pilot in East Africa, and there are close links with him and his family.

Judah Trust (Richard and Prilla Rowland)
Contact: Ian Hempshall

Richard and Prilla Rowland are members of our congregation who make twice yearly trips to Rwanda and other states in Central Africa. These focus on training Church leaders about HIV and sexual health, so that they in turn can TRAIN OTHERS.

Middle East Christian Outreach (MECO)  Website
Contact: Ann Price

Christine Angell, also from the Southover congregation, is based in Egypt, reaching out, through integrated practical and spiritual ministry, to the nominal Christian population.

Other recent initiatives

Belarus
In June 2006, eight members of Southover Church went to Belarus to help build a "pirate ship" in a playground at a special-needs school.

Rwanda
In January 2007, a work party of 17 from Southover Church travelled to Cyangugu in Rwanda for two weeks, to build a house for a widow and form relationships with the church there. Watch for their news soon.

Quicken Trust   Website
Emilie Watson raised money for this charity over Christmas in 2006. Quicken Trust is a charity which works in Uganda seeking to provide a better lifestyle to the people there. She hopes to visit Uganda in 2008; contact her for more information.