• 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.

Bible Society  Website
Contact: Herbert Bennett

Bible Society exists to make the Bible heard throughout the world. We are passionate about ending Bible poverty – and work towards a day when the Bible’s life-changing message is shaping lives and communities everywhere.

Overseas, Bible Society is making the Bible available and affordable in languages and formats people can use and understand. In England and Wales, the Society works to build bridges between the Bible and people’s everyday lives, as well as to rebuild confidence in its message. Visit www.biblesociety.org.uk for more information.

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!

Judah Trust (Richard and Prilla Rowland)  Website
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.

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)  Website
Contact: Mary Nurse

MAF is a Christian organisation operating over 120 light aircraft to provide relief and healing for body, mind and spirit to people in more than 30 countries, who live in places which might otherwise remain cut-off due to impassable or non-existent roads. Southover Church specifically supports pilot Laura Westley and her family currently based in Kenya.

Rwanda
Mission Rwanda provides Southover Church in Lewes the opportunity to work in direct partnership with the people of Rwanda, building on the ministry over many years of Dr Richard Rowland and his wife Prilla.

To find out more about what Southover does in Rwanda, read the following documents.

• Leaflet briefly describing what we do in Rwanda.
• Mission Rwanda project report

Solace Ministries  Website
Contact: Jonathan Lamb

StudioforSolace was a project of Southover Church to provide a professional sound recording studio at Solace Ministries in Kigali, RWANDA for orphans from the Genocide and AIDS. Solace provided the building, and a team from Southover brought out and installed the sound equipment, and provided full training back in January 2009.

TEAR Fund  Website
Contact: Ian Hempshall

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.

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.