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To find out more information about our Mission Partners, click on the names below.
| Ball, Jill (Ecuador) |
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Meldrum, Ian & Siméa (Brazil) |
| Barratt, Terry & Pancha (Chile) |
Metcalfe, Murray & Penny (Paraguay) |
| Blanchard, Pat (Peru) |
Owen, Babs (Paraguay) |
| Brice, Ed & Marie (Paraguay) |
Palmer, James (Chile) |
| Browne, Michael & Silvia (N Arg.) |
Rowe, Jonathan & Hilary (Spain) |
| Butler, Patrick & Rosie (Paraguay) |
Somervell, Tony & Chris (Paraguay) |
| Carlisle, Gwen (Paraguay) |
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Southern, Mags (Paraguay) |
| Cooper, Alf & Hilary (Chile) |
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Tedman, Linn (Paraguay) |
| Curtis, Tim (Paraguay) |
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Tester, Paul & Sarah (Peru) |
| Gilmour-White, Caroline (Paraguay) |
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Throup, Marcus & Tamara (Brazil) |
| Hollingdale Vilella, Ruth (Brazil) |
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Venables, Greg & Sylvia (Argentina) |
| Hucker, David & Jean (Chile) |
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Wigfield, John & Angela (UK) |
| Kirk, Daniel & Ellelein (Chile) |
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Woodcock, Sue (Spain) |
| Leake, Andrew & Maria (N Argentina) |
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Yáñez, Felipe & Sarah (Spain) |
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| Ball, Jill, serving in Ecuador |
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In partnership with The First Baptist Church in Santo Domingo, Jill fulfills a ministry to that city’s disabled. This includes respite care, pastoral visits, workshops, classes for the young, help with equipment such as wheelchairs and artificial limbs. A charity, ‘Life in Abundance (Ecuador) Trust’, supports the work. |
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| Barratt, Terry & Pancha, serving in Chile |
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Terry grew up in a missionary family in Chile, Argentina and Paraguay. Until early 2007 he was pastor of San Pedro church in Viña del Mar, Chile. He is also International Director of SEAN, the Theological Training by Extension programme initiated by his father. He and Pancha now use SEAN in their new calling to minister to the leaders of the indigenous Pehuenche congregations of the Queuco Valley in the south. For brief news of that ministry see Share Issue 3 2007. |
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| Blanchard, Pat, serving in Peru |
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Pat was an energetic coordinator of the Diocese of Peru's programme of social outreach, with its many projects. She now focuses on the ministry of her own church of Jesús el Nazareno in Pamplona Alta, Lima, and was ordained deacon to its congregation in November 2006. She describes its many exciting ministries in Share Issue 3 2007. |
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| Brice, Ed & Marie, serving in Paraguay |
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One of SAMS’ longest serving mission partners, Ed has a heart for the indigenous Enxet people of Paraguay’s remote, rural Chaco area. It was there that he met Marie when they were working in mission and education. Ed was ordained in 2007 with special responsibility for the Río Verde area of the Chaco, though for the time being the couple still live in the capital, Asunción. Ed wants to see more ordained Enxet and the church becoming mature, ‘attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ’. |
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| Browne, Michael & Silvia, serving in Northern Argentina |
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Michael, from Suffolk, and his Argentine wife live just outside Salta in Northern Argentina with young sons Kevin and Christopher. The focus of Michael’s work is in the Chaco to the north among the indigenous Toba people. He visits a team of three native-speakers with whom he is completing the translation of the New Testament into the Toba language, a project also supported by the Argentine Bible Society. The formerly warlike Tobas requested a missionary presence in the 1920s after seeing the effect of the gospel upon their neighbours, the Wichi. |
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| Butler, Patrick & Rosie, serving in Paraguay |
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Patrick & Rosie dedicated 12 years to the young of Paraguay, particularly in the capital, Asunción. They helped bring to that country the brilliant phenomenon called EJE (Youth Encounter in the Spirit) – evangelistic and leadership-building weekends which have impacted and changed many young people. Now EJE is under Paraguayan leadership and in 2007 Patrick was ordained to lead the English-speaking church of St Andrew’s while maintaining involvement with the evening Spanish-speaking young people’s congregation of San Andrés. Rosie teaches part-time at St Andrew’s School and looks after Luke, Jessica and Johnny. |
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| Carlisle, Gwen, serving in Paraguay |
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Gwen has worked at St Andrew’s School in Asunción, Paraguay, for many years. She was appointed Head from the 2002 academic year and has responsibility for a prestigious fee-paying school which takes over 400 pupils of upper and middle-class families right through from pre-primary to secondary level. St Andrew’s instills Christian values, not least through daily Bible studies and weekly assemblies, so that its pupils might impact a society riddled by corruption at all levels. The school always looks for teachers of English to join its Paraguayan staff. |
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| Cooper, Alf & Hilary, serving in Chile |
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Alf is an Anglo-Chilean who became a SAMS mission partner in 1975. Hilary is the sister of Terry Barratt and she and Alf have pioneered many initiatives in evangelism, discipleship and church planting in their years in the Chilean capital, Santiago. Alf is pastor of La Trinidad church in Las Condes, an upper middle-class area of the city; a man of prayer and action, he’s a key leader in the country’s growing evangelical movement. He and Hilary have four children, born between 1979 and 1990. |
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| Curtis, Tim, serving in Paraguay |
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Tim is coordinator of a Bible translation project which began in the 1980s. The language is Enxet of the Paraguayan Chaco and the New Testament was dedicated in 1997. A team of translators now work on the Old Testament under Tim’s guidance, based at a specially built office in Río Verde. The complete Bible will be another milestone for a people first evangelised by ‘the Livingstone of South America’, SAMS’ pioneer missionary Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb, in the late 19th century. |
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| Gilmour-White, Caroline, serving in Paraguay |
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Caroline is fundraiser and librarian at FEISA, the Anglican Early Years Teacher Training College in Asunción. She has seen it grow encouragingly since its inception in 2000, with outreach into indigenous schools in the Chaco, a degree course starting in 2008 and a mobile toy library as just some of its developing ministries. Caroline is helping FEISA in its initiatives towards economic self-sufficiency. |
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| Hollingdale Vilella, Ruth, serving in Brazil |
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Ruth and her Brazilian husband Efraim live in Recife where Ruth works in one of the city’s favelas, or slums. A trained nurse, she has a particular ministry to pregnant women and to new mothers and babies and rejoices to see a number coming to Christ and growing in that faith. Her work is based around a social and evangelistic project called Casa de Esperança (House of Hope) www.sosesperanca.org.br |
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| Hucker, David and Jean, serving in Chile |
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David from Australia and Jean from Lancashire met in Mexico but have spent the years from 1998 planting San Andrés, the first Anglican church in Arica, near Chile’s northern border with Peru. In the early days the new group met in a number of venues but now have their own plot of land and are building their own church. They lead a growing congregation reaching out in both evangelism and social concern. |
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| Kirk, Daniel & Ellelein, serving in Chile |
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Born in Argentina and Mexico respectively, Daniel and Ellelein have lived in Viña del Mar in Chile since 2005. Daniel trains the national leaders of the Anglican churches of Chile’s Fifth Region. With their two young children they attend the church of Gómez Carreño just outside Viña and are much involved in its preaching and Sunday School ministry. |
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| Leake, Andrew & Maria, serving in Northern Argentina |
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Andrew grew up in Northern Argentina where his father and grandfather were missionaries much loved by the Indian peoples. He works part-time for ASOCIANA, the Anglican social programme serving these people, especially in issues of land rights and deforestation. He also acts as a consultant for churches and outside agencies. He and Maria have three children. Read his blog http://leake.blogspot.com |
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| Meldrum, Ian & Siméa, serving in Brazil |
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Ian met his Brazilian wife when he went to serve there in the 1970s. Both are ordained and work in the city of Olinda in the north-eastern diocese of Recife. They have set up an NGO called ‘My Father’s House’ whose ministries include a safe house for vulnerable street boys, a Christian Centre for Family Support and a farm called Living Waters Institute which hosts camps and prayer vigils. Living Waters Church, led by Siméa, is at the heart of a poor and dangerous community and has transformed many lives through its evangelistic and social ministries. Many teams and individuals from the UK have supported the work through short-term visits. |
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| Metcalfe, Murray & Penny, serving in Paraguay |
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Murray and Penny are both qualified teachers. Murray works at St Andrew’s School in Asunción and also helps Penny oversee the foster home project they brought to birth in 2005. Esperanza is a home which works within the national adoption system, caring for five young abandoned children at any one time and seeking families to adopt them. Its staff are all local women. The Metcalfes themselves have three adopted Paraguayan children. |
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| Owen, Babs, serving in Paraguay |
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Babs, from Abergavenny, teaches at St Andrew’s School in Asunción. In 2006 she moved outside the capital to a flat in the town of Roque Alonso where she had long been attending church. She is much involved there, especially with young people. |
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| Palmer, James, serving in Chile |
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James joined the Diocese of Chile in 2006 and lectures at the Centre for Pastoral Studies (CEP), the Anglican seminary in Santiago. He’s found the adaptation to a new language and culture challenging and fascinating, and is playing a vital role in helping the Chilean church form its next generation of leaders. |
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| Rowe, Jonathan & Hilary, serving in Spain |
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After several years in Madrid the Rowes moved with their two children in 2006 to the nearby town of El Escorial, site of the famous palace and monastery where Spain’s monarchs are buried. Jonathan lectures at SEUT (www.centroseut.org), whose distance-learning and residential courses train Protestant church leaders in Spain and Latin America. |
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| Somervell, Tony & Chris, serving in Paraguay |
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Tony pastors the church of Cristo Salvador in one of the neighbourhoods of Asunción. He and Chris also lead a long-running Marriage Encounter ministry (EMA) which has brought healing and enrichment to many marriages. They have three children. |
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| Southern, Mags, serving in Paraguay |
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Having begun 20 years ago as a volunteer teacher at St Andrew’s School in Asunción, Paraguay, Mags has moved on to become Deputy Head. This is a key post in one of Paraguay’s major educational institutions and one which seeks to transform the values which keep Paraguay poor and backward with a strong Christian ethos, conscious that many pupils will be in positions of influence once their education is complete. |
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| Tedman, Linn, serving in Paraguay |
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A former Head Teacher in the UK, Linn is now a teacher-librarian at St Andrew’s School in Asunción, having served there since 1997. She worships at Cristo Salvador church and loves this country in which God has called her to work. |
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| Tester, Paul and Sarah, serving in Peru |
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Paul and Sarah are SAMS' newest mission partners, having left in September 2007 to serve in the Diocese of Peru. Paul is a qualified civil engineer and may be lending his skills to the earthquake-hit city of Ica. Sarah, a teacher, will probably be working at the Anglican school of San Mateo and also developing the Playbus scheme which helps children in Lima's poorest communities to learn through play. Paul will help to start a youth group for three churches. |
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| Throup, Marcus & Tamara, serving in Brazil |
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Marcus and his Brazilian wife spent their first term in Recife, her home city, and nearby Olinda. They were involved in pastoral work and theological education. They now live in the city of João Pessoa where Marcus teaches at the Pro-Cathedral and lectures at the seminary. Tamara is completing her Psychology degree with work among drug addicts and alcoholics. Marcus and others are working to initiate a major regional seminary. |
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| Venables, Greg & Sylvia, serving in Argentina |
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Greg and Sylvia began their long mission service in Paraguay where Greg taught at St Andrew’s School in the 1970s and ‘80s, becoming Head Teacher. After his ordination in the UK, they returned to serve the new Diocese of Bolivia. Greg became bishop there and is now Bishop of Argentina, with additional oversight of Northern Argentina. As Primate of the Province of the Southern Cone he has become a significant voice in the worldwide Anglican Communion debate on sexuality and has welcomed orthodox dioceses into the Province. The Diocese of San Joaquin (USA) and the Anglican Diocese of Recife joined the Southern Cone in December 2007. Their daughter Nicky is married to Pastor Ronny Irene working in La Paz, Bolivia. |
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| Wigfield, John & Angela, based in the UK |
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John, Angela and their three children served in Chile where John was involved in theological education. Since returning to the UK John is studying for a PhD and hopes to serve the South American church again, using his skills and experience, in the future. |
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| Woodcock, Sue, serving in Spain |
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Following service in Bolivia, Sue has been pastor of the Església de Crist in Sabadell, north-east Spain, since 1999. The church has been around for over a century and like other Protestant churches has emerged from the years of persecution under the Franco regime. Alongside her ministry to its Catalan constituency, she leads the church in service to the significant wave of immigrants into Sabadell in recent years. |
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| Yáñez, Felipe & Sarah, serving in Spain |
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Felipe is Chilean and served with his English wife in multicultural youth work in Birmingham. In May 2007 they moved to Málaga to work with a project called La Puerta, serving the many refugees and asylum seekers who enter Spain there from the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Felipe, Sarah and their two young boys are supported by both CMS and SAMS. Read more on www.familyyanez.com |
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