St Michael's Church (Church of England)

Most people at St Michael’s know Jenny as she has been part of the church since her teenage years. Jenny finished her degree in Theology at Oxford last year and then spent the months up to Christmas at All Nations Bible College in Ware Hertfordshire. From January 2009 Jenny is spending several month with The Bridge of Hope WEC Christian team amongst the children in the slums of Cambodia. Jenny will be starting Post-graduate teacher training at The University of East Anglia in Norwich in September 2009.

Jenny wrote in her newsletter to her friends in December:

“My time at All National has been a time of real encouragement and blessing, and also one of deep challenge and personal growth. I’ve learnt so much from the Enroute course sessions, and also from living in community alongside people who are so passionate to spread the good news of Jesus.

I’m now excited and a little nervous about heading to Cambodia on 15 January 2009. Once I arrive I’ll spend the first few weeks in intensive language study and trying to understand and begin to fit into the local culture. I’m then hoping to join the Bridge team which is made up of expatriate workers and nationals who together minister to children who live on the streets of the capital, Phnom Penh.

See link to Jenny’s latest newsletter and Prayers Request at the bottom of this page.

If you’d like more information about this ministry please see the short video below, well worth watching, made by a WEC* missionary

Plans in Cambodia often need to change, but the current plan of the Bridge team for early 2009 is to set up a pre-school programme for children who live in the slum, and also run a children’s camp in April, as well as the daily activities of the ‘Bridge’, see the video below. This is hopefully work I’ll be involved in.

Jenny asks, please pray

¨ for these children and their families and the Bridge workers

¨ for safety and for a real awareness of Emmanuel’s presence with me

¨ that I would be able to develop a good relationship with the WEC Cambodia team

¨ that The Lord would provide me with a native Khmer friend “

For more information on Bridge of Hope click

www.timpaton.info/videos.html

www.timpaton.info/bridge.htm

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* Jenny is serving Jesus through WEC International. Their Headquarters is just a few miles away from St Michael’s Church, between Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross, in Bulstrode Park. You pass the entrance every time you drive along the Oxford Road to Gerrards Cross.

WEC International is committed to seeing Jesus Christ known, loved and worshipped among the peoples who have yet to hear the gospel. Most of these 'remaining unreached peoples' are also the world's poorest and sometimes the most marginalized. WEC's core aim is to redress this imbalance – serving the last, first. WEC has around 1,840 workers, from 50 countries, serving in multicultural teams among 90 unreached peoples.

http://www.wec-int.org.uk/cms/

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