LOCAL, NATIONAL & GLOBAL MISSION

King’s Church is committed to giving 10% of our unrestricted income towards mission. 

Our Missions Team, headed up by Jess Back, meet half-termly to steward these finances wisely and to pray for our missions partners and the organisations we are sowing into. They update the church two or three times a year, sharing prayer requests and encouraging stories. They help the church to keep an eye on the global mission of the church, and the needs of our world.

Interested in Mission?

If you want to find out more about supporting missions, joining with a Mission Trip or joining the Missions Team please contact missions@thekings.church

We sow into a number of local, national and global charities/ organisations whose visions align with ours through prayer and finances:

Care for the Family
City Unity - One Body
Compassion International
Faith and Football
Fusion Movement - Students
Scripture Union
Street Pastors
24/7 Prayer

MISSIONS PARTNERSHIPS

As a church, we passionately believe we have the opportunity to play a key part in growing the Kingdom of God all over the world. We want to be supporting members of our church family who respond to God's calling, "sending" them into the mission field, whilst also supporting projects that we believe in too. In each case, we are committed to growing relational "missions partnerships" that establish a basis for regular communication and position us to provide reliable financial support.

You can find out all about our current missions partnerships in the below...

Freedom Community Church

Jon, Carly and their daughters Isabelle and Caitlin, have been part of our King's Church Family for many years. They served in leadership across a number of different ministries, including Senior Leadership Team, Small Groups, Youth Work and Foodbank.

In August 2019, they followed the call of God on their lives to serve the nation of Wales with the gospel, relocating from Portsmouth to Aberystwyth. The Butlers have planted themselves in Abersytwyth to serve their surrounding area, beginning a church community for those unconnected and disconnected from church.

With a passion to connect with people around Aberystwyth and across Cardigan Bay, reaching out with the gospel to see lives changed, Jon and Carly have established ministries through monthly fun clubs for Dads and their children (Who Let The Dads Out), Messy Church & Messy Church Goes Wild and a growing Youth ministry. Through these activities, combined with Jon's role as Club Chaplain for Aberystwyth Town Football Club and Area Coordinator for Christian Vision for Men (CVM) Cymru (an evangelistic and discipleship movement committed to seeing men reached with the good news of Jesus and connected to the local church), they are seeing fruit and growth, and Freedom Community Church now meet weekly in the local school hall, having grown from a small home-group, to monthly meetings in the local golf club to this new home, helping to build even stronger connections with the local community.

You can find out more, follow their updates and partner with them here.

Los Guido, cOSTA RICA

Los Guido Centre - meeting it's local community needs through education and social ministries

Over ten years ago, William Zapata, along with his wife Nadia, (then missionaries in Costa Rica, now leading the Central American division of Latin Link), was given the vision for a christian centre in the heart of a deprived shanty community on their doorstep. They began to explore this call by leading a weekly prayer group in the home of a local lady, who had recently come to faith in Los Guido...and the rest is history - and we are privileged to help to make the Zapata’s story one of growing success and bring glory to God!

Los Guido is a large shanty town consisting of corrugated, iron-clad, single storey homes in the hills above San Jose. Many of those living here are immigrants or second generation settlers from surrounding countries having fled political unrest and searching for a better life.

There's great need for teenage and adult education, as well as social action initiatives, to break the pattern of drug addiction and violence that is sadly common to many who grow up here. The project aims to create a culture where God can break through all aspects of life - to make poverty, drug abuse and violence things of the past.

The King’s Global Missions Team are planning a Mission Trip to Los Guidos in April 2025, if you’d like to register your interest and find out any more information, please complete this form.

Pete and Andrea, Pure Joy Missions

Peter and Andreea live in Guatamela and currently work as part of Pure Joy Missions. Pure Joy's mission is to bring Healing and Hope to communities by sharing the love of Jesus Christ.

Peter is a former member of our church, who came to King's while he studied at University. In 2014, he married Andrea and they have served as part of various YWAM missions including in Malaysia and Guatemala. In 2020, they moved to live closer to Andrea's mum, as well as to work as part of Pure Joy Missions. Their role is diverse including devotional teachings, kids clubs, working with the elderly and distributing care and food to those in need. Peter also spends time working on the administration and helping to write policies for Pure Joy.

Pure Joy website

The Frizelles’ website, where you can sign up to their mailing list

Women Without Roofs, Nepal. Missions Partner - Anna Townsend

Women Without Roofs (WWR) is the charity Anna set up and runs in Nepal that helps vulnerable and abandoned women there by paying for rent and medical bills. The charity also runs a women’s home and pays for children’s education.

WWR's vision for them is not limited to seeing them become productive members of society, contributing to the local economy, but to also meet their deeper needs through the fruits of the spirit, to be renewed through God's love. A by-product of this may be that they become economically independent, but this is not the sole focus of the work. As there are always cash flow issues and WWR relies on donations and grants this could be a distraction from their spiritual aims but Anna and the team pray that this is not the case.

Through regular meetings the team reflects on how WWR is doing, each of the trustees in the UK and board members in Nepal is a Christian and they pray for God to guide them in their work. Their current ambition is to see the staff and women take on more and more responsibility for the work of WWR.

Stay up-to-date via Anna’s email here.

JOE & SARAH HARVEY, NORTH AFRICA