As we look towards Easter the James Hannington Memorial Trust (JHMT) highlights projects away from BH that we would like to invite the church family to support.
If you wanted to make a donation please pick up a Lent Appeal leaflet available at the church or contact the church office for more details.
Here is some information about the projects:
Project 1: FESTIVE
FESTIVE works to inspire and equip students and chaplains in Further Education
​(post school/pre university or working world) across England and Wales. 
​As the only national Christian charity working in this sector we aim to support Christian students with their faith at this pivotal time in their lives and encourage them to reach out to their friends and college with the good news of the Gospel.
FESTIVE would value your help to fund two special projects as follows.
“Beyond beans on toast”.  At Bishop Hannington you have been involved from the beginning in supporting this evangelistic cook book for students going to university.  Full of recipes, tips for university life and Christian testimonies, we have given thousands of these books away to non-Christian students and the demand for them each year seems to increase! For every £1 given we can give away a copy of this great evangelistic book to a non-Christian student!
  YouTube. Young people spend a lot of time on YouTube and in our work of inspiring and equipping Christian students for mission in their local colleges it is the best place for us to connect effectively and regularly with growing numbers of students.  We are planning to film success stories from CUs and missions, testimonies and video resources over the coming two years. 

​Project 2:  Julian and Nicky Milson
As you read this we will have just arrived at our new apartment in Valencia where Julian will shortly begin ministering at the local Spanish Anglican Church. 
​We’ll spend the first few months settling into our new home, getting to know people and learning Spanish.  We’re really looking forward to being able to share the gospel in Spanish, as Spain is such a spiritual needy country.
We anticipate that our language learning costs will be £3,000 in Year 1, £2,000 in Year 2 and £1,000 in Year 3.  We would be so grateful if the church family at Bishop Hannington were able to support us in this particular area, as it will not only enable us to minister effectively, but will make the whole process of settling into a new country that much easier for our whole family.  
​Thank you so much for your partnership in the Gospel.

Since I last wrote, I’ve finished up my linguistics studies in Gloucester
(end-of-term happy snap with some of my classmates above).
​It was an intense but rewarding time of learning and reflection: not only gaining skills and insights into the technicalities of language analysis, but being encouraged to think carefully and humbly about how we will play our part as ‘cross-cultural servants’ in working alongside minority language communities, supporting them to translate and communicate the Word of God in their mother tongue. Please join me in praying that I will retain and apply well all that I learnt during this season.

        I would like to say a sincere thank you to the trustees of the JHMT for dedicating this year’s Harvest Appeal to the ministry of Wycliffe Bible Translators, and specifically my upcoming service with them in Tanzania. Thank you too to the members of BH for giving so generously to the Appeal, which raised over £9000 for my supporter fund. I’m deeply grateful for your investment in God’s work of Bible translation and for the trust you’ve shown in me as I journey down this path.

        It was lovely to be able to visit BH on Sunday 22 October, to catch up with friends old and new and to share a little about the work of Wycliffe and my involvement in it. Thanks to all those who came to my afternoon presentation (not least the incredible team of bakers who served up a lavish spread of cakes, scones and slices for the occasion) and for the many great chats throughout the day. BH has a strong place in my heart and your encouragement and support means a great deal to me.
 
        Thank you for your prayers! As I enter the final few weeks of my linguistics study at Redcliffe College (Gloucester), please pray that God will continue to grow me in both competency and character for the work he has planned for me. Please pray too for my ongoing partnership development and personal preparation, that God will provide all that is needed financially, practically and spiritually for me to begin my assignment in Tanzania in July 2018.

Susanna

To donate please contact the church office or pick up a leaflet in church.

On Tuesday I returned from 2 weeks in Ukraine, as part of a team of UK students helping at an English camp run by CCX (The Ukrainian equivalent of UCCF).

As we arrived in Kiev, we were greeted by a smiling CCX volunteer and taken to have dinner before getting on the overnight train to Lviv, which was an experience…
When we arrived at the campsite we had four days of pre-camp, which involved Bible study preparation, getting to know the Ukrainian and American staff members and going over the schedule for camp, which started on the subsequent Sunday.

On Sunday morning, the staff who had been to camp before were ridiculously excited about the arrival of the students, which was a little odd to me, but a few days later I realised that their excitement had been entirely justified. The students were all fantastic and I would say meeting them was the highlight of the trip.

The camp was rather chaotic, getting up at 7am every day for staff devotional and meeting. The days were full of team building activities, workshops (including a standup comedy one run by me, which went surprisingly well), Bible studies, morning and evening meetings, which I was co-hosting, and evening entertainments. The latter ranged from a Worship night, to an international night where the UK team presented a little about british culture.

The camp was pretty exhausting, but so much fun. It’s referred to by CCX as a ‘porch event’, basically an attempt not to bring students to Christ during the camp, but to get them interested and connected with Christians in their Universities. In that vein it was greatly successful. Several students had loads of questions in the Bible studies. One in particular moved to a position where she believes in God and was really touched by the way people were worshipping at the worship night. God is certainly at work through the CCX movement in Ukraine and we can continue praying that he will bring the students who were at camp to him, whether it be today, this week or in twenty years time.

Thank you all for your prayers, it was a fantastic trip and I would love to go again. UCCF run summer teams for students in all regions of the UK, so if you or anyone you know will be going to University this coming year, I fully recommend looking into going on one of these trips.
https://www.uccf.org.uk/ summer-teams/

From 27 June to 11 July I'll be helping run a camp for Ukrainian students in Lviv (the largest city in western Ukraine) with a Summer team from UCCF.  We'll spend a week working with the Ukrainian/American team who set up the camp, then the camp itself is a week long, during which we'll be teaching the students English, forming friendships with them, and opening up the Bible with them in a study every evening.

• For the last bits of funding to be raised for the whole of the team.
• For strong relationships to be formed with the Ukrainians
• For God to speak through his word as we open up the Bible with the students in the evenings
• For good conversations to be had outside of Bible study time.