Jesus said "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always,
​ to the very end of the age.”

This call to share The Gospel in Hove & around the world isn't stopped
by any 'Lockdown' or 'Covid-restrictions'!
So something to look forward to -this October
we will still be having a World Mission Awareness month of some sort. 
Throughout the month we hope to have guest speakers
& world mission-focused prayer times.
We would love all the church family to be involved
and for the various BH groups to make it a focus of their groups for October.
More details to follow but mark it in your calendar for now. 
If you’d like to be involved contact Katy Lambert via the church office.

The JHMT are pleased to announce that £5800 was raised for our 2020 Lent Appeal.
On behalf of The Milson family in Spain and Living Hope we would like to say a very big thank you to everyone who contributed towards these valuable projects. 

​As we look towards Easter the James Hannington Memorial Trust highlight projects we would like to invite the church family to support. This year, they are:

.Project 1:Living Hope Ministries
Dear friends at BH
You have always been encouraging to me as I visit from time to time to share God's word and update about LIVING HOPE. This year it has been my vision to bring together in Nairobi the leaders of the many groups who receive telephone ministry. The people are so enthusiastic and hungry for God's word. So to teach them live and work on how to make this ministry more effective is very important. We accommodate and feed them and have helped them with travel costs but only when they arrive. They need to be there at their own expense first. So some of them are on the road many hours. 
As Living Hope began in Kenya in 1994 it seemed good to have a 25 year Celebration with the Kenyans and so Saturday April 4th we will have representatives from Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Congo. We are also going to have two pastors from the Sudan who will come at their own expense. 
Aubrey representing Malawi and Mozambique has no passport but we will receive telephone greetings from him.
LHM Africa now consists of 13 countries and I have team members to send to them  so we have much to celebrate and thank God for. 
Your gifts will enable us to bless all these folk and send them back to their countries renewed and refreshed to serve the Lord. It will be sad for me because I must hand the baton on but of course our love, prayers and teaching by telephone continue God bless and thank you very much Richard and Elaine.

​Project 2: The Milsons with Crosslinks in Spain
We are now two years into our time in Valencia and things have already changed a great.  Language is progressing, friendships are developing, taste buds are changing, heat sensitivity is diminishing and perhaps most significantly Julian is now the Rector of the Anglican Church of Valencia (since October 2019). 
God has been so good to us and we love being part of the church community here.  We’ve had the joy of seeing people grow in their faith as well as coming along to a Protestant church for the first time in their lives.   There is so much gospel work to be done with so few workers here in Spain and we count it a real privilege that you are partnering with us.
Our basic costs are fairly high and we are entirely reliant upon the churches and individuals who so generously give to our work.  One significant contributor has been supporting us with £9000 a year.  This support will shortly come to end leaving a substantial hole in our budget.  We are so grateful to God for the help you are able to give us.

The Trustees of JHMT are pleased to confirm that the Christmas Appeal raised around £9,400. On behalf of Off The Fence and the Open Doors Syria project, we are grateful to God for this provision towards valuable support for these 2 charities. Thank you.

PROJECT 2- OFF THE FENCE
​Supporting those sent from our local Church serving those most in need within our own City.

Did you know that while you’re curled up in front of Netflix in the evening, teams of Christians are walking the streets of Brighton, looking out for homeless men and women who may be in need of food, hot drinks and warm clothes?
They are signposted back to the Off The Fence day centre on Portland Road where they can get a hot shower, clean clothes and support with accommodation, rehab or any health needs they might have. That’s where they’ll probably meet Nigel. S, who works there making sure the homeless get not only the practical support they need but the pastoral care. A client who has been living in a hedge on a local trading estate described the work at Antifreeze as ‘a really special place.’
As well as the this work with the homeless and our Gateway women’s work, Off The Fence has a schools’ team working across fifteen city schools, providing support through mentoring, workshops, courses, safe spaces and interactive prayer spaces. The team is led by Lizzi. D and supported by intern Emily.W. If you read the news, schools are struggling in so many ways, and also becoming increasingly intolerant of Christianity. As we walk alongside the struggles, we find that our work is not only deeply appreciated but encouraged, and it’s clear the difference it makes.
‘They bring God to the students in a really relatable fresh safe creative 21st century way that the children have just really engaged with and loved.’
Head of School, Cardinal Newman
All of this work, which involves around 30 staff, is made possible by a core team headed up by Monica. H holding us to our core values of excellence, compassion, integrity and unity.
Please do what you can to support these valuable BH members of our team at OTF.  At this time of year when we think of the lengths God went to so He can reveal his love for us, it’s right that the church is sending its members to some of the most difficult places to continue revealing God’s character. The streets are indeed dark at this time of year; please help enable us to continually reveal the everlasting light. 
 

The weekend got off to a great start with the drop-in prayer morning where people could visit various activities around the room to help them engage in praying for the world, our Mission Partners, Jesus’ sacrifice for us and to prepare for Sunday’s teachings using the Bible passages we would be looking at.
It was such a pleasure to have Michael Prest, Director of UFM to join us on the Sunday
His teachings to us in the morning & evening services were not only a careful handling of God’s Word but a very practical challenge to encourage us to share the Gospel with those around us.
A good number of the church family enjoyed lunch together to discuss further what we’d heard from Michael and to hear about the work of UFM.   
If you’d like to listen to the sermons from that weekend, please click LISTEN & scroll through to 20th October am & pm sermons. 
It’s been encouraging to hear from some of the church family how they would like to get more involved in supporting our mission partners & getting involved in short-term mission trips.
So, watch this space!

As we look towards Easter the James Hannington Memorial Trust highlight projects 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. This year we have 2 projects & they are:
Project 1 - FESTIVE
​Festive believes that the best people to reach students are students! We long to see a generation of Christ's ambassadors living out and sharing the Gospel where they study.  This year we want to connect with more Christian students than ever before so that more 'student missionaries' can be encouraged, equipped and inspired to 'let their light shine' at College/Sixth. 
 We hope that half of the money raised by the Lent appeal will go towards pioneering and developing new social media work as our research has shown that this is one of the best ways to reach students we haven't reached before. Since launching an Instagram page last Summer we have made over 100 new contacts and this is just the beginning.  As we develop this work we can reach many more new students and CU’s and can link them into our wider support and prayer network.
The other half of funds given will be used to develop our 'student support volunteer' (SSV) team to help us to train more former-students to encourage and pray for new students and CU leaders!  Rosie a SSV from Brighton says this about her role “I was so encouraged by having a contact at Festive when I lead a CU in my sixth form.  I was inspired to commit to supporting and praying for students in the same way”

​Project 2 - The Milsons in Spain with Crosslinks.
Thank you everyone for your prayers over the last year.  We’re just coming up to our first anniversary in Valencia and as we look back it’s so encouraging to see God’s wonderful provision for our work here in Spain.  Language learning has gone well and we’ve been building solid relationships at church and in our wider community.  It’s been a particular encouragement to see the Lord providing opportunities to share something of the Gospel in random situations and with a variety of nationalities. 
 We’re so grateful for the support we have received from BH and would like to say thank you in advance of the financial support from this Lent Appeal. Our overall budget with Crosslinks is somewhat precarious and so any gift your are able to give will go directly into our general fund to help ensure that our Mission work in Valencia can continue in the long-term.  Thank you so much for you partnership in the Gospel.

The trustees of the JHMT would to thank our church family for their generosity towards our Christmas Appeal which raised over £12,000. We thank God for the impact this money will have on our 2 projects that we supported this year; Brighton & Hove City Mission and Arab World Ministries/Yemen Crisis appeal. More information about their valuable work this money will go towards can be found on their own websites.