Audiomission Prayer Focus May 2011

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Jill Ball

In partnership with The First Baptist Church in Santo Domingo, Jill fulfils 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. Jill was a special needs teacher in the UK, when in 2002 the door opened for her to go to Ecuador as a SAMS mission partner, initially working at a home run by the charity Orphaids for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Then early in 2004 she began to fulfil her distinct calling when, in partnership with The First Baptist Church in Santo Domingo, she embarked on a ministry to that city’s disabled.

Christine Salaman

Christine Salaman is a CMS mission partner, along with husband Paul and children Daniel and Isaac, in the capital city of Tanzania, Dodoma. Christine has a passion for community development, and for the youth of Tanzania, and works part time as a youth development consultant for the provincial offices of the Anglican Church of Tanzania. This involves co-ordinating work with young people and youth choirs across all the dioceses, and working on projects to improve the lives of young people physically, mentally and spiritually. Paul works as an assistant lecturer at St John’s University, a young institution in its third year of existence and shortly looking forward to the first graduation of its students. Paul’s role has varied over the last two years, covering such areas as the teaching of education courses, managing the physics laboratories, writing the University timetable and coordinating student information systems. St John’s motto, “To learn to serve”, encapsulates the ethos of this Christian university as it seeks to build up the next generation of teachers, nurses, businessmen, etc, that can serve their country and God through their talents.

Aamir Shahzad

Aamir is CMS's country correspondent and representative in Pakistan. The atmosphere for Christians has got increasingly fearful in recent months following the assassination of the Christian minorities minister, Shahbaz Bhatti. However, Aamir has been helping to encourage a network of mission-minded Christians in Pakistan, which is one sure sign of hope. He has also been working closely with Pak Mission Society in their relief work following the devastating floods of 2010.

Plus reflection from Sarah Holmes, CMS staff writer

Published: 00:00 01 May 2011  |  1827 views
Last updated: 06 June 2011
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