We love partnering with people to help the gospel go out to the nations! When considering who to partner with, we are especially mindful of the following 5 areas:
• Gospel / Word Ministry focus to their work
• Godly character of the Mission Partner
• Long Term work benefitting from long term partnership
• Real Relationship between Mission Partner and Dundonald Church
• Cross-cultural / least reached focus
Dundonald Mission Partners can expect to receive financial support, prayer support, relational support, and a church family that is passionately supportive of them and their ministry!
Meet our Mission Partners below – and if you would like to receive prayer letters and ministry updates directly from any of them, please email info@dundonald.org and we can facilitate this!
Benjie, Rhoda, Sebastian Leach
Location:
Mueda, Mozambique
Role:
Bible Translators, Members of Wycliffe seconded to SIL Southern Africa
Dundonald Link Person:
Beth Buchanan
What are they doing?
Benjie and Rhoda served the Makonde New Testament project until its publication and dedication in 2014, and continue to support the distribution and use of these Scriptures amongst the Makonde people from their home in Mozambique. Wycliffe Bible Translators’ “exist to enable all peoples to engage with the Bible in a language which speaks to their heart” and in addition to mentoring and training others, Benjie and Rhoda are involved in two significant bible translation projects: 1) in Malawi, assisting translation of the bible for the largely Islamic Yao people, and 2) in Angola, helping with the oral translation and community retelling of the gospel from Genesis to Jesus, then hoping to work on a written bible translation in 2021.
Connection to Dundonald: The Leach family have been part of Dundonald Church since the very beginning! They are dearly loved members of the church family and have spent much of the last 25 years living overseas, so if you’ve not met them yet be sure to catch them when they are in the UK!
Servants of the Word
Location:
Fajara & Tubakuta, The Gambia
Role:
Training in Bible handling, expository preaching, and ministry skills
Dundonald Link Person:
Mark Vernon
What are they doing?
Servants of the Word aims to train a generation of faithful Bible teachers to serve the church in The Gambia, and throughout West Africa.The school started in 2012 running part-time courses in discipleship and Bible handling. Since then a multi-year building programme has seen the opening of a small residential campus where students can undertake a one year full-time course. Former students now serve as pastors, evangelists, and church planters in The Gambia and beyond.
Connection to Dundonald: Dundonald Church have been partnering with Servants of the Word and its founder and director Steven Musa-Kormayea since the early 1990s. More recently Dundonald sent Mark & Mands Vernon to serve at SOW from 2018 to 2020, and our strong relationship continues as SOW trains faithful Bible teachers to equip the small but growing Christian church in The Gambia
Margot Knight, AIM
Location:
Likawage, Tanzania
Role:
Part of a Training In Ministry Outreach (TIMO) team with African Inland Mission, living and working among the Likawage people
Dundonald Link Person:
Joe Stephenson
What are they doing?
Margot and her TIMO team will arrive in November 2021and spend two and a half years living and working among the unreached Likawage people. They will be seeking opportunities to share the good news of Jesus with them. and their prayer is to see a fellowship of new believers established. The TIMO programme includes some Bible and mission training, and Margot will be spending time learning to speak Swahili. Before leaving the UK Margot is training as a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) teacher, and hoping to use that to build bridges in the community.
Connection to Dundonald: Margot was a member of Dundonald Church evening congregation and served as a Sunday School teacher before joining the Co-Mission plant to Earlsfield in 2012. More recently she has been working for The Bridge Battersea as the Youth and Families Worker .She will be supported by several Co-Mission churches, including The Bridge, Dundonald, and Christ Church at All Saints Wandsworth.
Danielle Teeuwen-Greene
Location:
London,UK
Role:
Assistant Team Leader, London with UCCF: The Christian Unions
Dundonald Link Person:
Pete Teeuwen-Greene
What are they doing?
Danielle works alongside university Christian Unions equipping students to live and speak for Jesus on campus. She spends her time reading the bible with individuals, running training events, and resourcing students for evangelism, so that they might be bold in their personal and public witness. In her role as ATL in London, she helps shape and coordinate mission strategy across London, and supervises other UCCF Staff Workers too. Danielle’s prayer is that during the formative university years, Christian students would live out their faith and hold out the gospel to others, and that non-Christian students would have the opportunity to hear and respond to the good news of Jesus!
Connection to Dundonald: Danielle was posted to London in August 2016 to work with the Christian Unions at Roehampton, Kingston, and St George’s, and quickly settled at the evening service at Dundonald Church. She has been a loved member of our church family since then, participating fully in the life of the church – even marrying one of our Ministry Trainees in 2019!
Marije Nastu
Location:
London,UK
Role:
Specialist Missionary for Schools, London City Mission
Dundonald Link Person:
Nas Christodoulopoulos
What are they doing?
There are around two million children and young people in London, and around half of them don’t have a Christian friend. They will be unlikely to walk into a church but they all go to school… therefore, the school is the ideal place to connect with these youngsters! Marije works alongside churches to help them to see the different opportunities there are for reaching out to their local schools and provides training to equip them for school’s ministry. Marije also helps other LCM mission teams across the City to connect Churches with their local schools.
Connection to Dundonald: Marije has been a loved member of Dundonald church family since 2017. She attends the 10:45 congregation with her husband David and is always happy to chat after church over a coffee!
Dima Mamoika
Location:
Minsk, Belarus
Role:
Senior Pastor of New Land Church, Minsk
Dundonald Link Person:
Michael Perkin
What are they doing?
Dima is the pastor of New Land Church in Minsk, and also serves as part of the leadership team in the Belarus Church Planting Mission. Their mission is to help start new churches in Belarus, and Dima and New Land have been involved in two new churches in Minsk over the last 5 years. Dima loves preaching expository sermons, training leaders, and supporting a thriving orphanage ministry. He teaches hermeneutics at the Leadership Academy at their union and is starting a PhD in the ‘Organization of New Churches’.
Connection to Dundonald: Dundonald first began supporting Dima when he studied expositional preaching at Cornhill, London in 2002-2003, and he joined a Dundonald bible study group and Richard’s sermon preaching class. Dima has returned numerous times for REVIVE and in 2018 we were delighted to send him a short term mission team to help with an evangelistic summer camp.
Peter Kamau
Location:
Kikuyu Township, near Nairobi, Kenya
Role:
Programmes Director (iServe Africa) & Elder (Grace Point Church)
Dundonald Link Person:
Andy Harker
What are they doing?
Peter oversees 40+ ministry apprentices placed in churches and Christian organisations across East Africa, training them in faithful Bible teaching and servant leadership. He is also an elder at Grace Point Church (planted 2017) and preparing to church plant from there in the future. Peter is married to Rose and they are blessed with Ezra and a second little one on the way.
Connection to Dundonald: Peter trained on the Cornhill Training Course alongside Mark Vernon and served alongside Andy Harker for several years at iServe Africa and Grace Point Church. iServe Africa is in warm fellowship with WIM (formally PTW Rwanda) and doing similar work.
Word Increase Ministries (formally PTW)
Location:
Kigali, Rwanda
Role:
Gospel Ministry Training
Dundonald Link Person:
Andy Harker
What are they doing?
Lead by Syldio Determiné Dusabumuremyi (Determiné) WIM is a practical course helping those involved in Christian ministry to correctly and faithfully handle God’s Word. There is a strong emphasis on working through Bible books, on living life together as family and applying biblical truth into each other’s lives. In 2017, a number of WIM graduates planted Gospel Community Church in Kigali.
Connection to Dundonald: Loots Lambrechts, who was a pastor of a Dundonald congregation, was key to the establishment and nurturing of WIM (2009-2017). Co-Mission churches have received a number of WIM staff members training at Cornhill.
Rachel Chard
Location:
Oxford, UK
Role:
Staff Worker & Head of Hard-to-Reach, with Friends International
Dundonald Link Person:
Katy Bray
What are they doing?
In Rachel’s national role as Head of Hard-to-Reach, Rachel helps Friends International to think strategically and creatively about how they can reach out to international students with least access to the gospel. This includes travelling around the UK helping FI staff, local churches, and Christian Unions to identify who their ‘hard to reach’ students are, understand why they are hard to reach and consider what can be done about it. In her local role as a Staff Worker, Rachel works alongside others in Oxford to reach out to international students, partnering with local churches and with the two university CUs, supporting students who are already believers and providing seeker opportunities to the many who do not yet believe.
Connection to Dundonald: Richard alerted Dundonald that his sister (Rachel) and her husband (Andrew) were heading to Tanzania as pioneer church planters and we were delighted to support them from 1994-2008 as they served there with AIM International. Since returning to the UK we’ve continued supporting Rachel’s ministry, and she regularly makes herself available to assist our outreach to internationals in SW20.
Gospel Partnerships
At Dundonald we also have a number of Gospel Partnerships for people and projects that we want to generously support as we seek to ‘make disciples of all nations’.
Donald & Becky Kamese – London & Mexico
Donald and Becky are training in Bible teaching at Cornhill as they prepare to return to Mexico where Donald is a senior leader of a growing church planting and discipleship network seeking to reach a extremely needy part of the country called ‘the circle of silence’ where gospel preaching is extremely rare and opposed.
Mazen Naswari – Jerusalem
Mazen Naswari is the senior pastor at Jerusalem Alliance Church, doing a brilliant work in a difficult but exciting context, discipling and training believers to ‘know the Word, live according to the Word, and spread the Word’ as they hold onto and hold out the gospel in Jerusalem. Keep an eye out for information regarding plans for a Dundonald visit in the future!
Anna Tetsuya – London
Anna has been a member at Dundonald for several years, and is now working with a small Japanese speaking church, called South London Japanese Church. Her prayer is for the church to grow in unity, maturity in faith and for the Japanese communities in the UK and abroad to hear the good news of the gospel and come to saving faith. She is also seeking to work alongside Japan Christian Link, to help strengthen the faith of Japanese believers and equip them for their return to Japan.
Email info@dundonald.org if you would like to sign up
for direct updates and prayer requests from any of our partners!