Friday, 26 January 2007


School's work helping children understand God loves the widow, the orphan and the refugee

Qualifications

A graduate in Geography and Psychology of Education
Reader in Diocese of Rochester
3 years service in West Africa
Frequent visits to Mid-Africa and The Middle East
Member of St Mary's Church, Green Street Green, ORPINGTON UK
Speaker across the denominations of many years experience

Contact details

Richard Jones
Tel: 01689 889327
email: richardjones1951@yahoo.co.uk

What I offer

Churches and church groups
  • A speaker and a preacher able to speak Biblically and from wide cross-cultural experience of our world and the task of the church to reach the nations
  • A leader of groups and teams to visit the church in other cultures either as pilgrims, educational visits or as volunteers going to do a job of work in partnership with local churches
  • A facilitator to those churches who recognise the need to appraise and evaluate their current policy and practice in mission support and church outward giving. An impartial consultant and advisor can help churches move on from entrenched and even outdated approaches to mission support to something more meaningful, relevant and effective

Church leaders

  • Help and practical advice on refreshing your church support for charities, missions and christian organisations
  • working with you and your church council to explore new ways of supporting and being involved in the worldwide church
  • impartial review and proposals to establish new targets and policies

Reaching the Nations

As a student I was involved in literature distribution in Italy with Operation Mobilisation during summer vacations. I then went to Nigeria with VSO as a teracher. These were life changing early experiences in my Christian understanding of the Biblical mandate to reach the nations. I returned to Nigeria, with my wife Barbara, where we worked with the Kanuri Muslim people of Borno state. I went on to work with SUM Fellowship (now Action Partners) in the UK. My links continued with the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) and other churches of the Sahel region in Tchad, Cameroon and The Sudan.
Thousands of international students come to study in our universities and language schools. Friends International is a church-based ministry offering welcome, unconditional friendship, social activites and opportunities to explore Christianity. I worked with this exciting ministry in London.
More recently I have been involved with the church in the Great Lakes Region of Africa especially Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. I have visited many church development projects and theological colleges.
Currently my focus is the ministry of the churches of The Middle East in Lebanon, Israel and The Occupied Territories and in Egypt.
I have led visiting teams of church leaders to Mid-Africa and to the lands of the Bible.