Our aims

The church's mission is to serve God, both in making the Christian faith known and in working to feed the hungry, bring justice to the oppressed, and help to the poor and powerless.
Some of this we can do locally, but we also support those who work with these aims elsewhere in the world. We have personal links with several couples who are working in various parts of the world, and we also support Tear fund in its more general development work.

Stort Valley Schools Trust

The Stort Valley Schools Trust is a local organisation working to bring the truth about God into primary and secondary schools up and down the Stort valley (and a little beyond!). SVST workers lead assemblies and run clubs at those schools to which they are invited.

Louis & Maribel Woodley

Louis grew up in Saffron Walden, and is now working with Latin Link in Bolivia. While there he met and married his wife Maribel, who shares the work with him. During the past few years they have established a church in Alpacoma, a poor neighbourhood just outside La Paz, where previously there had been no church. In this work they have been supported by a local church in the outskirts of La Paz.

David & Sari Gardner

David and Sari are working with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Romania. Their village is in a Hungarian-speaking part of Romania, and they are working initially on a study booklet in Romani. This is the language of the Romany people, who for the most part are no longer nomadic but remain a distinct ethnic group.

Malcolm and Phyllis Blowes

Malcolm and Phyllis lived and worked close to Saffron Walden before moving into full-time missionary work. They are now based in Florida and run a missionary agency called Win our Nations, working with tribal groups in India and elsewhere. They have built an orphanage and a Bible school in south-east India, in addition to coordinating local church-building and other social projects. Occasionally they have time to update their blog!

Tear fund

Tear fund is a Christian organisation working with local people worldwide to bring sustainable, lasting change to the poorest of the poor. Many charities have similar aims, but Tear fund works with local churches to identify the poorest people, who often escape the notice of other aid organisations.

"The Bible asks Christians to ‘act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God,’ (Micah 6:8). So part of being Christian is standing up against the injustice of poverty - the grinding reality for so many people around the world today."