World Focus
World Focus Team
Team responsibilities include involvement in evangelism, church planting, community development and acts of service. Involvement will always mean prayer and remaining informed, will often mean financial support (as a congregation, or as individuals/groups) and wherever possible will mean direct, personal participation by KBC members. The emphasis will be on involvement with unreached people groups, the marginalised and the poor, in overseas and remote Australian locations. The Team will aim to identify KBC members who can be encouraged, challenged and inspired to get involved.
Membership:
Convenor: Simon Vanlint
Members: Peter Schulze, Lèonie Brogan, Joan Moulton, David Findlay, Paul King
People and Projects:
Through the WFT, KBC supports the work of the Company of Grace (Vietnam, disabled children), John & Carmen Baynes (Northern Territory, with Warlpiri people), Muana and Villy (Thailand) and also workers in the Middle East. We have also donated funds towards the future work of Michael & Kym Findlay in Uganda at the Kamwenge Maranatha Hospital.
KBC also has partnerships with the Bangalore City Mission (Jonathan Paul), the Cunninghams (Niger), the Leprosy Mission and Noah & Courtney Proctor (Alaska), without actually giving regular, budgeted funds. We maintain an active interest in the work of Global Interaction Australia and Australian Baptist World Aid.
In 2008 Lèonie Brogan led a group visit to several Leprosy Mission sites in India during October. We supported a visit by 6 high-school aged young people to the Warlipri people, led by Ric Chamberlain, and supported by Paul and Kate King, in July.
Plans for 2009
Drs Derrick & Susan Selby, with Kate King, took part in a gynaecological surgery camp in remote Nepal in early February. Andy Stevens was a member of a Wycliffe-SIL team which travelled to the Philippines in January to assist local church leaders in contextualising the gospel for their own culture. Alice Meredith is part of a team which will travel to Uganda in April to assist in building accommodation for orphaned children at a Watoto village project.
We have appreciated visits from partners serving overseas in Thailand & the Middle East in recent months.
We would like to continue to deepen and personalise our ties with our mission partners. As such, we actively plan and encourage visits by individuals and groups to 'the coal face', believing that God works through these personal contacts to change lives and set new directions.