Mission

As a church, we support both UK organisations and wider overseas mission partners. We also support individual missionaries with whom we have links, who are working in various parts of the world.

 

St Paul’s has a long history of supporting Mission Partners. We continue to support and pray for the work of John & Sian Newton-Webb out in Japan with OMF. We also support the work of Langham Partnership which helps to train Bible preachers all around the world.

John & Sian Newton-Webb

Our Mission Partner John Newton-Webb lives with his family in the city of Sapporo in Japan, where he leads a small church plant.

An Overview

We lead a church plant (started in 2009) in the city of Sapporo in the north of Japan. Sapporo is the world’s second snowiest city, so we are guaranteed a white Christmas! But more importantly, the Lord guarantees that he will keep his promises and work through his word to bring glory to his name and peace to men and women. It has been a strange year for us as a church: we have been growing and shrinking at the same time!

The area we are particularly focused on reaching with the good news of Jesus Christ is around 30000 people, and there is no other church in this area. However, we are probably the closest church for at least twice that number of people. Only the Lord can make our mustard seed of a church grow and blossom here.

While the general trend across Japan is for the church to be getting smaller, we have seen the Lord’s special blessing this year, with five people coming to Christ and being baptised, and another person coming into membership. However, at the same time, we have had a significant number of people move away for either work or health reasons. We rejoice in the baptisms, but the departures mean that our already small flock here is seeing on average five less people gathering on a Sunday, which brings a variety of challenges and limitations to the ministry here. The majority of our 11 church members are very new Christians, and we would appreciate your prayers for them as we seek to disciple them, and as they face various trials.

We support John & Sian through an organisation called OMF.   Click here to read more about them and their work. Home – OMF | UK 

Or, visit their church’s website https://hiragishiizumi.com/

Langham Partnership

Why do we support Langham Partnership?

Langham Partnership was founded in 1969 by Revd. John Stott, then the Rector (or senior pastor) at All Souls Church, Langham Place in London, hence the name. John Stott was a Bible teacher in great demand world-wide. He frequently visited churches in the Majority World, – a more positive term than Third World or Developing World, encompassing Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the Caribbean. As he travelled, he understood the acute need for further biblical training for gifted local leaders.

Mission

Langham Partnership’s mission is to strengthen the ministry of the Word of God through:

  • Nurturing national movements for training in biblical preaching
  • Multiplying the creation and distribution of evangelical literature
  • Strengthening the theological training of pastors and leaders by qualified evangelical teachers

Vision

Our vision is to see churches in the Majority World equipped for mission and growing to maturity in Christ through the ministry of pastors and leaders who believe, teach and live by the Word of God.

Values

Langham Partnership is above all committed to exalt the name and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, to promote the gospel of His grace and to foster the mission of his church. Specifically, we are committed to the following core values:

You can read more about the work of Langham partnership here: Home | Langham Partnership UK & Ireland