"Hello and welcome to the part of the website where
we try to think on more of a global scale. The new
FaithQuest International website is on its way, but
meanwhile I've managed to sneak in a page on this
one while Colin wasn't looking!
"We live in a world full of confusion, paradox and pain.
And for many people in the sophisticated West, their
experiences of Christianity and Church end up by
following a similar pattern. The wide variety of gospels
being put out under a Christian flag, even by the main-
line denominations, can end up being decidedly Bad
News for those who fall prey to them. At the end of a long
era in which the UK and the USA have played leading
roles in world mission, what is it in fact that we have
exported around the globe? The Gospel of Jesus Christ
in the power of the Holy Spirit? or just some kind of
civilising, moralistic religion that looks like the Gospel
and panders to our need for spirituality and love, but in
which the Living God has played little or no part?
"Whatever the answer to this question, so many people
in our churches, both at home and abroad, including
missionaries and Church leaders, appear to need
reminding of (or even to understand for the first time) the
incredible grace of a God who came in love to effect a
rescue that required His own death, because
"Many groups and missions hide their collective (not
individual) lack of faith behind the need to get on with
their good works. Even faith itself can become a work.
And so the Churches' quest continues for faith - the kind
of faith Jesus questioned would be here on His return:
"It's a simple Gospel, and yet so many people spend so
much of their time complicating and blurring it, or using
their incomplete and twisted versions to control others -
merely leading them out of one bondage into the even
worse bondage of religion (and the inevitable neurosis
that goes with it). It's a simple Gospel, and Jesus chose
simple, ordinary nobodies like us to take His Good
News to the world.
"And so at FaithQuest, we have put aside all the usual
success-oriented "CV/Resumé" methods that most
missions use to appoint their missionaries. We are
looking to encourage young men and women who have
known suffering, loneliness and failure, yet whose
overriding goal in life is to know God better and better -
bringing Him into their struggles, because they already
know and experience that "to live is Christ"." Jesus
Himself is the Good News. He is the Kingdom of God
within us. And following Him means knowing Him
personally, not just knowing about Him."
we try to think on more of a global scale. The new
FaithQuest International website is on its way, but
meanwhile I've managed to sneak in a page on this
one while Colin wasn't looking!
"We live in a world full of confusion, paradox and pain.
And for many people in the sophisticated West, their
experiences of Christianity and Church end up by
following a similar pattern. The wide variety of gospels
being put out under a Christian flag, even by the main-
line denominations, can end up being decidedly Bad
News for those who fall prey to them. At the end of a long
era in which the UK and the USA have played leading
roles in world mission, what is it in fact that we have
exported around the globe? The Gospel of Jesus Christ
in the power of the Holy Spirit? or just some kind of
civilising, moralistic religion that looks like the Gospel
and panders to our need for spirituality and love, but in
which the Living God has played little or no part?
"Whatever the answer to this question, so many people
in our churches, both at home and abroad, including
missionaries and Church leaders, appear to need
reminding of (or even to understand for the first time) the
incredible grace of a God who came in love to effect a
rescue that required His own death, because
- absolutely nothing we could do was able to
contribute in any way to doing away with the
issue of sin between us, - absolutely nothing we could do was able to
reconcile us to Him, and - absolutely nothing we could do was able to bring
back the Life of God to live within us forever...
the same Spirit of Life that was lost to us so long
ago in Eden.
"Many groups and missions hide their collective (not
individual) lack of faith behind the need to get on with
their good works. Even faith itself can become a work.
And so the Churches' quest continues for faith - the kind
of faith Jesus questioned would be here on His return:
- faith not in what might happen in the future, but in
what did happen in the past, - faith that understands the total sufficiency that is
already ours for this life and the next, - faith in the complete sovereignty of Jesus Christ
over everything that happens in this world, good
or bad, - faith that simply reaches out to receive all this
"Life in All its Fullness" as His free and
unconditional love-gift.
"It's a simple Gospel, and yet so many people spend so
much of their time complicating and blurring it, or using
their incomplete and twisted versions to control others -
merely leading them out of one bondage into the even
worse bondage of religion (and the inevitable neurosis
that goes with it). It's a simple Gospel, and Jesus chose
simple, ordinary nobodies like us to take His Good
News to the world.
"And so at FaithQuest, we have put aside all the usual
success-oriented "CV/Resumé" methods that most
missions use to appoint their missionaries. We are
looking to encourage young men and women who have
known suffering, loneliness and failure, yet whose
overriding goal in life is to know God better and better -
bringing Him into their struggles, because they already
know and experience that "to live is Christ"." Jesus
Himself is the Good News. He is the Kingdom of God
within us. And following Him means knowing Him
personally, not just knowing about Him."
FaithQuest Radio - on-line daily
FaithQuest has been steering the
Biblical teaching and pastoral faith-
training elements of Tim's ministry
in Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo,
Kenya and Uganda since 2001.
Most recently, we have become
involved with a unique initiative to
bring some African Churches, most
of whose members are unable to
travel outside their countries, into
the field of international and world
mission.
Through Out of Africa Fellowships
in each country, and firstly with
Rwanda Fellowship, we are trying to
help mission-minded African
Christians respond to Jesus's
Great Commission - using a new
"Mission By Remote" partnership
program. Watch out for news and a
link to the Rwanda Fellowship
website to find out how you can be
involved in this exciting project.
During the coming academic year,
Tim will be lecturing at seminars
across the UK and parts of Africa,
as well as to Church, college and
other believer communities in
France, Holland, Germany, Italy and
Luxembourg.
Yet Tim remains circumspect...
"As a very wise man once said... If
you want to give the Lord a laugh,
tell Him your future plans!!"
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GAN, 28, lives and works in the Philippines. His
father was drowned at sea when Gan was 11,
leaving the family in poverty. Colin has been Gan's
sponsor and mentor for the past 10 years
FaithQuest has recently supported Gan through a
stringent nursing course. He passed all four years
with near top grades and graduated in March 2009.
Gan is a highly skilled nursing practitioner of
enormous courage, compassion and faith.. He has a
deep desire to serve.
father was drowned at sea when Gan was 11,
leaving the family in poverty. Colin has been Gan's
sponsor and mentor for the past 10 years
FaithQuest has recently supported Gan through a
stringent nursing course. He passed all four years
with near top grades and graduated in March 2009.
Gan is a highly skilled nursing practitioner of
enormous courage, compassion and faith.. He has a
deep desire to serve.
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OKECHUWKU (known as Okey), 28, was a policeman
in Nigeria. His father left the family without support
when Okey was only 4 and died when he was 17.
Okey was sleeping on the street when he first met
Colin. He is now a keen and faithful follower of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
FaithQuest has helped Okey to get an associate
degree in Accounting and more recently to set up a
laundry business under Okey's management. The
laundry also plays home to a mission initiative with a
space for customers to watch FaithQuest videos and
other films and programs about the Lord Jesus.
in Nigeria. His father left the family without support
when Okey was only 4 and died when he was 17.
Okey was sleeping on the street when he first met
Colin. He is now a keen and faithful follower of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
FaithQuest has helped Okey to get an associate
degree in Accounting and more recently to set up a
laundry business under Okey's management. The
laundry also plays home to a mission initiative with a
space for customers to watch FaithQuest videos and
other films and programs about the Lord Jesus.
| FaithQuest Invests in Potential Young Leaders of Faith |
| Over the last several years, the quest to find and train new young men and women of real faith, whose lives and servant leadership will bring the refreshing rain of the Good News of Jesus Christ to those in their own countries, both inside and outside of the formal churches, has led to Colin, Tim and FaithQuest sponsoring and supporting very special people like the two pictured above. Please read more about them further down the page. And please help us too with your prayers and gifts to help bring their training and ministries to fruition. |
| Here then are two of our not so new kids on the block - part of FaithQuest's increasingly internationally situated team. Please pray for them! |
Tim has been International Director
at FaithQuest for the last 11 years.
A former International School Head
in France, Switzerland and beyond,
Tim is now also long-established as
an itinerant missionary educationist
supporting other missionaries and
their children in the field. This work
forms a major part of his pioneering
Mission Development Consultancy
based in Great Britain.
International Schooling is Tim's
professional passion. When he was
only 17, he set up his first boarding
school in Rwanda for 'mish-kids'
unable to return to Uganda during
the Amin crisis. Since then he has
designed, opened and headed
schools for children and young
people from all over the world in
many different social situations.
"I've been privileged to spend so
many years within what seems to
me to be the ideal 'garden' for
sowing the seed of the Gospel... the
international boarding high school.
You'll find all the different kinds of
'soil' present within young hearts.
And you work your socks off to
ensure that each individual heart is
lovingly fed and nurtured towards its
highest potential for germinating and
growing that seed. For we should
never forget that nobody is ever
stuck with being the 'soil' they
started out as."
More recently, Tim's 'Robin Hood'
approach to partnering schools
across geographical and social
divides, often in the context of the
"Teaching the Young to Care"
accreditation program, has meant
huge new opportunities for poorer
kids in the developing world, as well
as a radical change of perspective
and attitude in the hearts and minds
of thousands of their more wealthy
peers in the West.
Although he continues to keep a
hand in high school education, Tim's
most full-time concern these days is
much more with preaching, teaching
Bible and faith-training . In Great
Britain, he heads up FaithQuest UK
and leads our faith training and
pastoral partnership development
initiatives in Europe and Africa.
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at FaithQuest for the last 11 years.
A former International School Head
in France, Switzerland and beyond,
Tim is now also long-established as
an itinerant missionary educationist
supporting other missionaries and
their children in the field. This work
forms a major part of his pioneering
Mission Development Consultancy
based in Great Britain.
International Schooling is Tim's
professional passion. When he was
only 17, he set up his first boarding
school in Rwanda for 'mish-kids'
unable to return to Uganda during
the Amin crisis. Since then he has
designed, opened and headed
schools for children and young
people from all over the world in
many different social situations.
"I've been privileged to spend so
many years within what seems to
me to be the ideal 'garden' for
sowing the seed of the Gospel... the
international boarding high school.
You'll find all the different kinds of
'soil' present within young hearts.
And you work your socks off to
ensure that each individual heart is
lovingly fed and nurtured towards its
highest potential for germinating and
growing that seed. For we should
never forget that nobody is ever
stuck with being the 'soil' they
started out as."
More recently, Tim's 'Robin Hood'
approach to partnering schools
across geographical and social
divides, often in the context of the
"Teaching the Young to Care"
accreditation program, has meant
huge new opportunities for poorer
kids in the developing world, as well
as a radical change of perspective
and attitude in the hearts and minds
of thousands of their more wealthy
peers in the West.
Although he continues to keep a
hand in high school education, Tim's
most full-time concern these days is
much more with preaching, teaching
Bible and faith-training . In Great
Britain, he heads up FaithQuest UK
and leads our faith training and
pastoral partnership development
initiatives in Europe and Africa.
* * * * *
Sshh! ... Little known fact....
Before hitting the international
education scene, Tim spent a few
successful years as a professional
theatrical director and BBC Radio
producer. Both of these areas of
expertise are now serving us well.
As to radio production skills, plans
continue for a new university
campus Gospel radio training
station in the Great Lakes Region of
Central Africa.
And as to theatre skills? Well...
most days at FaithQuest tend to
turn into a Biblical epic anyway, with
or without a director!
Before hitting the international
education scene, Tim spent a few
successful years as a professional
theatrical director and BBC Radio
producer. Both of these areas of
expertise are now serving us well.
As to radio production skills, plans
continue for a new university
campus Gospel radio training
station in the Great Lakes Region of
Central Africa.
And as to theatre skills? Well...
most days at FaithQuest tend to
turn into a Biblical epic anyway, with
or without a director!
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| Tim on FaithQuest Radio Europe |
| "Shall I find faith on the Earth when I return?" asked Jesus. Sounds like a bit of a dumb question when you look around after 200+ years of conscientious Western missionary work at the many millions of Christians now in the world. But is it? "Come with us on a journey into some of the most powerful and liberating Gospel Scriptures in God's Word... and the most ignored. Come on a journey deeper and deeper into the heart of our loving Father God. "It's a quest for faith and for Jesus - for truth that will rend your heart and blow the religious cobwebs out of your mind forever. It's a quest into your own relationship with God - putting things confidently into perspective by focusing on Christ and understanding who and what you are in Him. It's a quest to allow God to train the faith He has given you - bringing Him into your most private struggles and learning to face both them and the world less fearfully, with inner peace... and in a genuine spirit of praise. "Discovering the whole Gospel... understanding what God' great love for you is doing every time He kick-starts you out of a period of stagnation and arrested growth... coming to a much deeper unshakable belief in the fact that He's on your side and is not holding anything against you... not even the things you hold against yourself... That's what FaithQuest Radio is all about." |