Leadership team
James Beer - Elder and Trustee
Jacky Tritten - Treasurer
Helen Farquharson - Trustee
Andy Stevens - Trustee
Geraint Davies - Trustee
Carl Gulland - Trustee
Sarah Mason - Trustee
World Mission
Through our mission partners, we’re seeking to change lives and bring the good news about Jesus to people far beyond Lymington. Read more about their work below, support them in prayer and consider joining our mission-focused prayer meetings on the first Wednesday of every month, at 2pm. We also support the work of Compassion UK, Baptist Union Home Mission and BMS World Mission.
World Mission team leader: Jacqui Davies
Email: wmt@lymingtonbaptist.org
Phone: 01590 670629
The Chilvers (miles from LBC: 2,825)
Brian and Jackie are serving in medical roles at Guinebor II, a busy hospital in Chad, north-central Africa. Brian is working as an emergency nurse practitioner, and Jackie has previously worked as a nurse in public health and is now very much involved with the community needs assessments that the hospital is undertaking in the area. They have grown-up children living in the UK.
Read Brian and Jackie’s blog
Watch Jackie’s intro video to their work in Chad
The Shrubsoles (miles from LBC: 2,825)
The Shrubsoles are Gareth, Bethan, and their three children Samuel, Jonah and Eva. In 2020 they joined the team at the Guinebor II hospital in Chad. Gareth is the general manager at the hospital while Bethan, a music therapist, runs a multi-therapy clinic for children with disabilities at the hospital, and supports a partner project helping vulnerable women through discipleship, arts therapy and teaching sewing and business.
Read the Shrubsoles’ latest news
Find out what it’s like to work at the Guinebor II hospital.
The Spears (miles from LBC: 2,825)
The Spears family is comprised of dad Tom, mum Melanie and children Maisie and Rosa. Like the Shrubsoles, they moved to Chad in early 2020 to work at the Guinebor II hospital, near the capital N’Djamena. Originally from Southampton, Tom is a GP by trade and has general practice and leadership tasks at the hospital. Mel helps manage the malnutrition programme and community health outreach of the hospital. The girls both attend a French speaking school in the city.
Read the Spears’ latest news
Find out more about life at Guinebor hospital (video)
The Stevens (miles from LBC: 5)
Andy and Jenni Stevens have been serving with OMF International since 1998 (Andy) and 2011 (Jenni). They work with the pioneering New Horizons team mobilising mission workers from lesser-mobilised parts of the world such as Eastern Europe, Africa, India and Latin America. They get very excited to see new missionaries established in East Asia from countries you would never expect!
Subscribe to the Stevens’ Prayer Letter
Find out more about OMF International
“We hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
