International
Our desire is to be a church that is involved in worldwide mission by being both a sending and receiving church. We want to continue to see people from our church involved in mission all around the world. As well as that, we want to be open to learning from our mission partners about how to spread the Gospel of Jesus in a way that is relevant, engaging, caring and radical, and to support the work of the Gospel in the wider world.
Crinken International is the group of people in our church who liaise with our overseas partners, and communicate with the larger church on mission issues.
Crinken InterNational does not solely support the work of our partners who are abroad. We also aim to give our congregation a taste and passion for what God is doing in our own country. To this end, we support local ministries, inviting them to speak in church and encouraging ourselves to get actively involved in local outreaches. To date, we have supported and been involved in Bray Youth for Christ, IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students) and Teen Challenge Ireland. To this end, we are both International and National, feeling excitement for God’s Kingdom at work both home and away
For more information on Crinken International, contact Charis Rowan
Our mission partners include:
Christiaan & Karen Snell
Christiaan and Karen both worked on staff at Crinken before moving to Capetown in 2007. Christiaan is the rector of St Thomas’ Heideveld in the Cape Flats area. Crinken church seeks to partner with them by providing prayerful support and encouragement.
Contact them .
Fields of Life
The mission of Fields of Life is to change lives and build sustainable communities through teaching the Christian faith and through the provision of quality education, health care and income generating projects
More details at: fieldsoflife.com
CCFC/Church in Chains
Christian Concern for Freedom of Conscience (better known as Church in Chains) seeks to be an Irish voice supporting persecuted Christians worldwide. It works to raise awareness among the church in Ireland about their situation and encourages prayer and action on their behalf. Church in Chains seeks to help persecuted Christians in a number of countries, including China, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Mexico, North Korea and Turkey.
More details at ccfc.ie
Lorretta Carroll
Lorretta works in Chad with WEC.
Lorretta works as part of a team whose aim is to see mature expanding churches planted among the unreached peoples of Chad. Their present focus is the people groups of Eastern Chad particularly urban Arabic speakers.
Worldwide Evangelization for Christ International works in multicultural teams to plant multiplying churches among the least reached people of the earth (defined as less than 2% evangelical). WEC’s involvement in other ministries supports the achievement of this primary objective.
More details at: wec-int.org/chad/
Linda and Werner Holmes-Ulrich
Werner, Linda and family moved to Linz in August 2003 to take up leadership of the Baptist Church, having spent the previous 8 years in Graz.
As well as church leadership, Werner is involved again with the ÖSM (Austrian Student Mission). The congregation at Linz Baptist Church come from over 30 nations with most services being translated into English.
As well as teaching, participation in church activities and home life, Linda has been involved in a Christian Counselling Service in Linz. Recently she took over one of the Theology courses at the Institute where she was trained. She has also started to train as a supervisor.
Tatjana and Ciara are kept busy with school work, however they both find time to enjoy other interests like swimming and dancing.
Contact them .
