Overseas Partners

The primary overseas partners of ChristChurch are Derek and Heather Johnston, Jennifer Davey, David and Pearl Porter and a Family in Asia

Derek and Heather Johnston work with Wycliffe in Burkina Faso in Western Africa. It's one of the poorest countries in the world and basically bakes every living thing for most of the day. In that torrid heat, Derek is to be found rigorously inspecting the latest translations of scripture in a variety of African dialects, consulting Hebrew and Greek texts, conversing in French, English and local languages, as he oversees and guides the work of several translation teams. He currently shoulders the Director's responsibilities and liasing with other national Christian organisations involved in the same work in various parts of Africa. Heather acts in a pastoral role, caring for the spiritual, emotional, and practical needs of Wycliffe staff.

A family in Asia and their little son and daughter live and work in Asia under the auspices of OM.

Jennifer "Niffer" Davey is a remarkable young woman. Extremely bright, full of energy and humour. Possessing amazing linguistic skills, she lives for most of her time in an isolated village in Nigeria working as part of a small Wycliffe team who are attempting to establish an alphabet and grammar for the local language. Jennifer and her team have had good success, and continue to enjoy acceptance by the locals, many of whom appreciate the long-term value of their work. Jennifer of course would prefer to move on to translation of the scriptures in this language group, but is patiently continuing with this foundational work, making friends and showing God's love to young and old. Wycliffe is also using her to train local translators and to check translations in other language groups.

David and Pearl Porter, with Josh, Jeremy and Carys live and work in St Genis de Pouilly in France, not far from Geneva. David works with Psalmodia to teach and encourage music in evangelism and worship.

Support & Giving

In line with the current practise of most mission agencies, our overseas partners are responsible for establishing their support base before going abroad. There is now a need for these support bases to be widened. If you are not already supporting one of our overseas partners, please join those in ChristChurch who are supporting global mission in this very practical way.

Giving can be channelled through ChristChurch by making a designated gift. However it is more practical for this support to be forwarded directly to the appropriate mission agency preferably utilising Gift Aid and standing orders.

Further Information

If you require any further information guidance please contact Stephen Gilmore, deacon for global mission who will be only too happy to assist you.