Mission PartnersTwo important overseas missions - in Japan and Namibia -are run by people associated directly with Holy Trinity. A third mission, in Uruguay, has also involved Holy Trinity members.
CMS Mission Partner in Japan: Pam Cooper
Click here for latest news from Japan Imkerhof Children's Home and School, Namibia: Kathleen & Udo Wahl
This year, the Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane is supporting Imkerhof as its Lenten charity. The vision for Imkerhof started in the year 2000, when Kathleen and Udo Wahl, missionaries in Namibia since 1995, attended a seminar on AIDS where the devastating statistics and plight of orphans in Namibia challenged them to take action. An article in Time magazine dated 12 February 2001 stated that the number of orphans in Namibia was then 67,000. As the total population was only approximately two million, the traditional extended family and community care for orphans was breaking down, leaving many children on the streets to fend for themselves. Kathleen and Udo decided to open a children's home in Namibia at Imkerhof Farm. Initially this was achieved in partnership with Christ's Hope International, which ran several children's homes in Namibia. Today it is run by the Imkerhof Training Centre Christian Trust, a registered Scoottish charity. Imkerhof was set up originally as a Christian Leadership School in 1999, under the auspices of Gospel Outreach. Students enrol on a course lasting eighteen months and receive a diploma on completion. To establish the Imkerhof Children's Home, a nearby property was bought in 2002 and extended to house up to 30 orphans. The children are cared for by house parents from Namibia and volunteers from around the world. They create an environment of loving care based on Biblical principles. Soon afterwards, a kindergarten and pre-school were added.
Holy Trinity sponsors a young orphan who lives in the chidren's home at Imkerhof. Due to child protection concerns, we've decided not to post any information about him on this site. Click here for latest news from Namibia Click here for the Imkerhof website Completed USPG Project to Uruguay:
Andrew worked as an Episcopal Assistant within the Diocesan Pastoral Team, assisting the Diocese particularly in terms of its links to international mission agencies and to churches overseas. These overseas links are important both in terms of securing funding for the work of the Diocese of Uruguay and in terms of exchanging ideas and experience and contributing to the life and work of the worldwide Church. Andrew drew on his experience of project funding and development in local government and in the voluntary sector in Genevieve used her health care skills in the church's outreach projects. In particularly this involved working at the Hogar San Esteban (St Stephen's Hostel) for people who are HIV positive. The hostel provides accommodation, healthcare and other support, for people who are HIV and who are homeless, or living in poverty. Andrew and Genevieve were also involved in various other activities in support of the life and work of the Diocese. They assisted with various young people´s projects including delivering activities and Bible studies at the church's day centre for young people with learning difficulties, and visiting the church´s nightshelter for children and adolescents forced to live on the streets. Click here for more information about the mission to Uruguay |
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Andrew and Genevieve Pont, who are active members of Holy Trinity's congrgation, returned from missionary work with the Diocese of Uruguay, in South America, during 2006. The Diocese has developed an extensive social outreach programme as it seeks to implement its holistic mission to meet the spiritual and material needs of the people of Uruguay, in particular those who are most marginalised.
