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MISSION AND MINISTRY IN ENGLISH FOR EVERYONE

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On my computer I keep a mind-map of the New Work that ICS is involved in. I have watched this grow exponentially in the last eighteen months.

From new opportunities in Schiphol Airport through to the appointment of Charlotte in Bordeaux to some very recent opportunities that ICS is supporting in Ankara. There are a dizzying new array of places and people, and as you look at the ICS pray diary you will be forgiven for not recognising many new faces.

This time of year, the other point I want to raise is the importance of your generous giving towards the ministry of ICS. Once a year, we send out a letter to all our friends and members asking for a gift or increase in donation. We do this to fulfil our passion and our calling to continue to serve and sustain the amazing ministries that we are connected with while also having the capacity to pioneer alongside our partners’ New Work.

I commend this issue of ICS News to you and As you read through this edition of ICS News, hope you enjoy it.

I encourage you to look out for the new things that God is doing through ICS. To see the In Him, opportunities that we can write about and others that we can only hint at, for the sake of security for those involved.

Our intention is always to be focussed on two things, developing the new, but also sustaining and carefully supporting the existing work so that this can continue to be in places where the gospel can be faithfully proclaimed.

One of the things you can do to support us is ‘Pray’. Recently, prayer groups have phoned me, put the telephone in the centre of the room on speaker and I have been able to give up-to-date prayer information to the whole room. This is something I am more than happy to do, so that people can pray with the very latest and most candid information. If you want to do that just get in touch with the office and we can arrange a convenient time.

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Registered charity no: 1072584; a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales no: 3630342 Intercontinental Church Society (ICS) is an Anglican mission agency. Founded in 1823, we have worked in most parts of the world, ministering and reaching out to people from many nationalities and backgrounds. From the early days we have planted churches in mainland Europe where our work is still strong but also in and around the Mediterranean, North Africa, the South Atlantic and South America. English language ministry has a strategic part to play, alongside national churches, in outreach as increasing numbers for whom English is a second language, attend English-speaking churches.

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DEVOTIONAL THEN SINGS MY SOUL, MY SAVIOUR GOD TO THEE, HOW GREAT THOU ART!

By the time you read this the ‘Season of Creation’ will be over. Preparations for acts of remembrance in this centenary year are now in full swing, followed closely by the time of waiting in Advent. The practice of remembering and waiting widens and deepens our spiritual soulscape.

I remember when I was living in Vancouver, I went to watch the salmon run up the Fraser river from the Pacific Ocean to their natal spawning beds. It is a macabre sight, but also one of creation’s greatest migrant cycles. Salmon migrate back to the stream they were spawned, some travelling over 2,500 miles. The spawning and subsequent death of the salmon is one of the connecting agents between the ecology of the ocean and that of the coastal forests of western Canada. Twenty-two species of mammals, birds and insects feed on living and dead salmon. The nutrients from the saltwater shrimp eaten by the salmon, who is eaten by a grizzly, who leaves his droppings at the base of a Douglas fir seedling which grows to a towering height and whose leaves give oxygen to the air that we breath.

Whether we remember the landscape of human history and the millions who gave their lives in the hope of a better world, or the miracle and fragility of the created order, the waiting and longing in our hearts is for the promised redemption. As Paul writes in Romans 8: ‘the created world itself can hardly wait for what’s coming next. Everything in creation is being held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead, meanwhile the joyful anticipation deepens.’ (The Message by Eugene Peterson) Jesus calls us to regular acts of remembrance and waiting in the breaking of bread and wine poured out. We rejoice in the promise of a new heaven and a new earth …. ‘then sings my soul, my Saviour God to Thee, How great thou art!

How great thou art!’

Devotion by

Sarah Tillett, St. Peter’s Chantilly

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BY MARK SIMPSON

Christ Church Rio de Janeiro is in its 200th year. Although our focus is on the future where God is leading us, this is a good time to look back at how he has led us until now.

The chaplaincy was founded in 1819 when (believe it or not!) Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Portugal. Lisbon had been besieged by Napoleon on land, and by British Royal Navy ships from the sea. The Portuguese court took the British ‘invitation’ to flee across the Atlantic, and the royal court was soon established in Rio de Janeiro. The whole story is memorably told

by Patrick Wilcken in Empire Adrift. (Tragically, one of the palaces from that era suffered a dreadful fire in September, with the National Museum collection it housed nearly all lost.)

The British asked for three things: trade (coffee and sugar mainly), a cemetery and a church. The papal nuncio wanted to block the church, as a Protestant encroachment in a Catholic country.

The King compromised, insisting the church couldn't look like a church, and couldn't have a bell to summon the locals—and he added that the British don't go to church in any case!

So we look back with gratitude for our unique English-language ministry to the traders, the diplomats, the industrialists, the vagabonds and so many others over 200 years. But we also 5

lament the church's willingness to remain closed for so many years.

Where is God leading us now? We go back to Matthew 5:14-16, the text imprinted on both my and Revd Alex Cacouris’ hearts as we sought God before coming here. People don't light a lamp and hide it under a bowl, do they?

As we have let the Light of the Gospel shine out, this church is becoming more diverse, more joyful and a little bit messier. Expatriates are volunteering to teach English to children the nearby favela community every week.

Refugees are being welcomed, given food and clothing and an opportunity to find work and housing. Foreigners who have made a home in Rio are now looking to serve the city's homeless.

Our history means that we are in a shared site with a school, and schools need to protect their pupils. Churches need to be open. In fact, in the Anglican tradition, public worship is held twice every day – and public means open gates! Our hope is rekindled by Isaiah’s vision of the nations being drawn to God’s light, reflected through his people. ‘Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night’ (Isaiah 60:11 NIV). As we move forward, we pray that the light of Christ would shine out more and more in this city.

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B Y K E LV I N AND J E AN WO O L ME R

The Corfu seasonal chaplaincy is the latest chaplaincy venture for ICS to support the local priest in Corfu and outreach into the local community and to the tourists. My wife Jean and I had done seasonal chaplaincy in France for many years and had seen lives changed and maintained contact with people we had met in the chaplaincy role, so we were keen to ‘give Corfu a go’ and see what we could do for God and take ICS chaplaincy to another place.

We flew out on 17 July 2018 to cover the first two weeks of an eight-week chaplaincy period. We stayed in Stavros Apartments near Gouvia Corfu where we would primarily be based. Local Anglican priest Revd Jules introduced me to Miltiades the Minister of the Evangelical Greek church who ran the local community centre called The Lighthouse. Miltiades was very open to the work we had gone out to do and it had been arranged that the chaplains would spend time in the Lighthouse. I spent some hours in there talking with the ex-pats who attended on Friday to play table tennis.

Jean and I had offered to speak at separate Men’s and Women’s breakfasts whereby the local church members could attend and bring non-church friends along. On our second Saturday of the chaplaincy, at 9am we both went off to our respective venues.

Jean spoke about being a published author aka Jean Fullerton and how her faith is a strong part of her life and work. My talk was entitled ‘From Nicker to Vicar’, as I used to be a police officer, and amongst the dozen men who attended there were almost half who had no church background and asked ‘many questions’ at the end.

Being the first chaplain of the season and first on this new venture it was always going to be a bit of a factfinding two weeks and foundation laying period for the chaplains who were following us.

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Kelvin and Jean Woolmer

<< Judy and Herrick Daniels (the chaplains to follow)

Unfortunately, the ICS information leaflets sent to Corfu hadn’t arrived by the time we got there. So being a bit bereft of publicity materials, I donned my clerical shirt and collar and went and did what I’ve done in all the chaplaincy roles I’ve been engaged in, ‘I mooched round the shops and cafés and bars’ being a ‘visible presence for Christ’. The good ol’ clerical garb does open doors and people were happy to talk to this foreign priest, if only to pass the time of day. I also got some strange looks, after all what sane person walks around in temperatures of 35C wearing a black shirt?

It became apparent very quickly that the local Greek population are all working three jobs to make money during the summer, which will carry them over the winter. They didn’t have time for long conversations. The tourists were from several different countries and whilst I can say hello in Italian and Greek, I think it’s probably wise for next year to have some Russian and German as well.

We attended Holy Trinity for the Sunday services and were warmly welcomed by the congregation and made many new friends. Many invited us for tea and meals and they were really excited about the support that ICS was giving them in trying to reach new people. It became very apparent that in future years the congregation could ‘pave the way’ for the ICS chaplains by placing A4 posters in the shops and bars in the locality of Gouvia and Messonghi.

Being the first ICS chaplains to Corfu for this new summer chaplaincy was hard. We didn’t know the ‘lay of the land’ in the same way we did in other ICS chaplaincies in France and Switzerland. I had to be much more prepared to be rebuffed or simply find that the locals didn’t have time for this foreign chaplain. We pray that we did open some doors for our following colleagues to go through.

This first year was always going be a learning process and each year subsequently that ICS returns to support the Holy Trinity Church of Corfu (HTC), its vicar Revd Jules and its lovely eclectic congregation, this summer chaplaincy will build on the year before, and in no time I’m sure, ICS and HTC will both grow in working together to share the love of Christ and reach new people.

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I N T E R C O N T I N E N TA L C H U R C H S O C I E T Y

AGM AND SHOWCASE

ICS held a very successful AGM and Showcase on 19 September, 2018 at Lambeth Palace with old and new faces turning up, the speakers were great, as were the cakes at the end!

We were welcomed by Bishop Anthony Poggo, the Archbishop of Canterbury's Adviser for Anglican Communion Affairs. ICS Chairman, Bishop Richard Jackson gave a Bible reading.

He was followed by Richard Bromley who presented the Mission Director’s Report and Jim Perryman updated us on Seasonal Mission.

Finally, Bishop Richard Jackson presented the Chairman’s Report and Christopher Weller the Treasurer’s Report. Chris commented that ICS is in a sound financial position which will enable us to weather a drop in the investment market and cover any unexpected operating deficit. However, he warned that ICS needs to be aware that we have an ageing supporter base and declining membership numbers.

Council Members who were standing down were thanked for their faithful service, they were: Laurence Biggs, John Philpott and Angela Marshall. Two Council members willing to re-stand were: Ann Tyndall and David White. Martin Dale was welcomed as a new ICS Council member.

We were delighted to award Life Memberships to Patricia Duxbury wife of the late Jim Duxbury, for their contribution to Seasonal Mission, and to Sarah Milburn for her support of the ICS Seasonal Mission in Ibiza.

Two ICS Chaplains were welcomed to speak: Jenni Pridmore from St. Mary’s Rotterdam and Simon Tyndall from St. Paul’s, Tervuren.

Jenni spoke about Rotterdam, historically and now. She spoke about the challenges and opportunities that St. Mary’s is facing.

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church. However, that fear also provides the opportunity to encourage trusting discipleship that teaches us to step out in faith. The third challenge is the cultural change with 170 nationalities present, the city of Rotterdam does not look like it did twenty years ago. This, however, gives many new mission possibilities.

The fourth challenge is our historical building with uncomfortable pews, however, we can be a ‘real’ church. Our building is in a city that is dominated by post-1950s architecture, St. Mary’s stands out and is recognisable as a place of Christian worship. Our final challenge is that of tight finances. However, this gives us the opportunity to build good relationships.

We cannot run slick fancy youth programmes, but we can invest in mentorship and getting to know people on a one-on-one basis and to help build a life-long relationship with Jesus Christ.

St. Mary’s is running various Fresh Expressions’ programmes. The main one is a mission to Pakistanis living in Rotterdam through Humayun Sunil, a Pakistani Deacon. His position is funded by ICS and the Diocese in Europe. Humayun reaches out to the Pakistani community which is large and is continuing to grow. Other three Fresh Expressions programmes are: ‘The Anchor’, a student outreach mission, we run in conjunction with the Scots International Church and IFES. We meet students on the Erasmus University campus, where there are 7000 international students a year with English the language most used. St. Mary’s is reimagining Mothers Union, focussing on providing prayer support, parental drop-ins which are culturally-sensitive and starting a crafting group. The final outreach programme we started in October, the Dutch call it: ‘Zeg je pech’, which translates as ‘Talk your problems’. We played with the wording and call it ‘Open Ears’. We talk with people

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outside on the pavements on chairs we have put out with a sign saying: ‘We are here to listen’. People are invited to simply sit down, have a cup of tea or coffee and talk about whatever they wish to talk about.

Afterwards, they are invited back whenever they want to. We hope this will make an impact in our community.

Jenni Pridmore, Rotterdam Chaplain

Patricia Duxbury receiving a Life Membership

Sarah Milburn

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None of the above would be possible without the support of ICS. I value the personal coaching, I value the prayer support, the ability to speak with other chaplains who are in a similar situation as myself, the publications, the ICS Chaplains and Families Conference. Last April, my youngest daughter and I attended the conference and she was so excited to be meeting up with people who are in a similar situation.

Even among other expats we are different, because of what we do. It can be very lonely and very isolating and the support we receive from ICS, professionally and personally is immense.

Simon Tyndall spoke about his work at St. Paul’s, Tervuren where the congregation meets, very informally, in a school canteen. In the past, Tervuren was a place for expats and thirty years ago, was planted from Holy Trinity Brussels. Initially they met in the Paulus Kerk in Vossem, hence the name, St. Paul’s. From there it moved to the British School, this should have been a temporary venue, but we are still here, and we are very comfortable. The parking is good, it is warm, cheap, there are excellent rooms for children work. The downside is that since the attacks in Brussels, some years ago now, the security has been tightened and people can only attend our services if they have a pass to enter the building. Being a church behind gates is very counter-productive. We cannot be an open church and welcome those who would just like to dip their toe in and come and go when they want.

Our vision is to be a community where people are welcomed to know, equipped to live, and sent to proclaim the love of Jesus Christ. It is noticeable that we are becoming less and less British and there is a need for the chaplaincy to become integrated into the local community.

We need to move away from the old model of the church, that of a British expat congregation, to become a bridge and integrate in the local community, and to become rooted in it more and more. Because, like it or not, Brexit is affecting all of us. It is affecting the British School, where now only 19% are British and Irish; the tunnel, which makes it easier to get to London, so there is no need to live abroad; the 2008 economic downturn, companies no longer send families to live and work abroad; the Brits working in the EU Institutions have done their time and are retiring and not being replaced. So, we must look again at who we are.

We have concluded that as St. Paul’s, Tervuren, we are here in Belgium (being rooted in Belgium), we are about being a growing community, we engage and pray for the wider world. Our numbers have gone down slightly in recent years, although having said that we had 150 people in church last Sunday. We have a great, vibrant children’s and youth work, we have eighty people signed up for our church weekend away, our giving is going down, but God seems to bless us all the time and I am heartily encouraged. My hope and prayer for St. Paul’s is that we continue to work deeper and closer with our brothers and sisters in Christ, here in Flanders. St. Paul’s is changing, this year the new people who have come to join us, are none of them Brits!

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JOHN AND MARGARET PHILPOTT

It wasn’t long after leaving the chaplaincy in Prague and entering the new world of the retired in 2008, that we started to get invitations from other chaplaincies in the Diocese of Europe to help them with a vacancy period or holiday cover. Over the next ten years once, and often twice a year, we set out to spend a few weeks or a couple of months nurturing English-speaking Anglican Churches in the faith and helping to bridge the gap between the departure of one chaplain and the arrival of another.

So, it was that we spent time in Corfu Town, Cannes, Paris, Lyons, Maisons-Laffitte, Versailles, Chantilly, Leipzig, Freiburg, Voorschoten, Kiev and Luxembourg. To say that we had a great time would be an understatement. Art in the Netherlands, the Black Forest near Freiburg and the Stasi Museum in Leipzig were just some of the highlights. Others were restored Orthodox churches in Kiev and the remains of the Roman Amphitheatre in Lyon. But all of these we could have experienced as tourists. What the tourist cannot experience is the joyful impact of preaching in Freiburg on nine consecutive Sundays on the Fruit of the Spirit or the thankfulness of many a congregation that they have a hand on the tiller during what can be the choppy waters of an interregnum.

Not everything went perfectly. There was the Sunday in Cannes when John turned up at church with a bruised and scarred face with glasses askew. That will teach him not to try to photograph a mermaid at the end of a jetty in the middle of a Mediterranean storm and fall into a hole in a vain attempt to escape a mighty wave! More seriously he tripped in Kiev, knocked Margaret over and as a result broke her leg. Her experience of a Ukrainian hospital will remain a vivid memory but not a highlight.

If we were asked to describe the lasting impact made on us by these visits—to some churches more than once—it would be this: ‘Christianity works’. By that we mean that there is in congregation after congregation evidence of changed and changing lives. From different corners of the earth, from different racial and faith backgrounds, from different socio-economic groups, Christians come together to create a cohesive and confident community. Whether the worship is strictly liturgical with organ and choir or more informal with no robes and worship band there is a common theme, and it’s this: united to the praise of God’s glory! How does that come about? Surely it is this, 10

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the grace of God is at work in people’s lives bringing about a way of interacting one with another in which humility, servanthood, forgiveness, commitment, thankfulness, generosity and joy are apparent.

Not, of course, that all Christians and their churches have reached a state of heavenly perfection before getting there, for all are work in progress. However, you only have to look at Christians assembling for worship to see that there is that about them—their looks, their demeanour—evidence that they have been infiltrated by the love of God in Christ. Grace is a surer means of looking good than Botox, for by it people learn to be at home with themselves and with others. It’s as if Christians get infected with the DNA codes of the gospel. Thus, whilst Christians can trace their origins to South America, Germany, Nigeria, Iran or England what really counts is that new birth in Christ.

And it shows.

Ten years on, it’s time to hang the passports up—unless, of course, someone needs some cover while they go on holiday!

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C L I V E AT K I N S O N C H A P L A I N AT V E V E Y, C H ÂT E A U D ’ O E X A N D N E U C H ÂT E L

I’m thinking about three people, each a member of one of the three churches where I serve, who have all gone to glory in recent months and who have all left behind a legacy of blessing.

I’d like to share with you something about each of them and something of the legacy they have passed on.

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Hans Kilchenmann went Home earlier this year. He was Swiss with a love for all things English. Though well and truly rooted in Basle, he and the family had a second home up in the Pays d’En Haut and worshipped at St. Peter’s, Château d’Oex when in the area.

Hans would in time move up more permanently and become part and parcel of the St. Peter’s family, worshipping regularly on a Sunday night and eventually joining the Council. Not long after this move Hans had a leg amputated, an experience that would traumatise the strongest of us. But not Hans. He attacked life, undaunted by his disability, continuing to play golf and attend St. Peter’s. Very little intimidated Hans, not least the number of zeros at the end of an estimate for the refurbishment of the stainedglass windows at St. Peter’s. He offered to do the fundraising, a challenge which he relished.

On Saturday evening 1 September, a few weeks ago, St. Peter’s hosted a concert to mark the fact that we had reached a milestone in the work of refurbishing the interior of the church. On display was the new lighting, new electrics, new heating system (not turned on) and the refurbished windows. Hans did not live to see the completion of his project but his gift for fundraising and his love for St. Peter’s went a long way to making it a reality.

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A PEOPLE FOR OTHERS

Joyce Wailes went Home at the beginning of September. She was ninety-two and had been a member of All Saints, Vevey, where she had come to faith, in the 1960’s. Joyce was already seventy-six when I first me her. She led Tuesday Break, a Bible Study for ‘women of a certain age’ that had been meeting since the 1970’s (the longest running Small Group at All Saints). Just to put this into perspective, the women of Tuesday Break had committed to praying for Terry Waite every day at 2pm during his captivity. They had the pleasure of meeting him after his release.

However, Joyce’s greatest legacy was the fact that she had started the Sunday School at All Saints.

It began with a small number of children. Today we employ a full-time children’s and youth worker. As the children and teens would leave during the service you could see Joyce staring at them with a huge smile on her face, overjoyed to see what the Lord had done and was doing through the seed she had planted.

Revd Roy Farrar went to Glory this summer.

Roy and his wife Mieke served in several ICSpartnered churches in the Diocese in Europe in recent years, namely Lille, St. Michael’s, Paris and most significantly Neuchâtel English Church where under Roy’s leadership the church flourished. It was a pleasure to meet people at Roy’s funeral and to hear stories of how he had gently led people to the Lord, encouraged others into ministry and loved many through difficult pastoral experiences. One of his favourite sayings was ‘pray your socks off’ which reflected Roy’s personal experience of a God who is alive, real and who intervenes in our lives. This also reflected his faith in a big God who still works miracles today and who wants to bless his Church.

Behind every chaplaincy in the ICS family, are real people with real stories of faith and service. These are just three stories of wonderful servants of God who have lived to leave behind a legacy to the glory of God. I am thankful for Hans, Joyce and Roy and for the privilege of knowing them. They are a reminder that our lives, loved by the Father, redeemed by the Lord Jesus and empowered by the Spirit, are to be lived for the benefit of others. May this be true of each one of us.

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I have always considered it a great blessing that I have never run a church through a major building project. Something I was quite happy to avoid doing. So, when we became aware of the failing roof on the church in Zermatt, my heart sank. The early photographs show gutters collapsing, leakages and a general need for some loving care. When we investigated further we found that the roof was ninety years old, had managed to survive through hot summers and extremely cold winters with the weight of snow bearing down on it. Additionally, what we thought was a copper roof turned out to be steel which had been nailed down with zinc nails.

Anyone who understands electrolysis will know that this is not a great combination, so we were amazed it had survived so long.

After a concerted time of fundraising we are delighted that just prior to starting the project, we raised nearly all of the funds necessary to complete the work. We were aware that when the roof came off we were bound to find more things that needed doing and other challenges that needed to be addressed. We praise God that people have been so generous, and organisations have been so willing to get behind us. Three times we received CHF10,000

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anonymously in the wall safe at the church.

My rejoicing was not just that we covered the restoration of the roof, but that money allocated for mission and evangelism was not dipped into to achieve this.

The roof was taken off in July and we were impressed at the quality and the condition of the timbers underneath. Some replacement work needed to be done, but generally it was better than we imagined. What we did find, were thousands of small nails in the timbers and it was seen that when it was originally built, the roof was covered with small wooden shingles. The building is a conservationistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream that as you tear off layers, you find out other things about the property, like the bell tower once being white and other such historical anomalies. As I write, the building is covered in scaffolding, has a waterproof membrane in place and now the new roof is starting to be fitted. I had expected the work to be carried out in a similar way you would expect in the UK with roofing ladders and a team operating from them. However, this being Switzerland and the exceptionally steep pitch of the roof, it was impressive to see roofers operating with climbing ropes, or simply scampering up.

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image from a painting by Patrick Duncan

"The challenge is that, as we now have the building in an improved condition, we also make sure that our ministry and chaplaincy continues to be relevant to the changing needs of a town like Zermatt."

My ambition for the work is that the church looks beautiful, continues to be a beacon for the gospel and not only draws people who have an interest in the history and life of Zermatt, but that they may encounter something of the living God through the worship and chaplains they meet when they are here. Additionally, there is something about leaving a legacy and witness to the gospel of Christ in Zermatt. The challenge is that, as we now have the building in an improved condition, we also make sure that our ministry and chaplaincy continues to be relevant to the changing needs of a town like Zermatt. Zermatt is an amazing town with a whole mixture of people who visit for a few hours or a few months. There are mountain bikers, walkers, skiers, chalet staff and workers as well as local residents and people just passing through. We want to maximise our opportunities here and value your prayers as we develop the ministry.

RICHARD BROMLEY

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