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Counties, 30 Haynes Road, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3HD
Connecting communities through the love of Jesus
Counties (formerly Counties Evangelistic Work) is a Registered Charity No. 264278 and a Company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales No. 01041761
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Thank you for all the support you have given to Counties over the past year. Making Jesus known across the UK
Welcome
God is faithful and we are delighted to share some highlights with you from the last year of how the Lord has continued to use and bless the work of Counties across the United Kingdom. Thank you for your partnership in the Gospel. Like everyone else across the globe, Counties has faced the challenges of living with Covid-19. The first half of our year (October to March) saw growing numbers attend our schools resources, new teams trained on our Neighbourhood Chaplains programme, and new opportunities arise for preaching the Gospel and planting new churches. However, Covid-19 has brought both challenges and opportunities.
Highlights team have met the needs head on, with online and internet ministry growing and having a great impact, and evangelists and Neighbourhood Chaplains finding creative and innovative ways to make Jesus known. For example, 34,000 people have been reached via our Counties Connect online programmes, which did not exist in March! Thousands have been reached with the Good News, but the needs are still many. Can I encourage you to continue to ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Matthew 9v38 In Him
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Steve Loader, Counties Bristol evangelist and Sea Chaplain Counties Planting Network trained
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Church Planters in
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teams
220
people joined together at the Connect Conference – which focused on church planting in February 2020
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100
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students completed the TEAM training programme for young people
Counties reached over
34,000
people through its new Life and Church Connect video shows on Facebook and YouTube
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children and adults to learn about Jesus’ teachings
Richard Canham, Chair of Trustees
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IMPACT REPORT 2019-2020