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Our Overseas Links
BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY (BMS) - As a church we support the Baptist Missionary Society which works all around the world. We have direct links with mission partners who have been sent out from the Island. Action Teams provide a great way for young people to experience mission overseas on short term placements. Please see the BMS website www.bmsworldmission.org
Summer Camp at Yerlatma 2008
LOVE RUSSIA – Directors Alex and Jacqui Cooke are members of Castlehold. Each year members of the church join them and others from all over the UK in Summer Camp teams to run activity programs in different orphanages in Russia. For more details see their website www.loverussia.org
September 2008 visit
SANDANSKI BAPTIST CHURCH, BULGARIA – Teams regularly visit the Sandanski area of Bulgaria to offer support to the churches there and their many community projects. For more details contact Pat Levett.
HOPE NOW – works in Ukraine to share the love of Jesus in word and deed by providing support for orphans and street children and healthcare for children with birth abnormalities. Every summer teams from the UK go to help in this work. For more details contact Peter Comber or see their website www.hopenow.org.uk
ST LUKE’S LEPROSARIUM, SOUTH INDIA – is a referral centre for leprosy patients. It has 90 in-patient beds, and treats 1600 out-patients each year. Leprosy is curable, but still carries a terrible social stigma. For more information please see Ruth Barber
TEAR FUND – works with the poorest people around the world. We follow one or two of their special projects each year. For more information please see their website www.tearfund.org
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