The Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (AFES) aims to equip university students for gospel ministry to their fellow students and beyond. It also aims to challenge students to consider how they will serve God for the rest of their lives. Many people at Unichurch have benefited from this ministry here at UWA.
http://www.afeswa.info
Trinity Theological College is a reformed evangelical theological college that aims to train it’s students for effective Christian service both in Australia and around the world. This year it welcomed 29 new full and part-time students. Trinity also runs regular night classes and other training events. http://www.ttc.wa.edu.au
Shenton Christian Council place and support chaplains in local government high schools. Steve Ritchie, regular member of Unichurch, is currently a chaplain at Shenton College.
Ecom is an organisation committed to bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ to people working in the CBD of Perth. Many people spend more time with their work colleagues than they do with their next-door-neighbours and so Ecom seeks to equip Christian workers to bring the good news of Jesus to their colleagues. Ecom runs prayer groups and regular meetings during lunch hour in the city. http://www.ecom.org.au
Peter (with Interserve) has recently left Perth to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in the Middle East. Please pray for him as he learns Arabic and discovers more about the culture he is becoming a part of. Please pray that he would make good friendships and that he might have the opportunity to tell those around him about the God who loves them and gave his Son for them.
http://interserve.org.au
Nyandiwa Christian Church is in rural west Kenya and consists of a congregation of around 80 people who meet in a mud building every Sunday. Although only 5 of the 80 people in the congregation receive an income the church plays a very important social role within the local community. They use the money they receive from Australian churches to send orphans to school and to run a medical dispensary that is attached to the church.
Libby Leach (with the Church Missionary Society) is working with university students in Paris. She is helping to train Christian students to explain the Bible and to challenge their friends to think about the claims of Jesus. She recently visited us here at Unichurch while on furlough.
http://www.cms.org.au/missionaries
Compassion is an international aid organisation that seeks to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. It enables churches and individuals around the world to sponsor needy children so that they can be cared for, fed, educated, and told about Jesus' love for them. Unichurch has recently started sponsoring Tina (born 8.4.2001) who lives with her aunt and uncle in Indonesia. You can help support Tina by praying for her and donating money via the box on the desk at the front of Unichurch.
http://compassion.org.au
Langham Partnerships International aims to equip the church in the majority world by providing books and scholarships to theological students, and by running regular preaching workshops. Langham is having an exciting impact across the world in countries as diverse as Albania, Nigeria, Croatia, Tanzania and Myanmar.
http://www.langhampartnership.org
