Hanna and Lina Eid pastor a small Baptist church in the village of Eilaboun some 12 miles NE of Nazareth in Galilee, Israel and work with the Christian Holy Land Foundation. They are Evangelical Arab Christians and as such experience quite a lot of obstruction to their desire to win adults and children to Christ in Eilaboun and the surrounding villages. We came to know them while Hanna was studying in the UK in 2003-4 and some from our church visited them in Israel in November 2006 and May 2010.

As a church, we regularly give to Home Mission, which can be described as the 'Baptist Family Purse'. Home Mission is all about helping Baptist churches and individuals to reach their mission potential and bring the love of God to their communities. Communities around our nation are being transformed by Home Mission through grants to churches and regions which facilitate church planting, the resourcing of local churches and enabling churches to develop new and creative mission projects.

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Baptists Together also includes our Regional Association (the SWBA), and the specialist advice and support it provides. 

Home of Peace is a Kenyan government-registered children's home. With funds raised and administered by TLC Children's Trust (a UK charity established and run by our own Ray and Marilyn White), the local staff of 20 people provide everything for the 53 children currently under their care. The children are placed with the home by the Kenyan Department of Children's Services and each child has a unique story, with many left homeless and orphaned, some abandoned by families unable to care for them
Home of Peace gives these children a Christian home, practical care, and makes sure they are loved and looked after. 

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Street Pastors are volunteers from different churches who offer peaceful and practical help on the night-time streets. Working together with local authorities, registered services, the local police, and local businesses they offer practical help to vulnerable people who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or who are homeless, or disorientated by mental illness, or young, or lost, or lonely

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Our BMS Link Missionary is working in a vulnerable part of the world. To find out more and to receive their confidential newsletter please email the office

CHARIS settles refugee families in the Southwest of England through the UK Home Office Community Resettlement programme.

They aim to see individual refugees and families happily settled in the UK and contributing to the wellbeing of their communities. They are friends to refugees, and provide the practical, emotional and spiritual support they need to settle and live happy and healthy lives.

Purefire is the ministry of Paul and Kathryn Hopkins. The vision is to bring the presence and power of Christ into churches, streets and homes. This has involved developing a mentoring programme, mission trips, and ongoing relationship with churches on their own journeys. For the last few years, the focus has been on spekaing, training, prayer, and heling in churches, with particular focus on Germany and German speaking countries.

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Will and Judith are missionaries working for Wycliffe Bible Translators, and for many years were based in Central African Republic. 
Will is a translation consultant, and works with Bible translation teams in CAR, making sure that their translations are clear, accurate and natural.  Judith writes and shares about all the translation and associated work that is going on in the country, and promotes prayer to support it.  

Open Doors supports persecuted Christians in more than 70 countries by supplying Bibles, providing emergency relief and helping them stand strong for the long-term. Open Doors helps the church to pray, give and speak out for those who share our faith but not our freedom.
Our church helps support the work of Open Doors, and we also hold monthly prayer gatherings on zoom to pray for the persecuted church.  

Taunton Food Bank don’t think anyone in our community should have to face going hungry. They provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. They are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.

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