St Mary’s has a number of mission partners, based both locally and overseas. We offer support through prayer, promoting their work and financially, giving 10% of the church’s income away to our partners and other causes and emergencies as they arise.

Every few months we invite one of our partners to our 10.30 service to tell us about their work. Pam, one of our Mission team, also hosts regular Mission Lunches, a friendly way of promoting Mission and also a highlight of our social calendar at St Mary’s.

Our Mission Partners include:

Amigos

In Summer 2013 St Mary’s sent a team to Amigos’ project ‘Kira Farm’ in Uganda, beginning what we hope will be long and fruitful partnership. Click to find out more about the trip. We now sponsor one of the young people who is training there. Visit their website here.

Africa Inland Mission

Our new mission partner, Dr Caroline Bell, will be working with the Karimojong, in the North East corner of Uganda. For more about Caroline click here.  Caroline visited St Mary’s in February 2020 to udate us on her work so far. A recording of her talk can be found here

Barnabas Fund

Barnabas Fund serves the suffering Church and makes its needs known to Christians around the world, encouraging them to pray. It also provides practical help.  www.barnabasfund.org

Birmingham City Mission

Birmingham City Mission is an interdenominational Christian charity working in Birmingham to bring the Good News of Jesus by word and deed to the people of the city. Our harvest gifts go to the mission and we have a toy service just before Christmas – all these gifts are then distributed to the needy.  www.birminghamcitymission.co.uk

Betel
Betel’s mission is to bring long-term freedom and restoration to lives broken by drug and alcohol abuse and its Birmingham base is right on our doorstep! We have helped finance the refurbishment of the men’s kitchen in the centre at Weatheroak. www.betel.uk

Phil and Jane Jackman

This Birmingham-based couple work with Agape which ministers among businesspeople, helping them articulate their faith, providing opportunities for seekers to discuss belief and bringing a biblical perspective to workplace issues.  www.agape.org.uk

Operation Christmas Child

Every Christmas we fill shoeboxes with gifts for children in the Third World. Operation Christmas Child is part of Samaritans Purse, which funds a variety of relief projects in developing countries. www.samaritanspurse.org.uk

Send a Cow

As its name suggests, Send a Cow provides livestock – goats, chickens and rabbits as well as cows – and training in how to care for them to disadvantaged families in six countries in Africa. In a ‘lent to harvest’ project we raised enough money to purchase a whole farmyard of animals! www.sendacow.org

Tear Fund

Tear Fund is a well known Christian relief organisation, seeking to relieve suffering and offer hope to people in many parts of the Third World. It is increasingly active in advocacy on behalf of the world’s poor and disadvantaged, wherever they are.  www.tearfund.org

Tools With a Mission

This small charity collects and refurbishes tools, sewing and knitting machines and computers to send out to training centres in Africa, so that those who have completed vocational courses can be given the equipment they need to set up in business. One of their beneficiaries is Kira Farm (see Amigos above). www.twam.co.uk