Crosslinks News

Christmas; the time when we give glory to God for the gift of His precious Son, Jesus….but how well do you and your church know what the bible says about this amazing event? Why not have a bit of fun and test yourself with this Bible based Christmas quiz? (more...)

Click here to download easily printable Acrobat pdf version of the questions alone

31 Oct 2007 Christmas cards for Crosslinks. Buy your cards through studio51 and Crosslinks can benefit! (more...)

14 September 2007: Crosslinks and South Asia Concern team up to share the costs of new gift in your will leaflet (more...) Copies of the leaflet can also be ordered from Karen - click here to email

22 Aug 2007 Caught in the Peru earthquake - news from former mission partner Penny Marces (more...)

18 July 2007 Check out the July edition of the Guilford Diocesan newspaper, The Wey, to see what former mission partner, Liz Tilley is up to now. You can find it on their web site, the article is on page 9

20 April 2007 The sheep competition - click here to see finalists and a selection of other entries

25th September 2007 Thanksgiving for Dr John Hobson - The Thanksgiving service will be at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday 25th September at St Saviour’s Church, Iford, which is on the corner of Holdenhurst Road and Colemore Road, Bournemouth. John served in Burma and India from 1952 to 1987.

30 March 2007 If you are going to Spring Harvest at Minehead on the first week then please do contact Karen so that you can meet up informally for a cup of tea and perhaps a quick prayer. Karen will be visiting on Wednesday April 4th please call 020 8691 6111 to find out more.

26 March 2007 Crosslinks appoints new Ireland team leader. Tim Silk is married to Claire and they have four children. Tim is currently leading a church in Barkham near Reading in partnership with a group of Anglican Churches in the area. His passion is Jesus and those who don’t know Jesus. He loves to help other followers of Jesus to act like they believe what Jesus says is true. Tim describes himself as Reformed with a sense of humour and Charismatic with a seatbelt. The most influential theologians in his life are long dead. He is enthusiastic about moving to Dublin. He is looking forward to leading the staff team in the island of Ireland and is praying that we might see even more churches engaging in God’s mission.

21 March 2007 Bishop Gershon, retired bishop of Mara diocese died yesterday in Dar es Salaam. The funeral will be held at St John's Cathedral Musoma on Saturday 31st March.

21 March 2007 Crosslinks advertises its Bible teaching work - click here to see our Easter advert

16th March 2007 Are you going to a Christian conference this year? Would you like to meet other Crosslinks supporters, and perhaps a Crosslinks representative? We already have people interested in meeting at the Cheltenham Bible Festival, at Keswick and at Spring Harvest in Minehead. It would be lovely to have others meeting for a quick cuppa and to pray for Crosslinks. If you are interested please email and we will send you a preview of the adverts we are running at the event and up to date prayer requests to share with the group. It's a fledgling idea but we hope a good one!

5 March 2007 Significant seeds - help us grow support! (more...)

18 Feb 2007 Tarlings report on how a flash flood caused the death of a local teenager (more...)

25 January 2007 Crosslinks Smilers (short-termers) in Uganda are running a blog - click here to visit

15 January 2007 Crosslinks sends New Years Resolution challenge. A number of Crosslinks supporters will be encouraged to find some new (and old!) ways to participate in mission through a letter being sent out in January. Click here to read the letter and the information sheet that goes with it. For keen eyed readers of the Christian press there will also be an advert to encourage even more people to get the mission bug! Click here to see the advert. (note: seed offer only applies to UK)

12 Dec 2006 "A Covenant for the Church of England". Crosslinks General Council (which represents Crosslinks Members) has approved that Crosslinks sign this covenant (more...) For list of signatories (at 19 Dec 06) and answers to questions please click here

7 Dec 2006: Congratulations to Greg Cushing for raising around £2,500 from a sponsored cycle ride. Greg will be part of the SMILE team to the Gambia in 2007.

Crosslinks Day 2006: Friday 27th October. Click here to see photos of the London event

23 Oct Pilgrims' Progress - Thank you to Richard and Betty Cook for forwarding donations to Crosslinks after completing the South West Coastal Path. They say:
"We took 55 days, over 4 years, to complete the 630 miles. Most of the donations came from friends, family members and church people, instead of gifts to mark our Silver Wedding Anniversary!" Here they are at the end of their trek. (click image to enlarge)

11 Oct 06 Sarah Keene (Dublin office) and baby Matthew - click photo to enlarge

22 Aug 06 Crosslinks has joined forces with Eco-wise who will recycle mobile phones and pass donations to Crosslinks. (more...)

7 Aug 06 Simon and Rachel Dowdy: "We are delighted to announce the arrival of Jemima Sophie born at 20:45 on Thursday 20th July, weighing 3670gms (8lbs 2oz), a sister for Hannah and Jack."

22 July 2006 Karen Scutt from the Crosslinks resources team gets married to Andrew Jefferys (photos)

30 June 2006 We have just heard that Bishop Peter Lomongin of Karamoja died yesterday after a long illness. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 4pm at Mirembe Cathedral. Please remember Anna and their family, as well as the diocese in your prayers.
We were so pleased that last month Andy Lines was visit Bishop Peter in hospital in Kampala to talk and pray with him.

Drought in East Africa. Several of our mission partners report on severe food shortages and economic impact as rains fail. See the following prayer updates:

6 June 2006 Stamps for Evangelism - your old stamps brought us £250 ! This was thanks to the work of "Stamps for Evangelism" Visit www.stampsforevangelism.co.uk to find out about their work (more...)

24 May 2006 After a long illness mission partner Afri Chandra died on Saturday 13th May. Please pray for his wife Pam and the boys, Simeon, Judah and Benji.The funeral is at St Christopher's Springfield in Birmingham Friday 26 May 1.30pm (more...)

11 April 2006 "Promotion to glory of Asst Bishop William Waqo, ACK Provincial Secretary and Personal Assistant to the Archbishop of Kenya" (more...)

Faith to faith conference - "for Christians in ministry amongst British Asians and for Asian fellowships and churches"

"JEWELS IN HIS CROWN" - 28-30 July 2006, the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire. (more...)

Here are just a few resources for use over lent, call us (020 8691 6111) or email if you would like more information:

(In Ireland please contact the Dublin or Belfast offices, click here for details)

Time is running out for us to claim back Gift Aid money on gifts made from 6 April 2000 until April 2001. (more...)

Article about David Mills (Crosslinks Council) in the Winter 2005 edition of "The Reader" magazine. Click here to visit their site to download it)

This year’s Christmas appeal provides supporters not only with the chance to give but also to send a message to children in a centre for those with disabilities...(more...)

Crosslinks were delighted to welcome people to the first open day its 83-year history. (as far as we know!) On October 27th people across the UK and from further a field remembered the day when Crosslinks was founded. As well as the open day in the London office events were held in Nottingham, Eastbourne, Bournemouth, Chelmsford, Frinton-on-Sea and Belfast. The Dublin event was planned to coincide with the regular prayer meeting. In Ethiopia mission partner Karen Salmon, who promotes HIV/AIDS awareness to young people, combined her normal prayer meeting with a talk on the work of Crosslinks and a Crosslinks birthday cake! One visitor to the London office who joined in the programme of interactive talks said: “The speakers’ enthusiasm for God’s work was infectious. You can’t beat meeting one another face to face.” To read about what other visitors had to say please click here. Thank you to all those who took part, or who remembered Crosslinks in prayer.

We would love to grow the work we do, but to do that we need to grow our supporters... (more...)

Congratulations John Martin (Church Partnerships Team) - he's had a baby! We think his wife Cassie was involved as well...

Andy Lines: Bible study on Ezekiel 36:16-38 Click here to download complete text (Acrobat pdf file)

Bishop Mwaluda of Kenya: "How the recent developments regarding the debate and actions related to human sexuality would obscure the good news of our faith in the Holy Trinity and severely hinder our mission in Africa and indeed in the Global South" Click here to download complete text (Acrobat pdf file)

8 Sep 05 Colin Maunsell died this morning at about 1 am Ethiopian time. He was unconscious and slipped away quietly. Hazel was accompanied by Jenny Merritt and Jan Stafford. There was an Amharic thanksgiving on 15 Oct and then an English memorial service on 29th October at 2.30pm at St Paul's Howell Hill. (http://www.saintpauls.co.uk/.)

4 Sep 05: from Sena and Jane Ounate Lare: "We are delighted to announce the birth of Johan ( gift of God ) Yendube ( God is trustworthy in local language moba ) OUNATE-LARE on 1st September 00.02 hours. He weighed 7 lb 11oz. We are grateful to God that everything went well. Joshua and Eloise are excited. God be with you all." (click here for Sena and Jane's home page)

4 June 2005 - Noah born to Raymond and Rebekah Brown in S Africa - click here for more

June 2005 - Crosslinks asks on behalf of those mission partners in urgent need of additional support. - click here

June 2005 - Thanksgiving for life of David Smith (ex Crosslinks North West Regional Coordinator - click here

May 2005 Roseline letter doing well despite some glitches - click here for more...

9 May 2005. David Smith (retired Crosslinks NW regional coordinator) died in hospital 1st May. The funeral and thanksgiving service in his memory was held on 20th May. Please pray for his wife Pam and the family

22 February 2005 Anabel Fernandes Reeve was born at St George¹s Hospital, Tooting (SW London), at 11am. She weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces (3.380 Kilos). After a quick delivery, Bianca and Anabel are doing well. (Picture)

Buses galore: A vicar from Thorpe End, Norwich, Rev Michael Kingston (one of the Carson's support churches) raised nearly £2000 for this project. (Crosslinks project code NCP) During the summer he did a sponsored trip by local buses from Lands End, Cornwall to John O Groats in Scotland. (Click here for more...)

Janet Horsman is to take over as Crosslinks Mission Resources Team Leader. She will also be Deputy CEO of Crosslinks. A new Finance post will be created.

"We are very pleased to announce that Iona Tara Gerry was born on Saturday 13th November by Caesarian. She was 9lbs and is a beautiful brunette, like her mum"

Graham Sopp (our Deputy CEO and Mission Resources Team Leader) left Crosslinks at the end of September. He has taken over as National Director of the International Bible Society.

June 2004 - Press Release issued by "The Plant" in Manchester, jointly with Crosslinks. Crosslinks has two Associate families working with "The Plant" - Keymers and Hindleys

The Real Life conference at Swanwick has been and gone, click here for a brief report and some photos

Revd Canon E.W.Francis, “Rufus”, died peacefully on January 29^th 2004, two weeks before his 96^th birthday. The funeral will be on 13 Feb at 1.30 and a memorial service will be on 2 April at 12 noon, both at St John’s Kenilworth. Annie Nason, his daughter has asked that any donations should go to Sittwe Diocese, Myanmar via Crosslinks

Have you seen the letter on the Anglican Mainstream website www.anglican-mainstream.net - expressing support for the new Network of Confessing Churches and Dioceses in ECUSA?

The Diocese of Chelmsford holds regular prayer meetings for Crosslinks. In 2004 they are on 13 March, 12 June, 11 September, 4 December (all Saturdays) at St Paul's Church, Beehive Lane, Great Baddow, between 10am and 11.15am. You can get more details from Canon Philip Price on 01245 251499

Anglican Mainstream - "...a resource for those seeking to understand the issues in human sexuality and orthodox faith and witness that are challenging the Christian Church and particularly the Anglican Communion."

Statement re election of practicing homosexual as bishop - from Anglican Church of Chile (Spanish)

The Church of Ireland Gazette has recently published an article about Crosslinks' holiday camps in Ireland. Click here to read it on their web site

Changes need Members: General Secretary Andy Lines explains why Crosslinks' supporters need to make sure they are signed up Members. You can download a membership application

The Wycliffe Hall web site has a report on the recent conference "The future of Anglicanism" The report is in downloadable form from here

Crosslinks mission partner, David Williams, has a problem. Carlile College, Nairobi, where he is Principal, needs a new library building to house its growing stock of books. Work on the new building has come to a standstill through lack of funds, and David is currently storing 8000 of the college's books on the stairs. There will be a feature on Carlile College in November, but in the meantime readers may wish to send a contribution (c/o Crosslinks) to get building work restarted.

Crosslinks mission partner, Rachel Williams has been helping women in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Nairobi, with a self-help project. The women make greeting cards from Kipawa paper, made from recycled paper which has been dyed and decorated. The project provides a regular income for their families.

Kipawa cards are now available for sale in the UK. You can buy some for yourself, you could buy some as Christmas presents - or you could become an agent and sell them at your church.

or at Kipawa Card Project, Lawn Farmhouse, Stratfield Turgis, Hook, Hants RG27 0AR

You may also be interested in reading an article just written by General Secretary Andy Lines about Crosslinks' vision for the future