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Mission and Evangelism
As a church we take seriously Jesus' command to share the Good News of God's love to our generation.
Indeed the church has been involved in overseas mission for many years. On the 6th September 1899
Rev and Mrs Herbert Sutton-Smith arrived at Yakusu in the Upper Congo. A few years later they founded the
Stapleton Memorial Hospital (named after Mr Howard Stapleton, a pioneering missionary who had preceded them).
In 1909 the Smiths moved on to China where Herbert died in 1916, but Ethel Annie (who was born in Market Drayton)
returned to Audlem and led the Sunday School until the outbreak of the Second World War.
A memorial to them is on the wall of the church.In the 1970's Dr Suzanne Roberts went to Chadragona hospital in Bangladesh . In recent years a wider variety of opportunities for mission have become available, especially for young people. In 1997 Rachel spent two months in Mozambique with a group from Operation Mobilisation helping to build a Bible Training College for pastors for local churches. Conditions were 'primitive' - a well had to be dug and even the bricks had to be made by hand! At the present time the Baptist Churches of Audlem and Crewe jointly support Miss Judy Cook in Thailand . Judy, pictured here, works particularly with disabled children. One of our members now works for Operation Mobilisation as part of the team that writes software that supports mission activity in over a hundred countries around the world. Of course it is true that there is a great need amongst people of our own country, so we support various ministries in the UK and, indeed, in the Crewe and Nantwich area. |
