Hunter Bible Church has special relationships with a few organisations who work at proclaiming the gospel in places we can’t go and to people we can’t reach. We love these people!
Mike and Katie Taylor
With CMS in Tanzania
Mike and Katie serve at Munguishi Bible College. They work alongside local churches to equip men and women to proclaim and live out the Gospel through teaching and creating resources. Mike loves teaching students the basics of the Gospel and how to read the Bible for themselves. Katie loves encouraging students to teach children the Gospel faithfully and creatively.
Chris and Karen Webb
With CMS in Broome, WA
Chris and Karen work at Broome People’s Church to help Aboriginal people grow as disciples of Jesus. They teach the Bible at church and Sunday school and meet with men and women during the week. Chris also supports Aboriginal Christian leaders in remote communities.
Dene and Rachel Hughes
With CMS in Japan
Dene and Rachel (with Eliott and Simeon) are involved in student ministry with KGK and support Mukonoso Megumi Church to share their hope in Christ with their neighbourhood (through outreach events, youth group, kids music, Bible studies, English classes and one-to-one). They continue to study Japanese!
Ross and Lyndal Webb
With Wycliffe Bible Translators in Sydney
Ross and Lyndal have been involved in Bible translation work in the Pacific region for the past few decades. Epi Island, Vanuatu was the last place they were working before a move to be based in Sydney to be closer to very elderly parents. From Sydney they continue to work with Vanuatu projects on a number of fronts, including translation consulting, and further work on a training program in understanding the Bible for local Vanuatu translation and church leaders. Overseeing the development of Biblical resources in Bislama language (the trade language of Vanuatu that much of the population speaks) under Kokonas Publishing House is a new venture they are just entering into.
Compassion Australia
Supporting Compassion child sponsorship in Bangladesh and the Philippines
Compassion is an international Christian child development and child advocacy ministry committed to working in partnership with local churches around the world to foster the spiritual, economic, social, physical and emotional development of children living in extreme poverty in over 26 developing countries.
Compassion's vision is the transformation of lives, communities and nations through releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
Gospel Church Kurri Kurri
Shem Swaddling is the pastor of Gospel Church Kurri Kurri. Shem and Grace have been partners with HBC for 7 years at Gospel Church Hamilton South but have moved this ministry to the Kurri region because of the strategic opportunities there to faithfully follow Jesus in hard places and spread his gospel to many who are marginalised and vulnerable.
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Manning Bible Church
Taree NSW
MBC love Jesus, they’re grounded in the Bible, and they exist to see thousands across the Manning have a mighty hope in Jesus. They are lead by Joel and Hannah.
Matt & Ellen Tyler
With CMS (doing specialist training)
Matt and Ellen are CMS Missionaries doing discipleship through Bible translation in Vanuatu. During initial language learning in the capital Port Vila they will identify a language for translation and focus on that work in a village location for many years to come.
SIL is an organisation started by the founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators as a way to train missionaries in translating the Bible.”
S & D
With CMS (doing specialist training)
With CMS, S and D are preparing to serve the Lord in a secure Central Asian location with CMS from 2025 onwards.
Phil & Lauren
With AIM on Home Assignment, destination Kenya
Phil and Lauren are AIM Missionaries on their initial Home Assignment before heading to the US from August 2023 to June 2024 for final training and pre-field orientation.
From July 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya, Phil will serve as a missionary pilot with AIM Air and Lauren will work with the Nairobi Outreach Team to bring the gospel to a displaced, unreached people group.
Julie Iverson
With SRE in Newcastle, NSW
Julie is the SRE teacher at Callaghan College Waratah. She is employed for one day per week by a combined churches board, including HBC, to teach SRE each week to students whose parents sign them in. She coordinates ‘Jesus Chats’, a lunch time group each Friday, and helps with a Brekkie club on Thursday and Friday mornings.
Missionaries in secure locations
We also support a number of missionaries who are serving in sensitive locations around the world. Find out more about these people at church.