Jon, Carly and their daughters Isabelle and Caitlin, have been part of our King's Church Family for many years. They served in leadership across a number of different ministries, including Small Groups, Youth Work and Food Bank.

In August 2019 they followed the call of God on their lives to serve the nation of Wales with the gospel, relocating from Portsmouth to Aberystwyth. The Butlers have planted themselves in Abersytwyth to serve their surrounding area, beginning a church community for those unconnected and disconnected from church.

With a passion to connect with people around Aberystwyth and across Cardigan Bay, reaching out with the gospel to see lives changed, Jon and Carly are establishing ministry through monthly fun clubs for Dads and their children (Who Let The Dads Out), leading a weekly Life Group in their home and Jon is the Club Chaplain for Aberystwyth Town Football Club. Through these activities, combined with Jon's role as Area Coordinator for CVM Cymru (an evangelistic and discipleship movement committed to seeing men reached with the good news of Jesus and connected to the local church), they are seeing fruit and growth.

They have loved being able to build strong friendships with other churches in the town centre and across Wales to see the kingdom of God blessing and impacting the nation.

The Butlers remain part of King's extended family, with Jon a member of the Senior Leadership Team here, and are in regular contact with King's.

You can find out more, follow their updates and partner with them through https://linktr.ee/butlersinwales

Oaza Nadziei (Oasis of Hope) is a church planting movement operating in Southern Poland.

Alex Gray (founder of Oaza Nadziei) first began visiting Poland in 2012, through a connection formed on a school trip. Since then, he has returned several times a year and has caught the heart of God to pioneer a church planting movement, beginning in the South West.

Alex now lives in Poland, along with a planting team of five people - three Brits; Alex Gray, Bradley Allen and Josh Charman, and a couple already on the ground in Poland. Friendships and connections have been growing with some phenomenal visionary pastors in the area.

They exist to plant churches wherever the harvest is ready in Poland, and train new disciples to make disciples to spread across Poland. Their vision is to plant over 1,000 churches and see revival and God's spirit poured out across Poland and into neighbouring countries!

Los Guido Centre - meeting it's local community needs through education and social ministries

Over ten years ago, William Zapata, along with his wife Nadia, (then missionaries in Costa Rica, now leading the Central American division of Latin Link), was given the vision for a christian centre in the heart of a deprived shanty community on their doorstep. They began to explore this call by leading a weekly prayer group in the home of a local lady, who had recently come to faith in Los Guido...and the rest is history - and we are privileged to help to make the Zapata’s story one of growing success and bring glory to God!

Los Guido is a large shanty town consisting of corrugated, iron-clad, single storey homes in the hills above San Jose. Many of those living here are immigrants or second generation settlers from surrounding countries having fled political unrest and searching for a better life.

There's great need for teenage and adult education, as well as social action initiatives, to break the pattern of drug addiction and violence that is sadly common to many who grow up here. The project aims to create a culture where God can break through all aspects of life - to make poverty, drug abuse and violence things of the past.

Peter and Andreea live in Guatamela and currently work as part of Pure Joy Missions. Pure Joy's mission is to bring Healing and Hope to communities by sharing the love of Jesus Christ.

Peter is a former member of our church, who came to King's while he studied at University. In 2014, he married Andrea and they have served as part of various YWAM missions including in Malaysia and Guatemala. In 2020, they moved to live closer to Andrea's mum, as well as to work as part of Pure Joy Missions. Their role is diverse including devotional teachings, kids clubs, working with the elderly and distributing care and food to those in need. Peter also spends time working on the administration and helping to write policies for Pure Joy.

Pure Joy website

The Frizelles’ website, where you can sign up to their mailing list

Women Without Roofs (WWR) is the charity Anna set up and runs in Nepal that helps vulnerable and abandoned women there by paying for rent and medical bills. The charity also runs a women’s home and pays for children’s education.

WWR's vision for them is not limited to seeing them become productive members of society, contributing to the local economy, but to also meet their deeper needs through the fruits of the spirit, to be renewed through God's love. A by-product of this may be that they become economically independent, but this is not the sole focus of the work. As there are always cash flow issues and WWR relies on donations and grants this could be a distraction from their spiritual aims but Anna and the team pray that this is not the case.

Through regular meetings the team reflects on how WWR is doing, each of the trustees in the UK and board members in Nepal is a Christian and they pray for God to guide them in their work. Their current ambition is to see the staff and women take on more and more responsibility for the work of WWR.

Stay up-to-date via Anna’s email here.