Category: News and stories

Latin Link member Verna Langrell was recently part of a team that ran an Arts-based holiday Bible camp on the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. Verna was joined by her friend Sharon (from DunLaoghaire Evangelical Church) and her sister Heather, plus members of the regular JEAME street team, to do a variety of Arts-based activities … Continued

1 Corinthians 12:12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up only one body. So it is with the body of Christ. Friday 21st July We started the day planning the kids’ club that we would hold on Saturday. Some local families came to the church to spend time with us. … Continued

A prison ministry in Recife, Brazil, that Latin Link member Paul Crothers helps with is seeing young people come to faith. ‘Praise God that one young guy last month accepted Christ as his Saviour while we were with him,’ reports Paul. ‘In addition, one of the young guys who has been recently released had been … Continued

Latin Link members Juliana and Ian Horne are passionate about creation care, and have been helping local communities to combat the effects of climate change in the Andean highlands of Peru. They have worked alongside churches and people in three separate projects, planting thousands of trees on mountainsides. The first project involved 350 people from … Continued

Guildford Baptist Church have had an ongoing and strong partnership with Latin Link for many years. The church supports several Latin Link longer-term workers, and in 2016 sent a Strider to Colombia for ten months. The church also sent a Step team of 11 to Cusco, Peru, in 2016, further solidifying the partnership. Rachel White, … Continued

St Mark’s Church, Harrogate, has supported global mission for many years, and recently has built a multidirectional partnership with Latin Link. Associate Minister Daniel Watts takes up the story. In 2011 the Missions Support group at St Mark’s was looking for ways to enable the church family to connect more with mission. For ten years … Continued

The partnership of Latin Americans with a local church open to fresh ideas is bringing breakthrough to the hard graft of outreach into the local community. Dalry is a small town with a population over around 6,000 in north Ayrshire, Scotland. Dalry Trinity Church received an Incoming Mission couple, Sadoc and Vivi Chongo, in August … Continued

One year on from the earthquake that devastated the north-east coast of Ecuador, Latin Link is helping in the reconstruction programme. Just over a year ago, Ecuador was hit with a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. About 660 people died, 25,000 were injured, and many tens of thousands were made homeless. Since then, a rebuilding programme has … Continued

Neil and Jenny Stewart are working for a local church, Iglesia Biblica Independiente, in Santiago, Chile. Since arriving, they have set up a number of groups linked to the church, aiming to provide services for the community and also increase the presence of the church. Here is a review after six months of service. Since … Continued