Mission Partners
Calderwood Valley Baptist Church partners with a few missionaries and charities, both in Australia and overseas, as part of our vision ‘To Know Christ and to Make Him Known.’ We want to see the gospel spread to the ends of the earth and have chosen to support gospel partners who have devoted their lives to seeing God’s kingdom grow though various ministries. CVBC seeks to follow Jesus command in Matthew 28, where he instructs his followers to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you”.
Matthew & Evelyn Meek
AFES, University of Wollongong
Matthew serves Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students as the Fellowship of Christian University Students specialist. The mission of FOCUS is to bring international students to faith in Christ, build them up in Christ, and send them home in Christ, to bring others to Christ. Matthew leads the AFES FOCUS national strategy, trains and resources staff, and liaises with international students ministry movements. Locally, he runs bible study groups in Mandarin, Indonesian, and Japanese. He preaches at FOCUS gatherings and other churches, trains students, disciples 1-1, and serves as part of the local AFES team. You can find out more here.
James & Shila Roy
House Church, Bangladesh
James is Senior Pastor of the House Church of Bangladesh; a church planting work that started on a foundation of faith in the home of James and his wife Shila in 2007. Shila co-ordinates women’s ministries, trainers of bible storytelling groups, and teaches at girl’s slum schools. HCB seeks to promote community development, education, and peace in an environment of persecution, while committing to staying faithful to the Lord. HCB has 33 churches with 21 pastors and three evangelists serving in seven districts across the country. There are around 1,000 members, with most of them from Hindu or Muslim backgrounds. Today, HCB has three slum schools in Dhaka city with around 150 students.
Josh & Ali Reeve
ECM, Albania
They live and work in the small town of Erseka, Albania, where they are both on staff at the Torchbearers “Crossroads” Bible School. The Bible School offers a one-year or two-year programme of biblical studies and mission experience for 19-25 year-olds from around the world. About 50% of their students are Albanian. Students have biblical studies classes each morning, and then in the afternoons and on weekends they are involved in various ministry and mission opportunities in partnership with local churches. Josh is a teacher-in-residence and is working with other staff to develop the school’s new second year programme. They are both involved in discipling students one to one, as well as in group settings – particularly the ‘family group’ that meets in their home every Wednesday. Their four kids (Isla, Sam, Amalia, and Lucy) are home-schooled by Ali and are involved in various ministries run by their local church. You can read more about the Reeves here.
