Partner with Tim and Becky

Tim and Becky’s Story

In 2019 we were invited to spend time with the Dignity team in Zambia. We were blown away by the people we met and the stories we heard of how God was using ordinary people to share the love of Jesus, build community and address issues of disadvantage in all its forms. We were greatly challenged by what this could look like back home in the UK.

Then in May 2022, we went on holiday to visit Becky’s family in Scotland. We met the owner of a cafe in a village called Southend on the Mull of Kintyre. The owner shared that it was a shame that so many young people don’t grow up with Christian faith. She said she found it hard to get to church and that the local minister was retiring, and the denomination was not sending anyone to replace him. We felt the Lord say to us, “Who cares about this community because I do?”

That night Becky and I talked about what it would take to reach places like Southend. The reality is that the cafe owner’s story is replicated thousands of times in villages and towns across the UK. In the last 10 years over 3,500 churches have closed, primarily in rural places. Jesus has commissioned us to go and make disciples of all nations. In the UK there are 46,000 hamlets, villages, towns and cities that all need at least one new community of Christian faith on mission together.

Our mission is to reach the least, lost and forgotten places. By least we mean those with the least access to resources, education and opportunity. By lost we mean those with the least access to the message of Jesus and the life-giving Christian community. And by forgotten, we mean those places we mean those where the church has been but is no longer.