Charities We Support

Baptist Missionary Society

BMS World Mission is a Christian mission organisation that has long-standing relationships with UK Baptist churches. It works in around 35 countries on four continents. The vision of the Baptist Missionary Society is working for a world where all can experience faith in Christ and abundant life only, He provides. 

As a Baptist church we support this vision both financially and prayerfully helping to spread the love of God and the hope of abundant life in Christ as we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to come to a saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

BMS workers and partners strive every day to make Jesus known and share the full life he brings. From surgery, food projects to education, justice and leadership ministries, BMS works with local partners, providing help where it is most needed, among the most marginalised and least evangelised people in the world. At any one-time BMS supports between 350 and 400 personnel – long, medium and short-term workers, teams and volunteers, as well as a large number of supported national partner workers around the world, providing people, funding, training and expertise. In 2024 they reported that 77,854 people received help, 50 new church fellowships were set up in North Africa and 1,339 refugees received support on the move.

This is achieved thanks to the support of UK Christians, individuals and churches, who share the BMS vision for a world made better through Christ’s grace.

Our Supported Missionaries

Bethany currently supports three sets of missionaries in Peru and Chad, they are:

Dave and Michelle Mahon

Dave and Michelle Mahon in Peru together with their three young children.  They are both Baptist ministers.  They first lived in the Peruvian Amazon where they trained and supported local pastors and churches.   They have moved to Trujillo which is on the coast to join a Baptist Seminary where they are continuing to train.  As a church we have been fortunate to have had two visits from them and also been able to link up to a “Teams” session with them on their home visits.

December 2025 Letter

Ingrid and Roger Hamlet

We also partner with Ingrid and Roger Hamlet and their two children who are stationed in Chad at Guinebor II hospital.  They are both Allied Health Professionals who work in Prosthetics and Orthotics, providing artificial limbs and aid to the people of Chad.  They joined Guinebor II in 2024 they are currently busy setting up the Prosthetics and Orthotics department at the hospital which they hope they can expand in the future. 

January 2026 Letter

Kalbassou Doubassou

Also based at Guinebor II hospital is Kalbassou Doubassou our third partner at Bethany.  He is from the Cameroon and is an Advanced nurse, surgeon and director at Guinebor II.  He reports that they have had 309 births with no maternal deaths and only one neonatal death.  He also reports that things are improving financially, and this will hopefully improve services at the hospital.

November 2025 Letter

International Aid – Shoeboxes

The Bethany Shoebox Team continues to work through the year. The need throughout the world has never been greater, more, girls, boys, women and men of all ages and religious persuasions need our help.

While we can all give money to the many aid agencies that do such a great job in providing food and shelter the Shoebox team provide us with a direct link to those less fortunate than ourselves by providing a small box of some of the necessities of life that we take for granted in the UK.

 The team hope that for a few moments in time it makes life just a little more bearable and brings joy to so many to receive a gift made with love.

Operation AGRI

Operation AGRI is a development charity which supports Christian-led rural and urban development projects in three continents, showing the love of Jesus in action by attacking the basic causes of poverty amongst some of the most disadvantaged people in the world, regardless of their religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Operation AGRI supports sustainable development work such as agricultural centres to assist farmers, and irrigation schemes for rural communities. Operation AGRI also supports projects that bring lasting improvement to people’s lives, such as basic health clinics, and women’s empowerment groups in urban slums.

Christian Love in Action

Open Doors

The Open Doors charity was begun by Brother Andrew in the Netherlands and supports’ persecuted Christians in the world. They work with local partners to distribute Bibles and Christian literature, give discipleship training and provide practical support, such as emergency relief aid. Open Doors’ stated aims are to raise awareness of global persecution, mobilising prayer, support and action among Christians from around the world.

Ministry Aviation Fellowship

Mission Aviation Fellowship is a Christian organization that provides aviation, communications, and learning technology services to more than 2,000 Christian and humanitarian aid agencies, as well as thousands of isolated missionaries and indigenous villagers in the world’s most remote areas. There are three major operational centres that provide operational support to programs in the Americas, Africa and Asia Pacific regions. In 2019, MAF served in more than 47 countries, flying over 150,000 passengers with a fleet of some 138 aircraft.

Spurgeons

Spurgeons is a national Christian children’s charity in the United Kingdom, working with vulnerable families, children and young people. The charity works in partnership with local authorities, churches, charitable foundations and other supporters to bring about lasting change. Spurgeons currently delivers more than 81 projects reaching over 37,000 children and 78,000 parents or carers every year. It aims to find long-lasting solutions to the challenges they face – including poverty, abuse problems, offending, and other social issues.

Leprosy Mission

The Leprosy Mission (TLM) is an international Christian organisation which helps people affected by leprosy. Founded in 1874, The Leprosy Mission is the oldest and largest leprosy-focused organisation in the world today.

Leprosy affects people’s lives in many different ways, so we care for their physical, social, spiritual and psychological needs. In our projects we concentrate on healthcare, community-based rehabilitation, prevention of disability, advocacy, capacity building, education, stigma reduction and occasionally on disaster response and preparedness. 

Leprosy is not understood by most communities and as a result people are fearful of it, which means those affected by leprosy are often stigmatised.

We want to see a leprosy-free world. Our vision is for ‘leprosy defeated, lives transformed’. This is why our main focus is on leprosy, however, our work often includes other people with disabilities, other neglected tropical diseases, other marginalised people in society, and those living in extreme poverty.

Around the world we have about 2,000 staff and implement or support projects in 18 countries. The largest number of projects is in India, but there are also a significant number in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nigeria and Nepal. Increasingly the Mission seeks to work with partners as well as implementing projects directly.