UK Outreach

Christians Abroad's registered office with the Charities Commission is with CTBI at Interchurch House, 35 Lower Marsh, London, SE1 7RL.  CTBI kindly provides a forwarding address for all formal mail and advertises the charity as a Member Associate on its website. Previously, Christians Abroad was a Project of CTBI but as CTBI's development department closed, Christians Abroad formed a charity to continue its niche missional endeavours.

In the UK, Christians Abroad has an active presence through its Trustees and a Mission Associate. We're about journeying with Christians as they develop their faith in the UK and, for overseas placments, according to an individuals vocational call to Christian missional development work.

Let's take a tour of what's going on...

In Buckinghamshire, regular Church meetings are held with a focus on Nepal.

In Leeds, trauma counselling with refugees with a focus overseas on Kenya and the Middle East.  It is also from Leeds that we hope to work into developing mobile teaching seminars to help young adults understand how to be a Christian whilst at university or in the work place. Teaching would focus on current secular philosophy / ideology and how we respond to that interface as Christians.  

In Essex, our finance manager is located.

In Fife and its surrounds, preaching and teaching regularly take place through local Churches and through an outreach Chapel in Auchtermuchty.  Fife is also the mission's operational administrative base, which closely links in with Essex/finance. 

In Strutherhill, Larkhall, Glasgow, pioneering outreach is developing through a Christians Abroad Mission Associate.

Previous UK Teaching Initiatives

1. Until recently, and the door is still open to restart the initiative, Christians Abroad held a monthly Monotheistic Forum in conjunction with Dundee West Parish Church and Al Maktoum Mosque. This went on for around two years with a focus on theology and ethics that we could agree upon, touching on theology that we would disagree upon but felt each other should be heard, and social action, being a major public event in Dundee, regarding what is taught in Scotland's schools.

2. For Dundee Church Pastors and Ministers, we held teaching seminars on certain aspects of theology that are considered as tangential to the faith or clear misinterpretations of the Gospel, and yet are prevalent in certain Church circles today.

3. Christians Abroad also did winter kayak skills sessions using Dundee University kit and their pool - at the end of each session we rafted up and reflected upon Holy Bible portions printed on waterproof paper and heard about each other's experience of faith.