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BMS and Ascension Trust to work together

BMS World Mission and the Ascension Trust, which formed Street Pastors, have entered what is being described as a “strategic relationship”.

The two organisations recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding, an agreement of co-operation that could provide training and enable Street Pastors to do even more effective outreach on the streets of the UK, and in countries where BMS works.

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Eustace Constance, Operations Manager for Ascension Trust, and Peter Dunn, BMS Director of Mission signing the Memorandum of Understanding

The relationship is new and the potential for future collaboration “is vast”, said a statement.

While plans are very much in the early stages, but BMS is hoping to help the Ascension Trust with training Street Pastors in cultural contexts for both the UK and overseas. BMS also hopes to assist with making introductions for Street Pastors in countries where it has links. 

On the home front, this relationship with the Ascension Trust could enable BMS to do more outreach here in the UK. More than that, continued the statement, ‘it could provide an opportunity for Christians all over the country to tackle the challenges that confront them every day’.

‘It is exciting for BMS and Street Pastors to be entering into a strategic relationship,’ said BMS Director of Mission Peter Dunn.

‘We both share a passion and a vision for mission. My hope and prayer is that we will be able to help equip Street Pastors for mission in the UK as they meet people of many different cultures on the streets, and that we will be able to contribute to this mission tool being used where appropriate overseas.’ 

‘Street Pastors help churches to see beyond their four walls and give them the tools to be able to actively do something about the issues they’re so concerned about on our streets at night,’ added BMS' UK Field Leader Graham Doel.

‘This relationship has the potential to see churches in all kinds of contexts released in mission.’
 

Baptist Times, 16/04/2015
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