Mission
Hasbury Community Church is commited to the central focus of reaching out to our local community. Our main purpose is to serve Hasbury and Halesowen, reaching people of all ages with the Good News of Jesus. However, as well as this local focus, the church is also involved in supporting several mission projects and individuals in the UK and abroad. These include the following. Click on any of the names listed below to take you to a little more specific information.
Hands At Work
This is a Christian non-profit organization working in vulnerable communities across sub-Saharan Africa where HIV/AIDS, poverty and the numbers of orphans are the highest and support structures are very low. Hands At Work helps the local church in those communities to effectively care for the orphaned and vulnerable. The ministry is to all those in need, regardless of race, class or religion.
Hasbury Community Church is pleased to partner with ‘Hands’ and we specifically support a Community in Malakota, Zambia. We provide financial support to enable children in the community receive the three basic requirements of nutritious food, education and health care. A team from Hasbury Community Church visited the community in 2017 and again in 2019 to experience the work first hand.
For more information visit Hands at Work.
Find out about other Mission work we support.
Mission Aviation Fellowship works in close partnership with over 1,000 missions. They providing flights and logistical support for their outreach to communities in developing nations.
These missions include aid agencies, missions, relief and development organizations, government departments, local churches and other national groups. MAF’s work covers healthcare, emergency relief, development and the bringing of God’s word. Local church members and MAF representatives meet from time to time at Hasbury Community Church to specifically pray for the work of MAF. We are pleased to support the work Mission Aviation Fellowship with regular financial support.
More About MAF UK
Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is the world’s largest humanitarian air operator. For over 75 years they have been flying light aircraft over jungles, mountains, swamps and deserts. They enable more than 1,500 aid, development and mission organisations to bring medical care, emergency relief and long-term development. MAF pilots and personnel deliver relief workers, doctors, pastors, school books, food, medicines. Everything that can only be safely and quickly delivered by air. Hasbury Community Church joins with many other faithful supporting organisations and individuals, who give generously and pray regularly to make all this all possible.
Birmingham City Mission – UK
This is a Christian charity and it exists to share God’s love across Britain’s second city. Birmingham City Mission runs projects bringing practical help and hope to the young people and old people of Birmingham. The charity exists to clearly proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the city and its suburbs and to offer help and support to the needy and marginalized, regardless of age, creed or race. We are very pleased to support BCM through prayer and the donation of resources on a monthly basis. To find out about our other mission involvement go to our Mission section.
Paul Willmott
We are pleased to continue supporting Paul in his work locally. His aim is to present the truth of the Christian message in an exciting way, making it relevant to people of all ages and situations. With a Focus on 5-11s, Paul spends much of his time in primary schools and leading church based young people & all age events. He makes regular visits to Hasbury CofE Primary school on our behalf. Paul is part of Counties UK and you can find out more on the Counties website here, or visit Paul’s website here.
Paul Chandren
Together with his wife Leela, Paul serves in the South Indian Ministry located in the state of Karola. He pastors a church, overseas a senior care facility and has two orphanages, one for boys and one for girls. Besides this, he has a team of evangelists and church planters who work in South India and in Nagaland, located in the northeast part of the country.
Visit their website here.
Richard Chalklen
Also known as ‘Chalky’, Richard Chalklen is one of those Bible teachers who has his students’ undivided attention from his opening sentence. He is a lover of puns and a play on words. Richard’s messages are inevitably punctuated with alliterations and clever one-liners. He has an unmistakable passion for God coupled with an enthusiasm to communicate.
With his wife, Denise, Chalky began ministry at OM’s LUKE in Halesowen. They spent a couple of years training OM trainees for outreach and involving them in church partnership. When they began to realize how great the needs were in their own nation, they transferred to Boschkop in South Africa. Here they were involved in OM’s missions training for the next eight years. Chalky’s specialty was coaching trainees in techniques for effective preaching.
Denise has always played a key role as a mother-figure. She counsels and shows hospitality to over 100 students each year. In addition, she teaches methods for ministering to kids. Recently, the Chalklens transferred to the Church Partnership Department, relocating from OM’s training base to Johannesburg. Chalky is now working more directly with churches teaching books of the Bible, running seminars on Bible study methods and challenging young people for world missions.
Denise has teamed up with her two daughters to teach local ladies and their girls how to enjoy and make the most of their mother-daughter relationship. They have at times had up to a hundred women participating in their seminars.
After fifteen years in missions training, Chalky and Denise are still in full swing. They are seeing more recruits than ever sign up for missions as a result of the challenge they present.