2. A short history… Created in 1792 William Carey undertook a study Formed ‘a society among the Baptists for propagating the gospel among the heathens’ aka The Baptist Missionary Society Went to India and translated the Bible

3. BMS World Mission today As a Christian mission organisation we aim to bring life in all it’s fullness to the world’s peoples by… Enabling them to know Christ alleviating suffering and injustice improving the quality of life …with people as our primary agent of change motivating, training, sending and resourcing them.

4. Mission field 200 mission personnel sent from the UK to around twenty countries on four continents We work in cities, remote villages amongst the poorest, most marginalised and least evangelised

5. Areas of ministry Church planting Development Health Education Justice & advocacy Leadership training Disaster relief

6. Where do we fit in? Joined BMS in 2011 18 months in Zimbabwe Ethan 2013 12 months in France Samuel 2014 Guinea in July 2015…

7. Guinea

8. Labé

10. Natural beauty

11. Spectacular views

12. EPEG Evangelical Protestant Church

13. Culturally sensitive ministry

14. Labé Team

15. Plus Biddulphs!

16. Prayer points Preparations…sorting, packing, innoculations, reading Time here, goodbyes Safe travel all the way to Labe Those first few weeks acclimatising Health

17. Support It costs BMS a lot to send us to Guinea Please help them keep us there! www.bmsworldmission.org/partners

18. Keeping in touch Blog: www.bradandruth.co.ukwww.bradandruth.co.uk Prayer letters: www.bmsworldmission.org/brbiddulph www.bmsworldmission.org/brbiddulph Emails: ruthbiddulph@gmail.com bbiddulphs@gmail.comruthbiddulph@gmail.com bbiddulphs@gmail.com Best of all…..POST!!!