Update from the Trustees

Apr 3, 2021

After a long gap we are reviving the blog! We want to update you on what’s been happening with the Tim Peters Training Fund. In the last 18 months there has been nearly £20,000 in grants made to men and women in the North West. The people who have benefited have been ministry trainees, family workers, children and youth workers, trainee ministers and members of local churches who want to be trained to serve their church family and communities better! As trustees it’s been such an exciting time to read through applications and hear what God is doing in the hearts of Christians and churches in the region.

The Trustees of the Tim Peters Training Fund meeting virtually in March 2021

Thank you for all who have given and continue to give to the Tim Peters Training Fund. Know and be encouraged that God is using the money to help churches who otherwise would struggle to fund training for their members. It has been moving, as family and friends, to see the continued generosity of so many, in memory of our lovely Tim.

The updated leaflet about the Tim Peters Training Fund is now available on the website – please do have a read.

Over the next few months, look out for more blog posts from trustees, recipients and friends of the Tim Peters Training Fund. Keep praying for God to carry on His work, in His time for His purposes. At a time of uncertainty, grief and frustrations we pray that through His church, God will reveal his sovereignty, comfort and power through the beautiful gospel of His wonderful son, Jesus.

“Therefore my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.” – 1 Corinthians 15 v 58

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