‘Take 5’ is about the church’s engagement in the Five Marks of Mission, and the Take 5 committee maintains our links to a range of people and projects.   

The committee also makes recommendations to the PCC each year about how to share out the major part of St Andrews’ charitable giving: 10% of our ‘planned giving’ income is given away each year in grants.

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On this page below are a selection of links to information about the projects and people we support.

On the Take 5 Background Section below [click here] are various documents underlying the work of the Take 5 committee.

Andrew and Lisa Peart are our Church Mission Society (CMS) partners​​

 

 

 

 

 

 

• They live in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and are part of an Anglican church there, Cristo Luz del Mundo (“Christ the Light of the World”).​​​

• ​​​​​​Read their May 2024 Prayer Letter [click here]

• Andrew and Lisa, and their daughters Liliana and Anayah, visited St Andrew’s in September 2024 and spoke at both the 10am service and at River.  One of their themes was the CMS call to follow Jesus by connecting with people at the edges – the edges of church, the edges of society, the edges of our comfort zones. We were each offered a jigsaw piece to remind us how important it can be to ‘start at the edges’!

• Read their September 2024 Prayer Letter. [click here] 

• Read their CMS Link Letter sent out in December 2024. [click here]

• We make an annual donation of around £1000 to CMS for the financial support of Andrew and Lisa.  At the moment CMS does not receive enough to fully cover these costs, and individuals can make their own donations directly to CMS (several at St Andrew’s already do this).  If you’d like to make a regular gift, however small: You can set up a Direct Debit (or make a one-off gift) on the CMS website: [click here]  *  Or  [click here] to download a Direct Debit form you can print, fill in, and post to CMS.

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* St Andrew's Church is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites

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Getachew Yohannes is a Bible Translation Coordinator and Consultant working

for Wycliffe Ethiopia

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His wife Gezashign is leading children’s trauma healing in Addis Ababa. This family photo dates from 2020, so the children have grown, and Enku is now studying medicine in the USA.

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​You can read a Feb 2025 message from them. [click here]

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​Gap Supported Housing​

• Gap Supported Housing is based in Hexham and has been helping homeless adults, and those threatened with homelessness, in Hexham and the surrounding rural area and villages since the mid-1990s. 

• Read the Easter 2024 letter from Gap. [click here]

• Read the Christmas 2024 letter from Andrew Sanders, CEO of Gap. [click here]

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