The Mission Action Group 
MAG allocates 10% of the church's income mostly on a regular basis to our link mission partners in the UK and overseas. We aim to promote the work of our mission partners through information, prayer and finance; to encourage church members to be involved in short term mission projects and to contribute to special appeals and to raise awareness of evangelism and development work occurring around the world. A Bursary Fund is available for church members, to help pay the costs of going on short term mission projects. Please contact Mary Cottrell, MAG Chairman, for details of how to apply or for further details about our mission links or if you would be interested in joining MAG.
Some of our mission partners are represented on a board in the church porch and on the pillar opposite the sides-people. Please have a look and also use the information below to pray for our mission links in your Life Groups and in your personal prayers.
Watch videos of our current projects.
Here are some details and photos of our mission links around the world:
Nicaragua
Peace and Hope Trust – providing relief and development in poor communities. Projects range from building schools, churches and clinics to running sewing programmes, health clinics and renewable energy initiatives
. Janice Wade and Mary Anne Bromberg returned to the East coast region for a third visit in January 2009. They were involved in work with children, including distributing aid and obtaining uniforms so that the children could attend school. Funds were also given from St Michael's for purchasing medicines and equipment for the clinic in Bluefields. www.peaceandhope.org
Moldova
Ruslan and Larisa Telpiz - Ruslan is the assistant pastor at a Baptist church and he is involved in outreach to start a new church in the village of Chircani. Larisa is responsible for the children's work in three villages, in total about 150 children. Moldova is a very poor country in Eastern Europe. Half the people in villages live below the poverty line. www.eurovangelism.org.uk/
West Asia
Don and Fran are involved in discipleship and prayer ministry in a predominantly Muslim country where it is often very difficult to be a Christian. They also teach English to adults and children in a language centre. www.interserveonline.org.uk
Africa
A. Uganda - SIITA Nest Home provides a caring Christian home for orphans and enables them to attend school. Alan Crofts has visited the home several times. Funding from St Michael's built the house and helped build the perimeter wall seen in the photo. We also provide ongoing support for running the home, providing food and for school fees.
B. Uganda - Chilli Children Trust supports work with disabled children, their families and orphaned children in Rukungiri, Uganda. Chillis are grown for income; surgical camps, medical clinics and life skills clinics are held and access to education is provided.
www.chillichildren.org.uk
C. Burundi
Steve and Lucy McIlhenny are going to Burundi in January 2010 on behalf of Kepplewray, to set up an outdoor activity centre for disabled people – the Bethesda Project.www.kepplewray.org.uk
D. Zambia – Chengelo School. We contribute to a Bursary fund which subsidizes fees to enable children from poor families to obtain a high quality education in this Christian school. www.chengelo.sch.zm
E. Congo – John and Elisabeth Phillips and family live in Brazzaville, Congo where John is involved in Bible translation work through Wycliffe Bible Translators. Their daughters attend and international boarding school. John was born and brought up in Harry Stoke, attended local schools and maintains links with Rock Lane Baptist Church and St Michael's. www.wycliffe.org.uk
Short term mission trips to Uganda with Mission Direct in 2008:
In June, Martin Davies and a team of seven others went to Rukungiri in SW Uganda on a 2 week mission trip. They were followed in July-August by a team of 22 young people from the 
St MikesYouth Group, aged from 13 to 19 years and four adult leaders.
The teams helped build a nursery for children orphaned by AIDS or conflict and joined in activities with the
children in the local school. Some team members taught in the school. The teams visited projects helping poor families and disabled children. Despite illness among many of the Youth Group team, everyone returned changed and inspired by their experiences in rural Uganda. www.missiondirect.org
India. 
We pay the salary of a health worker, Sarojamma, who travels to villages to counsel and support HIV/AIDS patients in Kurnool District, Andra Pradesh. 
She also works in Adoni Faith Home for children overcoming HIV and AIDS. The children are given love and care, a special diet and schooling. Our link person in India is Rev Dr Daniel Premkumar who works for Hyderabad Collective for Study and Action and he started the Faith Home in 2008; he is Jemima Suchitra's uncle.
Philippines 
Heart of the Father - Emma Randall has lived in the Philippines with her three daughters since May 2007. She is involved in projects to
build homes in poor communities and to provide education and vocational training for young people. HOF's vision is to see educational and youth work oriented facilities in every village, complete with preschool and youth centres, teachers and youth workers. St Michael's sent funds to build a Pre-School at Joyland Children's Home in Summer 2009
Some of our UK-based mission links are:
Jews for Jesus – involved in evangelistic outreach proclaiming that Jesus is the Messiah to Jews and non-Jews. The organization is based in London and teams hand out tracts and engage people in conversation both
locally in London and during missions to other locations in the UK and overseas. Our funding supports the UK Director, Stephen Pacht. In addition, Henry Bromberg has been involved in several missions in the UK and abroad, cooking meals to sustain the teams of evangelists. www.jewsforjesus.org.uk
Changing Tunes
- a music ministry to men and women which began in prisons around the Bristol area and is expanding to other prisons in England. Prisoners find hope and expression through playing music together and ex-prisoners perform concerts in various venues. www.changingtunes.org.uk
In Bristol, St Michael's supports groups working with homeless people:
Emmaus Bristol - a community of formerly homeless people working in Emmaus' own furniture reuse and recycling business, to provide a living rather than relying on state benefits or other government money. www.emmausbristol.org.uk
Julian Trust and Caring at Christmas; also the Sisters of the Church, St Paul's, who provide food, clothes and gifts to impoverished people in a needy neighbourhood.
www.juliantrust.org.uk
Network – providing counselling and training people to be counsellors.
www.network.org.uk
Outreach to university students studying in Bristol:
BISC (Bristol International Student Centre) is a Christian organisation linking the international students at Bristol's universities and colleges with local people and each other. It is a registered charity supported largely by local churches and offers friendship and events to students of all faiths and no faith. www.bisc.org.uk
St Michael's International Student outreach - International Student Cafe
