New horizons at Foreign Missions Club

John MacPherson  |  Features
Date posted:  1 May 2007
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An American aid worker stressed out after ministering for many months to victims of the Chechnya conflict.

A Palestinian Christian couple serving fellow Palestinians in refugee camps. A Californian doctor on his way to help for several weeks in a mission hospital in Ethiopia. The director of a large Australian missionary society touring their areas of operation with his successor. A group of Norwegian Lutherans returning to missionary service in Madagascar. A Finnish agriculturalist, long retired, meeting up with former colleagues from the United Mission to Nepal. A Peruvian doctor about to begin a new career as a theological teacher in Colombia. City missionaries from all over the UK attending a conference in London.

Highbury

The list is endless, since for 114 years the Foreign Missions Club in Highbury, north London, has proved to be an ideal place ‘for the relief and security of pilgrims’. But even the most venerated of institutions can’t stand still, and FMC is no exception.

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