Mary Gladstone 1926 – 2020
Julia Cameron
While Mary Gladstone’s name may not be
widely known, the fruit of her labours is
clearly evident.
As a new Christian at Cambridge, she
and her friends befriended an unconverted
fresher, Helen Roseveare,
later to become
one of the foremost missionaries of the 20th
century.
Co-founder of MAF dies
Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)
Mission Aviation Fellowsip (MAF) co-founder, former RAF Flight Lieutenant, and Normandy Landings veteran Stuart Sendall-King, has died aged 98. He was one of the early pioneers to take light aircraft to the remotest parts of Africa in the aftermath of World War II.
Serving as an aircraft engineer during the Second World War and ending his RAF career as Chief Technical Officer at RAF Duxford, Stuart nurtured a growing desire to use aircraft for good – helping to establish MAF in 1945.
Robin Dowling 1946 – 2020
Geoff Gobbett
Robin Dowling, a well-known former Grace Baptist pastor, missionary and theologian, departed to be with Christ on 31 July 2020.
He will be sorely missed as a much-loved husband, father and grandfather. He served his generation in the ministry of the gospel from the 1970s till fairly recently. Coming from Bristol, he was well known amongst churches there when he took on the pastorate at Salem Baptist Church in Kew, Richmond, Surrey in the late 1970s. He immersed himself in encouraging Grace Baptist Churches, serving the Association of Grace Baptist Churches (South East).