Like most small organisations, Zambesi Mission relies very much on the work of volunteers and over the years many friends have travelled far and given many hours to sit on the UK Council.

The Council meeting in York June 2008

The Council usually has four meetings a year including a 2-3 day residential get-together based on a ZM supporting Church. In recent years the Council has met in York Baptist Church with recent residential meetings in locations as far apart as Soham in Cambridgeshire and Coatbridge in Scotland.

We want to introduce the members of the current Council in the months ahead and thank them for the faithful service they give in the Name of the Lord.

Margaret Court

We commence with Margaret Court who has been a member since 2005 and now chairs the Council.

Margaret writes,

“As a student, I gave my life to Jesus, and then followed the Lord's call to go as a missionary to Rwanda. I have spent over thirty years associated with Rwanda, either in Rwanda or working in the Ruanda Mission office in London. That was how I first met the current Zambesi Mission Director, Jim Hasnip, who served with us as a travelling secretary, before moving on to ZM.

My role in Rwanda was as an administrator; then I pioneered a Christian literature programme in the vernacular and latterly led discipleship training seminars for Lay Readers in the Anglican Church.

Having retired to Salisbury, I host regular monthly prayer meetings for the Great Lakes Region of Africa. I was challenged to expand my interest and support for Africa, when Jim Hasnip invited me to join the Zambesi Mission Executive, which I did in 2004.

Getting to know the Mission, Malawi and Mozambique has been quite a steep learning curve but I was helped by an immensely stimulating visit to Malawi in 2007; I really enjoyed sharing fellowship in Christ with brothers and sisters there. At present I am privileged to serve as chairman of ZM Executive”.

Margaret ‘on duty’ during a recent Council meeting.