Mission Year Programme
As the GAP Base in Glasgow has developed in the past year to provide service and training opportunities, another programme has been growing as well: the Mission Year.
A Mission Year focuses the energy and talents of young graduates to serve as Mission Volunteers in local outreaches and programmes. This often means doing personal fundraising to move city or country for a year to be on mission as staff in University and Youth Outreaches or for the GAP Base. We have seen encouraging growth in Kairos-EME; Mission Volunteers see this and want to be a part of it. Right now there are seven Mission Volunteers in our region, each willing to invest a year of their lives to this mission to move it forward, building something that will last and having a lot of fun while doing so!
Kelly Christopherson
Hometown: Lansing, Michigan, USA
Mission Year location: Glasgow, Scotland
Role: Kelly serves as part of the GAP Base team by leading the women’s household, supervising and caring for the Gappers in their service, and helping to develop the GAP Programme.
Stephen Robbins
Hometown: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Mission Year location: Glasgow, Scotland
Role: Stephen serves as part of the GAP Base team by leading the men’s household, supervising and caring for the Gappers in their service, and helping to develop the GAP Programme.
Mica Mamonluk
Hometown: Vancouver, Canada
Mission Year location: London, England
Role: Staff for Antioch Youth and [Youth:link]. Mica is a small group leader, oversees the [Youth:link] band and leads [Power:hour], a programme for young teenagers in Acton.
Eilidh Graham
Hometown: Glasgow, Scotland
Mission Year location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Role: Women’s Mission Leader. Eilidh helps to run programme nights, leads the women’s team and disciples young women.
Maria Bielicka
Hometown: Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Mission Year location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Role: Asst. Women’s Mission Leader. Maria runs many of the practical aspects of UCO, serves with the outreach and evangelism team, and helps disciple young women new to faith.
Bronagh McGlinchey
Hometown: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Mission Year location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Role: Women’s Mission Volunteer. Bronagh helps to run core nights, serves with the cluster life team and helps disciple young women new to faith.
Jonasz Golik
Hometown: Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Mission Year location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Role: Men’s Mission Volunteer. Jonasz helps with the music and worship team, assists on the outreach team and helps disciple young men new to faith.