Facilitating access to healthcare for impoverished communities
We believe everyone should have access to healthcare. Our ministry partners provide health services to those who otherwise would not have access to them.
Donate today to enable our ministry partners to provide health services to those who otherwise would not have access to them. Why not make it a regular gift? This will help us to show God’s love in practical ways to those in need, both now and long into the future.
Providing humanitarian assistance and urgent aid when emergencies arise
We believe that everyone has a right to be supported in their time of greatest need. Our ministry partners provide immediate humanitarian aid to all in their communities, both in the critical initial and subsequent phases of natural or man-made disasters.
Donate today to enable our ministry partners to support people when crises arise, bringing the hope of the Gospel and practical help to those most in need. Why not make it a regular gift? This will help us be able to respond to future emergencies quickly and effectively.
Sharing the Gospel to bring hope and transform lives
We believe that all people of the world need to hear how much God loves them in relevant ways. Our ministry partners are sharing the Gospel, planting churches and training evangelists and future leaders, enabling the Good News to be proclaimed far and wide.
Donate today to enable our ministry partners to share the Good News, plant churches and train leaders. Why not make it a regular gift? This will help us to support Gospel centred ministry spread throughout the world, long into the future.
Developing communities through sustainable development
We believe in empowering communities through development and micro-enterprise to become self-sustainable. Our ministry partners are actively engaged in bringing about positive change in Jesus’ name.
Donate today to enable our ministry partners to empower their communities to become self-sustainable and thrive. Why not make it a regular gift? This will help us to bring about positive change in Jesus’ name for years to come.
We believe that education is key to breaking the misery of the poverty cycle. Some of our ministry partners provide pre-school, primary and secondary education to vulnerable children. Others provide educational support such as tutoring, uniforms and school supplies.
Donate today to enable our ministry partners to provide high quality educational support to vulnerable children. Why not make it a regular gift? This will help us to fund education long into the future and make a bigger impact.
Combatting modern-day slavery, human trafficking and exploitation
We believe in protecting those who are the most vulnerable to exploitation. Our ministry partners are at the forefront of serving the victims of such abuse.
Donate today to enable our ministry partners to tackle injustice and bring freedom & hope to those suffering. Why not make it a regular gift? This will help us to provide support in the long term and make a bigger impact.
WorldShare values the highest standards of integrity, openness and transparency before God. We are grateful for the generous support of our committed donors and steward our income with care and wisdom.
WorldShare adheres to the Code of Fundraising Practice. We always seek to use financial gifts as instructed, however donations may be used elsewhere should the initial need be satisfied and/or the Trustees consider the gift could be utilised more appropriately to achieve the charity’s objectives.
As a small charity, WorldShare endeavours to keep operational costs to a minimum whilst ensuring that we undertake all of our fundraising and global responsibilities at the highest level. WorldShare therefore uses a proportion of all donations to enable us to continue to do this.
Our Annual Report 2023
Thanks to the response of our faithful supporters, 2023 was a year where WorldShare was able to issue grants at the second highest level in 13 years, continuing to enable our ministry partners to reach out to those around them with the Gospel.
Our total income for the year was £528,000, made up of donations received from a mixture of individual donors, churches, grant making trusts and corporate bodies.
Funds expended on charitable purposes were £485,000 (92% of total income). Monetary grant payments sent to our ministry partners were £289,000.
To see examples of God’s faithfulness in action in 2023, as well as our annual accounts in full, download our Annual Report 2023.
“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.” (1 Corinthians 3:6)
Supporting WorldShare in 2024
There are a multitude of ways to help support the work of WorldShare and its ministry partners around the world. Whether you are able to support in prayer or financially, organise a fundraising event or help build a partnership with your church, we are extremely grateful for whatever part you play.
WorldShare is blessed with a team of skilled individuals, working together to fulfil God’s mission.
Our Staff
Andrew Yelland
Chief Executive
Andrew joined WorldShare in 2022 having spent the previous 18 years as the Senior Pastor of a church in Bristol. In 2021 God directed Andrew to step down from pastoral ministry as there was another task that he wanted him to do. It has since been made very clear that this was to lead WorldShare into a new chapter of ministry. He is married to Teresa and his hobbies include motorcycling and skiing.
Clare Hill
Operations Manager
Clare began her career at WorldShare right after completing her secretarial and business studies in college, joining the organisation at the age of 18. As the longest-serving staff member, she has gained extensive experience across various areas of the organisation. Currently, she holds the position of Operations Manager. Clare is married with two adult children and invests a lot of time to her family life.
Vanessa Riley
Fundraising Manager
Vanessa has worked in the charity sector since 2003, across a range of organisations both Christian and secular. She is passionate about building relationships with supporters and donors that will strengthen WorldShare and its ministry partners to reach the world’s neediest places with the love of Jesus. Vanessa has two teenagers and is an avid ice hockey fan.
Santhosh Thomas
Finance Officer
Santhosh joined Worldshare in 2024. He is a Commerce graduate and has been associated with missions almost all of his adult life. He has a heart for sustainable charitable projects, enjoys travelling and experimenting with local cuisine. Santhosh is married to Greeshma, they have two daughters and live in Scunthorpe.
Emily Hobbs
Senior Communications Officer
Emily studied French and Hispanic studies at university and, after spending one year serving full time in her local church, joined WorldShare in 2019. Her love for mission grew whilst living and working in Ecuador as part of her degree, where she enjoyed sharing the Gospel with children with disabilities. Emily is married to Matt, they have two young children and live in Doncaster.
Burçin Lefevre
Digital Communications Officer
Burçin joined Worldshare in 2022, and has a heart for mission, having returned ‘temporarily’ from mission work in the Andean mountains of Peru in 2019. Prior to working in the Andes, he spent four years mobilising young adults for summer mission trips, and is keen to encourage many forms of cross-cultural mission work. Burçin is married to Milixa, they have three daughters and live in Doncaster.
Katie Wilson
Assistant Communications Officer
Katie joined WorldShare at the beginning of 2024 as a part of the communications team, and is currently taking a part time ministry training course through her church, where she is very involved in the events and everyday operations. She enjoys singing and reading.
Our Board of Trustees
Neil Brighton
Chair of Trustees
Neil is a Baptist minister with an interest in global mission. Following pastorates in Keyworth and Poynton, he spent time in the Peruvian Amazon training church and community leaders. Returning to the UK, he was the UK team leader for an evangelical mission agency. He is currently completing an MA in Theology and Global Mission. He is married to Lori, an accountant, and they have two young adult children.
Lynn Davis
With more than 20 years experience in a church leadership role alongside a career in the higher education sector, Lynn has a heart for mission. She has taken a key role in church mission trips across countries such as Cuba, Romania and Ghana, plus a 5 year partnership with a mission team in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lynn is married to Gilbert, they have two grown up children and live in Bristol. Her interests include running, walking and motorhome travel around the UK and beyond.
Zoe Dean
Zoe’s heart is to see God’s love outworked through empowering people to build better lives for themselves and their community. This has led her to work with several charities and mission organisations in the Philippines and Kenya. She has recently completed a Masters in Conflict, Security and Development and is now working as a data analyst. Zoe is an active church member, having given her life to Christ at 14 years old. She also enjoys the outdoors and takes every opportunity to introduce others to God via the medium of outdoor activities and sports.
Adele Pilkington
Adele is a medical doctor who has worked across the UK, including in mission and humanitarian aid organisations. She also has more than 20 years of experience in medical education and has an interest in medical ethics. She is a volunteer for a drugs education charity, pro-life, anti-trafficking, and local asylum seeker support groups. Her part-time theology studies reflected mission interest, mental health and Christian identity. In her spare time, she loves exploring the beauty of God’s creation.
Peter Summerside
Peter worked for Worldshare from 1988 to 1994. Most of his career has been in construction project management and he currently works for Arcadis, an international property and construction consultancy. He is a Chartered Builder and Chartered Company Secretary. He has been involved in various capacities for several charitable organisations, specialising in regeneration, mission and homelessness. Peter is based in Northamptonshire, is married to Cathy and has two grown up children.
Daniel Ukiomogbe
Daniel is a consultant solicitor and family mediator. He qualified in Nigeria as a barrister and solicitor, then requalified as a solicitor when he came to the UK. Daniel gave his life to Christ as a teenager and has been involved in rural evangelism and church planting in Nigeria. He is a men’s group leader in Kensington Temple London where he worships. Daniel is responsible for encouraging men to grow into maturity and become effective witnesses for Christ. Daniel is married to Elizabeth.
Our Network
Worldshare Australia
Partners International Canada
Partners International USA
CNEC Singapore
Our Social Media
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We are Christ-centred, holistic, relational and prayerful. We want all our activities to be of the highest quality. Accordingly, we are constantly open to learn.
Respect
We value all people as created in God’s image and loved by him. We value social and spiritual transformation because we believe that each person is a whole being.
Enabling
We value the spiritual wellbeing of our ministry partners and seek to enrich their quality of life and build their capacity for God’s service.
Accountability
We value the highest standards of integrity, openness and transparency before God.
Partnership
We value our fellowship as servants together in the work of God. We value churches and other Christian organisations as positive agents of transformation in their communities and work exclusively through them.
Our Statement of Faith
WorldShare is part of the Evangelical Alliance
We believe in…
The Holy Scriptures as originally given by God, divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy; and the supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
One God, eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, His virgin birth, His sinless human life, His divine miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension, His mediatorial work, and His Personal return in power and glory.
The Salvation of lost and sinful humanity through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ by faith apart from works, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the believer is enabled to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Unity of the Spirit of all true believers, the Church, the Body of Christ.
The Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Body to live eternally in the New Creation.
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WorldShare equips local Christian partners as they share God’s love in practical ways with some of the world’s most vulnerable people, bringing hope and transforming lives.
These local Christian partners (who we call our ministry partners) know the communities they are serving, they understand the culture and speak their language. This enables them to build trust and relationships as they share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, working across the following areas:
Our Priorities
We give priority to:
The poor, the vulnerable and the marginalised
Christ-centred partnership with locally-led ministries.
The least resourced, least reached people of the world.
Our Objectives
Work in partnership with local Christians
Work with the poor, vulnerable and marginalised
Share the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Bring about transformational change
Our History
30 years before WorldShare was founded, Fred Savage left Worthing, England, to serve God in Jiangxi province, China. Fred and his wife Geraldine were amongst the first to see the need to trust pioneering Chinese evangelists to go to places the missionaries could not reach and where the ‘foreign-ness’ of the missionaries would not inhibit people from accepting Christ. From that seed, WorldShare was born.
1943
Japanese armies occupied Eastern China. The cities were bombed. Millions of starving refugees sought frantically for safety. Chinese church leaders were inspiring hundreds to commit their lives to reaching China for Christ. In 1943, the Savage’s’ son-in-law, Duncan McRoberts, raised funds to support these evangelists. The China Natives Evangelistic Crusade (CNEC), fore-runner of WorldShare, was created for this purpose.
1946
After the war, a sister-organisation to the Seattle-based CNEC was founded in the UK in 1946. Duncan McRoberts saw that Christianity could now only reach the masses through Chinese Christians, not westerners. Amongst those who heard McRoberts speak in Seattle was Dr Alvin Jepson, who had been supporting indigenous Christians to reach their own peoples for 20 years. He became the first Chief Executive of CNEC.
1949
China was in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. Christians were entering decades of persecution and two million Chinese people fled to Hong Kong. The beginning of CNEC’s extensive child sponsorship ministry was in the Hong Kong refugee camps. Later, Chinese expatriate Christians would carry CNEC’s vision widely across Southeast Asia and the Philippines.
1960
In 1960, the organisation’s name was changed to Christian Nationals Evangelism Commission to reflect a concern for the wider world. Rev. Allen Finley was appointed as Executive Director - he and his wife Ruth would give over 43 years of service. By 1964, WorldShare’s ministry partners had planted 110 new churches, including 40 in pre-1949 China.
1983
By 1983, there were 80 separate ministry partners, working in 41 countries. CNEC began with a primarily evangelistic impetus, though this was soon joined by ministry to the immediate physical needs of the Chinese refugees. Today, through our ministry partners, we manifest the love of Christ in a huge variety of ways.
1991
The UK office moved from Hertfordshire to Chadwell Heath in London and in 1991, to Bawtry Hall in South Yorkshire. In 1987, parts of the global alliance changed their name from CNEC and in 1997, our UK office followed suit by changing to WorldShare. We moved to our present home, Armstrong House, in 2010.
Today
WorldShare, and each of our alliance partners, continue today to aspire to fulfil the vision of Duncan McRoberts, Dr. Jepson and the other founders: to see indigenous Christians in China and elsewhere mobilised, equipped and enabled for Christian service within their communities.
Make an impact through WorldShare
Could you donate today and bring the hope of the Gospel and practical help to the lives of many? Please check out our immediate needs and prayerfully consider how God is calling you to respond.
