International Innovation
Our International Mission trips are on hold due to
the continuing pandemic and Government advice
against non-essential international travel. Given current
restrictions it is very difficult to plan, however we are
cautiously hopeful of rescheduling trips for 2021. In the
meantime, we are also looking at innovative ways to
equip, empower and encourage our partners.
We are exploring an exciting idea of introducing
‘supported distributions’. The plan would be to send a
container of wheelchairs to an experienced in-country
partner, while team-members in the UK would buddy up
with local therapists via WhatsApp video call, to build a
longer-term relationship with them through mentoring,
then giving expertise and approving fittings over a few
months, rather than a 10 day trip.
These ‘supported distributions’ would not replace regular
trips but would be a positive short-term solution before
physical trips can resume, or may be something we
incorporate into our programme in an on-going way.
Watch out for more details.
Mozambique
Meet-Up
Our Churches Inc team
visited Mozambique
in 2017, and we’re
rescheduling Wheels for
next year
Magnifying The Message
During lockdown the needs and circumstances of
disabled people have been even more prominent than
normal and Through the Roof has been fortunate to have
had the opportunity to spread our message even wider.
Tim was invited to join an online gathering of ‘Pray
London’ to highlight the needs of disabled people at
this time to a new audience for prayer. He also promoted
Through the Roof partnering with Your Neighbour.org
who interviewed David and Carrie Grant – musicians
and parents to 4 children with additional needs, on their
‘Leaders Lunches’ video-conference event.
Fiona and Ros have both had articles featured
on Christian websites www.womanalive.co.uk and
www.premierchristianity.com, while Fiona has been
interviewed on UCB and Premier Christian Radio. Our
prayer is that God will have been glorified through
www.throughtheroof.org
Through the Roof volunteers and
partners across four countries on two
different continents ‘met’ via Zoom
videoconference, as part of a Mozambique
Wheels team get together.
Sadly, due to the pandemic the team
members, who should have been
distributing wheelchairs to those in great
need in rural Mozambique in May were
stuck at home. Team members from the
UK, Mozambique, Kenya and Zambia
were able to update one another on their
respective situations and pray into these.
Our partner in Mozambique, Melvin Kelly
of One Mission Society, explained how he
and his family are mostly sheltering at home but still enabling the church to provide food
parcels, and deliver printed Bible studies to encourage people at this time.
The container of wheelchairs, although delayed due to the current situation, should have
now arrived at its destination, and we are tentatively hopeful that we can re-schedule the
team for Spring 2021.
these opportunities and that more people will have a
greater awareness, understanding, and desire to act
on the injustices faced by disabled people every day.
You can find links to all the websites and videos
mentioned in this article, and throughout this issue,
at www.throughtheroof.org/Summer2020
Please consider donating to enable Through the Roof to
continue its vital mission during this time of uncertainty.
You’ll find a donation form to cut out and return as the
final two pages of this newsletter. Your prayers and
financial support could help us inspire and equip Christians
and churches. Together we could magnify the message
that disabled people are ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’
(Psalm 139:14) with a vital part to play in God’s
growing kingdom.
Thank you