Becky Dimmock (nee Jenkins) has been a member of St Andrew’s since childhood. In 2017 she completed her university studies in Cambridge and then spent a year working for Friends International in Cambridge helping to share the Gospel with those from many different nationalities who come to Cambridge to study. In August 2018, Becky and six other friends from university moved to Cheetham Hill in north Manchester to help plant a church in a multi-cultural area of the city which currently has virtually no Christian witness. One of the others was Stephen, whom she married in August 2020. With the “Upper Room Church” now planted and growing, Becky & Stephen have taken over responsibility as leaders. They are also considering God’s longer term call to mission work and are exploring the possibility of going overseas to work amongst unreached Muslim people groups. Their plan is to remain as members of the church in Manchester until Stephen has completed his qualification as an engineer.
Becky describes the birth of their church plant as follows:
“In 2016, following a conversation on a coach, a group of us started meeting regularly to seek God and pray about what post-university life might look like, and particularly asking God where he wanted us to be and who he wanted us to go with. Pretty quickly, this formed into a burden for the unreached within the UK, and a desire to carry the light of Christ to the areas where it was most lacking, and so to the people there. Poverty, segregation, those from Muslim backgrounds and ‘the North’ were also placed on our hearts, along with the beautiful statement that, “we can never give up more for Jesus than He’s already given up for us”. It was a joy and blessing to seek God with a wider group of people at first, and after a few trips around the north-west, eventually this vision crystallised into the seven of us committing to each other and subsequently to joining a church plant in the Cheetham Hill/Collyhurst area of Manchester.”
St Andrew’s is continuing to support Becky & Stephen in prayer as they seek God’s will for this next chapter of their lives and as they anticipate the birth of their first child at the end of 2021.
You can read and download their prayer letters (PDF files) via the following links:
March-April 2020 Prayer Letter