{"id":551,"date":"2018-09-25T10:36:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/?page_id=551"},"modified":"2022-12-07T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:11:10","slug":"beckystephen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/beckystephen\/","title":{"rendered":"Becky and Stephen Dimmock’s Ministry in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Becky Dimmock (nee Jenkins) has been a member of St Andrew\u2019s since childhood.\u00a0 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\u00a0Cambridge to study.\u00a0 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 \u201cUpper Room Church\u201d now planted and growing, Becky & Stephen have taken over responsibility as leaders.\u00a0 They are also considering God\u2019s longer term call to mission work and are exploring the possibility of going overseas to work amongst unreached Muslim people groups.\u00a0 Their plan is to remain as members of the church in Manchester until Stephen has completed his qualification as an engineer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Becky describes the birth of their church plant as follows:\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn 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. \u00a0Pretty 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. \u00a0Poverty, segregation, those from Muslim backgrounds and \u2018the North\u2019 were also placed on our hearts, along with the beautiful statement that, \u201cwe can never give up more for Jesus than He\u2019s already given up for us\u201d. \u00a0It 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

St Andrew\u2019s is continuing to support Becky & Stephen in prayer as they seek God\u2019s will for this next chapter of their lives and as they anticipate the birth of their first child at the end of 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can read and download their prayer letters (PDF files) via the following links:<\/span><\/p>\n

December 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

February 22<\/a><\/p>\n

August 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

April 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

Feb-March-2021-prayer-letter<\/a><\/p>\n

Sept-Oct 2020 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

July-Aug 2020 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

May-June 2020 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

March-April 2020 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

Jan-Feb 2020 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

Nov-Dec 2019 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

Sep-Oct 2019 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

July-Aug 2019 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

May-June 2019 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

March-April 2019 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n

Jan-Feb 2019 Prayer Letter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Becky Dimmock (nee Jenkins) has been a member of St Andrew\u2019s since childhood.\u00a0 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-551","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldsworthpark.org.uk\/mission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}