St Luke's Church Eccleshill, Bradford, UK

Linking with the Copts in Egypt

Chris, Angela and Anna Chorlton
November 2007

St Luke's Church supports Chris and Angela Chorlton as our Mission Partners with Church Mission Society, serving the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt. Pictured are Chris and Angela with Anna (born June 2003), when they visited us at a Coffee Morning on 2nd August 2003 (above), and taken in Cairo in May 2004 (below).

For the few years before joining CMS Chris and Angela lived in Leeds. They attended St Matthias Church Burley, where they led the youth group until 2002. Chris was an RE teacher at Garforth, and Angela was a Social Worker with Leeds Social Services until April 2003 (when Anna was due). They originally met in Yemen, as they both worked for the Red Sea Mission Team.

They moved to Birmingham in September to train at Crowther Hall, Selly Oak, where they did some theological and mission studies, as well as beginning studying Arabic. They were commissioned at St Matthias Church, Burley (Leeds) on 4th April 2004, and flew out to Egypt on 20th April. They are currently living in a suburb of Cairo where they are doing further language study.

From September 2004 they have been working with St Mark's Church in Beni Suef, about 70 miles south of Cairo. Chris teaches English in St Mark's School (which is a private school, run by the church and open to both Christian and Muslim pupils), and Angela does some Social Work with families, children and the elderly, where the church already has links.

For further information:

Chris & Angela's page on the St Matthias Burley (Leeds) web site.
Church Mission Society.
The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt.
Maps of Egypt showing Beni Suef (Bani Suwayf):
Lonely Planet,
MapQuest.