In November 2010 we were delighted to welcome our Youth and Children's Worker, Luke Mansfield, together with his wife Jemma and their baby son, Joshua. Luke grew up in the Portsmouth area. He came from a non-Christian family but went to church when invited to do so by a friend, first as a child and then as a teenager. He made a Christian commitment but later, while he was training to be a chef, he was challenged by a non-Christian about his lifestyle and it was then he realised that he had to get serious about God and about living out his faith. God led him to work with London City Mission (LCM), initially on a gap year scheme for young people, and that is where he met Jemma.Jemma grew up in Chard, Somerset, going to church, learning about Jesus and coming to know Him as her Saviour. Having secured a place at University, she deferred going for a year to join the gap year scheme at LCM. What particularly attracted her to the scheme were the lectures, as she had a great hunger to understand her Christian faith more deeply.Jemma and Luke worked in Christian Centres witnessing in the community through door-to-door visiting, At the end of the year Jemma went on to university to study Psychology and Deaf Studies, while Luke stayed at LCM for a further year before returning to Portsmouth, where he worked night shifts at a supermarket. They married in June 2006 and after Jemma graduated the following summer they moved back to London and LCM where Luke was employed as a missionary and Jemma worked in the Personnel Department at LCM Headquarters. After their son Joshua was born they wondered about moving out of London and began to pray about whether they should go into church-based ministry. In June 2010 they came to Torbay to attend the wedding of their friend Joel Ward, Youth Pastor at Upton Vale Baptist Church. Joel told Luke about the job at our church. The rest is History what more is there to say a Blessing to Brixham Baptist.
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In November 2010 we were delighted to welcome our Youth and Children's
Worker, Luke Mansfield, together with his wife Jemma and their baby son,
Joshua. Luke grew up in the Portsmouth area. He came from a non-
Christian family but went to church when invited to do so by a friend, first as
a child and then as a teenager. He made a Christian commitment but later,
while he was training to be a chef, he was challenged by a non-Christian
about his lifestyle and it was then he realised that he had to get serious
about God and about living out his faith.
God led him to work with London City Mission (LCM), initially on a gap year
scheme for young people, and that is where he met Jemma.
Jemma grew up in Chard, Somerset, going to church, learning about Jesus
and coming to know Him as her Saviour. Having secured a place at
University, she deferred going for a year to join the gap year scheme at LCM. What particularly
attracted her to the scheme were the lectures, as she had a great hunger to understand her Christian
faith more deeply.
Jemma and Luke worked in Christian Centres witnessing in the community through door-to-door
visiting, At the end of the year Jemma went on to university to study Psychology and Deaf Studies,
while Luke stayed at LCM for a further year before returning to Portsmouth, where he worked night
shifts at a supermarket. They married in June 2006 and after Jemma graduated the following summer
they moved back to London and LCM where Luke was employed as a missionary and Jemma worked
in the Personnel Department at LCM Headquarters.
After their son Joshua was born they wondered about moving out of London and began to pray about
whether they should go into church-based ministry. In June 2010 they came to Torbay to attend the
wedding of their friend Joel Ward, Youth Pastor at Upton Vale Baptist Church. Joel told Luke about the
job at our church. The rest is History what more is there to say a Blessing to Brixham Baptist.
