FRONTIERS IRELAND DIRECTORS. REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 The direclors present Iheir annual report and financial statements for Ihe year ended 31 March 2023. Th8 financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the financial statements and comply with the charity's Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Companies Act 2006 and 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities= Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparSng thair accounts in accordanc6 with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland IFRS 102}" {effeclive 1 January 2019). Objectlvos and activities The charity's oblect are the advancement of the Christian faith. The directors have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission In deciding what activities the charity should undertake. Achlovements and performan¢o In the fulfilment of our charilable purpose, the advancement of the Christian Faith, we se8k with love and respect to invite 811 Muslim peoples to follow Jesus. prioritlsing those pÈoplp.s. places and citiès with least access lo the Gospel. This is done through church planting teams who live locally using théir professional skills lo demonstrate and share the love and compassion of Jesus in word and deed, through Ih8ir lives together, learning the local languag8 and culture. We continue to have a family serving in SE Africa, who are involved in church planting and engaging in a number of humanitarian projects. The team were able to publish two more composile books of Scripture, adding the books of Matthew, Luke, John, Acts. Romans. 1 & 2 Corinthians and Hebrews in volumes, to their collection of printed Scripture. Th8y had th8 joy of baptising a local believer, who came to faith partly by listening to an audlo-bib18 provided by the t8am. The Sending Base Director and his wife were able to visit the family in Juty 2022, a trip postponed from the first Easter of Covid. It gave a valuable insighl into the levels of poverty in the area and also was a great encouragement to the team there. Bible study groups ar8 continuing separately with rnen and women in several different groups. During the year, the women's bible study group began, which has been a great encouragement. The couple had to return to Nl during th8 autumn for corrective surgery on a broken arm. following the husband's motorbiko accidont. The original surgery done In a neighbouring country, was inadequate. In partnershlp with th8 team there, we completed a 30 day prayer guide for the people group among whlch th8y seNe. This will be used for an international focus of prayer during July 2023. We again saw a further glft from The Henderson Charilable Trust of £62.500 for several initiatives: funding for more boreholes in SE Africa.. further funding for the midwifery centre of lh6 team in N. Africa. funding for mobillsatlon and for the mission guesthouse In Groomsport. Through funding from the TBF & KL Thompson Trusl we were able to help revise the Mom8ntum Yes course in order to amend and angliclse th6 American online misslons mobilising course. The full version of this course in now available to Ihe public. Personal funding also came from the Lynas Charitable trust and the Belmore Trust. The Open House Trust also contributed to our work again this year. as did the Ardbarron Trust. which has partnered wilh us for over 20 years.
FRONTIERS IRELAND DIRECTORS. REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 The soclal media campaign in North Africa continues to bear fruit. Fortnightly. 20,000 peopl8 watch a new clip of 8 video on th8 life of Jesus. A local responder contSnues to do follow up with those who show and interèst in learning more and he meets up with those who are keen to leam more face to face. The family in North Africa also had the joy of seeing new team members from France join their team Ihls year to move to a new lown. where there has not been a Christian witnoss before in living memory. The family will slay part of the team for 2 years, before splicing off and recruiting their own team. The midwifery clinic in Norlh Africa continues to see hvndreds of women each month, trealing them with kindness and compassion in the name of Jesus. Prayèr continues to be the bedrock of our ministry. Regular daity staff prayer. as well as quarlerly days of prayer are part of our prayer rhythm. Our prayer groups in Belfast, Coleraine, Lisbum and Lurgan continue to meet regu18rly. The Belfast and Lurgan groups are meeting on Zoom, with the Coleraine and Lisburn groups meeting in person. We held a celebration of the Pray for Zero initialive at the T3 Conference Centre at the House of VlcRyn. 86 peoplg. groups have become adopted and there are 77 people groups that became engaged with a church planting team and there are reports of 11 more engagements. still lo be confimied by the partnership of agencies who keep the official slalistics. We used this event to pay tribute to Robert 'Robin' Watson. a founding Board member who passed away on 4th July 2022, still active as a Board member up to a couple of weeks before his death. We give thanks to God for his life and ministry to many organisations, including Frontiers Ireland. We also acknowledged the service of Hugh Mccomick who this year stepped aside as Chairman. a ro18 he has had slnce our formation in 2000. Wo are grateful to God for the service of bolh of these men and the support and encouragement given by their wives too. We welcomed David Best into his new role as Chairman. At the celebration. we also launched the follow on from Pray for Zero. which is Pray for Thirty. The vision of this is lo pray for thirty churches to send out thirty workers in the next three years. The main thrust of this is mobilisation, prayer and Iraining. We are asking churches to commit to pray for three years using three prayer guid85 and to consider sending out one worker at the end of the three years. The first of the three prayer guides is on 30 occupalions, the second is on 30 priority cities. as highlighted by our Field Leadership Teams and the third is on 30 Unengaged People Groups. Our commitmeni to the churches Is to provlde training on areas Such as Waiting Dn GDd. Entertaining th Stranger, Islam, Dlscovery Bible Studies. Momentum Yes and Kairos. Thi5 year again we have been the coordinaior in Nl for the 30 Days of Prayer, which encourages Christians lo pray for Muslims across the world during the month of Ramadan. We had 30 partner churchés and misslon organisalions involved this year with over 1200 prayer guides purchased and distributed. We continue to play an aclive part in the Mission Action Partnership (MAP), a group of mission agencies seeking to work together lo resource the church for global and local mission. We regularly attend the quarterly ger)eral meetings which are a good opportunity to network with others in the mission community and also lo pray and encourage one another, as well as share resources. A new initiative developed this year is the quarterly Global Disciples programme which has been a partnership with AWM, SIM. Latin Link and OMF. It is designed for young adults to help gather together in a larger number, rather than doing smaller events individually. It has been a real encouragement to be able lo work logether as agencies, but also to do more together than we could have done otherwise by ourselves. for the benefit of those who come along.
FRONTIERS IRELAND DIRECTORS. REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 This year w& have also continued to play an active part in the Irish Mission Agencies Partnership (IMAPI. Our director has served for a second year as one of the Exec members of IMAP. Thls helps develop our reach into Ireland and also gives a good insight into some of the challenges. needs and opportunities within the island of Ireland. One of our staff parlicipated in an online event during the year. We have consolidated our links with th8 Elim network in Ireland over the year. We also invited their leader to speak at on& of the IMAP quarterly members, meetings and his presentation was very much appreciated. We had a very strong presence at Bangor Worldwide Missionary Convention and we used hospitality as a theme, which brought a lot of attention and interest in our main focus. which was the Pray for ThSrty material. We were thus able lo introduce Ihe new initiative to a wide audience including lo several people from Irish churches. A new couple of workers who were approved late last year were able to visit North Africa and meet up with a leam leader. Unfortunately, duè to unforeseen circumslances. they will not be able to join this team, so the search for a new team contlnues. We are delighted to hav8 recruited a new single femal6 Worker to SeTr in the Gulf. She will be working alongside an established team. which has a focus on prayer. She is the first person to be sent out as part of Pray for Thity. WB ran a shortened Candidate School for her, given that she had completed a YWAM Discipleship Training School in th& region recently. She will serve from Septsmber 2022 untll June 2023. We provided the financial administration for a major internalional prayer event. held in Europe before Easler. The director was able to travel to participate in this muttinational and multF-agency prayer event. At the end of the year in March 5-10, we were able to host the Field Leadership Team Gathering (FLTG), an annual event for 38 of our international organisation's senior field leaders. It was a real privilege lo be able lo host this group at the Castlewellan Christian Conference Centre. providing them with our famous hospitality and 8 lour of St Patrick's heritage around the Downpalrid( area. We continue to speak regularly in churches to promote our work and mlnistry. Flnanclal revlew The results are set out in detall on pages 8 to 19. The company retumed net incoming resources for the year of £7,265 (2022 £13,415} unrestricted funds of £227,520 (2022 £235,760) and restricted funds of £56,39812022 £40,893). The unrestricted funds are required to provide sufficient funds to cover any unforseen costs which may arise and fulfill legal obligations of the charity in the event that current levels of income are not maintained. It is the policy of the charity to tnaintain sufflclent unr6stricted reserves as are conslstent with the ongoing financlal réquirements of the charity. The directors has assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, and are satisfied that systems are in place lo mitigate exposure to the major risks.
FRONTIERS IRELAND DIRECTORS. REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 Plan5 for the future W8 plan lo provide training with each of the Pray for Thity churches over the next 12 months. We plan to continue to offer th8 Momentumyes course. which has been revised. The Director and his wife will visit our new workers for a pastoral visit in the Gulf at Easter 2023. We plan to send a prayer team to the Gulf region in June 2023 and also possibly on& later in the year. Supporting churches will pray duting the month of July 2023 for a people group in SE Africa. We 11 again provide financial administration for the intemational prayer event In 2024. The Irish couple hope to move to Norlh Africa in early 2024 The leam in SE Africa plan lo (Jrill 4-5 boreholes and acquire 100 more audiothbibles. The one day a week seoondment for one of our staff lo th• Bangor Woddwido Missionary Convention will com8 lo a close at the end of July 2023, after 5 years. The Director met with the secretary of the event and It was agreed that the secondment had been very valuable for bolh parties. We aim to recruit two or three new Board members. Structure, governance and management The charity is a company limiled by guarantee incorporated on 8 March 2000 and registered with Ihe Inland Rev8nue on the same date. Th8 charitable company is govemed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association. The company is not for profit and limited by guarantee, the liability of the members is limited to £1. The organisalion is governed by its Board of Directors who meet iegularly. The directors who served during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial slatements were: Mr H Mccormick Miss R 8axter MrDWBest Dr S A Rodgers Mr R Watson (D8c8ased 4 July 2022) New directors ar8 appoinled by the members of the charity at the annual general meeting. All directors are required to partlCiP8te in training relating to good gov8mance and directors are regularly updated on legislation Ihal impacts upon Ihe running of a charitable organisation e.g. recent changes in legislation introduced by the Charities Commission and the GDPR. The Board of Directors oversees the work of Ihe Sending Base Director. who In turn is responsible for the volunteers. The Sending Base Director is nol a director under Company Law. Frontlers Ireland is affiliated to the Frontiers network worldwide.
FRONTIERS IRELAND DIRECTORS. REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 Key Management Personnel Romuneratlon The Board consider the board of directors and the chief executiv8 as comprising the key management personnel of the charity in charge of directing and controlling the charity and running and operating the charity on a day to day basis. All board members give their time freely and no board remuneration was paid in the year. Board members ar8 required lo disclose all relevant conflicts of interest and register them at each monthly board meeting and in accordance with the Trust's policy. withdraw from decisions wh8re a conflict of interest arises. This report has b8en prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entltled lo the small compani85 exemplions. The directors, r8POrt was approved by the Board of Directors. MrDWBest Director Dr S A Rodgers DSrector Dat8d'. Dated.. 11-?-£S