BMS World Mission Link
Our link BMS workers are Bethan and Gareth Shrubsole
Bethan is a music therapist who has worked in many situations including in special needs schools, psychiatric care homes and with emotionally and behaviourally-challenged pupils in mainstream schools. In 2008 she set up a music therapy project in Gulu, north Uganda, which continues to provide music counselling to war-affected children with special needs through a Ugandan employee.
Gareth has been an officer in the Royal Navy, serving on a number of ships all over the world. In 2008 he completed a six-month operational tour on land in the multi-national headquarters in Basra, Iraq, where he worked on reconstruction and development projects, and was the UN's military liaison officer in southern Iraq.
They have a son, Samuel, born June 2010.
The family moved to Kasese, western Uganda in June 2011. Here, as BMS long-term workers, they will work with the Baptist Union of Uganda. Bethan will use her music therapy and experience of psycho-social work with vulnerable women and children. Gareth will be involved in peace building and community development projects.
Their prayer letter can be downloaded, and a link to their blog, 'The Three Mzungus', from their page in the BMS World Mission website.
