About us
God has called us to work innovatively - no other organisation we know of is bringing together the different areas that our tracks cover, focused on partnering within the BMB global community.
Our Values:
We listen to and promote the voices of BMBs
We work by relational partnership
We prioritise transformational discipleship
We are led by Scripture and the Spirit
Meet our leadership team
Tim: Director
Tim is the Director of Word of Life. He has served among Muslim people for over forty years, in Pakistan, Jordan, Britain and Southeast Asia. His PhD (SOAS, London University, 2014) was on issues of identity for former Muslims following Christ in Pakistan. Tim is currently writing a new discipleship course for BMBs.
David: Associate Director
David’s experience in business and management in various contexts including Pakistan led to an MA in mission leadership. He currently lives with his family in a multicultural community in west London and leads an informal Christian gathering for people from a range of diverse faith backgrounds exploring the Bible.
Soroush: Associate Director
Soroush is a BMB who has experience of leadership in a multicultural church in his community, as well as ministering to BMBs in diaspora in the Middle East. Soroush has a passion for the nations coming together to worship the Lord, and in particular, for discipleship among BMBs.
Jenni: Associate Director
Jenni previously worked in Central Asia and now lives and works in a multicultural city in the UK. With her family she is involved in church planting among the nations and has a passion for discipleship, particularly for BMBs.
Pat: Hikma
Pat has extensive experience living and ministering in North African countries and completed his PhD at Oxford University in 2018. Pat is a consultant with emerging BMB colleges in Algeria and Tunisia, and leads the Hikma team team based in USA, UK and the Middle East.
Helen: Joining the Family
Helen spent several years in North Africa and now works amongst multicultural communities in the UK on various initiatives aimed at inspiring and equipping churches to engage well with their local communities. With Bruno she co-leads the Joining the Famly working group of mixed backgrounds with extensive experience of helping churches to welcome new believers.
Valentina: Training
Valentina has lived and served in a Central Asian country, where she and her husband were actively involved in church ministry, national TEE program, and education. She now serves as the Translation and Training Manager at Word of Life, connecting with partners across regions to support translation projects and training initiatives. Her passion is to equip and empower local leaders through discipleship resources.
Bruno: Joining the Family
Bruno is a missionary and missiologist-in-training with over a decade of experience reaching and discipling Muslims. Passionate about equipping the church for effective engagement, Bruno now co-leads the Joining the Family track alongside Helen, helping BMBs find community and grow as disciples of Jesus.
Boby: Curriculum
Boby is our Curriculum Coordinator. She completed her Master’s degree in Biblical Studies in the Philippines. She previously worked in discipleship and theological education projects in Bangladesh, and now leads our Curriculum projects and overseeing our team in the UK and Brazil.
Nawal: Operations
Nawal previously served at Resurrection Church Baabda as Humanitarian Aid Director and HR Manager, where she supported people with compassion and care. She now continues her calling as Operations Manager at Word of Life, strengthening our teams and systems to help the ministry flourish.
Tilaye: Africa
Reverend Tilaye is a senior leader in the Mekane Yesus Church, Ethiopia, widely regarded as the world’s largest Lutheran church. He travels across Africa to equip more people to use our Come Follow Me course through training and translation.
Zeeneta: Sotuheast Asia
Zeeneta holds a Master of Theology in the Study of Religions with a focus on Islamic Studies and is one of the few Christian scholars in this field in India. She serves as Southeast Asia Lead for Word of Life and as a member of the Hikma Partnership Steering Group. Through NGM, she is involved in discipleship, training, preaching and project management, with a passion for equipping believers who face persecution.
If you’d like to contact any member of our team or find the right address for your enquiry, please visit our contact us page.
Meet our trustees
Pictured:
Dr. Anwar Berhe
Rev. Dr. Phil Rawlings, chair
Mr. Amir Khalid
Mr. John Douglas
Mrs. Flora Davies
Ms. Shadi Fatehi (not pictured)
History
Our team and partners have been working across the world with believers from Muslim backgrounds for many years. We represent a wide range of experience in discipleship courses, research and training.
Dr Tim Green created the course Come Follow Me in response to a consultation in 2006. As the number of translations and partnerships grew, the charity Word of Life formed in 2019 with a focus on managing the discipleship Courses.
We believe in research-based materials which are produced by BMBs and by those who live and work with them. The Hikma track grew out of our passion to hear BMBs’ own voices in the global church.
Alongside providing discipleship resources, the need to equip churches and individuals to use them well arose. We believe that it is important to understand the method behind the course to use the materials most effectively so we developed the Training track to offer to those wanting to use the Come Follow Me course.
Tim was also part of a group who created the Joining the Family initiative, to help the church understand, love, equip and learn from BMBs. A review of the group’s partnerships and plans showed the natural fit with Word of Life’s work and vision. Joining the Family became our fourth track in 2020.
Word of Life is dependent on one-off and regular donations and grants. Please consider joining us in this ministry through prayer and giving.
