Missions
This Church Exists Because Somebody Went
Nobody in Ballincollig asked for a Baptist church. A missionary family came anyway — sent, prayed for and financially supported by believers they would mostly never meet. That is how Bible Baptist Church began, and it is why we send.
We Were a Mission Field
1994: it started with one family
January 1994
The Ledbetter family arrives in Cork, Ireland, and begins working with the Lionel Smith family.
February 1994
Door-to-door evangelism begins around Blarney. No building, no congregation, no guarantee.
May 1994
The start-up of a Bible Baptist Church in Blarney is announced.
June 1994
Bible Baptist Church of Blarney holds its first Sunday meetings. Everything since — this building, these families, Cork Bible Institute, 12 Weeks to Freedom — grew out of that.
“How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent?”
— Romans 10:14-15
Every argument for missions that we could make to you was once made about Cork. Someone decided Ireland was worth a family, a career and a lifetime. We are the result. So we are not asking anyone to care about something we received for free.
Read our full historyHow a Church Reaches the World
We are working out Acts 1:8, in order
“Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” It is not a choice between home and abroad. It is both, outward, at the same time.
Our Jerusalem
Ballincollig, Cork City, Carrigaline and the villages around us
Our Judaea
County Cork and beyond — a church planted in Mallow, church planting supported in Dublin
Our Samaria
Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Italy and the rest of Europe
The Uttermost Part
Hungary, the Middle East, Honduras — the uttermost part of the earth
What This Church Does
How we actually contribute
We give by faith promise
Every October is Faith Promise Missions Month here, ending in the Faith Promise offering — each believer promising what they trust God to supply through them over the year ahead. That is what keeps these families supported month after month, rather than a one-off collection whenever somebody visits.
We pray by name
These are not logos on a wall. We pray for these families by name, and Wednesday evening is when this church gathers to do it.
We go ourselves
Teams from this church travel out to work alongside them — most recently to Hungary in October 2026.
Meet Our Missionaries
Eight families we stand behind
Supported with our prayers and our money, so that this church has a share in what God is doing far past Cork. They are listed the way Acts 1:8 moves — nearest first.
Derry & Wendy O’Sullivan
Blanchardstown, Dublin
Co-labouring here at home in Ireland — the same soil, the same hard ground, the same need as Cork.
Declan & Bethany Flanagan
Swords, Co. Dublin
Church planting in Swords, north of Dublin city. Declan preached here in October 2025 on “Who Will Go?”
Layton Kelly
Dublin — reaching addicts
Bringing men and women out of addiction and into a local church, where the change actually holds.
Stuart & Dawn Harvey
Exeter, England
Stuart pastors the church in Exeter while Dawn runs the Sunday School and the midweek children’s programmes, reaching parents through their children.
Fausto & Maria Pia D’Amelio
Foggia, Italy
Fausto and Maria Pia, with their son Samuele, are preaching the Gospel and building a Bible-believing church in Foggia, in southern Italy.
Zoltan Kiss
Hungary
Church planting and Bible teaching in Hungary. Teams from this church have travelled out to work alongside them.
Edgar & Rosann Feghaly
Middle East
Reaching Arabs and Africans for Christ, planting churches across the Middle East, and ministering in countries closed to traditional missions.
Evan & Carmen Williams
Honduras
Reaching families in Honduras with the Gospel, and training national believers to carry the work on themselves.
Photos taken from the October 2025 Faith Promise Missions Month calendar. The write-ups are my draft wording.
Your Part
Three things you can do about it
None of them require you to be anybody special.
Pray
Take one family and carry them. Come on a Wednesday evening and pray for them with us.
Service times →Go and see
Visit them yourself. Nothing changes how you pray like standing in the place you have been praying for.
Ask about the next trip →Give
Give to the Missions fund and it goes to these families, not to our building or our bills.
How to give →