Sword & Trowel 2017: Issue 1


of worship. How- ever, the Coopers were encouraged by meeting a large group of workers from Zimbabwe who attend the Stanley Taber- nacle regularly. Their work is to clear land mines placed during the 1982 confl ict. These men, who are away from their families for much of the year, have enthusiastically boosted the Stanley Tabernacle congregation. The relative prosperity and peace- fulness of the Falklands makes the people hard to reach with the Gospel, but there is an increasing number of migrant workers in the Islands, especially from the Philippines, Chile, Uruguay and St Helena. There is a great need for a minister and his wife to work vigorously to raise a stand- ard for the Truth once again in these distant parts.


3. War memorial. 4. A church service showing some of the workers from Zimbabwe who attend regularly.


Photos show: 1. The ‘tin tabernacle’ sent out to the Falklands with the help of C H Spurgeon. 2. Chris and Philippa Cooper with the Governor of the Islands.


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4 A Visit to the Falkland Islands page 37


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