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PT international director
Crosslinks and The Proclamation Trust (“PT”) are delighted to announce the appointment of Neil Watkinson as International Director of The Proclamation Trust from the 1st September 2015. Neil was a Crosslinks Mission Partner in Singapore from 2008 to the end of 2014, and was involved in training expository preachers in Asia as well as working part-time on the staff of St George’s Church, Singapore. Neil will continue as a Crosslinks Mission Partner, but his responsibilities will now include planning and leading the international work of the Trust. The role represents a natural partnership between Crosslinks and PT as we seek to train men and women for expository preaching around the world.
The Proclamation Trust has influenced many international ministries and start-up initiatives, not least through the offering of bursary places to overseas students for the Cornhill training course and for preaching conferences. However, PT now want to approach this area of ministry in a more strategic way, and Crosslinks is well placed to assist with their varied and long-standing mission experience. The Crosslinks Council see this role as a natural one for both Neil and Crosslinks itself and believe it is important for Neil to continue as a Crosslinks Mission Partner, seconded to PT.
Neil is an active member of St Mary’s Church in Maidenhead. He will join the senior management team of the Trust and, from a UK base, continue with many of the Asian training programmes he has been instrumental in setting up, as well as initiating new ones both in Asia and in other parts of the world. Please join the Crosslinks Council and PT trustees in praying for Neil and this new role at this important time.