The wide variety of roles Redcliffe graduates fulfil reflects the exciting diversity of mission in the 21st century.
From engineering and waste management, to teaching, church planting, graphic design and development, our former students get involved in the many varied means of fulfilling God's mission to the world.
Water of life
On 12 January 2010, a powerful earthquake shook Haiti, leaving tens of thousands dead or injured. Over the next few days and weeks, relief workers from around the world arrived on the devastated island to provide vital aid.
One of them was Martin, a Redcliffe graduate and water engineer in Ecuador with HCJB Global. He arrived only a few days after the earthquake to work in a Baptist hospital just outside the capital, Port-au-Prince.
“The situation was very serious,” Martin remembers. “One of my main tasks was to install a water filter system so the hospital, clinic, outpatients and missionary housing would have a supply of water. It was the dry season, when the hospital depends primarily on reserves of rainwater captured during the previous rainy season. In addition, the extra patients meant there was extra demand on the water supply.”
Martin spent ten days in total in Haiti, securing and stabilising a safe water supply for the hospital, clinic and surrounding houses.
“Since getting back to Ecuador, I have thought a lot about the parable of the wise and foolish builders and the simple practical application! It cannot be overstated how significant the practical and spiritual impact of the Baptist Hospital in Haiti was, simply because it was built to survive an earthquake when many other similar facilities collapsed.
“This was a powerful testimony of Christians’ commitment, integrity, hope and love for the people of that community. If we have built to withstand the day of disaster, then we are perfectly placed by the Lord in the midst of the catastrophe to respond proactively with practical and spiritual comfort to those in need.”