Keith and Lyn Scott are CMS Ireland Mission Partners based, with their children, Adam and Hannah, in Kitwe, Zambia.

Keith works as a lecturer and tutor in the Anglican Seminary of St John the Evangelist. The Seminary is part of the Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation which is based in Kitwe – and therefore part of the Diocese of Northern Zambia.

It is the only institution that equips clergy for ministry for the whole of Zambia – and beyond – and therefore plays a hugely significant role in training leaders for the growth of the Church in that area.

The seminary has recently been given University status (something that Keith was instrumental in achieving) and will, in the years ahead, take on an even more strategic role in clergy training.

Keith also works in the wider diocese, alongside Bishop Albert Chama, to help run the Parish of St. Matthew’s in Chambishi.

Lyn fulfils a vital role as a homemaker and also works on a voluntary basis with the local church. She teaches English to 1st year students and is involved with a women’s programme, as well as outreach projects including visits to local prisons. Lyn also provides a place for other volunteers to come to for rest and relaxation. She often finds herself providing support to many of the overseas workers currently living in the area.

This excerpt from one of Keith and Lyn’s earliest link letters gives an invaluable insight to the nature of their work.

“Training and development go together. Lyn and Keith, despite all the extra jobs they take on from time to time are primarily in Zambia to work in the Anglican Seminary. The “day-job” is enabling people to take a leading role in the ministry in the Anglican Church in Zambia. It might seem a little boring. There are no rivers to dam, no roaring off into the sunset in four-wheel drive vehicles, no refugee camps or starving people to feed. It is really seems to be just big city life in yet another third level educational institution, a hum-drum sort of job. But remember for every student trained there is one more person ready for leadership in the Church, ready to reach out in a ministry, which will affect the lives of hundreds, even thousands of people over twenty or more years. Amongst the students Keith and Lyn will help to become leaders in the Anglican Church are evangelists, communicators, men and women anxious to empower others, people who will lead local development, people who will one day be Bishops or Archbishops. Every one of them will be people who will lead others into the fuller more abundant life of Jesus Christ. It must be a job worth doing.”