Workers

Trustees

The Trustess are :

• Roger Purdom
• Colin Beckhurst
• David & Margaret Millidge
• Andrew Terrell
• Keith Varney
• Margaret Wilikinson

Roger joined the ORT board in January 2003 and has visited the work in Oradea and the surrounding towns and villages on many occasions. He is now Chairman of the ORT Trustees.

He spent over 20 years in teaching, including two short periods as Headteacher.

He has been involved in local Church leadership for a number of years and has taken part in many missions, camps and houseparties in the UK since he was a mere 16 years of age.

In 1995 he was appointed as Pastor of Parkside Evangelical Church in Littlehampton and, after 17+ years, retired.

He is involved with SGA (Slavic Gospel Association) going abroad to teach in one of their Bible Schools each year to help train church leaders and workers.

Roger is Chairman of One Challenge UK’s Board which is part of a global mission.

Roger is married to Margaret, and they have a married son and married daughter with two grandsons.

Colin first visited Romania approximately 15 years ago and has been involved in practical help returning many times since, travelling overland taking aid with Bob and others and helping to build Boga camp.

He has been involved with the construction industry all his life, as a Carpenter, Joiner and Quantity Surveyor, running his own Building Company.

He attended Parkside Church for 34 years, serving as an Elder and Youth worker and been Caretaker for Clymping Christian Camp for youth groups for the Barnabas Trust until its closure.  Colin is married to Sue and they have three daughters and eight grandchildren and is currently attending All Saints Church, Littlehampton.

Colin became a Trustee in January 2018.

David & Margaret joined O.R.T.in 1997 having been introduced to it by Bob Terrell They have been involved in driving the aid lorries in the early days to visiting sponsored families, and in the start of Boga camp from field to a great site in the mountains.

David was in banking in the city before moving to Rustington in 1967 to join the family hardware business retiring in 2003.

David and Margaret joined Parkside Evangelical Church in Littlehampton where David served as a Juco leader, Deacon and, for many years, as an Elder.

Margaret has been involved in the Young Wives and Mum%s and Toddlers’ groups.

David and Margaret have three sons and eight grandchildren.

Andrew is a son of our founders Bob and Brenda Terrell. His parents, before starting a family, were both training for the mission field so when his parents had the vision to work with the poor and disabled people of Romania it came as no surprise, accept that they were both over retirement age. Andrew worked closely with them, helping to setup and organise the trips and transport of goods, also drove one of the lorries on all our many trips.

On the trips he was able to see for himself the great need of the people and the deprivation they suffered, not only in the villages but also in the towns.

Andrew is a retired social worker, having worked for over 35 years for an inner London borough, with children and young people. He comes from a medical and care orientated family, many of whom have trained in these fields.

In his retirement Andrew works as a Cleanroom supervisor for a local company making quality products for the medical industry.

Keith became a trustee in 2000 and has visited Romania on several occasions. He currently produces the newsletter.

Following retirement from BT, Keith worked as a school Laboratory Technician.

With his wife Heather, Keith attends St Margaret’s Church in Angmering, where he helps with the children’s work. He also speaks on behalf of Mission Aviation Fellowship at churches and groups in Sussex.

Keith enjoys badminton, walking, and tidying his garden. His two children can be relied on for medical advice, and he is the proud grandparent of three little ones.

Having been involved in the insurance market for most of her working life Margaret took early retirement in 1985 to care for her mother. At the time she was living in Surrey but because property was cheaper in Sussex in those days the move was made to Rustington in West Sussex where she has lived ever since and is a member of Littlehampton Baptist Church.

Margaret thought my visit to Romania in 1996 was a one off. How wrong she was!

Bob Terrell, the founder of the Charity, asked at church for a driver to go to Romania to take medical supplies in a van and Margaret responded. She has been every year since and on several occasions more than once a year.

By the year 2000 she knew that God wanted her to start a Sponsorship Scheme to help feed poor families living in the town and the surrounding villages of Oradea. This commenced as a food sponsorship as the families would pay their bills rather than feed the family. The food is purchased in Romania and given to the families so the money cannot be used for anything else.

Over a period of time it became necessary to extend the sponsorship to help the children living in the villages and needing to go into the town to school when they reach High School age of 14, there being no High Schools in the villages. Consequently the scheme now covers education also.

Margaret does not have a family but she is kept very busy doing God’s work with ORT and looking after her two dogs.