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Michael Green is a CMS mission partner who works in
Jordan at the Holy land Institute for the Deaf, based in
Salt, north-west of the capital, Amman.
He is a learning-disabilities nurse and will work with
the institute’s community-based rehabilitation
programmes. Michael sees his role as working as a nurse
in the local community, building bridges for Christ to
cross. As a learning-disabilities nurse Michael is
working with the institute’s ‘Outreach’ department,
providing support for local community-based
rehabilitation programmes. ‘Outreach’ offers specialist
services, training, supervision and follow-up for
rehabilitation workers, teachers and volunteers. While
focused on deaf children, it also co-ordinates a network
of Jordanian institutions to provide an integrated
service for all people with disabilities.
After qualifying as a nurse in 2000, Michael worked with
children with special needs at Kingston Hospital.
Michael sees his role, whether in the UK or serving
abroad, as working as a nurse in the local community,
building bridges for Christ to cross. Michael began to
discern a call to full-time, specifically Christian
ministry while at Bournemouth University in the mid-90s
— the call of Isaiah was a particularly meaningful
passage to him. But at the end of his course, Michael
felt led to train as a nurse at St George’s Hospital
Medical School, London.
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After leaving school in Stowmarket, Suffolk, Michael
worked as an office clerk on the youth training scheme,
before beginning further education at West Suffolk
College. During this time Michael was an active member
at St Peter’s, Feisham, involved in youth work and on
the Deanery synod. He was a member of the Christan
Unions both at St George’s and at Bournemooth, where he
was on the committee. While in London Michael attended
Trinity Road chapel, Tooting, where he served on the
missionary council.
Visits to Egypt, Yemen and Jordan helped to confirm his
call to the region. After returning from his first trip
Michael became involved in the Agape Arabic Christian
Centre in Bayswater In order to help prepare for
Christian work he attended the ‘Frameworks’ course run
by All Souls Church, Langham Place.
Michael enjoys history, chatting with people, and loves animals,
especially horses. He loves taking walks in the country,
particularly his native Suffolk, where he spends time
with his family. After spending two terms at Crowther
Hall, the CMS training college in Birmingham, he flew out to Amman at
the end of May 2004
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CONTACTS
MICHAEL GREEN
Community
Rehabilitation Nurse, The Holy Land Institute for the Deaf,
PO Box 15, 191-10, Jordan
CMS
Church Mission Society, Partnership House, 157 Waterloo Rd, London, SE1
8UU
tel : (+44) 20 7928 8681 fax : (+44) 20 7401 3215 e-mail :
info@cms-uk.org
Registered Charity Number 220297
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THE HOLY LAND INSTITUTE
FOR THE DEAF IN SALT
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Holy Land Institute
for the Deaf
General view -
photographed by Bill Lyons, 1995
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Holy Land Institute for the Deaf
Courtyard façade - photographed by Bill
Lyons, 1995
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Holy Land Institute for the Deaf
View over Courtyard
- photographed by Bill Lyons, 1995
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Holy Land Institute for the Deaf
View along Arcaded
Passage - photographed by Bill Lyons, 1995
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Holy Land Institute for the Deaf
Detail of Window
Mosaic - photographed by Bill Lyons, 1995
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