Chandler Sibley is the Community Outreach and Discipleship Leader in her local church in London.
When did you trust Christ?
I grew up going to the Catholic church, where I thought I had to be a good person to go to heaven. I remember as a little girl praying at night, "God, help me to be good enough for you". When I was nine years old, we switched churches to a non-denominational church, where I heard the Good News for the first time—that I could never be good enough for a perfect, holy God, but that He sent his Son, Jesus, to live the perfect life that I couldn't live, die the death that I deserved on the cross, and rise from the dead, offering anyone who repented of their sins and trusted in Him eternal life. I trusted Christ and decided I would follow Him for the rest of my life.
What do you hope to gain from participating?
First and foremost, to grow in my own personal relationship with Jesus. I have wanted to read Knowing God for a while and am thrilled at the idea of diving deep into this book with other women and learning together about our own discipleship with Jesus. I look forward to the accountability and structure, as well as the peer-to-peer discipleship that will happen. It seems so encouraging to have a space where believing women all over Europe can meet and encourage each other, and learn from one another.
What is your ministry?
I am part of a church plant in West London in a highly diverse area. I work alongside my husband and our Pastor, David Seckington. My role is primarily focused on community building, discipleship, evangelism, and outreach. I help plan and coordinate events within our church family, outreach events, lead a women's discipleship group, and am involved in trying to make disciples among the lost in our area of London. This includes reading the Bible with non-believers, getting to know them personally, meeting them in different places such as the gym, the shop, or doing door-to-door and street evangelism. I also help oversee the short-term teams that come from the United States to volunteer with us for a week, facilitating orientation, evangelism programs, and debriefing throughout their time here. My husband and I help facilitate a weekly community Bible study.
What is your leadership role or what were your past leadership roles?
In university, I served in my church as the Greet Team leader and outreach leader. I was part of a ministry in the United States where I led a nine-month training for people preparing to move overseas for the Gospel. I also led several discipline-making teams and led the leaders of other disciple-making teams. For two years, I served as Director of Mobilisation and led other people in full-time ministry on our Mobilisation Team, as well as overseeing mobilisation efforts at our church.
Why should someone invest in your ministry?
We have a heart to see people from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation worshipping Jesus, and we know that there are many, over three billion, who do not have access to the Good News. And we know that God has brought many people from these very unreached people groups to London. London has a great Gospel need, and specifically in Shepherd's Bush, there are only an estimated 150-200 mature believers for a population of about 50,000. My husband and I long to see more people experience the goodness of a relationship with Jesus in London, and for the Gospel to be spread to the ends of the earth, with London being a launching pad! We know it's essential for us to be continual learners, and we have a lot of learning to do.
