Bethan is a music therapist who has worked in many situations including in special needs schools, psychiatric care homes and with emotionally and behaviourally-challenged pupils in mainstream schools. In 2008 she set up a music therapy project in Gulu, north Uganda, which continues to provide music counselling to war-affected children with special needs through a Ugandan employee.

Gareth has been an officer in the Royal Navy, serving on a number of ships all over the world. In 2008 he completed a six-month operational tour on land in the multi-national headquarters in Basra, Iraq, where he worked on reconstruction and development projects, and was the UN’s military liaison officer in southern Iraq.

They have a son, Samuel, born June 2010.

After their time of training at IMC, they moved in June 2011 as a family to Uganda. Here, as BMS long-term workers, they are working with the Baptist Union of Uganda in Kasese, western Uganda. Bethan will use her music therapy and experience of psycho-social work with vulnerable women and children. Gareth will be involved in peace building and community development projects.

Their home church is St Andrew’s Baptist Church, Cambridge

To visit their blog, 'The Three Mzungus', click here.

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