Wickford Christian Centre 
Does God speak today? - Yes! by Carol Seymour
As a second year student at Nottingham University and a relatively new Christian, God clearly spoke to me in a church meeting through the words of Matt 9 v.37-38: ‘The harvest is plenteous but the labourers are few. Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest field’. I knew that the Lord was telling me not just to pray, but to GO. I also knew that the place He wanted me to go was Congo.
Before that, I’d never given much thought to mission work, but God’s voice was so clear that I immediately went to the Pastor and spoke to him. He wisely advised me to complete my studies, but also gave me 2 addresses to contact, one of which is the Mission that I now work with, the Central African Missions, formerly Zaire Evangelistic Mission.
It was while in Nottingham that I was baptised in the Holy Spirit and during university holidays made the Wickford Christian Centre my ‘home’ church.
After the looting in Congo in 1991, we were relocated to work in Lubumbashi in the south of the country. After completing the degree studies, the mission advised me to do a teaching qualification too, which I did in Lancaster for a year. God continued to confirm His call for me to go to Congo. I then taught for one year in Laindon, Essex before going to Belgium in 1972 for French studies and then to Congo in 1973. Initially I taught in one of the mission secondary schools located in Kamina. I got involved in various other activities including youth work, local evangelism, bible correspondence courses, treasury work, prison work and so on.