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.

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.