Alice Cooper

Alice came to Christ on a bus in Glasgow! Although she had grown up in a Christian family, it was at music college, far from home, at an evangelistic outreach event held on a bus, that the gospel finally made sense to her, and she realised her need for Jesus.

Three years after becoming a follower of Jesus, Alice gave up her job and became a full-time missionary in north India, learning the local language and culture, and saw two members of an unreached tribal group become Christians. Alice came back to the UK, to study at All Nations College, before she started her gospel ministry in London in 2000, initially with a church, visiting Bangladesh several times. When she saw a post advertising a position at LCM working with communities to those she’d served in Bangladesh, she couldn’t turn it down!

“It gave me the opportunity to share my faith freely – what a joy! I’ve always wanted to serve God in full time Christian ministry from when I first became a Christian on a bus on Mayhill Road in Glasgow, and especially to take the gospel to those, like the Bangladeshi people, who have no or very little opportunity to hear it.”

Alice works as a missionary in Tower Hamlets, reaching out to Muslims, as well as those from other religions, with a particular focus on the Bangladeshi and Sylheti communities. With these communities, she runs English language classes and shares the gospel with them by running Bible studies.

Tower Hamlets is the most deprived borough in London, and many people living in this area struggle with poverty, unemployment, and pay inequality. Sadly, it’s these people who are also least likely to have heard the life-changing news of the gospel.

There are around 100,000 Sylheti Muslims in Tower Hamlets, and Alice hopes that by working alongside the local church, they would all hear the life-saving message of the gospel. “My vision is that one day there will be many Sylheti people worshipping Jesus in their own language and sharing the gospel with their Sylheti neighbours.”

Alice is a keen musician, coming from a musical family – her mum taught her to play piano from the age of four. She also has seven nieces and nephews who she loves hanging out with when she can.