The Cossletts

Missionaries in Mexico City with OMS working with the Urban Poor

Steve, Helen, Nisha and Anya Cosslett, from OMS UK, have joined the One Mission Society team in Mexico City after a year of intense language training in Costa Rica. God started preparing them for this move to Mexico back in 1998 when Helen first became involved in a project with street children there. After spending 15 months working with Fidel Sanchez, a Mexican missionary, and not serving directly with an international organization, Helen felt a burden from God to find the right organization to partner with Fidel and the fledgling project that he was running.

Helen is a registered general nurse, graduating from Edinburgh University in 1995. She returned to her work as a nurse in the UK in 1999, but in 2000 commenced a Dip HE degree in applied theology in order to prepare more adequately for her eventual return to Mexico. After her first trip, Helen took several teams to Mexico, where many others captured the vision, including Steve, who joined two of the teams and led subsequent teams as well. At Bible college, Helen started making plans to return to Mexico long term, and this is when she was introduced to OMS. At the time, OMS was working with children in some of the poorer communities, but they had a desire to go further and reach out to homeless children. Therefore, the two separate visions came together, as the street children’s project needed to partner with an organization like OMS to provide accountability and structure to their work and to empower the national people. So, God brought Helen, the project and OMS together, and now, six years later, the partnership continues to flourish. In fact, the project is now an integral part of UNIFAM’s outreach ministry.

After a nine-month assignment with OMS in 2004, Helen went home to marry Steve, who was preparing to start a BA (Hons) in applied theology, after deciding to leave his job as a police officer in England. Steve and Helen began their relationship after Steve had been on one of the teams Helen was leading to Mexico in 2003. Their relationship started at the same time Steve felt a calling from God to serve in Mexico. In December 2005, they were married and spent the next three years living in Dorset, England, where Steve completed his degree while serving as a student pastor in a local church. During this time, Nisha was born (March 2008). After Steve’s graduation in 2008, the family was accepted by OMS, and they began fundraising to go back to Mexico. During this time, Steve worked in the chaplaincy department with the Royal Marines, and thankfully after a year, God provide the funds they needed. So, they left for Costa Rica in the summer of 2009 to begin language study.

Nisha is now three, and on February 27, 2011, Steve, Helen and Nisha celebrated the birth of baby Anya. During their next term, the Cossletts will work with the street children’s project and team, planting churches in downtown Mexico City among the street people and some of the poorer communities in the city.