First, India
When Terry first invited a team to join him in September 1980 Alan Vincent was among them. At that time most of the team members’ contacts were in the south East of England but Alan had recently returned from India where he and Eileen had been living for several years through his employment with Kodak. They had been part of the Living Word Fellowship in Bombay, which they had helped plant.
In October 1980 Alan invited Henry Tyler, one of the elders of Brighton and Hove Christian Fellowship/Clarendon Church (now Emmanuel Church), which he planted with David Fellingham in 1978, to accompany him on a visit. It soon became clear that the leadership of LWF were not flowing together and the church needed help. In discussion with Terry on his return to Brighton it was agreed that he and Dorothy would move to Bombay for an extended period from December to try to stabilise the church. 
In January ’81 Terry visited and gave counsel that the elders should stand down, which they agreed to do. Over the next three months Henry established an interim leadership with Swithin, Joe and Prince. This began a long relationship with India, a nation that is dear to my heart having visited the churches there – there are now well over 200 – about 20 times over the next 25 years.
Europe
During the next few years churches in other nations began to come into relationship with Terry and the team, particularly from the European continent. In 1982 Wijnstok Gemeente (Vine Fellowship) near Rotterdam in the Netherlands was introduced to 
Terry by Harold Owen from the Coign (now Welcome Church) in Woking who had joined Terry’s team, and Regio Gemeinde in Riehen, near Basle, Switzerland also started to enquire how they could become involved in the mission. The leader, Jens Kaldeway had come to the Ministers Conference in 1983 to learn more about apostolic oversight. Terry and others were also visiting churches in France, Spain (before he even had a team!) and Hungary.
Mexico
In 1985 Brian Hart, a businessman in Don Smith’s church in Hastings, visited the 500 member El Camino church in Guadalajara led by Thomas Cueto. One of the members was also a young man, John Evans, who had been in Mexico for his placement year from his UK based university language course. John later became leader of El Camino. When Brian returned from his business trip he told Don of the church and that they would welcome some help. Terry encouraged Don himself to pay a visit and he too returned with a good report. This resulted in a visit by Terry from which a warm friendship grew. There are now over 20 Newfrontiers churches in Mexico who receive apostolic oversight from Lee Yarbrough.
And so the family grew internationally. Perhaps most notably of all the international churches that became part of the Newfrontiers family in the 80s was The Vineyard Church (now Jubilee Church) in Cape Town. I will write about that next time.