My name is Ian Thomson and I manage a small property company in the England. In 1996 I attended a Christian conference and during that event I developed a clear sense that God wanted me to bring good news to the poor. After the conference I spent the next two years wondering what this meant and who were the poor that I were to help. Then in 1998 I visited an orphanage in Ukraine. I lived in the orphanage with the children for two weeks and those two weeks changed my life. I no longer asked the question who were the poor, the answer was obvious. I was also sure that I could do something to help these children. I returned to England and started to think how I could assist them. I began to regularly visit orphanages and internats in Ukraine giving practical help to improve the conditions for the children. Internats are very poor State run institutions with a mixture of orphans and vulnerable children from very poor families.

As the work developed I formed a UK registered charity in December 2002 with an initial board of three trustees. The charity has continued to grow and our present board consists of myself, my wife, Helen Thomson, and Ali Lenton, Maggie Smith and Steve Taverner.

Through the support of an American friend, called Fred Judd, who in 2002 was the missions pastor for The Church at Brookhills in Birmingham, Alabama, links were formed in the United States. The work of Bringing Good News continued to develop not only helping those in great need in Ukraine but also in Central Asia and Africa. This led to Bringing Good News USA being formed and registered as a USA 501 C3 in 2006. The present directors in the USA are Denney Barrow, Pam Barrow and Fred Judd.