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Phinehas and Deborah

Phinehas and Deborah are in a creative access location working with local believers to equip leaders, facilitate church planting and build gospel relationships. They are working primarily with three local tribes, reaching out to them with the message of Jesus.

They were called to serve in global mission in 2003 after serving in their home church for many years. They and their two teenage daughters love Jesus and are walking in His grace in response to His faithfulness to them over the years.

The challenges of their ministry include not only reaching out to the unreached with the gospel but also leading teaching and discipleship classes to help equip local church leaders to effectively lead, serve and plant churches in their home country. 

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Latest Prayer News

Dawn* works to bring the gospel to unreached peoples in the Indian Ocean Islands. Give thanks for progress in the Bible translation project as drafts, audio recordings and apps have been finalised. Pray for Yvette*, her local language helper, that she will be convicted by the truth as they test epistles together. Pray too for Dawn’s relationship with Rachel’s* teenage daughter to grow as she does embroidery with her, and that the local church will maintain their momentum in meeting together.

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Pete and Libby Halestrap serve the African church through online medical training, and care for Third Culture Kids and their families. They were especially encouraged to see how God continues to use Kijabe Hospital for his glory on a recent visit back to where they used to serve. The growth in patient numbers, training opportunities, and discipleship of students is exciting to witness. A particular highlight was seeing the new classroom building, now part of Kijabe College of Health Sciences. Before they left, Pete was excited that he had secured a small amount of funding to build four new classrooms. Less than two years later, God has done immeasurably more than they could have asked or imagined: a brand-new building now stands with around twenty classrooms, counselling rooms, innovation centres, and even online learning studios. They had the immense privilege of opening the building as a family, and an even greater honour in seeing it named after them. It was already bustling with students from across Africa, and witnessing it being used and hearing about its future impact was deeply moving.

Pray for the 1.4 million Sakalava of Madagascar who live on the west coast of the island as semi-nomadic pastoralists who also grow some rice. Pray for the Sakalava believers. Pray for the translation work. Ask the Lord to add to the church daily those who are being saved.

Creative Access

We use ‘Creative Access’ to refer to nations, areas or ministries where there is great hostility towards Christianity and where traditional ‘missionary work’ is not possible. Workers, therefore, need to be ‘creative’ in how they proclaim the liberating news of Jesus Christ. In North Africa alone, 200 million people from 472 unreached people groups are unreached with the gospel. That’s 200 million people unknowingly heading for a Christ-less eternity.

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Church Development

We hope that our church development work with local African churches will lead them to be centres of hope and love that draw more people to Jesus.

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