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.

Could you support Phinehas and Deborah in this work?

Latest Prayer News

23 november 2024

Margot DeSouza has completed her service as part of a TIMO team serving in Likawage, Tanzania. Pray for good sleep and routines for her and her husband Fernando as they continue enjoying parenthood with their baby boy. Ask God to bless their language learning as they study French in preparation to return to Fernando’s ministry team in Chad, where their French language skills will be important. Ask God to give them perseverance and peace as they enjoy this season of life while preparing to move country again with a small child.

22 november 2024

The Gabbra are an unreached people group who live in the Chalbi desert along the border of Kenya and Ethiopia. PrayAfrica writes : “Twelve youth and a Brazilian couple, alongside our Gabbra youth Pastor, went for a four-day outreach in the Hurri Hills gathering the existing Christians to encourage them, then visiting several new villages to sing and share the gospel. Very high energy and great openings. We are expecting them back in Dukana today to share how everything went. Pray for all the gospel seeds they planted to find good soil and produce much fruit!”

21 november 2024

Gilles & Myriam are AIM mobilisers for French-speaking Europe and Gilles also serves as Director and Finance Officer for the Francophone office. For some time, they have been overwhelmed with the many responsibilities they carry, both outside and within AIM. As they prepare to take a sabbatical from their AIM roles in December, pray that God will help them to complete the tasks they can and submit to God what they must leave for others to take over. Pray for peace in their hearts as they plan how to use their sabbatical effectively to rest well.

20 november 2024

Owen and Miriam Pugh serve in AIM’s International Office, based in the UK. Owen is AIM International’s Office Manager and Miriam is the Personnel Director. Give thanks that they were able to visit their former teammates in Tanzania recently and that they heard of three more Tanzanian believers being baptised! Pray for the translation of the Bible into the local language of Alagwaisa. There have been significant challenges for the translation team to overcome this year. Pray with Owen and Miriam for God to continue to bless this work and give wisdom to those who lead it.

19 november 2024

Continue to pray for Christian prisoners in North Africa who have been imprisoned for their faith in Jesus for some time now. Their trial has been postponed multiple times, and the last trial produced no verdict. Their new trial is scheduled for today. Ask God to give each prisoner continued endurance in this suffering. Pray that this trial will go ahead, that there will be a clear verdict, and that the prisoners will be released.

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. LEARN MORE

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. LEARN MORE