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

20 oktober 2025

Chris and Sarah Power serve in Germany, where Chris is the HR Manager at Black Forest Academy (BFA). This year BFA has 178 staff from the US, Canada, South Korea, Germany and other places in Europe. The 269 students represent almost 60 different countries from around the globe. Around 85% of these students come from families engaged in mission work and it’s a blessing for the Powers to be part of a ministry that truly has a global reach! In addition to their roles, Chris & Sarah are “dorm friends”, supporting the dorm parents of a boys’ dorm. Twice a month on Friday evenings they join the dorm as they eat together and then hang out with the 20 boys, aged between 15 and 18 years old. As you can imagine, the dorm parents appreciate the extra help. It’s been fun for Chris & Sarah, meeting the boys and hearing where they have come from – Russia, Turkey, Spain, Kenya, the Middle East… Pray for these boys as they are away from their families and as Chris and Sarah get to know them and point them to Jesus.

19 oktober 2025

Pray for the 66,000 O of Kenya who are semi-nomadic herders living in the East African bush, in dome-shaped structures which can be dismantled to move with their herds. A government plan to make a little village airstrip into a large airport would have negative consequences for the Africa Inland Church station. Pray in Jesus’ name against all the schemes of the devil, who is trying to stop God’s kingdom advancing there. Recently, workers became aware that one of the new believers had been lying to them. The Lord orchestrated the perfect private meeting, and he was called to repent. He responded with conviction and humility, prayed to confess his sin, and chose to get back on the right path. Pray the new believers will be genuine, and sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s voice.

18 oktober 2025

Pray that in dependence on the grace and power of the Lord, in partnership with African churches, and with priority for unreached people groups, churches around the world would be mobilised for missions to Africans.

17 oktober 2025

Dawn * works to bring the gospel to unreached peoples in the Indian Ocean Islands. Give thanks for the Lord sustaining her through some busy weeks. Pray for the local believers to recover momentum in meeting regularly and that they will continue to grow together. Praise the Lord that despite shortages he continues to provide fuel when needed. Please pray for protection over people and equipment in the Bible translation project.

* Name changed for security reasons

16 oktober 2025

Frank and Josie* serve with Borderless, mentoring young men and helping at an English conversation class and a befriending programme. In their previous ministry, they’d reached a point where they still had lots to learn but also knew what they were doing. They now feel like they’re at the beginning of a new journey, and don’t know what they are doing! They consult with others, but each ministry works slightly differently. They can put a huge amount of energy into thinking of creative ways to do things and then they fail and it can be discouraging. There’s no manual for how to do this work! Pray they will remember God isn’t asking them to do this in their strength, but in His. Ask that he will help them to surrender their plans, ideas and hopes to him, acknowledging that they don’t know what they are doing but he does! Please ask that during this time of not knowing, they would pray, abide and listen carefully to his directions. There should be an English Conversation Club starting at Josie’s school about now.

* Name changed for security reasons

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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