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

29 juli 2025

Pray for Tim and Heather Matthews. Tim serves as Director for AIM’s Asia Pacific Mobilising Region, leading a small team in Australia and coordinating teams in Hong Kong and New Zealand. One of Tim’s responsibilities is to ensure AIM sends the right people to be disciple-makers, who are suitably equipped, and not everyone who is willing to fill an urgent need is ready or suitable, so pray for needed grace and wisdom. In May, Tim connected with a couple of church leaders interested in partnering with AIM to work towards new ministry in a North African country that still has very little gospel ministry taking place. Please pray this new partnership initiative will take shape.

28 juli 2025

John and Zoe Putman serve at Rift Valley Academy (RVA); AIM’s boarding school which educates and disciples the children of missionaries, in Kijabe, Kenya. Every school break, students travel far and wide on buses, planes and trains to return to their families. One girl from their dorm travels 20 hours on the bus across the border to Uganda with her sister. The Putmans have started a tradition to lend her one of their Maasai blankets for the journey as it gets cold overnight. She may only be 14 but she trusts the Lord! Pray for the Putman family and other RVA staff and students; for safe travel over the summer and good times with family.

27 juli 2025

Pray for the 310,000 Mahafaly of Madagascar who live in the South Western part of the island, which is dry with unpredictable rainfall. They herd goats, sheep, and zebu, which they especially prize, adorning kings’ and chiefs’ tombs with zebu horns. We are still seeking partners to go and share the Jesus film in their land. We have one church starting the work. Pray for a good partnership and for many Mahafaly people to believe the message.

26 juli 2025

Pray that all in AIM would be Christ centred: compelled by Christ’s love (2 Cor 5:14) to love, pray for, and proclaim the Gospel to Africa’s unreached peoples. Pray that our sufficiency, hope, and ministry would flow from our relationship with Christ. Ask that we would serve by His grace and strength and submit to His will.

25 juli 2025

Hannah Jackson is the Assistant Child Safety Officer for AIM. In the middle of June, she joined some Eastern Region Office colleagues and 12 newly-arrived short termers at the GO Programme in Mombasa for a few days. The ‘Goers’, who are from Zambia, Ethiopia, Australia, Brazil and Kenya, started with two weeks of orientation before going to their ministry placements along the coast. Hannah led a child safety training session and shared about her ‘journey to mission’. The sessions on the Friday were on Islam and they gathered to pray when they heard the call to prayer from local mosques. Hannah was excited by spending time with these individuals who are interested in cross-cultural mission and exploring how God might be guiding them! Pray that God would work in and through the Goers as they are now on their placements.

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