Phinehas and Deborah

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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

4 November 2025

Praise the Lord for a good start to the academic year in a diaspora work in south Wales. Our worker continues to lead the Women’s English and Sewing classes at her local church. They thank God for good attendance and the provision of new team members in the Women’s English classes. It’s also been a joy to be able to offer childcare to those who attend Tuesday classes. Thank God for the International Women’s sewing class which is running at capacity with a waiting list. In recent weeks, the “Thought for the Day” on straight versus zig-zag stitches and verses from Proverbs has prompted good discussions. Pray for receptive hearts in those who come as they hear Bible stories, testimonies and gospel presentations, both in and out of class.

3 November 2025

Pablo * serves in West Africa, where he continues to use English teaching to develop relationships for the gospel. Please pray for those who are interested – Issy, Zak, Barry, Sam, Moses, Sid and plenty of others – that there would be more chances to share, more open hearts, and more freedom. Pray for those who have believed – C, B, Mo – that they’d grow as they stand on Jesus the rock. Pray too for a quick resolution for a significant dilemma for the English centre as their NGO status in-country isn’t entirely clear (potentially all in order, but possibly not). If Pablo raises this with the authorities, they may seize the opportunity to make trouble. Ask for honest people to deal with.

* Name changed for security reasons

2 November 2025

Pray for the 60,000 Rendille of Kenya who live in the Kaisut Desert east of Lake Turkana as semi-nomadic pastoralists. Pastors and elders of multiple local churches among the Rendille and Samburu continue to meet to read and study God’s Word. In June, five of those men gathered to learn how to study the Bible (hermeneutics) and are moving on to expository preaching through a curriculum called SOMA. Pray for these men as they sharpen each other. Pray for their spiritual growth, the growth of their families, and the growth of healthy churches in Northern Kenya.

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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