Derek and Nerina Harborne

Sent from St Andrews Church, Leyland

Derek and Nerina work at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) and the University Hospital in Uganda. Nerina is a lecturer and researcher in MUST’s Biochemistry department and Derek works in the hospital’s Accident & Emergency department, teaching students and helping to improve the work of the Department.

They were invited to go to Mbarara University and Hospital in 2012 as improvements in health and education there were needed. However, giving physical help and knowledge is not sufficient. They are part of an AIM team which centres on ‘transformational development’ – the change in behaviour that the gospel brings. They work with students, particularly helping with discipleship, Bible study, and teaching them how to be Christian professionals. They pray that through their ministry students will be better equipped to be Christian leaders and church planters.

Could you partner with the Harbornes in this work?

Latest Prayer News

June 28, 2019

Derek shares: “…as I walked home from University I fell into conversation with one of the first-year Postgraduate students in Surgery and we had coffee together. He is of East African origin. He was surprised that I knew the Qur’anic name of the Lord Jesus, and I gently suggested that Jesus was more than just a prophet. Mbarara University, he told me, is a favoured destination for non-Ugandan East African students.” Please pray for more opportunities for Derek and others to witness to students at the university.

August 4, 2017

Derek writes: “I have just heard that, after over four years of slow progress, the three-year postgraduate medical training in Accident & Emergency Medicine has now been approved. We can now recruit doctors to start the three-year training programme very shortly. Praise God! This means that we will now be committed to staying at the University until at least mid-2020 so that I can finish training the pioneer students… Please pray for selection and recruitment of the pioneer students; that I show wisdom, make godly choices and am a good witness as my workload will increase; and pray that the postgraduate programme… will result in reduced numbers of young people dying needlessly from preventable and treatable accidents and illnesses.”

January 8, 2016

“The curriculum for the Emergency Medicine postgraduate course has at last passed the slow and tortuous process of University approval and is now with the National Council. It is still possible that the course could start quickly, next semester (end of January), as an American NGO has raised money for student sponsorships, and there are a number of Ugandan doctors interested in becoming Emergency Medicine trainees. Please pray that the course will start in God’s time, and for our patience as we wait for his plans to become clear.”

Uganda

80% of Uganda is engaged in agriculture. The healthy economy of the 1960s was crippled in 1972 by the expulsion of the Asian business community, and then virtually destroyed by tyranny and wars. It has steadily improved since 1992. Under previous government regimes there were restrictions on persecuted Christians, but there is now freedom of religion. LEARN MORE

Teaching

Teaching is not just a support ministry. It's vital in sharing the gospel, displaying Christ and helping children and young people to thrive. Could you use your gifts and skills to make Jesus known among the nations? LEARN MORE

Healthcare

We long to see Health Professionals practising, modelling and mentoring competent, compassionate medicine, but doing so in places where they will influence unreached people groups for Christ. LEARN MORE