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Barry and Heather work with Growing Nations in Maphutseng, Lesotho. Heather is the CEO and Barry is AIM’s International Crisis Consultant and balances this role with his involvement with Growing Nations.

They have been serving with AIM at Growing Nations since 2012. Heather works as the project’s CEO, overseeing the finances, working on grant and project funding proposals and the overall strategic development, whilst Barry is the project’s communications specialist, involved in the development of farmer training materials, photography/video production and website development. A significant part of both of their roles at Growing Nations is the mentoring, coaching & spiritual development of the Basotho staff team.

They are also AIM’s Unit Leaders for Lesotho and are responsible for the member care of 10 mission partners working across the country. Currently, Barry and Heather are working remotely from the UK.

Barry’s role as the International Crisis Consultant ensures the organisation is aware and prepared in the management of risk, security and crisis, and serves AIM’s Sending and Receiving Regions worldwide.

The countries in which AIM works may be affected by war, political turmoil, terrorism and crime, so continual security awareness and practical preparation is essential. However, balancing the tension between the leading of the Holy Spirit, wise stewardship, and God’s invitation to risk is complex.

AIM’s mandate is to fulfil the Great Commission, and as our missionaries continue in our founders’ footsteps many of the risks and challenges involved in reaching the unreached remain the same now as they were then. Christian workers build resilience into gospel ministry through good security practices that ensure both the voice and presence of the gospel will continue to advance in difficult places.

Barry is involved in advising regions, teams, missionaries and AIM’s International Office in many aspects of risk management and security. He is also involved in new missionaries’ training and orientation in security protocols, contingency plans and safety before they arrive on the mission field.

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Latest Prayer News

26 September 2025

Barry and Heather Mann work with Growing Nations, an organisation based in Maphutseng, Lesotho, which shares God’s love through a focus on agricultural knowledge and training. Please pray for the communities to which the students have returned after their training, that they will have receptive hearts and minds to the methods of Farming God’s Way and the gospel message that goes with it. Please pray too that the Lord will provide new opportunities and resources, to enable the Manns to continue serving with AIM and Growing Nations.

17 September 2025

Barry and Heather Mann work with Growing Nations, an organisation based in Maphutseng, Lesotho, which shares God’s love through a focus on agricultural knowledge and training. Barry also serves as AIM International’s Crisis Consultant. Molula was a student at Growing Nations back in 2016/17. Shortly after graduating, she became a missionary herself in Cambodia, working with trafficked children who had no hope, teaching them about God’s love for them through Farming God’s Way. She is now back in Lesotho and has set up her own demonstration farm/training centre, where she is teaching her local community, particularly the young adults, how to practice Farming God’s Way. The journey has not been easy and she has faced resistance at times, but with God’s help, she has now been accepted by the community as they see the benefits that Farming God’s Way brings. As well as teaching practical skills, Molula is investing in the lives of the young people through weekly bible studies, providing the girls with a safe space to study after school, and she has also recently started a pre-school. Please pray for her as she continues to invest in the lives of others, pour out God’s love, and bring hope into the community.

29 August 2025

The LECSA (Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa) seminary recently obtained accreditation for its theological courses. The seminary has now invited Growing Nations to formally incorporate its Farming God’s Way (FGW) training and Missions training into the seminary. This would provide Growing Nations with an opportunity to seek accreditation for its training as well. They also want to see how Growing Nations’ students and the seminary students can support one another once on placement or back in their home communities. Please pray for God to lead and direct in the discussions and decisions that need to be made.

10 July 2025

Barry and Heather Mann work with Growing Nations, an organisation based in Maphutseng, Lesotho, which shares God’s love through a focus on agricultural knowledge and training. Barry also serves as AIM International’s Crisis Consultant. Back in March, Growing Nations hosted a series of Mission Training Conferences, attended by seminary students and graduates, and pastors from different church denominations in Lesotho. Pray that God will work in the hearts of all who attended. Pray too for one particular couple, leaders of a local church, who have felt God calling them into mission for a while.  That calling has been reaffirmed as a result of attending the training so please pray that God will make a way for them to follow that calling and that they will be open to God’s leading.

1 January 2025

Barry and Heather work with Growing Nations, an organisation based in Maphutseng, Lesotho, which shares God’s love through a focus on agricultural knowledge and training. Barry also serves as AIM International’s Crisis Consultant. Please pray that God will clearly guide them in the timing of their next visit to Lesotho and that he will sustain them as they work remotely between now & then.

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