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Missions we support

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Western Cape – Alan & Cathy Pitt

Alan and Cath Pitt both felt the Lord calling them into full time ministry with young people in 1994. In that year the Pitts left Fish Hoek for King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape, both employed at the KWT Child and Youth Care Centre. This innovative children’s home ran a ground-breaking day programme for teenagers in trouble with the law, as a diversion option and restorative justice centre. In 2000, Scripture Union (SU) approached Alan to run its East London branch which he did until 2003, when the family moved back to Fish Hoek for family reasons. Alan has been at the SU National Office in Ronderbosch since then, currently being the National Operations Director for SU. He oversees the various regional offices and supports the Bible engagement work of SU with young people and adults. SU’s mission is to lead young people to know and walk with God, this emphasising SU’s evangelistic and discipling role, being a specialist arm of the Church to young people.
Cath has worked with a number of organisations in the mental and physical disability sector and currently trains caregivers through Cape Mental Health. She is an experienced Occupational Therapist. Alan trained as a linguist/journalist. They have 2 children, Tegan (18) and Thomas (16) and love being part of the KCC family. If you don’t find Alan or Cath at work or home, he’ll be on the tennis court and Cath will be hiking.

Mozambique – Eugene and Tina Wessels

Many years ago we felt the Lord call us into full-time ministry in Moçambique and have been serving Him and the local communities here in a vairety of ways for the past 15 years. We are based in Quelimane, but our work extends both north and south into rural areas of Xambezia, Sofala and Nampula provinces. We work under the oversight of an international organization called World Outreach International, as they are registered in this country and provide the necessary covering and authority to obtain residence and persmission to work among the people here.
One of our main goals is to help the local community enter into a relationship with Christ, then devote our time and energy into raising up local leaders so that they inturn will have a firm Word-based foundation to their faith and are then able themselves to go out and make disciples, thus creating an indigenous church, worshipping God within an indigenous context that is meaningful to them.
Tina also has a great vision to reach out to women in these communities who are tremendously oppressed and has developed and written a biblical literacy teaching prohram which not only helps them toward a relationship with Christ, but also enables them to read the Bibles for themselves. They inturn impact their children with these new skills of reading, writing and being able to tell Bible stories.
In addition to these spiritual objectives we also reach out via food-aid during times of drought and flooding, sinking water well-points to provide potable water to decrease cholera and amoebic dysentry that is so common in a tropical country.

In partnership with an American couple from the Gideon’s society we also distribute Bibles, run eye clinics and provide physical help to the disabled via crutches, walkers and wheelchairs. The eye clinic has been quite successful in bringing the Gospel to Muslims and some have come to Christ. Whenever possible, we also contribute financially toward the building of a widows and orphans centre.

Malawi – Dave and Andrea

Dave and Andrea have set up a ‘business mission’ organisation called Untangled. Untangled aims to help individuals in the developing world who are called to Christian ministry, but have no way to fund themselves. They are currently setting up small businesses in Malawi that will allow such individuals to earn an income, enabling them to continue their ministry roles alongside their work. Dave and Andrea also seek to disciple those they work with, to develop their ministry skills as well as addressing their financial needs. Untangled hopes that in the future further businesses will be set up following their lead, to enable more Christians to support themselves as they minister in the local church.

The company where local ministers and church out leaders are processing local crops like tomatoes is called Something Special . Out growers from various church congregations receive farming business and Bible training. They bring their tomatoes to sell at something special where the team process and package for sale.

Zimbabwe – Nelson Vhukani

From the small rural town of Rusitu, in Zimbabwe, I have had the privilege of attending George Whitfield Theological College (2010-2013). Since completing my studies I have been working for FOCUS Zimbabwe.
Fellowship of Christian Unions (FOCUS) is an evangelical campus mission serving students and faculty on college and university campuses nationwide. We work in partnership with students, staff, associates and churches to see the transformation of our campuses by the Gospel. We focus on Bible studies, evangelism and discipleship, leadershp formation and hold mid-year and national conferences. Our core committment is to evangelise, disciple and send out.

“Transforming Zimbabwe by the Gospel one student at a time”

There are many lies being spread around by false teachers in Zimbabwe e.g. the prosperity gospel. It is crucial to preach the Gospel faithfully and make the Lord Jesus Christ known.

We are only 6 full-time workers. There are 30 university and college campuses in the country. The aim is to recruit more workers through our ministry apprenticeship programme.
University and college come at a critical stage in life, where young students decide who they want to be under God. My passion is to encourage them to build their identity in Christ alone. Through these students FOCUS has the unique opportunity to reach out to the various communities to which they will return. For the next few years, I will be re-establishing FOCUS ministries in Gweru, a small city south-west of the capital, Harare.

Lesotho – Ntai Pheko

I am married and have 5 children of which two are adopted. I am the leader of an indigenous missions organisation called Operation UP and also the senior Pastor of Salt and Light Christian Community. I have served the Lord in full-time ministry for the last 27 years. While I have been a pastor for that many years, my primary calling and passion is in Missions, especially church mobilisation.

About Operation UP
Operation Uproot and Plant, or Operation UP, is an indigenous Lesotho Missions Initiative whose expressed and intended purpose is the mobilisation of both the individual Christians and churches in Lesotho for Missions.
It is registered in Lesotho as a non-profit making missions organisation.

The Goal with Operation UP is:
•   To challenge and mobilise both individuals and churches in Lesotho for missions.
•   To encourage and promote cross cultural Missions from Lesotho.
•   Promote and facilitate networking of churches and leaders in Lesotho for the fulfillment of
•   the Great Commission.
•   Facilitate for and provide training in Missions

Our vision is to see “The whole church in Lesotho taking the whole gospel to the whole world”

Since its inception several churches have been planted in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho; over two hundred young people have been exposed to missions through short-term outreaches, and many of them have gone into full time Christian ministries with various churches/denominations. Operation UP also runs short term mission outreaches for Sunday School kids annually for the last 5 years. Currently Operation UP seeks to facilitate outreaches to countries outside Lesotho through its “GAP YEAR” program due to start early in 2017.

About Salt and Light Christian Community
Salt and Light Christian Community is an indigenous, independent, evangelical and Pentecostal Christian church in Lesotho, and it was established in 2007 and registered under Society’s Act as a non-profit making organisation in 2010. Its head quarters is in Maseru but has four branch assemblies in the Mountains.
Our vision as the church is to Impact the nations by being and planting Caring, Growing and Going Christian communities in Lesotho and beyond.

Veritas college – Malawi and Zambia

2 Tim 2:2 “… and what you heard from me by many witnesses, entrust that to faithful people who will be able also to teach others …”

Veritas College International (VCI) is an organisation whose mission is to serve the church in its various expressions on grass roots level around the world, based on its philosophy of Integrated Leadership Development. This mission is fulfilled by training church leaders and believers who will be able to train others, using a VCI licensed curriculum which contains approaches and methodologies to facilitate the following processes:

• Interpret the Bible in a practical and responsible way
• Apply the obtained absolutes of the Bible in a specific context
• Communicate the absolutes in the specific context

Through these three processes VCI promotes self-theologising (the doing of theology in context) that leads believers and churches to maturity which will be reflected in their lives and in their transforming influence on individuals and families in the church and on society at large, according to biblical absolutes.

VCI works internationally with a focus on areas where there is a need for practical, professional or academic biblical training and/or where time or resources are limited. VCI training takes place in existing churches of any denomination or in church planting situations. The training aims to be integrated into the life and ministry of the church and it is offered by VCI approved facilitators by invitation.