AFRICA
HORN OF AFRICA
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Shalom
Shalom (not his real name) lives in Eastern Africa with his wife and their five children. Shalom mentors and coaches grassroots leaders, both in the Horn of Africa region (Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti) and globally. His vision is to see transformed communities among the unreached people groups throughout the North-East Africa region by mobilizing, training, equipping, coaching and mentoring local leaders. Shalom also focuses on establishing church plants primarily in unreached and unengaged Muslim populations.
Anchor Verse for 2023
1 Corinthians 3:6-9 “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.”
NIGER
Grace Education Ministries (GEM)
gemforniger.org
Aileen Chung
Aileen (a former math teacher at King’s Academy) oversees Grace Academy, on behalf of Grace Education Ministries (GEM) for Niger, with the mission of empowering under-resourced young women from Niger with educational and vocational training as well as Christian discipleship.
Anchor Verse for 2023
2 Corinthians 4:7 “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”
SOUTH AFRICA
TEAM
team.org
Ryan and Amanda Burleson
Ryan and Amanda work with local leaders in Pretoria raising up disciple makers and developing servant leaders in one of the most gang infested communities in South Africa. They are serving a network of like minded leaders and disciple makers in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. And alongside their discipleship efforts, they also train their team to also be economically independent so they can not only
Anchor Verse for 2023
Psalm 46:10 “He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.’”
UGANDA
Tukutana Ministries
tukutana.org
Roxanne Robbins
Tukutana provides essential resources and holistic development opportunities for orphans, vulnerable children, and those who care for them. Tukutana works to develop economic opportunities for women through microfinancing and small business development (with coaching and local support). Tukutana also identifies remote, impoverished villages in Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and provides clean water wells to those areas. This past year, they built ten water systems in Uganda and the DRC, serving over 5,000 villagers.
Anchor Verse for 2023
2 Corinthians 1:9-10 “Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us.”
ZIMBABWE
Hands of Hope
hohafrica.org
Glen Miller
Hands of Hope (HOH) cares for orphaned children in Zimbabwe and currently maintains 18 homes for orphans. Hands of Hope emphasizes local community involvement and community ties for the children. The children attend local schools, and the homes all have less than 12 children to provide a sense of a real family. For the past 16 years, WestGate has had the honor of directly supporting one of these homes, which - by pure coincidence - happens to be called the WestGate Haven Girls’ House (in the WestGate region of Harare). Many of the girls from this home have graduated and are now attending university. In addition to the orphanages, Hands of Hope feeds more than 1,800 children every day at 25 community centers.
Anchor Verse for 2023
2 Corinthians 2:14 “But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.