NEW HARVEST WORKERS

Ryan and Jenny Browne

Ryan and Jenny Browne

Church: Grace Capital City, Washington DC, USA.

Where are you serving? Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

What are you doing? Missional business (entrepreneurship and consulting) and health/aid work with vulnerable mothers and children.

Pray: Peace for our household in our many transitions. Now six months in, we’re approaching our move from fulltime language to full-time ministry positions and have moved home. Pray that the kids will continue to grow accustomed to the culture and language.

Peter and Pam Bruck

Peter and Pam Bruck

Church: Tunbridge Wells Christian Fellowship, UK.

Where are you serving? Gaborone, Botswana.

What are you doing? Peter will be a volunteer lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Botswana and Pam will serve in a pastoral/hospitality role.

Pray: That we follow the Lord’s leading in our preparation; for patience in the long process of Peter’s application to the university; that all will go forward in keeping with God’s will.

Nathalie Kost

Nathalie Kost

Church: ICF, Nürnberg, Germany.

Where are you serving? Danja, Niger.

What are you doing? As a midwife, I’ll be supporting the local midwives of the Health Centre in basic health care for mother and child.

Pray: For my remaining time in Germany, that the Lord would bring faithfully praying supporters and that he would teach me all I need to start.

Jessica Shaw

Church: Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, UK.

Where are you serving? Mukinge, Zambia.

What are you doing? I’ll be working at Mukinge Hospital as part of my university medical studies.

Pray: For safe travel to Mukinge; that God’s love will reflect to all the patients and staff I meet while away; and that this trip will prepare me well for any future mission work, if that is what God has planned for me and my life.

Maja Dieckmann

Maja Dieckmann

Church: Baptisten am Südring, Nürnberg, Germany.

Where are you serving? Sahel Academey, Niamey, Niger.

What are you doing? Teaching English, helping teachers and tutoring.

Pray: That I will follow God joyfully and obediently; for great relationships with team members, students, locals, friends, family and with God; for Jesus to touch and bless people through me.

Tamsin Anelay

Tamsin Anelay

Church: Trinity Church, Liphook, UK.

Where are you serving? Mseleni, South Africa.

What are you doing? I’ll be caring for children at the SIM children’s home and doing local outreach

Pray: That God would prepare my heart for the ministry/environment I am going to, and that I would be receptive to his training. Also pray that I would manage my time well.

Tia Blassingame

Tia Blassingame

Church: Renovation Church, Atlanta, Georgia.

Where are you serving? Japan. Yamagata prefecture, Yonezawa city.

What are you doing? I serve with Keisen Christ Church in Yonezawa. I am a supervisor at the church’s school.

Pray: That I continue to develop an ear, a tongue and a heart for Japanese language and culture. I’ve formed friendships with some Japanese women - pray God would allow me to be a source of light to women in my city.

Benjamin and Antonia Wilkins, with Theodore and Cedric

Benjamin and Antonia Wilkins, with Theodore and Cedric

Church: Epping Baptist Church, New South Wales, Australia.

Where are you serving? In France for now, then in Niger.

What are you doing? Learning language, then serving in church planting and education.

Praise God for a safe arrival in France. Pray we will settle into school well as we begin 12 months of language-learning.

Mark and Nyomie Meenks, with Esther, Jesse, Ashleigh and Caleb

Mark and Nyomie Meenks, with Esther, Jesse, Ashleigh and Caleb

Church: Redlands Christian Reformed Church, Queensland, Australia.

Where are you serving? Thailand.

What are you doing? Serving with SIM’s Hope for Life ministry, among those impacted by HIV and AIDS.

Pray: For us to lean into God’s unchanging goodness and grace, and for our faith to be strengthened. Pray for God’s protection over our physical and mental health as we continue to adjust and settle into life in Thailand.

Ketsia Xandry

Church: Evangelical Baptist Church of Saint-Denis, France.

Where are you serving? Niamey, Niger.

What will you be doing? Discipleship and literacy with women, disabled children and some student ministry.

Pray: For good connections with global and local workers and opportunities to hear their stories of how God led them into mission; for a smooth settling into Niamey and for God’s guidance in what I’ll be doing.