Join us in catalyzing local churches and partners to multiply disciples across Durban as we exalt the Savior, equip the saved and engage sinners for God's glory.
Gifts toward specific efforts show us what you are excited about. Occasionally, we may redeploy gifts as we follow God's leading with urgent opportunities or changing international contexts. Any gifts received beyond the goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
Refugee Ministry
At the Welcome Center in inner-city Durban, we focus on reaching refugees and asylum seekers by providing sewing classes, computer training, and internet access for refugees to process residence papers. We also host worship services, discipleship groups, and leadership training there. Your gift will provide funding for rent and utilities, enabling us to share the good news with the refugee community.
University Ministry
Join us as we engage university students with the gospel and disciple believers. Your gift will provide funds for a ministry center to share the love of Christ with students in Durban. This center will teach life skills, host small group bible studies and discipleship, and equipping sessions for evangelism.
Leadership Training Retreat
Pastors of local evangelical churches are critical to engaging the multi-cultural 3.5 million lost people of various religious backgrounds in Durban. We desire to gather strategic partners for a retreat in November. The retreat will provide a time for focused prayer and seeking God’s vision and strategy for achieving the shalom of our city. Thank you for providing the resources needed for this gathering, and praying for its success.
Sewing Ministry
Through our sewing ministry, 60 vulnerable refugee women learn a skill to provide for their families and study the Bible together while building friendships and community. Your gift will provide these newly trained entrepreneurs with the equipment necessary to create clothing and other goods, the means to open their own small businesses, and the opportunity to enter job skills programs with the tools for success. $220 provides one machine.
Expanding the Gospel’s Reach
As we share the gospel, disciple new believers, nurture churches, and develop leaders, we travel a lot. We want to ensure everyone has access to the good news and the training they need to play their part in building God’s kingdom. Your gift helps fund fuel and public transportation costs for our team’s ministry so that as many people as possible can hear the gospel and learn what it means to follow Jesus faithfully.
Thank you for praying and giving to enable us to reach Durban for Christ. Your faithful intercession and generosity empower us to share the gospel, make disciples, and start new churches throughout the city in many communities. Whether with the multitudes of refugees from across Africa and Asia or with the Durbanites who have lived in the city for generations, your gifts share the hope and light of Christ to the 3.5 million living here.
Center reaches refugees in their communities. God has used the Welcome Center, which opened in 2022, to meet the needs of refugees in various ways. Displaced persons from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Kenya participate in this downtown training and worship center, as it ministers in their communities.
Creative strategies connect with needs. In its short time open, a number of salvations have occurred, and 17 of those new brothers and sisters have been baptized so far. In addition to a weekly worship service, the Center offers courses in ESL, sewing, and computers, each beginning with Bible Study. We also allow refugees to use the computer center to update their immigration visas with Home Affairs. Discipleship classes are ongoing, and in 2024, we hope to add lay-leader training for those who are faithful and growing in their relationship and knowledge of God.
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The goal represents the cost of our team’s ministry activities for this calendar year. The Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO) fully fund our living expenses. The goal amount resets every January 1st. All gifts completed through this form are directed to our team’s ministry strategy.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made possible through the Cooperative Program.
Giving to one of our specific team efforts allows us to know what you are excited to see God complete within our ministry. Occasionally, we may need to redeploy gifts within our team strategy as urgent opportunities arise, as we do our best to follow God's leading, or adjust to changing international contexts. Any gifts received beyond the posted goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made possible through the Cooperative Program.
Our living expenses are fully provided by generous churches and individuals participating in the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO). These gifts enable us to remain on mission without interruption. Your support is a partnership with these churches, providing for us and our colleagues through LMCO. Our team receives recognition when partners give below to make our presence here possible.
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