MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
RICHARD HANEY
Fall is here, the season when ministries and churches typically kickoff a new year as summer wanes and students return to school. There seems to be little that’s typical this year, however!
Our last magazine went to print just as COVID-19 was emerging in the US. Like you, Frontier Fellowship staff and global partners found our lives and livelihoods disrupted in unprecedented ways. Over the last several months, we’ve begun adjusting to new ways of living and ministering in the midst of this pandemic.
Our work as frontier mission mobilizers is founded on the belief that all peoples deserve an opportunity to hear the Good News of Jesus. Remarkably, still 87% of the world’s Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims do not know a Christian personally. I’m reminded of Paul’s exhortation, “But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?” (Romans 10:14 NLT).
Making contact with least-reached peoples requires different approaches today. COVID-19 moved many mobilizing and discipleship efforts online. As the contours of frontier mission shift over time, we’re compelled to examine again how God is calling us to new ways of engagement in frontier mission, especially as we prepare to celebrate our 40th anniversary next year. You’ll read more about the realities we’re processing in our feature article on Page 4.
Meanwhile, God has graced us with four new staff members this year! Each brings energy, expertise and innovation that will help us move forward in our goal of sharing the frontier mission vision with new demographics of Christians.
We hope to gather with many of you next fall to celebrate together all God has done over our past four decades of frontier mission ministry. If you don’t already receive our digital mailings, sign up at frontierfellowship.com/subscribe so we can stay connected as plans develop!
May God encourage and inspire you through the following pages as you consider with us your role in frontier mission’s future.
LOOKING TO TOMORROW’S FRONTIER
RICHARD HANEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
"BUT YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES UPON YOU. AND YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES, TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT ME EVERYWHERE—IN JERUSALEM, THROUGHOUT JUDEA, IN SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH." —ACTS 1:8 (NLT)
"AFTER THIS I SAW A VAST CROWD, TOO GREAT TO COUNT, FROM EVERY NATION AND TRIBE AND PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE, STANDING IN FRONT OF THE THRONE AND BEFORE THE LAMB. THEY WERE CLOTHED IN WHITE ROBES AND HELD PALM BRANCHES IN THEIR HANDS. AND THEY WERE SHOUTING WITH A GREAT ROAR, ‘SALVATION COMES FROM OUR GOD WHO SITS ON THE THRONE AND FROM THE LAMB!’" —REVELATION 7:9-10 (NLT)
In 1974, mission strategist Ralph Winter sounded a call for the Church to engage with the frontier. What is the frontier? It’s the places and peoples unreached with the Gospel due to lack of Christian witness. Winter maintained that the frontier went beyond national borders. Unless someone also crossed over linguistic and cultural barriers, people on the frontier would likely never hear the Good News of Jesus.
As Frontier Fellowship enters its 40th year, we’re filled with a fresh calling to the frontier mission vision—a call that extends to the whole Church. It is simultaneously the push of the Spirit to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8) and the pull toward history’s great climax when disciples from every nation, tribe, people and language will gather in worship (Revelation 7:9-10). These past 40 years have held dramatic global changes, so we again ask ourselves: What is the frontier of mission today? How is the Church called to respond?
Our staff gathered virtually in May to consider these questions. We were guided by Dr. Todd Johnson. He’s the Eva B. and Paul E. Toms Distinguished Professor of Mission and Global Christianity at GordonConwell Theological Seminary and co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC). The following highlights from our conversation with him energize us as we consider how God is calling us to engage in frontier mission for the next 40 years and beyond.
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BEYOND BOUNDARIES: THE FRONTIER TODAY
More than 2.2 billion people in the world (28%) don’t have adequate access to the Gospel, according to the CSGC. They also count over 4,000 people groups in which the majority of the population lacks access to the Good News. These two concepts— frontier mission and unreached people groups—are closely linked. We asked Dr. Johnson how we can best understand this global status of frontier mission today.
“Defining lack of Gospel access has multiple approaches: individuals, people groups and countries. The concept of people groups has always been complex and multi-faceted, but it is still critically important because the anchor is language. Despite rapid global changes, unreached peoples still speak languages and live in communities that have little or no access to the Good News of Jesus. The frontier people group focus of the last twenty years has been on unengaged peoples, where nobody has ever gone before. These efforts have been fruitful, and the overall number of unreached and unengaged peoples has dropped.
HOWEVER, A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE 2.2 BILLION INDIVIDUALS WITH NO ACCESS TO THE GOSPEL TODAY ARE IN VERY LARGE UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS AND ARE GROSSLY UNDERSERVED. MORE ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO UNDERSERVED, UNREACHED PEOPLES.”
There is good and bad news when it comes to the current status of reaching the world’s unreached peoples. The good news is that fewer people groups today remain unreached or unengaged, as frontier efforts begin to yield good results and the Bible is translated into new languages. However, population growth among unreached peoples is outstripping missional efforts. Thus, the number of unreached people groups is diminishing but the total number of people who have no access to the Good News is growing. Dr. Johnson addressed these mixed trends in light of recent shifts in frontier mission priority.
“Today, with an increasing concern in the Church for post-Christian Europe and the US, the definition of unreached is often confused with a priority or rationale to reach people we would really consider unchurched. That’s important, but it’s not frontier mission. I remember a conversation in which the argument was made that the nonChristian in Switzerland is just as lost as the non-Christian in Afghanistan. Someone else pointed out the difference: ‘Both people are lost, but the person in Switzerland has a map and the person in Afghanistan has no map.’ The post-Christian West isn’t really unreached, because there are so many resources available to them such as access to scripture and Christian neighbors.”
The CSGC provides this stark reality: 87% of Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims worldwide don’t have a personal relationship with a Christian. We asked Dr. Johnson to expand upon this trend, especially in light of what it means for frontier mission and Christians living in the West.
“It’s so fundamental to Christianity to have personal contact, because of its incarnational nature. It’s a crisis—a strategic crisis—that people on the frontier don’t have contact with Christians. But what is the Western Church’s role in frontier mission if we’re not paying attention to fundamental things like love, compassion and hospitality at home? In the US, we need to better understand other peoples’ religions. We also need to get to know people of other faiths personally, have them in our homes. There is great opportunity for personal contact, but one of our weaknesses as American Christians is that we’re confused about who we are with regard to sharing our faith and respecting the faiths of others. This is why broad-based education in our churches is an important part of frontier mission mobilization.”
CHANGING CONTOURS, SHIFTING STRATEGIES
Frontier Fellowship recognizes the enormous shift that has occurred in global Christianity, with a greater proportion (67%) of Christ-followers now living in the majority world, or Global South. Increasingly more cross-cultural workers will be trained and deployed from the majority world. Brazil, South Korea and Nigeria, for example, are each currently sending over 20,000. We asked Dr. Johnson about how the strategy of frontier mission changes with this new configuration of global Christianity.
“Christianity’s shift to the South is due in part to the success of frontier mission but fueled by the work of indigenous people sharing the Gospel with their own friends, families and communities. Missionaries are now going from everywhere to everywhere. The corresponding increase in ethnic and linguistic diversity of Christianity is living evidence of Christianity’s universality. When I was serving with YWAM in a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand, I was the only American in the group among Malaysians, Filipinos, South Africans, Swiss and more. I’ll never forget once when we shared the Gospel, one of the Cambodians finally said, ‘Who are you people, coming from all these different countries around the world?’ It’s a fundamental barrier to frontier mission when people think Christianity is a western, white religion—but this was like a living delegation from global Christianity saying, ‘This faith is a faith for all peoples, and here’s the evidence right in front of you.’”
A long-held value and strategic practice of Frontier Fellowship is helping churches engage the frontier through partnerships with indigenous Christians doing church planting, training and equipping workers, Bible translation, storytelling, literacy programs and more.
WE BELIEVE THAT TOGETHER WE CAN DO MORE THAN WE CAN APART, AND THAT LOVING AND SERVING ONE ANOTHER IS AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT OF OUR WITNESS ON THE FRONTIER.
The mutuality of these relationships is transformative, especially as we learn from our global family. Dr. Johnson shared his thoughts with us on the value of partnership in mission.
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FRONTIER MISSION TODAY IN OVER 4,000 PEOPLE GROUPS, MORE THAN HALF OF THE POPULATION LACKS ACCESS TO THE GOOD NEWS.
87% OF BUDDHISTS, MUSLIMS + HINDUS WORLDWIDE DON’T KNOW A CHRISTIAN PERSONALLY.
A majority (67%) of Christians now live in the Global South. Indigenous Christians are fueling a rise in Gospel access as they reach their friends + family. However, the rapid pace of population growth means there are more people today than ever before with no access to the Good News of Jesus.
Data source: Todd M. Johnson and Gina A. Zurlo, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, accessed March 2020)
DISCOVER THE FRONTIER
GOD INVITES EVERY CHRIST-FOLLOWER TO PARTICIPATE IN BRINGING THE GOSPEL TO THE MORE THAN 2 BILLION PEOPLE STILL WAITING TO HEAR IT. NO MATTER YOUR STAGE IN LIFE, IT’S NEVER TOO EARLY OR TOO LATE TO ENGAGE MORE DEEPLY IN FRONTIER MISSION. WHETHER YOUR ENTRY POINT IS PRAYER, LEARNING, GIVING OR SOMETHING ELSE, WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU TAKE THE NEXT STEP!
PRAY
Oswald Chambers said, “Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, it is the greater work.” Informed intercession is vital to frontier mission. Through prayer, we partner with God as He changes hearts and crosses borders.
“THE HARVEST IS GREAT, BUT THE WORKERS ARE FEW. SO PRAY TO THE LORD WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE HARVEST; ASK HIM TO SEND MORE WORKERS INTO HIS FIELDS.” — MATTHEW 9:37-38 (NLT)
LEARN
God loves the world! And He wants to help us love it, too. One of the ways we embrace and enact God’s love is by learning about people groups and places that are unfamiliar to us.
“LET THE MESSAGE ABOUT CHRIST, IN ALL ITS RICHNESS, FILL YOUR LIVES. TEACH AND COUNSEL EACH OTHER WITH ALL THE WISDOM HE GIVES.” — COLOSSIANS 3:16 (NLT)
GIVE
God blesses us to be a blessing to the world (Genesis 12:1-3). What has He given you to share? Finances, time to volunteer, expertise to offer? Giving connects us to the global Church and furthers the work of frontier mission.
“GOD WILL GENEROUSLY PROVIDE ALL YOU NEED. THEN YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED AND PLENTY LEFT OVER TO SHARE WITH OTHERS.” — 2 CORINTHIANS 9:8 (NLT)
PARTNER WITH US
It will take the whole Church with the whole Gospel to reach the whole world ( The Lausanne Covenant ). Each of us has a unique role to play in fulfilling Christ’s commission to “go and make disciples of all nations…” (Matthew 28:19). To that end, Frontier Fellowship is committed to helping the global Church engage in flourishing partnerships among least-reached peoples.
We’ve compiled some ideas and resources to help you begin, or continue, your frontier mission engagement through partnership. Use the links below to explore these tools.
frontierfellowship.com/pray
“The Church has a face that is so diverse now. Partnering with people who represent this diversity is a good strategy and builds on the shift of Christianity to the Global South. We’ve sometimes been in a hurry in frontier mission, and when you’re in a hurry you don’t always have time to build a global coalition. We need to put a step between ourselves and the frontier by asking, ‘How can we bring others into this conversation before we show up?’ I know it’s not that simple, but I think we’re getting closer to where we should be as a global body of Christ.”
One of our mobilizing strategies for local education and action is encouraging Christians to embrace the opportunity to befriend immigrants. Refugees, international students, scholars and other immigrants make up almost 14% of the US population, offering huge opportunities for Christians who want to practice hospitality and friendship.
“It makes sense to build bridges and networks with immigrants and refugees— to say, ‘We’re a global organization both in who we interact with as Christians, and in who we try to reach around the world.’ Wherever they are, diaspora Christians can be partners and diaspora frontier peoples can be groups that you’re working among. We should always be investing in refugee and immigrant communities through hospitality and genuine Christian witness, not drive-by evangelism.”
ENGAGING IN FRONTIER MISSION’S FUTURE
Learning the what and why of frontier mission usually precedes knowing the how . Deeper comprehension of the astonishing fact that so many peoples still lack any way of hearing about Jesus, reading a Bible or visiting a church motivates us to action. Involvement in frontier mission flows readily from a sense of justice and compassion.
ASK YOURSELF: SHOULD NOT EVERY PERSON IN EVERY CULTURE GET A CHANCE TO HEAR THE GOOD NEWS? IF JESUS HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE IN MY LIFE, DON’T I WANT OTHERS TO EXPERIENCE HIS TRANSFORMING GRACE?
Frontier Fellowship believes every follower of Jesus is called to partner with God and one another in making the Good News of God’s Kingdom known to those still waiting. And we’re committed to helping you find your role in frontier mission as we move into our next 40 years. To be sure, the future of frontier mission is bright with the promises of God!
SEE PAGE 10 FOR MORE ON HOW FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP CAN HELP YOU BEGIN, OR CONTINUE, YOUR FRONTIER MISSION JOURNEY.
“RIGHT NOW, OUR REGION IS REALLY OPEN FOR GOD’S KINGDOM. WE ARE AMAZED—IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, GOD HAS DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WANTING TO FOLLOW JESUS. AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, ‘THE HARVEST IS WIDE.’ WE PRAY THAT GOD CAN SEND MORE LABORERS TO THE HARVEST!” —LIGHT OF THE ISLANDS MINISTRY PARTNER
PARTNER HIGHLIGHTS
COVID-19 UPDATE
Like the rest of the world, we’ve had to adjust to new ways of living and engaging in ministry due to the coronavirus. Much of our mobilization work has shifted to online platforms. We can now meet virtually with congregations and are gathering American Christians online regularly with our global partners to pray and share together. Looking ahead, we continue to hold travel and event plans lightly as we watch and wait to see how life unfolds.
Our partners have also developed or expanded ministry activity online, discovering new ways to increase impact and enjoy more extensive fellowship with other Christians.
Most of our partners work in communities hardhit by unemployment, hunger and other devastating consequences of the pandemic. Donors gave over $50,000 this year to help our partners address urgent needs like food, masks, hygiene supplies and bus rides in Niger, Central Asia, South Asia, Ethiopia and the Middle East. We thank God for our donors and global partners as they generously and faithfully serve least-reached peoples together in the name of Jesus.
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ETHIOPIA
Light of Hope Ministry Ethiopia hosted two vision trips earlier this year, just before COVID-19 disrupted the world. One team participated in the joyful celebration and dedication of a Muslim village’s first school. Shutdowns delayed construction on two other schools. Typesetting for the Arsi Oromo Bible is now complete and printing will begin as soon as funds become available.
Our Suri Literacy Project partners are grieving the murder this spring of the former Suri Bible Translation project leader—one of many lives lost to revenge killings in the region. Conflict between people groups throughout Ethiopia is on the rise. Ask God to comfort all who mourn and bring enduring peace to Ethiopia.
See Page 18 for a special Ethiopia partner update.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR SOUTHWEST ETHIOPIA PARTNERS, CONTACT MISSION ADVOCATE BOB VON SCHIMMELMANN AT BVONSCHIMMELMANN@FRONTIERFELLOWSHIP.COM.
SUDAN + SOUTH SUDAN
Our Darfur Outreach partners shared about a former imam from Darfur who is attending a theological college in South Sudan. He decided to follow Jesus because of the example of the Christians in his city, who humbly demonstrated the Good News of God’s Kingdom by taking care of the poor regardless of their ethnic group.
Due to COVID-19, children living in refugee camps can no longer attend school. There are fewer aid workers and there has been a reduction in food rations. Our Unaccompanied Minors Foster Program partners hope to help bridge that gap.
Fifteen young adults are studying the Bible and learning how to plant house churches in difficult areas of Sudan and South Sudan. Sudanese / South Sudanese Refugee Ministry leaders are exploring new ways to safely get students from their home regions to the school amidst coronavirus concerns.
TO LEARN MORE, CONTACT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR DENISE SCIUTO AT DSCIUTO@FRONTIERFELLOWSHIP.COM.
NIGER
Some of Eglise Evangélique de la République du Niger’s (EERN) pastors, church leaders and teachers lost their salaries earlier this year as coronavirus spread throughout Niger, forcing the closure of public places, including EERN schools and churches. Hunger has been a significant hardship nationwide. Without work income, people are unable to buy basic necessities like food.
EERN church planters are learning Community Health Evangelism (CHE), which equips them to teach healthy living practices, household economic management and improved agricultural techniques to people living in rural areas. As they interact with communities through CHE, church planters also have an opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus. With more time inside this year shelteringin-place, progress accelerated on the translation of a muchneeded CHE manual in the widely-used Hausa language.
TO LEARN MORE, CONTACT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR DONALD MARSDEN AT DMARSDEN@FRONTIERFELLOWSHIP.COM.
MIDDLE EAST
We thank God for the vibrant relationships we’ve helped forge between American Christians and our partners in Egypt. In the spring, we formed an Egyptian Frontier Network that now meets regularly online. What a joy to gather with former vision trip participants and our partners to pray together and hear stories of God’s work in Egypt! In one such story, pastors and seminary students embodied Christ’s care during the pandemic by cleaning the floors of mosques and churches.
As coronavirus emerged, our partners in Iran saw an increase of abuse, addiction and oppression in the homes of the students they serve. In addition to online theological training, our partners are also providing round-the-clock counseling services to support Iranian followers of Jesus.
As oil prices fall, our partners in the United Arab Emirates hope that leaders will soften their strict agendas and allow more freedoms for people to explore Christianity. We remain in close contact as God expands our involvement there.
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CENTRAL ASIA
During pandemic shutdowns, both Women’s Shelters had to close. One was able to shelter-in-place with residents already housed there. The other needed to vacate their facility but, remarkably, got permission from local authorities to deliver food to the homes of relatives where the displaced women and children had scattered.
Our Rural Community Center partners were able to begin a women’s addiction recovery program despite the challenges faced by social distancing. They hope to also begin a literacy program inside a local prison.
The increased use of video-conferencing during the pandemic has fundamentally reshaped the ministry visions for our Central Asian Migrants Ministry and Central Asian Youth Ministry partners. More discipleship and training opportunities are now online, giving our partners greater capacity to encourage and support Christian leaders and new followers of Jesus.
TO LEARN MORE, CONTACT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR RITA JOHNSON AT RJOHNSON@FRONTIERFELLOWSHIP.COM + ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR DONALD MARSDEN AT DMARSDEN@FRONTIERFELLOWSHIP.COM.
PARTNERSHIP TRANSITIONS
From Frontier Fellowship’s beginnings, Harold Kurtz (our founder and longtime missionary to Ethiopia) planted God’s love in our hearts for the people of Southwest Ethiopia. For nearly 40 years now, our team of mobilizers has invested time, energy, prayers and resources into empowering the growing Church in and around the towns of Jimma and Maji, inviting many of you into meaningful partnership with our brothers and sisters in Christ there. We are pleased with the good work God has done to establish churches with strong, visionary leadership. We rejoice that many leastreached peoples have gained access to the Gospel through projects like the Bonga Training Center , Jimma Outreach , Maji Apple Nursery and Dizi Bible Translation
As these projects continue to transform lives and sustain local churches as they introduce people to Jesus, we recognize that our role with Jimma and Maji partners is coming to an end. Over many years of partnership, we’ve watched God grow, develop and strengthen His Church in these parts of Southwest Ethiopia. We celebrate that Church’s commitment to carry on the work of frontier mission to the many small, least-reached people groups around them. At the same time, we hear God inviting us to explore and engage new frontiers among least-reached people groups in places like Mongolia, Indonesia, Brazil and the Buddhist world.
While it pains us to take a step back from our partnerships in the Jimma and Maji regions, we are glad for those who remain to carry on the work—both indigenous leaders and cross-cultural workers. We honor them and all who have invested so much over the years to see God’s Kingdom come to these regions the impact is significant. We thank God for the privilege of walking alongside these partners for a season, and are confident that the One who began this good work will be faithful to complete it (Philippians 1:6). Pray with us to that end, and thanks for partnering with us to help make the Good News of Jesus known among all peoples!
SEE PAGE 15 FOR AN UPDATE ON OUR ONGOING PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SURI LITERACY PROJECT IN SOUTHWEST ETHIOPIA.
SOUTH ASIA
Two of our partners in South Asia provide training, mentoring and oversight to large networks of church planters. Both have now moved many of their training events online and want to procure laptops and smartphones to help their church planters stay better connected to one another and to the communities they serve. Both partners also provided food to families facing acute hunger due to the coronavirus.
Another of our partners lost his wife and access to his children because of his faith in Jesus. Nevertheless, he continues to share the Good News of God’s Kingdom with influential Muslims, and many now follow Jesus. He recently received an award as a “Covid Warrior” for his district, an honor acknowledging his volunteer service to the community during the pandemic.
TO LEARN MORE, CONTACT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CODY WATSON AT CWATSON@FRONTIERFELLOWSHIP.COM.
PAKISTAN
Schools in the Sand provides education to children from the Meghwal and Bhil people groups. These minority tribes face discrimination by other people groups, which keeps them trapped in poverty. With an education, children are eventually equipped to take a government exam, creating opportunities for continued education and new possibilities for the future. Because of their close relationship with students, Schools in the Sand has numerous opportunities to share the Good News of God’s Kingdom with Meghwal and Bhil families, and many are responding to Jesus.
Earlier this year, two new rooms were constructed at one of their schools. When coronavirus caused facility closures nationwide in March, Schools in the Sand responded by providing protective materials and medicine to people in their community.
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INDONESIA
In the midst of shelter-in-place orders earlier this year, we were grateful to finalize the details of a new partnership in Indonesia, a republic of islands in Southeast Asia with the world’s largest population of Muslims.
Light of the Islands is one of six indigenous church planting networks in the region sharing the Good News of God’s Kingdom with Indonesians who have not yet heard it. They are witnessing a unique openness to the Gospel in this season and want to mobilize more workers to take the message of Jesus to new unreached communities.
Pray with us as we mobilize congregations and individuals to engage in this unique and timely opportunity, that many more Indonesians would soon know the transforming love of God.
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MONGOLIA
Our Mongolia Frontier Mission Development partners are engaging and mobilizing Mongolian Christians with a vision to share the Good News of Jesus among nomads within their borders as well as unreached people groups in nearby countries.
These new partners are in the process of developing and implementing a new frontier mission paradigm within the Mongolian Church. Our partnership will come alongside their efforts with support for frontier mission training events and materials, travel expenses for Mongolian Christians to visit unreached regions and specialized training for church planters as they prepare to carry the Gospel throughout their region.
We thank God for giving these new partners passion for least-reached peoples in their region to hear about Jesus. Pray that Mongolian Christians will respond as they begin mobilizing local congregations for frontier mission.
TO LEARN MORE, CONTACT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR KRISTIN HUFFMAN AT KHUFFMAN@FRONTIERFELLOWSHIP.COM.
WELCOME NEW STAFF
Frontier Fellowship is growing! We thank God for calling four new staff members to our team. Join us in welcoming them!
Uchenna has a PhD in Intercultural Studies, Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in World Missions and Evangelism. He joins us for a year of practical training and will partner with our mobilizers to build bridges between Christians and Muslims in the US. Uchenna is an ordained minister in the Anglican church. He and his wife, Dolapo, served for 15 years in a variety of contexts across Africa before coming to the US. They have two sons.
Renee has served in full-time missions since 2014, leading mission teams to over 20 nations while also developing new communications initiatives. She’s passionate about telling stories of God at work, and brings to her new role a deep commitment to share the Gospel in new and relevant ways, especially with regard to the local church’s role in frontier mission. Renee loves iced coffee, Disney, and her dog, Lacey.
George and Pamela have served for over 30 years in music, education and ministry. George sang with the award-winning ensemble Acappella. They’ve participated in short-term missions to four continents. God’s call to frontier mission began on a vision trip with our team to Egypt. The Pendergrasses are passionate about mobilizing people of color for frontier mission. They have a son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.
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UCHENNA ANYANWU | Mission Specialist
RENEE GILLESPIE | Communications + Marketing Specialist
PAMELA + GEORGE PENDERGRASS | Associate Directors
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