Wheresoever Ministries is registered in Mozambique under the name "Ide a Todo o Mundo" (Portuguese for "Go Into All the World").  You can see here the logo used in Mozambique - it is different from the Wheresoever logo used world-wide outside of Africa (on the top of each page on this website).

God called us specifically to the Tete Province of Mozambique, see map on right.  There has been and will continue to be overflow ministry to the rest of Mozambique and to neighboring country Malawi. But the ministry focus will remain on the Tete Province for the foreseeable future. 

 

 

 

Outreaches & Crusades

Since we started going to the Tete Province of Mozambique in 2004, more than 80,000 people have embraced Jesus and accepted Him into their lives as their Lord and Saviour.  The Holy Spirit keeps moving in more and more hearts, transforming lives, families, villages and towns.  Most of the salvations have been as a result of outreaches and crusades by the Wheresoever Core Team, as well as preaching in prisons, funerals, weddings and on the streets.  Great effort is being placed now in expanding this so that local pastors and evangelists are able to do this.  We help with Bible education, mentoring, as well as by lending transportation, musical equipment and skilled people. 

Outreaches normally include praise and worship with music and dancing; introduction of Jesus; presentation of the Word of God through teaching, preaching, drama, dance and flags; prayer for healing, deliverance, etc.; and providing direction for the next steps toward Jesus.

We estimate that many more thousands of persons will turn to Jesus over the next few years. Our goal is that this evangelistic effort will continue whether or not missionaries from the West are involved, until they have all heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We encourage partnerships with other ministries that seek to expand the Kingdom of God in this area of Mozambique.

Church Planting

Wherever we find a significant number of new Christians, we need to arrange either for a new church to be planted within walking distance, or at least for a pastor or evangelist to visit at least weekly.  Our policy is to enthuse the local churches to expand their horizons, avoiding requests for us to start Wheresoever churches.  We negotiate with the local pastors for them to start their own new church branches where needed.  Then we work with them so that they are more able to produce mature new pastors or elders to lead these new congregations.  We also help when we can with the repairing or building of structures to hold church services in.  Since we started in Mozambique in 2004, more than 250 new churches have been started – a number much greater than anything we ever expected.  THANK YOU JESUS!

In order to do this, we have started seven regional Wheresoever Councils.  Each Council is made up of a number of the local pastors from denominations that we can trust (no polygamism, Jesus is God, etc.).  Each Council is then responsible for discipling the new Christians, including providing the leaders to do it.  We will be forming new Wheresoever Councils in new districts that we have not reached yet or are now just starting to reach into. 

Seminars

We hold 3-day or 4-day seminars for pastors, evangelists and other leaders in many of the areas we go.  The seminars are targeted both at pastors of churches so they can better disciple the new Christians, and at pastors and evangelists so that they can go out with their own evangelistic campaigns further spreading the love of Jesus over the land.  The pastors and leaders are encouraged to bring their wives and husbands.  These teachings have proved to be extremely useful in raising maturity levels in the Word of God. In the West we sometimes under-value these seminars since they are so readily available, but the people we target in these places are rarely visited by other ministries and are starving for the gospel and the understanding of how to live it.

Another great benefit is that in every case, the seminar has formed a unity in the body of Christ that was unexpected.  We constantly hear testimonies of how the different denominations are now for the first time working together to reach the lost.

Bibles

In general when we go into a new area, less than half of the pastors own Bibles.  Some cannot read.  Pastors/churches are sometimes hard to find in the villages, and when found they can be very unprepared.  The Lord has blessed us and them by providing donors so that we can provide them with Bibles, mostly in their local language Chichewa, and some in Portuguese in the towns.  We never seem to have enough Bibles to fulfill the need.  However, in the districts we have targeted, most pastors now own Bibles, as well as many of the leaders.

Bible Training

We have started a Bible training program in local Chichewa language targeting local pastors, but especially new pastors or elders who find themselves leading new congregations, something that in many cases they never imagined they would do.  We are in the first step preparing those who will teach the other teachers.  Initially the students are from the area near our Mission Base.  As more funds, resources and missionaries become available we will expand to cover the whole Province.  The Bible training will include both remote work allowing students to live in their homes, and more concentrated time of teaching and direction at the Mission Base.  We consider this key to the spiritual health of the multitudes turning to Christ.

The Bible training provided also includes many practical aspects. Most of the students are active in the evangelistic efforts in their areas. Some of the the Bible students are even temporarily pastoring new churches, until the congregation becomes mature enough to supply their own leader(s).

Mission Base and Core Team

There is a Wheresoever Mission Base in Mozambique, three buildings able to accommodate our core team, accommodate an additional 6 Bible students, a warehouse large enough to hold church services, and another room used for Sunday School for youth ministry, and storage of the farm produce.  The Wheresoever Core Team consists of around 10 full-time people (excluding Danny and Lindy who are only there some of the time).  With the exception of two members whose home is close by, the team lives at the Mission Base. Of the full team, just over half are missionaries from Malawi, a Christian country where many speak English, and have agreed to relocate to Mozambique for as long as it takes for God to accomplish His purposes.  The remaining ones are Mozambican.  Everyone on the Core Team is fully committed to the work of God and the vision that God has given us for this area of  Mozambique.  They are all willing to dedicate their lives to Jesus, with no financial gain (at present the ministry is only able to provide most of them with a subsistence allowance to help them eat, and not much else).

The team locally based in Mozambique helps to:

• Launch outreaches and crusades.
• Hold inter-denominational services to help ignite local churches (currently 3/week).
• Teach the Bible School/Training courses.
• Mentor local pastors.
• Help to build up the local churches. The base is used by local Foursquare Church for their Sunday services, and six team members help as temporary pastors of local churches, including the one at the Mission Base.
• Unite the local community in early morning prayer meetings.
• Hold youth and children's seminars

Micro-Businesses

In order to provide an environment in which the evangelism can continue with or without help from the West, it is important to help them to establish micro-businesses that will help fund evangelistic activities in the future.  We have an internet café based at the Mission Base.  God has provided land for four farms in different districts where grow mainly maize, but also beans, tomatoes, a local "green", soy, and sweet and regular potatoes.  Food from the farms is also shared with local orphans. One section of the land has water, the others are dependent on the rainy season.  We would appreciate a "missionary" to come forward with knowledge that could help graciously update some of the farming methods and practices for feeding families from the land.  

We also own a bus that transports passengers between the town where the mission base is located and the capital city of the province. The bus is also sometimes used during outreaches by the visiting missionary teams from USA, UK, etc.  We are considering starting a new poultry and egg business, and a brick manufacturing operation.  There are additional opportunities for other small businesses opening up as well.

 

 

Orphans

The orphan population in the Tete Province is huge and growing.  There are two groups of orphans associated with Wheresoever in two districts. Some of the food coming from the Wheresoever farms is directed towards them, and we visit them and give them small gifts when we can.  We have helped some of them to be able to start attending school. In the rural regions, wherever possible, the children remain in their villages with extended family rather than be pulled out of the village and sent to orphanages. Our hope is to improve their standard of living and a long-term goal is to add a classroom and clinic to each of the new churches planted.

Hospital and Prison Visits

Members of the Wheresoever Core Team visit the local hospital and prison on a weekly basis. There is so much interest in the prison that we are considering starting an extension of the Bible training there.

Medical

We have been able to carry in small amounts of medical aid and a wheelchair. We believe there will be many more available resources in the future; nurses have travelled with us and seen the conditions and the potential. We have offers of medical supplies for when the missionary  personnel are in place to "grow this area" of the ministry. We praise God for all the healing He has done and we would never want to lose that aspect of His Grace as we help build up an improved medical situation. We were blessed that God healed a knee under the hands of one of the nurses. Many of the disease statistics for "our" regions are extremely high, for example, for HIV/Aids.

Fresh Water

Our first fresh water project in 2008 was to provide a hospital with running water and repaired taps and sinks.  For the previous four years, the hospital only had buckets of water from a well in the town.  We have also provided two shallow wells in a village that had no clean water available, and are now in process of closing those wells with pumps and digging two new ones.  We have provided a number of tredle pumps for farm irrigation, and hope to be able to provide many more as more donations become available.  There is a need  to dig boreholes (machine-dug deep wells) in many areas of great need - including the first place in Mozambique that the Lord called us to - we pray and await additional funding to become available as these are much more expensive than the shallow wells.