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CURRENT FOCUS IN DONDO, MOZAMBIQUE:
Raising up young adults with weekly bible studies, volleyball games, neighborhood outreach, early morning runs, preaching in the prison, and hospital visits.
Empowering women to see their worth with weekly 1 on 1s, discipleship, and support to bring Kingdom culture into a patriarchal culture and nation.
Leading worship and raising up other worship leaders around me to worship Jesus in Spirit & in Truth to create an authentic sound to heaven!
Through these three areas of focus I believe we will see families transformed, neighborhoods changed, and eventually an entire generation impacted by raising those up around me.
SINCE FEBRUARY 2023 : OVER 36,506 DECISIONS FOR CHRIST THROUGH MINISTRY IN DONDO, MOZAMBIQUE.
Jesus is KING.
More About Me & My Story
I am a 2020 Roberts Wesleyan International Business graduate and a 2019 Iris Theological College Harvest School graduate. I am a missionary in Dondo, Mozambique, Africa since February 19th, 2023.
Dondo is located in the Province of Sofala and is situated on the National Road number 6 that runs from the Port in Beira Mozambique on the East Indian Ocean through the country into neighboring Zimbabwe. I work with base administration; payroll, bookkeeping, social media management, and photography/videography. Our base works with special needs adults, widows, children, orphans, and is a discipleship, worship, and training center for planted churches in Mozambique.
Weekly, I lead a discipleship group for young adults and we are together almost every day. We worship, play volleyball, minister at the hospital and bring food to the sick, and go on neighborhood outreach together.
Our base focuses on evangelism and monthly there is a neighborhood gospel truck outreach, gospel festival/crusade, or some type of street evangelism in the local neighborhoods. Overseeing 300 churches in Central Mozambique allows us to work with our local churches frequently for outreach!
More about my calling:
During the summer of 2019, I participated in Harvest School by Iris Global Theological College. This school taught me more about God, seeing in the Spirit, the bible, worship leading, missions strategies, and cultures. I went to Scotland, Spain, Poland, Israel, Madagascar, South Africa, and Mozambique. During this time the Lord stretched me and confirmed a true call and passion for mission work in my life. It was difficult but it was worth every moment and a true opportunity to discover if this was really it.
I have dreamed of being a Mozambican missionary since I was 13 years old.
Even as a young teenager on fire for the Lord, I felt called to the country of Mozambique. I partnered with Spark of Joy ministries and conducted 30 hour fasts to learn about life there, culture, and to raise money for the ministries on the ground. When the missionaries would speak of their experiences I felt a desire and dream awaken in my very soul- I knew that was what I wanted to do and the country I was called to do it in.
Mozambique is in southern Africa. Surrounded by neighboring countries South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania this beautiful country is right off of the coast of the East Indian Ocean. Dondo Mozambique is located 45 minutes outside of the city of Beira which is also near the coast. Mozambique is considered to be one of the poorest nations in the world. Iris Global has been on the ground in Mozambique now for decades and has multiple bases throughout the country.
Thank you for reading about my story and the call God has placed on my heart.
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Living an adventure with these young adults is such an honor. We do it all together- 5am run club, late night worship, difficult days, good days, tragedies and special moments that feel like manna from heaven. It is such a blessing to be able to teach, lead and guide them all the while they are teaching me how to be more like Jesus.