Expand Your Vision in 2026
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.”
- Matthew 28:18-20
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Muslims are our neighbours, our colleagues and sometimes even family members. Many of us are unsure how to talk about Islam and are reluctant to engage on religion. Don't be afraid. We have some resources to help.
Visit our Islam Resources page to find tips that will help you reach out to Muslims. Have a look at our "To help you understand" section, as well as our Courses section. The evangelistic tools are to train you or give you things to share with your Muslim friends.
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Missionary profile – Mike Adegbile
I’m a mission catalyst, igniting the African evangelical force to reach North Africa. When I came into the leadership of the Nigeria Evangelical Mission Association (NEMA) as the executive secretary, our vision was to see the gospel extend to the Sahel, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and even to the Middle East and back to Jerusalem.
That focused my view on the Sahel belt and Maghreb. I began reading about the Muslim world, which stirred my spirit for the Lord. The North is largely Muslim and not much was happening in terms of the gospel. I began studying African countries in detail, and I was burdened to see that the gospel is yet to reach that part of the continent.
I was saved at age 14 and soon after, spreading the gospel became natural for me. My relationship with Scripture Union propelled me to spread the gospel among students.
Missionary profile – Sara Fernando Alfredo
I’m a missionary in Mocuba, Mozambique. My decision to become a Christian came after God saved me from a near-death experience, where I was buried deep in mud – literally.
Growing up, my father was a teacher, and one time he had to move to another village. My parents were not sure how life would be there, so my grandmother asked that I stay with her. In Mozambique culture, children are said to belong to the maternal grandmother.
However, she was a Muslim and a witch doctor. I would accompany her to pick roots in the forest for ‘treatment.’ We also practiced Islam.
After a while, I moved back to my parent’s house. By then, my parents had received Christ and had even become missionaries. I could see their passion for people. I accompanied them to the mission fields when they went to preach.
Missionary profile – Estevâo Gomes
My pastor saw the vision for me to be a missionary before I did. He was the Director for Operation Mobilization, and he could sense the call of God in my life. He asked if he could take me to a mission school since I had finished secondary school. I flatly refused. I hadn’t heard from God; besides, I wanted to further my education and be something else, not a pastor or a missionary.
He gave me a few days to pray about it. I told him I didn’t need to pray; I knew I didn’t want to be a missionary. But in those three days, my heart was so restless that I couldn’t sleep, thinking about missions and the lost. At the end of the three days, I accepted to train as a missionary with Operation Mobilization. Many years before this, I had become a Christian. I grew up in a fragmented family.
Missionary profile – Omphemetse Kepuyamore
I didn’t know my father; I was told he rejected me before my birth. But now I’m a missionary among the Khoisan in Botswana, telling them about the good Father in Heaven who sent His Son to save them. I’m the least likely candidate for such a hefty assignment.
I grew up in a single-parent family in my grandparent’s house with about 16 people in one homestead. The whole family was deep in a cult, belonging to a ‘church’ that claimed to believe in the Lord, but did not use the Bible.
When I was seven, my cousin failed in her junior school and was treated meanly. Frustrated, she went to speak to a pastor. He prayed for her and she became the first true Christian in the family. She took me with her to church. I loved the transformation in her, so I, too, became a Christian.
Missionary profile – Bongekile Nene
I’m serving with Youth with a Mission (YWAM) and Union Bible Institute, training and mobilising the African Church to be more involved in missions. I’m a pastor’s grandchild. I grew up in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.
My maternal grandparents were pastors; all of my mom’s family were born-again Pentecostals. My dad wasn’t a Christian. My grandfather would pick us up and take us to church. Nevertheless, I didn’t accept Christ until I was about 20 years old.
I was now a new being – but there was one problem: I was eight months pregnant and pledged to be married to a non-believer! Painfully, I broke off the engagement. I gave birth to a son and prayed that he’d serve God all the days of his life.
I started ministering to the youth in my neighbourhood. God laid it in my heart to go to Bible college.
Missionary profile – Patrick
After I became a Christian, I would read and hear the Word of God, and be filled with a heavy burden in my heart thinking about the people who needed to know this Good News. I also noticed that both in and outside the church, a Bible was like a precious jewel – hard to find. Many people around me were not able to afford one.
Driven by this burden, I founded a small Bible outreach mission called Salt and Light Initiatives Bible Outreach Mission. I shared my faith with new friends in and outside Uganda, and I started collecting Bibles and sharing them with those in need.
I grew up the eldest child in a family of seven children. We lost our mother before I was 18. This loss affected our family and shaped our course of future life.
I didn’t know about Jesus Christ...
Missionary profile – Gewa
I was a missionary in South Sudan, preaching the Word of God and planting churches in the locations of Abowg, Atar and Yabus. One night, our station was attacked and burned down. No one died, but we escaped with only the clothes on our back. We were evacuated to Nairobi, where we debriefed and underwent trauma healing counseling. Four months later, motivated by the Holy Spirit and urged on by my nine-year-old daughter, we packed our bags and went back. Persecution wasn’t new to me.
I was born in an Ethiopian Orthodox family, and I got saved as a teenager after my teacher shared the gospel with me. After accepting Christ, I faced difficulties and alienation. Even my father tried to kill me when I was sleeping. In school, I was being starved for confessing my faith. I left home and began to live with Christians. The nasty experience in South Sudan was not too hard to overcome because of these occurrences.
Missionary profile – Wondimu Woldeyohannes
I left my job at the Wushwush coffee plantation and became a missionary. The Lord is using me to reach out to people who are under the fear of witchdoctors in the Kafa Region. I’m one of the third batch of graduates of Bonga HubSchool, a missionary training school of the Ethiopian Kele Heywet Church (EKHC).
As I was thinking and praying about how I could win the people of the village, a widow and her children came to my mind. Her family’s life was plagued by problems after her husband was killed by the people of the village. She couldn’t benefit from the land she has and there were no relatives to help her fix her dilapidated house. I decided to support this widow and use her as the door to the village. I took the evangelism group and built her house in three days.
Missionary profile – Bishop Dave Chikosi
My dad was a pastor with the Methodist church during colonial times. He didn’t live to see Zimbabwe’s independence.
He also didn’t see his son pastoring a church in the West, where the Methodist church began. I’m that son, now a pastor with Metro Grace International Church in Belleville, Michigan.
I grew up around church, but I didn’t develop a relationship with Christ. I saw things in church that turned me off, so I wanted to keep away. One evening, while in my room in high school, I was engulfed by the love and presence of God. It was so strong that it felt like God had walked into the room.
I cried the whole night. In the morning, I didn’t go to school; I went to look for a Bible instead. I looked everywhere, and I couldn’t find one. The irony was, I was studying in a mission school.
Missionary profile – Zack and Ruth Joshua
We are missionaries in Niger, involved in community development to transform people’s lives and perspectives with the gospel.
Ruth is a psychologist, and so we’re also doing post-marital counselling to help save marriages and show how godly marriages should look. There is no pre-marital counselling here. We now interact with six families. We also engage with the youth through sports.
In addition, we help young girls, who rarely go out of their homes because of the culture. Ruth teaches them skills to help build self-reliance in their lives.
Our first major task has been language learning. We were initially in the area where they primarily speak Hausa, which we also speak fluently. We are now in the capital learning French.
Missionary profile – Olivia Acheampong
Missionary profile – Gideon Mashauri
In 2005, I was a refugee from Democratic Republic of the Congo living in a camp in Nampula, Mozambique. I began sharing the gospel with my fellow refugees and with the Makua people outside the camp.
While there, a missionary loaned me Adoniram Judson’s biography, and I spent hours praying and reading in the bush nearby. The committed prayer life of this man stood out to me. He fully trusted the Lord to provide his needs. This inspired me to spend extravagant time in prayer and fasting.
When I went to this bush area, I constantly prayed God would perform a miracle — grant me leave from the refugee camp to serve Him anywhere. Eventually, a missionary blessed me with money to attend Scott Theological College in Kenya