10 YEARS IN THE FRONTLINE
Frontline Fellowship is a unique mission primarily made up of Christians from a military background who have pioneered missionary work into the war zones of Southern and Central Africa. For 10 years FF has recruited soldiers from a wide variety of special forces, airborne and infantry backgrounds and trained them as missionary scouts to infiltrate communist lands with the Gospel of Christ.
A Soldiers Mission
Members of Frontline Fellowship have seen action in Cambodia, Laos, Northern Ireland, Congo, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola and South West Africa. They have been members of the Australian special forces, the British Paratroopers, the Rhodesian Special Air Service, the RLI, the South African Infantry, the Reconnaissance Commando, the Parabats and other elite fighting units. The field operators of Frontline Fellowship have been both in the frontline of combat and in the frontline of pioneer missionary work in the conflict areas of Africa.
EVANGELISING IN THE
WAR ZONES
Frontline Fellowship grew out of a prayer fellowship of South African soldiers. The vision of a mission made up of Christians with a military background serving God in the war devastated areas developed as they witnessed the communist atrocities in Angola and Ovamboland (South West Africa/Namibia). As they walked through the burnt down villages, gave medical care to the survivors of massacres, placed bodies of civilian victims of terrorism into body bags and witnessed to captured SWAPO terrorists and Cuban soldiers, the conviction grew that the war zones are a neglected mission field.
For the last 10 years Frontline missionaries have travelled millions of kilometres by foot, by motorbikes, by dugout canoes, trucks and aircraft to boldly proclaim the Gospel of repentance and faith in Christ to soldiers, guerillas and terrorists on all sides of the conflicts in 15 countries. The founder of Frontline Fellowship, Peter Hammond has personally carried out over 1000 outreaches amongst military personnel in 12 countries. Amongst others, he has preached to SWAPO, ANC, PAC, FRELIMO, ZANU, MPLA and PLO terrorists, to Russian, Cuban, East German, Romanian, Zambian, Zimbabwean, Angolan, South West African and South African soldiers and UNITA and RENAMO anti-communist guerillas.
Through these evangelistic meetings and hundreds of film evangelism rallies, Frontline Fellowship has established regular prayer meetings, Bible studies and congregations in many military units and led hundreds of communist troops and terrorists to Christ. Some of the evangelists of FF used to be communist terrorists before their conversion.
ASSISTING
PERSECUTED
CHURCHES
Since April 1982 Frontline Fellowship has been in the forefront of:
- pioneering missionary work into
war-ravaged marxist
Mozambique and Angola;
- scouting, researching and
developing a comprehensive
Christian strategy for
evangelising the war zones;
- opening up “closed areas” and
forbidden territories;
- assisting persecuted Christians
and prisoners with emergency
relief aid, encouragement,
Bibles and Bible teaching;
- developing a network of
couriers and evangelists to
deliver tons of Bibles, Gospel
records and Christian literature
in 85 languages, to suffering
Christians;
- providing extensive leadership
training for thousands of
pastors, evangelists and other
Christian leaders in the war
zones;
- speaking up for the persecuted,
publishing the sufferings and
testimonies of believers in print,
on radio and TV and in
hundreds of international
meetings every year.
In the course of assisting the persecuted, Frontline Fellowship workers have been ambushed, come under mortar fire, been stabbed, shot at, beaten by mobs, arrested and imprisoned for their faith. Fourteen missionaries on Frontline field outreaches have been imprisoned by communist forces, including the Director and Deputy Director. At one time the Johannesburg headquarters of the Fellowship was attacked and bombed by terrorists.
LEADERSHIP
TRAINING
Frontline Fellowship has also been in the forefront of working for revival and reformation in South Africa. As a founder member of United Christian Action (a coalition of 15 Bible believing organisations); and the founder of Cape Christian Action (a network of 20 Bible based groups), the founder of the Biblical Worldview Seminar, and the Discipleship Training Course and a co founder of the Conference for Christian Action (a forum which brings together 26 Christian Organisations), Frontline Fellowship is a leading force in leadership training, networking and co-ordinating a united Christian stand for righteousness and truth.
Through its literature and its network of seminars and conferences Frontline Fellowship is educating and enlisting thousands of Christians in the fight for pro-life, moral, family and other Biblical standards. Through Project Nehemiah, Frontline Fellowship is informing, involving and mobilising hundreds of cell groups and many thousands of South Africans to rebuild the Biblical walls of South Africa.
If you want to be involved in assisting those persecuted for their faith, be a prayer partner of those evangelising in the war zones, or support a mission that’s working for spiritual revival and a Biblical reformation in Africa; then you should invest in Frontline Fellowship.
Peter Hammond
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