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“For I am persuaded that neither
death nor life, nor angels nor
principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any
other created thing, shall be able
to separate us from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
Mourning in Moruland
Our very good friend, Rev. Canon
Kenneth Kilaki Baringwa, of the
Episcopal Church of Sudan, has
gone to be with the Lord. He died
in Juba at Freedom International
Hospital and his body was
transported back to his home town
of Mundri for burial at Christ
Cathedral. He was born 1 January
1946 and passed into eternity on
Tuesday, 28 January 2020.
Macedonian Call to Sudan
Macedonian Call to Moruland
It was Rev. Kenneth Baringwa who
first tracked me down and gave me
the Macedonian Call in 1995: “You
must come to Moruland!” he
declared. Kenneth Baringwa was
aware of my work on behalf of the
persecuted church in Mozambique
and Angola and was convinced
that I would be a friend in need for
the Christians suffering in South
Sudan.
Emergency in Equatoria
He wrote to me and we managed
to meet during my mission to East
Africa in 1995. I had just returned
from Rwanda and it was in Nairobi,
Kenya, that we first met and he
explained the desperate plight of
our brothers and sisters in Christ,
in South Sudan. Their churches
were being bombed by the Sudan
Air Force and Arab forces were
waging a scorched earth campaign
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING MARATHON
“How beautiful upon the
mountains are the feet of him who
brings good news, who proclaims
peace, who brings glad tidings
of good things, who proclaims
salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your
God reigns!’” Isaiah 52:7
Sixty Years by God's Grace
On 21 January, I turned 60 and
climbed Table Mountain. It
was a most appropriate way to
celebrate six decades of God's
grace and undeserved favour. By
my calculations, it was at least the
43 rd time I have hiked to attain
the summit of Table Mountain.
The week before was my 80 th
hike up Lions Head. There are
numerous other mountains
that I have climbed, including
Mount Mulanje in Malawi, but
Table Mountain is my favourite.
From left to right: Rev. Canon Kenneth Baringwa,
Dr. Peter Hammond, Commander Salva Kiir
Mayardit (the president of South Sudan),
Bishop Bullen Dolli and the Governor of Equatoria.
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What a spectacular view, all the
way to Cape Point, Hermanus,
the Hottentots Holland, the
Helderberg, Robben Island,
Blouberg and Table View, the
tops of the Twelve Apostles,
Devils Peak and so much more.
The Table Mountain hike is, in
so many ways, the high point
of the GCC and has frequently
fallen on my birthday. At 1087
metres, we read Scripture, sang
Hymns to the glory of God and
interceded for our city, country
and continent.
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Presenting the first complete copy of the Bible
in Moru to Canon Kenneth Baringwa.
against their communities in
Equatoria. Crops were being
burned, livestock stolen, or killed,
pastors were being executed and
they had no Bibles and no
medicines. Their children were
growing up without schools. The
communities were in desperate
need!
Working in the War Zone
It was Rev. Kenneth Baringwa who
organised the first Church
Conferences for pastors and
Seminars to train schoolteachers.
He also brought to me the first
candidate for training as a
Chaplain for the Sudanese Peoples
Liberation Army (SPLA). Kenneth
Baringwa was an invaluable guide,
translator, organiser and enabler,
who made things happen. We can
safely say that it was Rev. Kenneth
Baringwa who challenged me to
make South Sudan a central focus
of my ministry for many years. He
was the one who organised
hundreds of church meetings and
outreaches in many villages and
ministry amongst the military.
Textbooks for Teachers
By God's grace, we were able
to deliver hundreds-ofthousands
of Bibles and
Christian books into Western
Equatoria and restore the
Bishop Gwynne Bible College.
We helped to equip over 100
primary schools and a
Christian High school with
thousands of quality Christian
textbooks.
Chaplain’s Corp
As a result of Canon
Kenneth Baringwa’s
efforts, I trained the first
Chaplains of the SPLA
and provided them with
Chaplains Handbooks,
Bibles, boots, berets,
Bible bags, bicycles,
backpacks, audiovisual
Gospel Messenger handcranked,
or solar panel
powered, tape recorders, with
accompanying flip charts, God
Story VCD kits and much more.
Medical Corp
We were able to provide the first
paramedic training to SPLA
Medics. We also flew in the first 50
paramedic bags, fully equipped to
enable these medics to provide
basic First Aid to wounded
soldiers. We also drove up a 4
Wheel Drive ambulance to
transport the wounded to medical
care.
The Desperate Need
It was Kenneth Baringwa who
challenged us to please bring
medicines and doctors into the war
zones of South Sudan. There was
not even one hospital for seven
million people in
Equatoria. In a
Medic Training
Course, I gave
lectures and
practicals in the
four B’s of First
Aid: Breathing;
Bleeding;
Breakages and
Burns. We then
flew in a nursing sister to give
medical training and later medical
doctors to conduct further training.
Under Fire in Sudan
On many occasions, Kenneth
Baringwa and I walked long
distances to minister to remote
villages. We endured aerial,
artillery and rocket bombardments
together, as well as arrest, detention
and interrogation.
Pioneer Kenneth Fraser
Kenneth Baringwa explained to
me how the Gospel came to
Moruland, through the
extraordinary ministry of Dr.
Kenneth Fraser. This led me to
track down the book: The Doctor
Comes to Lui – A Story of
Beginnings in Sudan, by Eileen
Fraser, first published by the
Church Missionary Society in
1938. With a copy from a second
hand bookshop, we published this
book and it was received with
much rejoicing in Moruland. As
one pastor described: “You have
given us back our history!”
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The Rwandan Genocide
In praying as to how best we could
respond to the request to establish
a hospital in the Liberated zones of
South Sudan, one ministry seemed
to me to be the ideal answer,
Samaritans Purse. During my
mission to Rwanda, Samaritans
Purse had been the only medical
mission working in that devastated
country. They waded into the
sewer system of Kigali hospital to
extract the vast amounts of body
parts blocking the entire drainage
system, broke up the congealed
blood and restored the hospital to
full operation, despite the plague
of rats and myriads of flying,
crawling insects. When even the
Red Cross and Doctors Without
Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiéres)
had fled the genocide in Rwanda,
Samaritans Purse was the only
medical mission operational in
that desperately needy country, at
its time of greatest need.
Approaching Samaritan's Purse
So, I wrote to Franklin Graham,
head of Samaritans Purse (SP),
requesting his involvement. Soon
the reply came, from his secretary,
that their programme was full and
SP was overcommitted, not able to
take on any new projects. As I was
praying over this, the news came
that Franklin Graham was
scheduled to come to Cape Town,
South Africa, to conduct an
Evangelistic Crusade at Newlands
Cricket grounds! I eagerly wrote
again, requesting an interview with
Franklin Graham when he was in
Cape Town. Another polite reply
came back informing me that,
sorry, but his programme was full.
An Invitation to City Hall
Pondering this, convinced that
this had to be God's timing,
wondering how I would manage to
meet him, a gold
embossed envelope
was delivered to my
desk. Inside it was a
card from the Mayor
of Cape Town,
inviting me to a Prayer
Breakfast at City Hall,
where the guest of
honour would be:
Franklin Graham! I
praised God.
Meeting Franklin Graham
On the day of the Prayer Breakfast,
I ensured that I was there early.
Parking my motorbike close to the
entrance, I walked in with my
helmet over one arm. I greeted
Franklin Graham: “Mr Graham, I
believe that you are also a
motorbiker?” Franklin Graham
beamed, replied that he was and
told me about his Harley Davidson.
Next, I commented: “I see that you
have been working amongst the
Contra resistance fighters in
Nicaragua?” Franklin Graham
replied: “Yes, I have.”
“I have one question for you, Mr
Graham: Why is Samaritans Purse
not involved in Sudan?”
“We have been,” he replied.
“Yes, but that was in Upper Nile
and I know that the experience was
frustrating, but you were trusting in
the wrong people. Riek Machar’s
crowd are surrogates of the Muslim
government.”
Mr Graham looked surprised.
“I did not know that,” he said.
“I know the people that you can
trust in South Sudan, in Equatoria.
I also know just the right hospital
for Samaritans Purse to renovate
and use as your base of operations
in Lui. It was the first hospital
established in South Sudan, by
pioneer missionary, Dr.
Kenneth Fraser. There is no
hospital for seven million
people in Free Equatoria...”
Mission to Sudan
At this point, a line was
beginning to form behind me
and Mr Graham had to
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politely excuse himself to give
attention to other guests arriving.
Later, during the prayer breakfast,
he brought me his Operations
Manager, Ken Isaacs, to brief. At
first, Mr Isaacs was a bit skeptical,
leaning back with his legs crossed
and his arms folded. Soon,
however, he was leaning forward,
looking at my photographs and
maps and asking penetrating
questions. Two days later, I received
a phone call from Ken Isaacs:
“Franklin has given us the green
light. Can you take us into South
Sudan in 2 days’ time?” I was a bit
overwhelmed at the abruptness, as
I had a full and demanding
programme. Ken challenged me:
“Peter, you have a green light, go
through the intersection!” So, I
rearranged my schedule, cleared
my plate and headed off to Nairobi
to lead Ken Isaacs and the
Samaritans Purse exploratory team
into Moruland to explore the newly
liberated town of Lui.
The Legacy of Kenneth Fraser
I had told Ken Isaacs much about
Dr. Kenneth Fraser, the pioneer
CMS Missionary, who had
established the first hospital, the
first school and the first church in
Equatoria. I told him that the
people of Moruland were so
evangelised that you could leave
your wallet on the road outside the
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market place and someone would
bring it to you and nothing would
be missing. So, one morning, as we
were driving out to explore the
newly liberated town and hospital
at Lui, Ken asked me to hand him
my wallet. Whereupon he
unceremoniously threw it out the
window to land on the ground
outside the market place! The rest
of the American team roared with
laughter.
Test the Community Character
It was a full day and my thoughts
often returned to my wallet lying
as a test case outside the Mundri
marketplace on the main road.
Not that there was much money in
it. There were just a few cards, a
couple of notes and my ID card.
However, I began to have second
thoughts and to worry over what
might happen if someone from
another tribe was passing by. There
was no word when we returned
that night. However, the next
morning, which was a Sunday, on
the way to church, Canon Reuben,
came up to me with two young
boys and asked if this wallet was
mine. Sure enough it was. “These
two boys found it and seeing your
picture inside, they brought it to me
to return to you.” I looked inside
and nothing was missing. I looked
sideways at Ken
Isaacs and his team.
They were all
standing there,
open-mouthed,
wide-eyed, in
obvious shock. They
were impressed.
The Hospital in Lui
From that point, it
was clear that
Samaritans Purse
was committed to establishing a
hospital in Moruland. Within just
a matter of weeks, they were back,
fully laden with everything
necessary. Within days, they set up
a fully operational hospital, with
surgery, equipment and specialist
staff. It was impressive! Initially,
they only planned to be there for 6
months. As Ken Isaacs explained,
“We seldom are anywhere for more
than three months at a time.
However, we will commit ourselves
to South Sudan for six months.” Ten
years later, they were still running
the hospital in Lui. The longest
running and most successful
medical operation in the history of
Samaritans Purse. They saved
tens-of thousands of lives and
treated hundreds of thousands of
patients. None of that would have
happened without the Macedonian
Call of Kenneth Baringwa and the
integrity of the Christians in
Moruland.
Pray for the Baringwa Family
Please remember in prayer, Rev.
Kenneth Baringwa’s wife, Grace
and their children. Rev. and Mrs
Baringwa were blessed with 8
children (4 sons and 4 daughters)
and 15 grandchildren (7 boys and
8 girls).
Faithful and Fruitful
We praise God for the life and
legacy of Rev. Canon Kenneth
Kilaki Baringwa. He was a good
and true friend. A tireless Christian
worker, dedicated to the Episcopal
Church of Sudan. Kenneth
Baringwa was a patriotic South
Sudanese committed to Freedom
Dr. Peter Hammond, the Governor of Equatoria,
Bishop Bullen Dolli and Rev. Canon Kenneth Baringwa.
and Independence for his country.
He was courageous, dedicated,
dependable and diligent. Truly,
Canon Kenneth Baringwa can
declare: “I have fought the good
fight, I have finished the race, I
have kept the Faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7
Certain Hope of the Resurrection
We praise God that our Lord Jesus
Christ is “…the Resurrection and
the Life. He who believes in Me,
though he may die, he shall live…”
John 11:25-26
May God search each one of our
hearts, that in pain we may find
comfort, in sorrow, hope and in
death, Resurrection.
Dr. Peter Hammond
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Mountain Climbing Marathon
Completing the GCC 2020
We concluded our three-week
Great Commission Course
(GCC), the first part of which was
the Biblical Worldview Summit
(BWS) where over 80 participants
came from as far afield as the
Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe and
the USA. The BWS forms the first
phase of the GCC. Packed and
productive as the BWS was, the
smaller number of participants
undertaking the GCC were
quickly transitioned into a far
more demanding schedule, which
kept all of us busy from 6am in the
morning, until, frequently, way
past midnight.
The Whole World Hear His Word
All in all, the GCC involved: 15
speakers; 60 lectures/presentations;
29 worship, Devotions and Bible
Drill sessions; 23 films, including
all eight of the Way of the Master
Basic Evangelism Training Course;
10 workshops; 9 Just a Minute
Debating/Public Speaking Skills
games; 5 hikes, including night
hike Bible smuggling simulation,
infiltration and exfiltration
hikes with backpacks of Arabic
Scriptures, in the dark, across
rivers and in complete silence, a
Lions Head hike and the Table
Mountain hike. It also involved
a Work Party at a local mission
station; radio recordings; dragon
boating team building in Table Bay
Harbour; 17 energetic P.T. sessions;
10 assignments and 7 exams. What
with all of the lecture preparations
(I had 34 sessions) and marking
of assignments, I seldom got to
bed before 2am. Several of our
leaders, including Hunter, Tobie
and I, came down with flu and
fever and lost our voices for a time,
but we did not allow that to stop us
from fulfilling all our duties and
responsibilities and attaining the
summit of Table Mountain.
GCC 2020 Written Responses
Some of the written responses,
which we have received from
participants, includes: “A great
experience!”; “The GCC is focused
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on God and that is rare in these
days!”; “Very challenging! It made
a big impression on me.”; “Great
challenging lectures that stretched
mind, body and character.”; “Intense,
daring, beneficial and essential.”;
“Fun, exciting, growing experience,
great fellowship and great overall.”;
“Experienced dedication.”; “Enjoyed
the challenge.”; “It was a great and
awesome way to prepare for the
mission fields.”; “Excellent course!”;
“I loved it!”; “This is the first camp
that I have been to that takes
Christianity seriously and doesn’t
just play around.”; “I learned how
to really reach the lost and how to
defend my Faith.”; “Fun, exciting,
fruitful!”; “An excellent programme”
and “Uplifting!”
Please pray for our participants
as they begin college, head for
the field and seek to apply in their
daily life and implement in their
congregations and communities
what they have learned and
experienced during the GCC.
March for Life
We then organised the March for
Life to Parliament on Thursday,
30 January 2020, to mark the 23 rd
anniversary of the legalisation
of abortion on demand in South
Africa. Africa Christian Action
has been leading the pro-life
movement in South Africa
since 1991, organising annual
Life Chains; Marches for Life;
National Days of Repentance and
submissions to parliament; media
campaigns; bringing in pro-life
films and giving presentations
at schools, churches and youth
groups. Visit www.christianaction.
org.za website for articles and
links to audios and videos and
many great resources to empower
you to be effective Salt and Light
in your community, to “speak up
for those who cannot speak for
themselves…” Proverbs 31:8
Thank You for Your Prayers
Thank you very much to all
those who faithfully pray for and
support our Mission, for all your
encouragement and practical help
over the years.
Momentous Milestones
Last year (2019) marked Lenora
and my 30 th Wedding anniversary
and 40 years since I began the daily
Bible study and prayer fellowship
in the South African Army, out
of which grew our Frontline
Fellowship Mission. This year, 3
April, will mark 43 years, since I
was converted to Christ.

Rescued from Rapture Fever
It is an amazing milestone to me
to have reached my 60 th birthday.
I never really thought that I would
live this long. Back in 1977 when
I was converted, we were whipped
up in Rapture Fever, with The Late
Great Planet Earth, Like a Thief in
the Night and A Distant Thunder,
convincing many of us that we were
The Terminal Generation, living in
The Last Days, if not the last hours,
with endless speculation of the
planets lining up in 1982, wars and
rumours of wars, earthquakes and
other indicators that we did not
have that much time left.
Reckless Short-Term Vision
As a result, in my early years as
a Christian, I did not consider
marriage, never thought that I
could have children, let alone
grandchildren! I was also closed
to the idea of Bible college, or
Theological training, as there just
was not enough time! I was an
evangemaniac, but did not put
much attention to discipleship, or
planning long-term, as many of us
were really convinced that the Lord
was coming before the end of that
year! All of that and my natural
adventurous and somewhat
reckless spirit, led me to take far
more risks than I should have and
it is only by the grace of Almighty
God that I survived ambushes,
arrests, aerial bombardments,
artillery and rocket barrages, in
some of the most dangerous war
zones on the continent.
Providential Protection
My mother also reminded me that
as a child, I was always getting into
adventures, like getting swept over
a waterfall and in my early years,
seemed to be in hospital frequently.
She commented that there must be
a special angel assigned to enable
adventurous little boys to survive
into adulthood. I can only thank
our merciful Saviour and Lord
for preserving and protecting,
redeeming and rescuing me on
so many countless occasions.
Sadly, I have all too often taken
God’s protection, provision and
mercy for granted. Looking back,
I can clearly see the guiding hand
of Almighty God, mercifully
extended over my life and that of
my very adventurous children.
Being a parent and a grandparent
most certainly gives one another
perspective and has helped me
appreciate my parents so much
more and the grace of Almighty
God, far more than ever before.
Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift & GCC
After completing the Table
Mountain climb on my birthday,
I spent the rest of the night, into
the early hours of the morning,
marking the assignments of our
GCC participants. So, that the
next day, 22 January (which is
the anniversary of the battles of
Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift in
1879), we could conclude our
GCC 2020 by awarding those
participants, who had completed
the course and passed all the
exams and assignments, with
Certificates and handing back
their marked exams, with Personal
Evaluations of their performance
and characters as observed by our
missionary team leaders. Every
participant was given books and
a GCC 2020 Data Disc with a vast
amount of lecture notes, manuals,
books, audios and resources,
to enable them to disciple and
train members of their family,
congregation and communities in
Missions and Evangelism.
Upcoming Missions and Projects
There is so much more that lies
ahead of us, this year. On hikes
and over meal times, we have
been planning upcoming crossborder
missions and there is much
excitement over the many projects
and invitations for ministry,
which we need to respond to, all
throughout Africa.
Printing Projects
We have several books and
many tracts awaiting funds for
printing. These include Afrikaans
translations of Victorious
Christians Who Changed the
World and Answering Skeptics
and the greatly expanded and
updated Great Commission
Handbook, which we want
to donate to Bible colleges
throughout Africa. Our ageing
vehicles are needing serious
repairs, or replacement.
Audio Visual Resources
Please be sure to listen to our From
the Frontline podcast, which
is uploaded every week and the
sermons, devotions and lectures
from the Great Commission
Course, which are being regularly
uploaded onto our SermonAudio
and Vimeo page on www.
FrontlineMissionSA.org.
Audio Visual Boxsets
We will soon have the Biblical
Worldview Summit and Great
Commission Course 2020 audios,
videos and data discs available in
boxset version, for those of you
who would like to benefit from
much of the programme, but were
unable to participate.
Thank You
Thank you very much for all
your prayers, encouragement and
support, without which none of
our ministries would be possible.
May God continue to be your joy
and strength.
Yours for the fulfillment of the
Great Commission
Dr. Peter Hammond
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LET the WHOLE WORLD HEAR HIS WORD
“….contend earnestly for the
Faith which was once for all
delivered to the saints.” Jude 3
Back to the Bible
By God’s grace, despite great
difficulties, dangers, obstacles and
opposition, we marked the 500 th
anniversary of the Back to the Bible
Reformation launched by Swiss
Reformer, Ulrich Zwingli, in 1519,
by completing the New Testament
Survey book and audio MP3
Boxset. This, along with the Old
Testament Survey book and AV
Boxset, is the culmination of a sixyear
project, preaching and teaching
through every Book of the Bible.
Bibles for Africa
Our Literature4Africa ministry
delivered and distributed over 97
metric tonnes of Bibles, New
Testaments, Gospels, Sunday
school materials and other
Evangelistic and Discipleship
resources during 2019. This made
up a total of 3,892,186 Scriptural,
Evangelistic and Discipleship
materials. This does not include
the 40 metric tonnes of 125,000
Bibles and books delivered and
distributed by the Frontline
Mission team in the Nuba
Mountains of Sudan.
Bible Smuggling to Bible Printing
It is remarkable that the Bibles and
books, which we are shipping into
Sudan, are printed in Belarus, once
part of the Soviet Union.
Historically most of the Bibles that
we have had printed for Sudan
were printed in South Korea,
Taiwan or Singapore. Now Belarus
is providing more Bibles for less
unit cost than even Singapore,
which previously provided the
most cost effective print runs on
Bibles. Considering that Brother
Andrew and Rev. Bill Bathman
used to smuggle Bibles into
Belarus, this is a remarkable turn
of events!
Missions to the Nuba Mountains
You can view this video of the
largest consignments of Bibles
ever smuggled into an officially
Islamic country, on our www.
FrontlineMissionSA.org website.
John, Hunter, Christopher and
Rozanne have produced a worldclass
documentary film: Missions
to the Nuba Mountains of Sudan
film that focuses on the courageous
Christians in the Nuba Mountains
of Sudan, an island of Christianity
in a sea of Islam. These besieged
and beleaguered brethren have
been fighting for the Faith and
freedom, in a desperate struggle
for survival against Islamic Jihad,
for many centuries. This film will
take you across many borders, vast
distances of North Africa, into the
10/40 Window of the Muslim
Middle East, into one of the most
difficult to reach and dangerous
mission fields on earth. You will
see and hear inspiring testimonies
from pastors, teachers and
chaplains in the Nuba Mountains
of what God is doing, in spite of
vicious persecution.
Yours for Reformation, Revival
and the fulfilment of the Great
Commission
Dr. Peter Hammond
mission@frontline.org.za
www.FrontlineMissionSA.org
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25 Years Ago - Anthony Paul Duncan
DIED in the SERVICE of CHRIST
A Disastrous Series of Events
25 Years ago, four Frontline
vehicles were sent into the field.
Only one vehicle came back. In the
early morning mist of 14 December
1994, Frontline Fellowship Field
Worker, Anthony Duncan, was
killed in a head-on collision.
A Complex Series of Missions
Anthony was returning back from
a long, difficult and dangerous
mission to five countries. Anthony
had been part of a Frontline
Fellowship mission team that had
successfully delivered desperately
needed medicines and Bibles
into war-torn Angola. Despite
a shoot-on sight policy, which
was maintained to enforce the
United Nations blockade on
UNITA-controlled Free Angola,
the Frontline Mission team had
succeeded in delivering a tonne
of desperately needed medicines
and Bibles to suffering Christians
in Angola. The Mission team was
on the way back from this eventful
trip, which had also included one
of our vehicles rolling down an
embankment and crushing the
canopy on the way up to Zambia
on the so-called “Golden Highway”
dirt road running the length of
the Caprivi Strip. A cloud of dust
hung over the dirt road severely
restricting visibility. Our vehicle
had to swerve to avoid a head on
collision with an oncoming truck.
More Lives Than a Cat
Anthony had faced life-threatening
situations before, when he was
in the army and later as a game
ranger, even before becoming a
missionary. Anthony had been
knocked down and
trampled underfoot
in the mud by a rhino,
charged by elephants
and attacked by lions.
Once, while reversing
fast up a road to
escape a charging
elephant, he literally
bumped into a herd of elephants!
On another occasion, Anthony
warded off an attack by two lions
by throwing stones at them! He was
armed, but being a serious animal
lover, he could not bring himself
to shoot a magnificent lion, even
when being threatened by them!
Anthony had survived several
other vehicle accidents, including
coming off an 1100cc motorbike
at 160 km’s/hr. Like a cat, Anthony
seemed to have had nine lives and
he lived those to the full.
Consistent Christian Character
Anthony was a remarkably
dedicated Christian, whose
possessions could fit into his
backpack. Everything in excess of
his bare necessities he gave away.
Anthony was a zealous Evangelist,
a patient and compassionate
counsellor and a calm and cheerful
co-worker in times of crisis.
His testimony of single-minded
devotion to the Lord continues
to challenge, convict and compel
others to give our all for Christ.
Soldier and Game Ranger
Anthony Duncan served in the 7 th
South African Infantry Battalion as
a tracker from 1985-1987. After his
military service, Anthony worked as
a game ranger in Timbivati, Jabula
and Etosha. During this time, he
distinguished himself as a tracker
on the anti-poaching tracker team.
One of his fellow game rangers,
Michael, led him to the Lord. Once
he gave his life to Christ, Anthony
was wholehearted in his singleminded
dedication to follow Christ
and to lead others to Him.
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Missionary
Anthony’s last mission involved
him driving across the length of
South Africa, with ministry and
travel throughout Zimbabwe and
Zambia, before beginning the
Bible smuggling operation into
Angola from Namibia.
Only One Vehicle Came Back
November/December 1994 stands
out in Frontline Fellowship’s
history as the marathon obstacle
course where we sent four vehicles
into the field and only one came
back. The vehicle I drove up to
Zambia needed to be diverted
after our Biblical Worldview
Seminar in Lusaka, to rescue
our workers stranded in Caprivi
(Namibia). Their Land Rover
was written off after a successful
mission into Angola. The team
was ambushed and arrested on reentry
to Namibia, after completing
their mission to Angola. One of
our vehicles had been donated to
a ministry in Zambia (Anthony
had driven this vehicle up) and
now our other vehicle had been
totally destroyed in a
head-on collision in the
early morning mist, of 14
December 1994.
From Here to Eternity
On the way back to Cape
Town, Anthony stopped
in the game park where
he had been converted,
climbed up the mountain
where he had first placed his faith
in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour
and spent a special time in prayer
there. That was the last sunrise
he would see before entering the
presence of our Lord. When he
came down from this mountain top
experience, Anthony found all his
personal belongings stolen from
the vehicle. (This was the vehicle
that had rolled in the Caprivi Strip
to avoid a collision in the dust
cloud. The fibreglass canopy had
been shattered, so the back of the
pick-up truck was open.) Anthony
and his co-worker drove through
the day and the next night. In the
early hours of the next morning,
a speeding vehicle, overtaking a
big transport truck, collided headon
with our mission vehicle. Our
pick-up truck burst into flame,
but a fire extinguisher quickly put
out the flames. Anthony had died
instantly in the collision.
Store up Treasures in Heaven
Anthony had always travelled light.
He never collected a lot of material
possessions. All of his worldly
possessions were stowed neatly
in a backpack. He was a generous
person who gave away everything
he did not need. We cannot take
our possessions with us when we
die. Anthony is the one person
that I know who actually had no
possessions to take with him when
he died. He died,
literally, with his
boots on, but he did
not leave an extra
pair behind. What
Anthony did leave
behind cannot be
measured in earthly
value.
He Chose to Obey God
Those who knew him were struck
by his radiant faith and his deep
love for our Lord Jesus Christ.
We will always remember his
friendly smile, his kind words
and his helpful deeds. He died in
the service of Christ, after having
faithfully ensured that suffering
Christians had received lifegiving
medicines and the lifetransforming
Word of God, which
an international shoot-on-sight
blockade was seeking to deny
them. Anthony chose to obey God
rather than man.
Anthony Paul Duncan could truly
say: “I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the race, I have
kept the Faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7
Dr. Peter Hammond
Anthony’s testimony and the
incredible events
surrounding
this series of
Missions, is dealt
with in Rev. Bill
Bathmans’ book
Angola by the
Back Door,
available from:
Christian Liberty
Books
admin@christianlibertybooks.co.za ;
www.christianlibertybooks.co.za.
To listen to the radio interview
dealing with Anthony’s life and
final mission, listen to the From
the Frontline podcast: What Can
Go Wrong on a Mission.
www.FrontlineMissionSA.org
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