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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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Continued from page 1 - Macedonian Call to Sudan 

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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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. 

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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 






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 

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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 

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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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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 


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. 


FRONTLINE FELLOWSHIP PO BOX 74 NEWLANDS 7725 CAPE TOWN 

SOUTH AFRICA admin@frontline.org.za www.FrontlineMissionSA.org 

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