Many years ago the Lord gave me a vision of myself preaching to thousands of people and He then spoke to me and said, "I am going to take you around the world." Several years after that I received confirming words from prophetic individuals about the initial whereabouts of my journeys. One individual pin-pointed the location and continent in which we would touch first and the word in which He spoke was of this nature. "And your feet shall touch the soil of Africa, I also hear the Lord calling you to South Africa."

Since that time I have had the strong desire to bring medicine and ministry to the hurting people of Africa. There are still over one billion human beings living in places where it is unlikely they will ever hear good news unless someone goes to tell them. The world is a violent place often inhospitable to human life. There are over 50 ongoing wars taking place right at this moment. There are 50 million uprooted people who have had to flee their homes because of violence, disaster, economics or a failing environment. There are one billion people who do not have access to the basic social services of health care, education, safe drinking water and adequate nutrition. The gap between those with more than enough and those who live on the margins of life is widening.

It is our desire to help by standing in the gap, by providing medicine, computers, sewing machines, clothes and whatever resources available to help support the forgotten in the lands. Jesus wept for a real Jerusalem, a Jerusalem ruled by Rome and entrapped by religiosity rooted in human rules; a Jerusalem of upper rooms, small shops, lepers and beggars. Let us learn to weep for those who have nothing. This is the essence of missions.