WHO WE ARE
Ministry leader
Stefan's career began as a commercial pilot where he honed his business development skills while leading a team of pilots and staff. However, his passion for community health, socio-economic development, and education led him to enter the full-time ministry as a project manager in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Today, with almost three decades of management and business development under his belt, Stefan has found new avenues to channel his passion. He has joined a church consulting team and is also a public speaker, utilizing his expertise to help churches and organizations create strategic plans for their mission endeavours.
Church and Culture Analyst
(BA, BAHons (Psych) Mphil (Theo)) basically enjoys reading, writing and coffee – lots of coffee.
His passion is encouragement and teaching, which he expresses through devotional writing and is currently developing an encouragement ministry for workers in the field called Shepherd’s Community.
He also loves leading sung worship from the piano.
He loves exploring and encouraging Christian responses to cultural issues that we face, believing that we need All of Christ for All of life.
Analytical Strategist
For the past 40 years, Mike had the privilege to serve the
Church in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. The
privilege of being with those who have sacrificed all for bearing the name of
Jesus has left a deep impact on his life.
Mike’s travels brought him into a deeper understanding of how every news event
points to a Sovereign and loving God, preparing souls for the Kingdom.
As an analytical strategist Mike’s desire is to assist mission-minded
believers, churches, and organizations to identify the season we live in and
engage in a deeper level of strategic mission involvement.
Ministry Leader East Africa
Aron Mwasile is an accomplished entrepreneur and missionary with over 15 years of experience in senior mission roles across Africa.
His journey began in university, where he felt a call to missions but faced the familiar challenge of raising support as an African missionary. In response, he started a pig farm to sustain his mission work, which grew into Farm43 Africa—a venture now engaged in pig breeding, feed production, and soon pork processing.
Through this “business as mission” model, Aron not only supports kingdom initiatives and sustainable missions, but also boosts household incomes by creating local circular economies and decent jobs.
He brings unique insight to help the African church develop mission strategies that are both sustainable and contextually rooted.
Eastern Slavic Specialist Consultant
Riko finished his engineering studies in 1993 in Stellenbosch and soon after made his first short-term missions’ trip to Russia assisting in Summer Bible Camps.
This visit led to a missionary career of more than 25 years in the Yakutsk region of Siberia in Russia, with ministry activities ranging from pastoring a Russian speaking church, church planting activities amongst minority people groups and facilitating youth conferences.
Riko has recently gained his Pilot’s Licence that will assist him in his vision to reach remote areas with the Gospel.
Riko is married to Marianna, has 5 children and is currently residing in the Southern Cape.
Andrew Richards
Strategic Futurist
Andrew has spent more than eleven years as researcher, serving the missions community. He has written more than 200 articles providing a Christian perspective on world news and has authored three editions of the World Hotspot List, which have been translated into Russian, Arabic and Mandarin.
Andrew is Director for the Institute for Strategic Foresight (ISF), a not-for-profit ministry serving the Church and missions community with scenarios for the future, aimed at alerting them of new opportunities that will enable them to reap a larger and more fruitful harvest among the nations. ISF is based in Johannesburg. arichards.isf@gmail.com
www.isforesight.org
Jacobus van Zyl
He developed a love for serving in the Kingdom from a young age, thanks to the exposure he gained through the mission work his parents were doing in Africa. He honed his skills in photography and videography during his teens.
After graduating with a degree in psychology and sociology from the University of Stellenbosch, he decided to explore the possibilities with videography in missions. This led him to discover a passion for working with refugees in the Middle East.
He subsequently felt called for a more long-term commitment to the NEXUS centre in Lebanon, where he is currently serving.
Jacobus has a burning desire to provide younger individuals with the necessary exposure to kingdom work, encouraging a much-needed younger generation of missionaries to enter into long-term strategic missions.
Nico and Vicky van Wyk
Sub-Saharan Africa Refugee Consultants
Nico and Vicky have been married for 33 years and first met while serving in the South African Police Force. They have three children, all married, and one grandchild.
Their journey into missions began in 2016 with their first rural outreach to Malawi. It was during this trip that God stirred their hearts for the people of Africa, particularly those living in vulnerable conditions.
Since 2019, they have been involved in missions across rural Malawi as time and circumstances allowed. Now serving full-time in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp, they are engaged in discipleship, art ministry, and various community upliftment projects. Their work includes supporting a small community school, walking alongside the displaced, and sharing God’s love in practical and creative ways.
nico.vanwyk@ethnosmi.org
Hythem Graham Betts
Hythem, a Canadian by nationality, raised in the Middle East
and currently residing in South Africa, draws from a unique upbringing in the
mission field.
newhorizons@pobox.com
Transition Coach and Cross-cultural Consultant