Mission, 10/40 window, Unreached people groups, Gospel preaching, Leadership training, Jan Ernst Gabrielsen, Darfur, Sudan, Kenya, Egypt, Libya, Somalia

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Short History

The Norwegian mission organization “Svaret” – “The Answer”, was started many years ago as a sponsoring mission for Ingebjørg and Jan Ernst Gabrielsen when they worked and lived in Kenya as missionaries from 1973 – 79. They had a small, but faithful group of supporters that help them in their work during these years.

After they came back to Norway, Jan Ernst Gabrielsen has continued to be in close touch with the East Africa Pentecostal Churches in Kenya and made a visit there almost every year. While they lived in Kenya they also got some good friends from Sudan that were attending Bible School in Kenya. After finishing their training they returned to Sudan and preached the Gospel. Jan Ernst Gabrielsen was asked to come and help and from 1977 he visited Sudan many, many times up to 1983 when the Civil war started there. During that time he helped the Sudanese Christians organize and register the Sudan Pentecostal Church, and they sent preachers and a missionary family from Kenya to help found the work in Sudan

When the cease fire came as the Peace negotiations begun between North and South, it was again possible to travel to Sudan, and Jan Ernst Gabrielsen started again going there to help the work that he had been with before the war.

Sudan – Africa's biggest country with 94 people groups who have not heard the Gospel yet
No other land in Africa has so many various tribes and people groups who have never heard the Gospel as Sudan. One of the reasons is that it has hardly been possible to work as missionaries in big parts of the land - partly because of the civil war that went...
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Kenya – a key country for mission in the rest of Africa
Jan Ernst Gabrielsen lived with his wife Ingebjørg and their 3 children in Kenya from 1973 to 1979, working as a missionary in the Pentecostal movement called East Africa Pentecostal Churches. During the last 3 years the focus was on planting new churches among the unreached tribes...
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Somalia – one of the world's most unreached lands
It is very difficult to work in Somalia, but the mission organization SVARET (THE ANSWER) supports a full-time worker who is working among people of Somalia in Garissa, east of Kenya, and another one who works in Somaliland, where the situation is more peaceful than in Somalia itself. They both have contact with smaller house churches and groups in Somalia, but they are living under very difficult circumstances.

Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia,
Burundi and Uganda

In these lands we have been supporting leader seminars and meetings in many various churches, and we still want to help with that in all these countries, even though Sudan is the main focus today.

Egypt – an important land
for evangelism in the
Arabic-speaking world
This country with about 70 million people has ca. 10% native Egyptians, and they consider themselves Christians. The strong traditional church is the Coptic Church, but there is also a big Pentecostal movement, Assemblies of God, and many living evangelical churches. The biggest one is situated in the heart of the centre of Cairo - the Kasr El-Debora with about 8,000 members. There are also some churches that have started with Sudanese preachers and other free fellowships. We have held a lot of leader seminars in many parts of the country and I have preached in many of the churches, both in Cairo and in the towns up north, along the Nile, such as El-Minya and Assiout. There is a need of spiritual breakthrough in the Christian work in the country, and I experience a great need of a rise of new churches.

Darfur – a province in
constant turbulence
The civil war in Darfur seems to be growing in strength, and the number of refugee camps is just rising. There is no political solution, and the African rebellion groups have divided themselves into many smaller fractions, which makes negotiations very difficult. Over 50 humanitarian organizations which keep more than 2.2 million refugees and many others alive have over 16,000 workers from many countries. They are working in very hard conditions and are still attacked and threatened by both sides in the conflict. We need to pray fervently for the people in that country. There are only about 7 million inhabitants here, and about one third live in refugee camps

We focus on the people groups that have not yet heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The majority of the people that have not yet heard the message of eternal salvation and peace with God through Jesus and his dead and resurrection, live within what we call the 10-40 window. These are the countries from the west coast of Africa to the east coast of Asia and approximately from 10 grades to 40 grades north of the Equator. Here lives millions of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and others, who have never had the opportunity to hear about Jesus.

Our focus is particularly on the north and east of Africa with a main focus on Sudan. We also work in Kenya and Somalia/ Somaliland as well as doing meetings and leadership training in countries like Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Burundi. In Sudan we work closely with the Sudan Pentecostal Church, but also with a variety of churches through the Sudan Council of Churches. In Kenya we work mainly with the East Africa Pentecostal Churches.

Our contribution is successful
and means a lot!

Jan Ernst Gabrielsen was part of founding the large church movement, ”Sudan Pentecostal Churches”, at the end of the 70's and has been following the development very closely during the latest years. Before the 20-year-long civil war started in 1983, he had been to the country 15 times in order to preach and inspire the new church leaders and preachers there. He also helped them to have the movement registered by the authorities. Now there are more than 400 local churches there and they are experiencing strong growth in the work.

The last 6 years he has been visiting the country many times a year, teaching, equipping and training many hundreds of preachers and Christian leaders both from this movement and from the whole range of evangelical churches in the country. After the cease-fire between the north and south took place, Gabrielsen travelled to the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, in order to meet some of the leaders of Sudan Pentecostal Churches. He met many that he had known from the time before the civil war started, and many who came there afterwards. The seed that had been planted had brought rich fruit!

Darfur calls!
The civil war in Darfur started more than 4 years ago, and this war was not a fight between Christians and Muslims. Here it was African Muslims who saw that the south of Sudan was negotiating with the regime in Khartoum about having partly a self-government, and they had experienced themselves being oppressed and exploited for many years. They rebelled and the authorities struck back in a cruel way. Together with militant groups from Arabian tribes - the so-called Janjaweed – one village after another got attacked, burned and destroyed. The inhabitants became exposed to cruel treatment with tortures, murder, rape and humiliation. The African tribes became exterminated from large areas, and today more than 2 million of these African Muslims live in refugee camps. They are kept alive by about 16,000 aid workers from numerous humanitarian organizations that work there together with the UN.

Fervent prayer and inauguration together with strong spiritual experiences
strengthen the ministry.

Christian refugees preach Jesus
Traditionally Darfur has not had any Christians and has been very Muslim. In the meantime, during the civil war that lasted for more than 20 years, there came some refugees from the south of Sudan. Over 5 million people fled from the south during those years, and more than 4 million settled around the capital, Khartoum. Thousands of others fled to neighbouring countries and other parts of the world, but some also came to Darfur, which lies in the north. Many of these refugees came from the churches we had started in the south before the war! Some of them started smaller "refugee churches" in Darfur, as well as around Khartoum, but did not have any big breakthrough among local tribes in Darfur.

When the civil war began in Darfur and thousands from African tribes were killed and tortured in the most cruel ways by their Muslim brothers from the Arabic tribes, many began also to ask questions about their religion. Many came to the Christian refugees there and said, "We have made a big mistake that has placed us under the Arabic leaders and their religion! Now we would like to hear about Jesus from the Bible!" Even chiefs and Muslim leaders ask for help and want to hear about God from these Christian refugees.

First Christian leader seminars in Darfur
When Gabrielsen visited Khartoum 3 years ago, many Christians came from Darfur and asked for help with getting teaching and leader training there as well. It resulted in the first Christian leader seminar in the history of Darfur, and 80 leaders came from all the Christian denominations. It turned out that many of them did not even understand what salvation is, and only a few had Bibles. After that seminar the Gospel experienced a fantastic breakthrough there. Thousands of Bibles were distributed and many experienced, Spirit-filled Christians from other parts of Sudan have devoted 3 months each to help the new Christians in Darfur! A big group of evangelists and Sudanese missionaries have been part of starting many new churches in this large region, which is just as big as the whole of France and where there live 10 - 12 million people.

Preachers and leaders received teaching with open hearts when Jan Ernst Gabrielsen was teaching in Nyala, Darfur.

The province of Darfur has about 50 various tribes and people groups, some with African and some with Arabic roots. All of them have been completely non-evangelized, and what gives perspective to the work is that this is more than a half of the 94 unreached people groups in Sudan. No other nation in Africa has so many unreached tribes, and if we can reach Darfur tribes, we will have reached over a half of the unreached people groups in this country!

The Gospel transforms the hearts!
It is a historic occasion to bring the Gospel of peace to this war-struck province! There is great need for the humanitarian contribution in the province, but food does not remove the hate - those people need new hearts. Future will be built for Darfur, and we are absolutely convinced that the Gospel about Jesus is what can give the province hope and progress! It is absolutely an unbelievable experience to see those hundreds of born-again people singing and praising Jesus!

They are lifting the whole local community, hate is being replaced with love and forgiveness, even towards their enemies, just like Jesus said!

Now we have a possibility to create a future
for Darfur – do YOU want to help to send
messengers of peace to the war-struck Darfur?


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		You can bring the Gospel to unreached people groups! Maybe you are not able to go yourself, but by supporting our ministry, you are making it possible for our local missionaries to travel to remote areas. They are bringing the Gospel to people who have never heard the name of Jesus before. You can donate by using the donate button below Short History The Norwegian mission organization “Svaret” – “The Answer”, was started many years ago as a sponsoring mission for Ingebjørg and Jan Ernst Gabrielsen when they worked and lived in Kenya as missionaries from 1973 – 79. They had a small, but faithful group of supporters that help them in their work during these years. After they came back to Norway, Jan Ernst Gabrielsen has continued to be in close touch with the East Africa Pentecostal Churches in Kenya and made a visit there almost every year. While they lived in Kenya they also got some good friends from Sudan that were attending Bible School in Kenya. After finishing their training they returned to Sudan and preached the Gospel. Jan Ernst Gabrielsen was asked to come and help and from 1977 he visited Sudan many, many times up to 1983 when the Civil war started there. During that time he helped the Sudanese Christians organize and register the Sudan Pentecostal Church, and they sent preachers and a missionary family from Kenya to help found the work in Sudan When the cease fire came as the Peace negotiations begun between North and South, it was again possible to travel to Sudan, and Jan Ernst Gabrielsen started again going there to help the work that he had been with before the war. Sudan – Africa's biggest country with 94 people groups who have not heard the Gospel yet No other land in Africa has so many various tribes and people groups who have never heard the Gospel as Sudan. One of the reasons is that it has hardly been possible to work as missionaries in big parts of the land - partly because of the civil war that went... ::READ MORE Kenya – a key country for mission in the rest of Africa Jan Ernst Gabrielsen lived with his wife Ingebjørg and their 3 children in Kenya from 1973 to 1979, working as a missionary in the Pentecostal movement called East Africa Pentecostal Churches. During the last 3 years the focus was on planting new churches among the unreached tribes... :: READ MORE Somalia – one of the world's most unreached lands It is very difficult to work in Somalia, but the mission organization SVARET (THE ANSWER) supports a full-time worker who is working among people of Somalia in Garissa, east of Kenya, and another one who works in Somaliland, where the situation is more peaceful than in Somalia itself. They both have contact with smaller house churches and groups in Somalia, but they are living under very difficult circumstances. Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Burundi and Uganda In these lands we have been supporting leader seminars and meetings in many various churches, and we still want to help with that in all these countries, even though Sudan is the main focus today. Egypt – an important land for evangelism in the Arabic-speaking world This country with about 70 million people has ca. 10% native Egyptians, and they consider themselves Christians. The strong traditional church is the Coptic Church, but there is also a big Pentecostal movement, Assemblies of God, and many living evangelical churches. The biggest one is situated in the heart of the centre of Cairo - the Kasr El-Debora with about 8,000 members. There are also some churches that have started with Sudanese preachers and other free fellowships. We have held a lot of leader seminars in many parts of the country and I have preached in many of the churches, both in Cairo and in the towns up north, along the Nile, such as El-Minya and Assiout. There is a need of spiritual breakthrough in the Christian work in the country, and I experience a great need of a rise of new churches. Darfur – a province in constant turbulence The civil war in Darfur seems to be growing in strength, and the number of refugee camps is just rising. There is no political solution, and the African rebellion groups have divided themselves into many smaller fractions, which makes negotiations very difficult. Over 50 humanitarian organizations which keep more than 2.2 million refugees and many others alive have over 16,000 workers from many countries. They are working in very hard conditions and are still attacked and threatened by both sides in the conflict. We need to pray fervently for the people in that country. There are only about 7 million inhabitants here, and about one third live in refugee camps	We focus on the people groups that have not yet heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The majority of the people that have not yet heard the message of eternal salvation and peace with God through Jesus and his dead and resurrection, live within what we call the 10-40 window. These are the countries from the west coast of Africa to the east coast of Asia and approximately from 10 grades to 40 grades north of the Equator. Here lives millions of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and others, who have never had the opportunity to hear about Jesus. Our focus is particularly on the north and east of Africa with a main focus on Sudan. We also work in Kenya and Somalia/ Somaliland as well as doing meetings and leadership training in countries like Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Burundi. In Sudan we work closely with the Sudan Pentecostal Church, but also with a variety of churches through the Sudan Council of Churches. In Kenya we work mainly with the East Africa Pentecostal Churches. Our contribution is successful and means a lot! Jan Ernst Gabrielsen was part of founding the large church movement, ”Sudan Pentecostal Churches”, at the end of the 70's and has been following the development very closely during the latest years. Before the 20-year-long civil war started in 1983, he had been to the country 15 times in order to preach and inspire the new church leaders and preachers there. He also helped them to have the movement registered by the authorities. Now there are more than 400 local churches there and they are experiencing strong growth in the work. The last 6 years he has been visiting the country many times a year, teaching, equipping and training many hundreds of preachers and Christian leaders both from this movement and from the whole range of evangelical churches in the country. After the cease-fire between the north and south took place, Gabrielsen travelled to the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, in order to meet some of the leaders of Sudan Pentecostal Churches. He met many that he had known from the time before the civil war started, and many who came there afterwards. The seed that had been planted had brought rich fruit! Darfur calls! The civil war in Darfur started more than 4 years ago, and this war was not a fight between Christians and Muslims. Here it was African Muslims who saw that the south of Sudan was negotiating with the regime in Khartoum about having partly a self-government, and they had experienced themselves being oppressed and exploited for many years. They rebelled and the authorities struck back in a cruel way. Together with militant groups from Arabian tribes - the so-called Janjaweed – one village after another got attacked, burned and destroyed. The inhabitants became exposed to cruel treatment with tortures, murder, rape and humiliation. The African tribes became exterminated from large areas, and today more than 2 million of these African Muslims live in refugee camps. They are kept alive by about 16,000 aid workers from numerous humanitarian organizations that work there together with the UN. Fervent prayer and inauguration together with strong spiritual experiences strengthen the ministry. Christian refugees preach Jesus Traditionally Darfur has not had any Christians and has been very Muslim. In the meantime, during the civil war that lasted for more than 20 years, there came some refugees from the south of Sudan. Over 5 million people fled from the south during those years, and more than 4 million settled around the capital, Khartoum. Thousands of others fled to neighbouring countries and other parts of the world, but some also came to Darfur, which lies in the north. Many of these refugees came from the churches we had started in the south before the war! Some of them started smaller "refugee churches" in Darfur, as well as around Khartoum, but did not have any big breakthrough among local tribes in Darfur. When the civil war began in Darfur and thousands from African tribes were killed and tortured in the most cruel ways by their Muslim brothers from the Arabic tribes, many began also to ask questions about their religion. Many came to the Christian refugees there and said, "We have made a big mistake that has placed us under the Arabic leaders and their religion! Now we would like to hear about Jesus from the Bible!" Even chiefs and Muslim leaders ask for help and want to hear about God from these Christian refugees. First Christian leader seminars in Darfur When Gabrielsen visited Khartoum 3 years ago, many Christians came from Darfur and asked for help with getting teaching and leader training there as well. It resulted in the first Christian leader seminar in the history of Darfur, and 80 leaders came from all the Christian denominations. It turned out that many of them did not even understand what salvation is, and only a few had Bibles. After that seminar the Gospel experienced a fantastic breakthrough there. Thousands of Bibles were distributed and many experienced, Spirit-filled Christians from other parts of Sudan have devoted 3 months each to help the new Christians in Darfur! A big group of evangelists and Sudanese missionaries have been part of starting many new churches in this large region, which is just as big as the whole of France and where there live 10 - 12 million people. Preachers and leaders received teaching with open hearts when Jan Ernst Gabrielsen was teaching in Nyala, Darfur. The province of Darfur has about 50 various tribes and people groups, some with African and some with Arabic roots. All of them have been completely non-evangelized, and what gives perspective to the work is that this is more than a half of the 94 unreached people groups in Sudan. No other nation in Africa has so many unreached tribes, and if we can reach Darfur tribes, we will have reached over a half of the unreached people groups in this country! The Gospel transforms the hearts! It is a historic occasion to bring the Gospel of peace to this war-struck province! There is great need for the humanitarian contribution in the province, but food does not remove the hate - those people need new hearts. Future will be built for Darfur, and we are absolutely convinced that the Gospel about Jesus is what can give the province hope and progress! It is absolutely an unbelievable experience to see those hundreds of born-again people singing and praising Jesus! They are lifting the whole local community, hate is being replaced with love and forgiveness, even towards their enemies, just like Jesus said! Now we have a possibility to create a future for Darfur – do YOU want to help to send messengers of peace to the war-struck Darfur?
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