Welcome to our web presentation!
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.
How the work started
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... READ MORE
Sudan - Africa's biggest country with 94 people groups who have not heard the Gospel yet!
No other nation 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 to 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.
Help us bring the Gospel of Jesus to the 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 give your gift to our Norwegian bank:
Bank name: Den norske Bank, 4580 Lyngdal, Norway.
Name: Misjonsforeningen.
Account no: 7322 05 15386
IBAN NO88 7322 0515 386 - SWIFT CODE: DNBANOKKXXX
You can also donate by using the donate button below
Jesus before. You can give your gift to our Norwegian bank:
Bank name: Den norske Bank, 4580 Lyngdal, Norway.
Name: Misjonsforeningen.
Account no: 7322 05 15386
IBAN NO88 7322 0515 386 - SWIFT CODE: DNBANOKKXXX
You can also 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.
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.
