Patrick & Jean Groves,
Missionaries to Sudan/Kenya
BIO INFORMATION:
While reading the scriptures in spring 1985, a young Jamaican couple, Patrick and Jean Groves,
set out to find the “church” spoken of in the book of Acts. God led them to Pentecostal
Tabernacle and Pastor Sammy Stewart. Here they received the revelation of the oneness of God, and obeyed
Act 2:38. Shortly thereafter, the Lord revealed to them that they would one day carry the gospel to a foreign field.
In 1988 they migrated to Canada, where Patrick attended Apostolic Missionary Institute. Before their missionary
appointment in March 2004, they saw their home assembly, Weston United Pentecostal Church, grow to become the
largest UPC Church in Canada.
The Lord blessed them, with three beautiful children, Mary-Elizabeth, Warren, and Joash. The Groves are the first
United Pentecostal Church missionaries to be appointed to the predominantly Muslim country of Sudan. They will
therefore pioneer the work there. They will reside in Kenya when first arriving in Africa to be able to work on visas
to enter Sudan and to gain valuable on site training that will prepare them for their future work.
RECENT UPDATE AS OF DECEMBER 2008:
"Good news! FMD has given us the green light to leave for the field! Lord willing, we are hoping to depart for
Nairobi, Kenya in early January 2009."
For more information on their mission trip, you can visit www.pgroves.vision4africa.org.
Missionaries to Sudan/Kenya
BIO INFORMATION:
While reading the scriptures in spring 1985, a young Jamaican couple, Patrick and Jean Groves,
set out to find the “church” spoken of in the book of Acts. God led them to Pentecostal
Tabernacle and Pastor Sammy Stewart. Here they received the revelation of the oneness of God, and obeyed
Act 2:38. Shortly thereafter, the Lord revealed to them that they would one day carry the gospel to a foreign field.
In 1988 they migrated to Canada, where Patrick attended Apostolic Missionary Institute. Before their missionary
appointment in March 2004, they saw their home assembly, Weston United Pentecostal Church, grow to become the
largest UPC Church in Canada.
The Lord blessed them, with three beautiful children, Mary-Elizabeth, Warren, and Joash. The Groves are the first
United Pentecostal Church missionaries to be appointed to the predominantly Muslim country of Sudan. They will
therefore pioneer the work there. They will reside in Kenya when first arriving in Africa to be able to work on visas
to enter Sudan and to gain valuable on site training that will prepare them for their future work.
RECENT UPDATE AS OF DECEMBER 2008:
"Good news! FMD has given us the green light to leave for the field! Lord willing, we are hoping to depart for
Nairobi, Kenya in early January 2009."
For more information on their mission trip, you can visit www.pgroves.vision4africa.org.
MISSIONARIES WE SUPPORT
Acts 4: 8 - But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and
ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and
unto the uttermost part of the earth. .
Acts 4: 8 - But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and
ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and
unto the uttermost part of the earth. .
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