Zanzibar, Tanzania
Our Zanzibar Mission is the most recent mission outreach we support.
Lena Wadsworth is a missionary with Overland Missions, an international team of pioneers taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the most unreached people on the earth. Lena lives in East Africa, off the coast of Tanzania, on a small island called Zanzibar.
Zanzibar is 99% Muslim, hostile to the Gospel, and has a dark slave-based trading history. Stone Town, the capital of Zanzibar, began as an internal port for sending slaves throughout Africa and the Middle East. It is commonly now known as a tourist destination where sex workers and illegal drugs are prevalent. Stone Town serves as the entry port for heroin into Africa.
But despite the many challenges there, God is redeeming the land and now it is becoming a hub for Christian revival and a sending nation, not for slaves, but for His Missionaries.
Lena works alongside a team of 11 international staff and 33 local staff (who their team has raised up through their Missions Training Program).
Lena and her local staff are bringing the Gospel to sex workers and drug addicts all over the island.
She leads a six-month 'in-residence' discipleship program for men and women coming out of sex work and addiction.
They are seeing their students delivered from oppression and inward healing.
Once baptized in the Holy Spirit, these disciples , being filled with conviction, passion ard equipping they are taking the Good News of the Kingdom of God to their brothers and sisters on the island. The least of these are becoming the most powerful Evangelists in Zanzibar, carrying testimonies that no person of Muslim faith can refute.
Lena and her staff also purchased land and tend a chicken farm where the Mission Training Program students are responsible for caring for and raising chickens while also farming the land . Their vision is to use the profits to bolster and sustain the ministry in the future.
Lastly, they are working on building a Discipleship House, on their purchased land. The Muslim government is not favorable towards Christians, but being a land owner in Zanzibar mitigates the risk of their ministry being shut down.
Lena Wadsworth is a missionary with Overland Missions, an international team of pioneers taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the most unreached people on the earth. Lena lives in East Africa, off the coast of Tanzania, on a small island called Zanzibar.
Zanzibar is 99% Muslim, hostile to the Gospel, and has a dark slave-based trading history. Stone Town, the capital of Zanzibar, began as an internal port for sending slaves throughout Africa and the Middle East. It is commonly now known as a tourist destination where sex workers and illegal drugs are prevalent. Stone Town serves as the entry port for heroin into Africa.
But despite the many challenges there, God is redeeming the land and now it is becoming a hub for Christian revival and a sending nation, not for slaves, but for His Missionaries.
Lena works alongside a team of 11 international staff and 33 local staff (who their team has raised up through their Missions Training Program).
Lena and her local staff are bringing the Gospel to sex workers and drug addicts all over the island.
She leads a six-month 'in-residence' discipleship program for men and women coming out of sex work and addiction.
They are seeing their students delivered from oppression and inward healing.
Once baptized in the Holy Spirit, these disciples , being filled with conviction, passion ard equipping they are taking the Good News of the Kingdom of God to their brothers and sisters on the island. The least of these are becoming the most powerful Evangelists in Zanzibar, carrying testimonies that no person of Muslim faith can refute.
Lena and her staff also purchased land and tend a chicken farm where the Mission Training Program students are responsible for caring for and raising chickens while also farming the land . Their vision is to use the profits to bolster and sustain the ministry in the future.
Lastly, they are working on building a Discipleship House, on their purchased land. The Muslim government is not favorable towards Christians, but being a land owner in Zanzibar mitigates the risk of their ministry being shut down.
2025 UPDATE from Lena
Special thank you to yours from Zanzibar. Here are our memories from this past year. We just graduated 8 new students coming from addiction and prostitution and have been radically healed and delivered and are living in the joy of Jesus now. We were able to finish our building project enough to have our graduation there which was our prayer to God🙏 We still have a ways to go on the building but we thank God for the progress so far.
We love you and we are so thankful for your generosity to our ministry!!!!
Watch the video below of our memories from this year’s discipleship program!
We wouldn’t be able to do any of this without your yes! You have no idea how much of a difference your contribution is making in Zanzibar.
I love you
Merry Christmas
Love,
Lena
We love you and we are so thankful for your generosity to our ministry!!!!
Watch the video below of our memories from this year’s discipleship program!
We wouldn’t be able to do any of this without your yes! You have no idea how much of a difference your contribution is making in Zanzibar.
I love you
Merry Christmas
Love,
Lena
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