Trey and Rebecca Hancock
Dearborn, Michigan, US-Intercultural Missions
https://usmissions.ag.org/MissionaryLocator/USMissionaryResult?Account=2225365
Trey and Becky Hancock have lived in Dearborn, Michigan since 1987. They are Assemblies of God US-Intercultural appointed missionaries, sharing the Gospel of Jesus with the goal of planting churches among Arab Muslims. In 1999 the Lord began to deal with their heart about planting a church in town. On the Sunday before Memorial Day 2000 they began meeting in their home to establish a church. They began by inviting their friends and neighbors to a meal and a time of worship and studying God’s Word. The Lord has been faithful and Springwells Church, is planted and growing.
Our objective is to reach our community which is 97% Arab Muslim. It is the largest concentration of Arabic- speaking people in the world outside the Middle East. People from Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Yemen are the main people groups. Dearborn is one of the most strategic cities in the world for the Gospel. This area is crucial to a worldwide movement of the Holy Spirit. Michigan has been targeted by Islam to be the first Islamic state in the United States, and Dearborn has long been a pulse point toward that goal. Dearborn must be realized as a strategic mission field. The focus is sharpening toward a major population of unreached people living in our country where evangelism is legal and accessible. Yemen is a country with very few missionaries if any. The AoG, at this time, has no missionaries in Yemen. Dearborn has a high population of Yemeni and the LORD is moving. Our prayer is that the new believers will take it “back home” to their families and country. Would that it be God’s heart to plant another church here that will cross the boundary to Yemen. Trey and Becky are NOW preparing for the next generation by training young adults with the call to minister the Gospel to Muslim people groups and plant churches. Springwell’s Intercultural Ministry Center (SpringwellsIMC.com) prepares college interns, ChiAlpha teams, and mission associates with a call to Muslim contexts.
PRAYER REQUEST
Pray for the conviction of sin that leads to repentance- they need to realize they are lost.
Pray that the Lord would raise up more laborers to continue the work of the Kingdom here- that the training center would produce young ones with a selfless heart to go plant churches or stay to plant churches here in Dearborn.
Pray that blindness and deception would be removed- vain imaginations that have exalted themselves would implode.
Pray for God to move in power and manifest the authority of Jesus in signs and wonders! Pray for boldness in proclamation.
Pray for unity in the believers.
Pray that Muslim background believers would love each other and be in unity to show His life.
