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The early information years

During his teenage years at school, Jonathan and his brother led over 60 of the boys to Christ, some of whom are in the ministry today. Travelling to and from school by train he would challenge the commuters with the Gospel , a number of whom received Jesus, often as a result of healing prayer. At the age of 17, when considering his future career, Jonathan had a vision of the Cross of Christ during the night and knew the Lord was commissioning him to preach the Gospel. Jonathan has been in full-time ministry for 20 years so far and has been privileged to lead in excess of 200,000 people to a living faith in Jesus Christ. He is now 40 years old, is happily married to Elaine, and they have three young boys, Nathan, Joshua, and Benjamin.

Valley Ministries

Sensing the call of God strongly in his heart, Jonathan turned down the potential of a career in the family business and at the age of nineteen became a full-time evangelist , training with Don Double of the Good News Crusade. After an initial training period of seven years, in 1994 he was released with Don’s blessing to establish “Valley Ministries” with a vision to “take the miracles of Jesus to the “spiritual valleys of the nations” (Joel 3:14).

Mission24 : An enlarged vision

In 2008, Jonathan felt a prompting from the Lord to train and raise up a network of local church based mission teams around the world , with a vision to win the nations for Christ together. With this in mind, Mission24 was born as a means of equipping the local church, facilitating the work of mission, and providing a forum for the recognition and release of a new generation of evangelists. The ultimate intention of the vision is that there will come a day when in any 24 hr period there will be a mission team out somewhere in the Globe winning the world to Christ !