The Baptist work in Lesotho is truly a team effort.

On the front-lines are the IMB missionaries who work with the national pastors. Their work together is further strengthened by short-term volunteers from the USA and from South Africa. But behind all of this is the foundation of the prayer support of prayer warriors developed through the hard work of the Basotho Stateside Prayer Advocate.

Please meet our Team ...

Alan and Babs Dial arrived in Lesotho on May 12, 2004. They are presently living in Katse Village in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho. They lead the Maluti Mountain Sub-Team of the Basotho Team. They have grown children back in the USA and two 4 year old boys here in Lesotho .... Mohau and Karabo. They serve as the Team Leaders/Strategists for the Basotho Team.

Tom and Cindi Melvin are from Chester, Virginia, and arrived in Lesotho on January 14, 2007 to serve as Lowlands Sub-team leaders. They have 2 boys; Zachary is a freshman at Liberty University and Eli a 10^th grader. Their work includes planting new churches in the Lowlands of Lesotho as well as helping to disciple and train pastors and church members of existing Baptist churches.

Larry and Sally Pepper have joined the Maluti Mountain Sub-team of the Basotho People Group. The Peppers have served with the IMB in Uganda for 12-1/2 years in Medical and University Student work.

Their role is to "Preach and Heal" in order to evangelize, disciple, and plant churches in the mountains of Lesotho. They work hand in hand with Missionary Aviation Fellowship and Lesotho Flying Doctors Services as they serve in the mountain medical clinics.

The Peppers have three grown children. Adam is doing graduate school at The George Washington University in a combined Public Health and Physicians Assistant program. Megan recently graduated from Hope College with a dual International Studies and French major. Kelly studies at Taylor University in Indiana.

Family web site:
http://peppersinugandaandlesotho.blogspot.com

Jim and Teresa Flora are now serving in the northern range of the Maluti Mountains as church planters. God has blessed Jim and Teresa with 6 amazing children and 3 grandchildren. Their sons are grown and married and living in Missouri. Serving with them in Mokhotlong will be Elizabeth Grace, age 11, is adopted from India, Anna Mikail, age 10, is adopted from Haiti, and their baby girl Rebekah Joy, age 5, also adopted from Haiti.

Read more about the Flora's on their blog at:
www.jflora.wordpress.com

Boots and Saddles Journeymen in Lesotho

Justin and Korby will be serving on the Basotho Mountain Sub-Team. They will reside in the village of Matsaile in the district of Thaba Tseka. Mission Aviation Fellowship will be partnering with the Basotho Team assisting these young men getting in and out of their village. Pray for Justin and Korby as they serve Jesus Christ and the Basotho in the Mountain Kingdom in the Sky.

Justin Morgan is a graduate of the University of Florida

Korby Griffith is a graduate of Liberty University

Read more about Justin and Korby and what they are doing on their blog at: http://prayforlesotho.wordpress.com/

Volunteers

Volunteers from the United States and South Africa work alongside Basotho Baptists in evangelism and discipleship. This joint effort serves as a catalyst in starting new Baptist churches as well as strengthening existing Baptist congregations. A variety of opportunities offer people the chance to use their natural and spiritual gifts as a volunteer.

Stateside Prayer Advocate

Mrs. Jayne Worstell is the Stateside Prayer Advocate for the Basotho and the Basotho Team.

Jayne was raised in Jefferson City, Missouri. Her love of missions was born as an active member of GA's (Girl's in Action) at her church. Jayne says, "GA's definitely put missions, home and foreign, in my heart." As a volunteer, she has been to Belarus twice and to Lesotho twice.

From Jayne: "I am our Association WMU Director and now the WMU Prayer Advocate for Lesotho. I am humbled to be serving the missionaries and the Basotho in this. Our missionaries in Lesotho are truly amazing as they serve and sacrifice. The country and people of Lesotho truly captured my heart. I looked into their faces and saw such a great need for Jesus there and I see a great need for more people to go to minister there as well as the need for great prayer warriors here to Lift Up Lesotho."

Newburg, Missouri, USA, is now home for Jayne and her husband. She also has four grown sons and six grandchildren.

Look at the picture closely. Which one is Jayne?

Prayer Warriors

A team of about 200 people from throughout the world have committed to PRAY for the work among the Basotho people. As well, the Missouri Women’s Missionary Union (WMU) of the Southern Baptist Convention has devotedly PRAYED for Lesotho since 1987 and continues in this vital ministry. The goal of the Basotho Team is to have over 3000 prayer warriors for the Basotho.