Jhan & Iris Hurst

JHAN & IRIS HURST

INDONESIA & WORLDWIDE

Missionaries who produce an evangelism-teaching program, Think a Minute, aired daily on secular radio stations to reach unreached peoples and connect them to local churches.

OCTOBER 2024 UPDATE

We are rejoicing and grateful for such a fruitful 5-year term based in Jakarta, Indonesia. While we’re now on furlough to raise a needed fresh supply of funds, we simultaneously are continuing our daily ministry of producing, writing and leading our global outreach.

LOCALLY in Indonesia, it was a privilege to frequently preach and help pastor the AG English-speaking church in Jakarta. It was a thrill to see this predominately local, multiracial church body grow from 500 to 1500 in just the last 3 years. Iris is continuing to lead via Zoom from the States both her evangelistic and discipling ministries to Indonesian and mainland Chinese women. Many of these women have come to Christ and been transformed through Iris’ spiritual mentoring and in-depth biblical teaching.

GLOBALLY, we never dreamed of the doors God would open for our outreach to go worldwide to unreached cities and tribes—every day on every continent. The Lord is allowing us to preach to more lost people each day than we expected to in our lifetime. In various countries, Jhan has been the voice of our daily evangelistic messages broadcast multiple times a day in primetime to lost multitudes listening to top secular stations. Think a Minute is also published in leading daily newspapers, books across China, podcasts, personal evangelism and discipling, and other methods of maximizing His message to millions. In many other countries and languages, national leaders, pastors, and church planters are translating and using our Christ-centered messages for frontline evangelism, church planting, church growth, and leadership training. None of this would be possible without our Calvary family’s unfailing prayers and partnership! You are enabling us to help establish and extend Christ’s church among all peoples. With all our hearts, thank you! We’re honored to be—Your daily voice to the unreached…in Indonesia and on every continent.

OCTOBER 2023 UPDATE

Jhan & Iris Hurst have served as missionaries for 36 years and presently base their daily global ministry in the massive metroplex of Jakarta, Indonesia. The Lord continues to expand Jhan and Iris’ international outreach through partnerships with pastors and AG executives in more countries, languages, and methods. On the ground, on air, and online, they help equip and mobilize pastors on every continent to plant new churches and evangelize their vast populations of nonbelievers—connecting many Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Animists, and Secularists to local bodies of believers. While Jhan is the voice of TAM (Think a Minute) in certain countries, national leaders in many other nations and languages are preaching the Hursts’ daily messages to the unreached. Jhan and Iris work with local ministers to help “establish His church among all people”—maximizing every opportunity and tool available.

PTL for the Hursts’ new “Team TAM” in Indonesia! Jhan and Iris lead their Indonesian team as its writers-producers, including overseeing the translations, recordings, and initiatives with Indonesian churches. So far, Team TAM has completed 125 programs in the Indonesian language for use in frontline evangelism and church planting throughout the largest Muslim country. The Hursts also fill the pulpits of strategic churches in Indonesia. Iris’ multiple ministries to women includes an unprecedented invitation by nearly 100 Muslims for ongoing teaching of the Christian life; and her several weekly groups for discipling believers and evangelizing nonbelievers in Indonesia, China, Japan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Australia.

Prayer Requests:

1) Please pray that many lost lives across Indonesia will be reached and connected to Christ’s body—as local churches maximize these new TAM tools for evangelism and church planting.

2) Please pray God provides His ongoing favor, faith, and funds needed to continue expanding our daily global ministry in our extended term’s 5th year.