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The seed of Smethurst Ministries was planted in 1972 when God called David Smethurst and his wife Margurita into ministry. This calling has taken them into churches, schools, youth groups, colleges, convents, military bases, prisons etc across the world including Africa, Australia, USA, Britain, Ireland, Latvia and other ex Soviet countries, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Malaysia, Iceland…
1988 saw the establishment of the Smethurst Ministries……. Read More >
Thank you for visiting our website and God bless you!
Dave and Margurita
Latest News:
People have started eating dogs in occupied Eastern Ukraine: no food has been delivered to the city since May. People are saying, “There is actually nothing to eat there”. This is happening in the Odessa region too, and the villages around the House of Hope. The shops and markets are being systematically being bombed. [...]
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My dear friends, I trust that this message will be an encouragement and a challenge to you to be the ambassador for Christ that he wants you to be. I hope that you will gain confidence and boldness, and have an unembarrassed freedom to share your relationship with Jesus to others with clarity and [...]
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Recent News
The area where the House of Hope is located, is taking a real pounding from Russian missiles day after day. In past years, before the war against Ukraine started, I had access to visit Ukraine many times, to conduct seminars and share the Gospel at colleges, universities, sporting bodies and the Ukrainian military (under [...]
Please pray for the House of Hope and all the poor single-mother families and orphans living there. The House continues to stand, but our manager says that life there has become pure survival. Everyone is utterly exhausted, worn down physically, emotionally, and mentally after endless days and sleepless nights under the constant threat of [...]
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We have just received a message from our team in Ukraine that a Russian missile has exploded in a field right next to the House of Hope – apparently just one degree out at the launch. The problem is that the fire is so huge that the wind is driving the fire into other [...]
