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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
Recent News
Keeping in touch from Ukraine
Greetings from Odessa, Ukraine at present. I trust that you are all well and enjoying God's rich blessings at this time. Bless you for your wonderful support that has helped has helped us immensely to meet the needs of the [...]
Your area of need
What did Moses do when people of Israel stood against him? He still believed what God had promised. So to calm the people he said to them: “Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord” (Exodus 14). Even in [...]
He who honours Him has mercy on the needy!
Proverbs 14:31 “He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honours him has mercy on the needy.” Let's honour the Maker by showing mercy on someone in great need today! The Child Care Centre in Gardene, Latvia [...]
This is Almants
He is part of a family of eleven children. They live in a rundown, ugly, former movie theatre in one of the remote areas of Riga. The building is so rotten and old that when they went in as a [...]
School needs
Psalm 9:18 “For the needy shall not always be forgotten; the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.” This is also a busy time in preparing for the start of the new school year in September where we need [...]
Amazing Ministry coming up in Ukraine October 2017
I want to thank you for your great friendship and your wonderful partnership in the gospel. You have been such a blessing and encouragement to us and more especially all the orphans we support in Eastern Europe. We couldn’t manage [...]