What is Mission Africa?
Mission Africa (The qua iboe fellowship)
Founded in 1887 by Samuel Bill as the Qua Iboe Mission, Mission Africa has pursued and continues to pursue to this day the outreach of the Gospel to peoples in Africa. Mission Africa has active outreach taking place in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad and Kenya.
For more information on the work of Mission Africa, please click the link below.
The proceeds of all products on this website help support the Burkina Faso Education Fund, which completes school fees for secondary school children so they can gain their school qualifications and begin the journey out of poverty. This discretionary fund is overseen by Jeremy Nash, who has served for over 24 years as a missionary in Burkina Faso with Mission Africa.
Jeremy's work in Burkina faso
Having first moved out to Burkina Faso, West Africa in 1994 with his wife Rachel and their first child, Katie, Jeremy and his family lived in Legmoin (a rural village in the south of the country) until they returned home in 2010 for the education of their, by then, three children. If you would like to see exactly where they lived just click on the link below labelled Legmoin! Google earth labels the village as Doutonble. Their house can be seen in the centre of the square compound in the centre of the screen – feel free to zoom out to see exactly how remote it was.
Whilst living out in Burkina Faso, Jeremy’s work focused on church planting and evangelism – through preaching, equipping the local church with material, for example spoken word cassette players in the local dialects as many were illiterate and in later years through showing the Jesus Film. Throughout his time there, Jeremy has also been involved in aid work: helping to pay for peoples’ operations, paying children’s school fees, distributing food in times of drought, helping purchase better farming equipment, well drilling and funding construction projects such as a boys’ dormitory and girls’ dormitory so students wouldn’t have to travel so far for school.
Since moving back to the UK, Jeremy has taken on the role of mission representative, a PR-type role trying to encourage people to get involved in missions and raising awareness for the work Mission Africa does. However, Jeremy continues to play a direct role in Mission Africa’s work in Burkina Faso: Jeremy spends over three months of the year in Burkina Faso, continuing God’s work. Now, the main focus of his work lies in outreach to schools, particularly through Bible courses, which have proven incredibly popular: the correlation between the Bible course participation and general academic attainment has resulted in several schools under secular administration asking to be involved in the outreach. Additionally, Jeremy works to supply schools with sports equipment (team strips from Kit Aid and footballs), badminton clubs with second hand racquets, nets and shuttles, pastors and students with second hand laptops and as a trustee of Myra’s Wells to help organise drilling and pump installation, providing clean water to deprived communities (click the button below to visit Myra’s Wells and find out more about the vital development work they do).