Mark, Barb, JJ and Kara Hugo are South African citizens
serving in fulltime cross cultural ministry with SIM (sim.org) and ZEMA
(zema.org) in South Africa.
BACKGROUND
Mark grew up in Cape Town and studied Construction
Management at Univeristy of Cape Town.
He worked a number of years in Cape Town as a site agent before heading
to USA where he did his Masters in Pastoral Studies (at Multnomah Biblical
Seminary in Portland, Oregon). He came
to a saving knowledge of Jesus as his personal Savior while first in the
USA.
Barb grew up in East London, South Africa and studied
occupational therapy at University of Cape Town. This is where they metJ. She worked with various physical disabilities
in SA and the USA. While in the USA, she
also enjoyed volunteering as a peer counselor at a Portland Metro Crisis
Pregnancy centre. Jesus gently became a
permanent part of her life in her middle 20’s.
HISTORY
The Hugo’s became appointee’s with SIM in 1996. Their fulltime service began in 1998 in the
NW Province of South Africa in a small town of Mogwase. Here they lived and worked in this
predominatly Tswana area doing church work and later setting up a crisis
counseling centre that did peer counseling, training and HIV testing and
counseling.
After 10 years in Mogwase, they moved to Sunbury Christian
Camp in KwaZulu-Natal to learn the ministry of ZEMA amongst the Zionists. While doing this, they also oversaw
maintenance and housekeeping at the conference centre. Mark also started teaching in the Zion Bible
School run from Sunbury and Barb did some peer counselor training there. They served there just over 4 years.
(ZEMA provides bible
teachers for Zion Bible Schools or ZEBS.
The Zionists organize themselves a group in their community that wants
bible teaching. ZEMA responsds by
providing a teacher. The teacher goes to
the community rather than the students coming to a bible school. This makes it much more affordable for the
students. Presently ZEMA has over 70
bible schools, around 40 teachers and more than 2200 students registered in
Southern Africa.)
During this period living and serving at Sunbury, the Hugo’s
dealt with a cancer diagnosis and treatment, when Barb was diagnoses with
breast cancer. Three years ago then
moved to Durban so Mark could do fulltime Zion Bible School teaching. The Lord, in His grace, has allowed 3 cancer
free years since that initial treatment.
PRESENT MINISTRY
Mark teaches Zionists at the ZEBS in Umlazi and is part of a
team of 4 ZEMA missionaries who teach and support each other in KZN. He is looking at other opportunities to open
other ZEBS in the area with local pastor support.
Mark teaches twice a week at Durban Bible College which is a
small evangelical bible school started by TEAM.
He has opportunity here to feed into leaders of the present and future
but also has opporutnies to share about ministry amongst the amaZioni.
Mark runs the young adults bible study at the church we
attend which has young people from South Africa, Angola and Zimbabwe.
Mark is also available to preach, teach and encourage in
local churches.
Barb homeschools their 2 children. Her low vision means her mobility is
restricted but she enjoys hospitality and also assists with teaching counseling
skills with the Zionists.
OUR PASSION
Marks passion is to see the light go on in the hearts and
minds of fellow Africans when presented with the Truth of God’s Word.
Barbs passion is to see the Body of Christ equipped in how
to listen and disciple to form healthy relationships and to be Jesus’ hands in
our hurting world.
JJ’s passion is art and music. His desire is to study animation.
Kara’s passion is rhythmic gymnastics, ballet and writing in
that order. She is not yet sure what she
wants to study when finished school.
HOW TO BE A PART OF
OUR SUPPORT TEAM…
PRAYER… If you do not receive regular communication
from us, please let us know so we can add you to our mailing lists. We communicate via email, facebook and blog.
Barbara Hugo or Hugo’s Highlights on fb
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
explained…
As missionaries, we raise our own support. Meaning we rely on the regular financial
donations of friends, churches and groups for our monthly salary. SIM coordinates all these donations on our
behalf.
There are 2 ways to support financially…
1.
Monthly
support. These gifts are pooled
together and cover our monthly living allowance, medical pool, travel fund for
furlough, retirement, admin costs and housing.
The mission works out the minimum monthly cost per country where a
missionary serves.
2.
Ministry
support. This pools in our ‘ministry
account’ to assist with ministry costs like transport (petrol is expensive in
SA) and other ministry expenses.
3.
One time
gifts. If you’re unable to give on a
monthly basis, one time gifts are pooled together in our ‘ministry account’ and
we’re able to draw from here as needed.
If you choose to join our support team, you would need to
specify which of these 2 accounts you want your support to go to. SIM will assist you in how best to make your
contributions.
Contact people are…
South Africa: John
Berry or Gerhardt Venter (021) 715 3200
USA: www.sim.org
England: graham.brown@sim.org
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