David & Edie Hicks

Career Missionaries since 2015, serving the Tonga people of Mozambique.

David and Edileuza (Edie) Hicks are church planting among the unreached Tonga people of Mozambique, Eastern Africa. They live in the city of Inhambane.

From the time he was five years old, David has had a growing interest in missions. He served as a student missionary in PNG from 1994 to 1996. He went on to study health and pastoral ministry at Weimar College where he graduated in 1998.

Edie immigrated to the USA from Brazil. As a girl, she read a book about Leo and Jessie Halliwell’s mission on the Amazon River. From that time on, she dreamed of being a missionary. Later, while a student at Instituto Adventista Paranaense (a Brazilian academy), she worked three summers as a literature evangelist. Finally, in 2011, while living in Massachusetts, she got her RN license.
After David and Edie heard a presentation by a furloughing AFM missionary in 2012, God moved their hearts to apply for mission service. They labored among the Ama and May River peoples in Papua New Guinea from 2015 to 2019. They then launched a new project among the Tonga people in March 2019.

The Tonga number about 335,000 people and speak two languages: Gitonga (a tribal language) and Portuguese. The Hickses will be focusing on local needs, such as women’s literacy, health and youth activities. Through this work they hope to build interest in Bible studies, prophecy seminars, Pathfinders and Adventist Youth (AY).

Frontier Stories

Earthquake!

Please pray that M.J. will follow through on his plan to come back to church.

By: Edie Hicks
June 01 2018, 9:13 am | Comments 0

God Bless the Thieves

I am praying for the blessing of God to fall upon the thieves so that their consciences will be pricked and they will begin listening to the call of the Holy Spirit. Will you join me in praying for the conversion of our thieves?

By: David hicks
April 01 2018, 11:08 am | Comments 1

Death of My Father

They live in dread of the deceased, but our work is to lead them to put their faith in the Lord of life.

By: David Hicks
January 01 2018, 3:34 pm | Comments 1

Jacob Maliu

How thankful I am for Jacob’s willingness to face hunger, sickness and loneliness for the gospel’s sake.

By: David Hicks
December 01 2017, 10:37 am | Comments 0

The Peace Child

Friends, please pray for these families that they will learn to allow Jesus, the ultimate Peace Child, into their lives to bring them reconciliation with God and eternal life.

By: David Hicks
November 01 2017, 3:05 pm | Comments 0

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