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

Lightning Strike

Fingers of fire scorched and splintered their wooden roof posts. Their house had been struck by lightning!

By: Edie Hicks
April 01 2017, 4:07 pm | Comments 0

Wheelbarrow Troubles

Now what do we do? We asked around and found three more wheelbarrows, all with flat tires.

By: David Hicks
March 01 2017, 10:22 am | Comments 0

Story Time

Please keep the boys and girls of May River in your prayers as Edie tells them Bible stories.

By: David Hicks
February 01 2017, 4:00 pm | Comments 0

Thankful

Lord, I am thankful You sent someone to tell my family about Jesus.

By: Edie Hicks
November 01 2016, 2:35 pm | Comments 1

Tok Pisin Literacy Class

Please pray that I will be able to develop these friendships further.

By: Edie Hicks
September 01 2016, 9:01 am | Comments 0

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