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Empowering Leaders, Transforming Communities

Who we are

We recognise that many pastors around the world deeply love the Lord but have had limited access to formal training, particularly in regions with fewer resources.  While they are dedicated to their churches, many lack someone who cares for them to provide mentorship, accountability, and a support system.

 

Additionally, they often struggle with limited access to Bibles—their most essential tool—and need a stronger foundation in the Gospel to effectively lead others to Christ and disciple new believers.

 

This website seeks to address these challenges by providing resources to help pastors grow in their walk with God and in leadership.

 

Our Pastors’ Handbook has been widely welcomed, offering guidance to those seeking biblical knowledge and practical ministry support.  Through modern media, we engage with pastors via Zoom calls, WhatsApp messages, podcasts, and YouTube.

 

Our online Bible school tackles theological questions, ethical issues, and gaps in biblical understanding. We offer teachings on various topics and books of the Bible, continually expanding our resource library to equip leaders more effectively.

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We are deeply grateful for the testimonies of those who have found Jesus as their Living Hope and for the pastors in over 30 countries who value and benefit from this ministry.

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30 years of Living Hope Ministries

Our history

Living Hope Ministries was founded in 1994 by Richard and Elaine Brunton, starting with a single contact in Kenya. Since then, it has expanded to have connections across Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and New Zealand. A dedicated team has now taken on the responsibility of visiting many of the 30+ countries that Richard pioneered through his visits during the first 25 years.


Richard’s mission now is to care for all the team members with advice and support in their spiritual development.  He continues to be supported by his wife, Elaine. 


He continues to produce Bible studies and other Bible materials, podcasts, TV programmes and videos for the LHM YouTube channel. He will still be contacting and praying for the main friends overseas and sharing live messages by telephone to groups in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Burundi and Liberia. He will continue to visit the UK churches that support LHM.

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We value very much your prayers and financial support as the Lord leads.

Core Beliefs

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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(John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”) Out of His fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made Him known.

 

John 1:14-18 (New International Version)

The Word of God

The Bible is the final authority concerning doctrine and behaviour. Everything taught must be in line with God’s Word. Salvation and heaven are available through our Lord Jesus, who is the living word. Sin, judgement and hell are realities to be dealt with.

The Cross

Always we preach Christ – and Him crucified! All of our messages should contain the good news of salvation through Jesus, who died for our sins and rose again.

Commitment to Accountability

Jesus never promised to build Living Hope Ministries, but He did promise to build His church. The purpose of LHM is to build up the church of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, our teaching and input should always seek to build up the local church, not the ministry of LHM. The biblical ministries of apostles, prophets, teachers and evangelists are actively encouraged, and the groups we work with should aim to have this balance. We want local churches to be free from false teaching, so that they can serve their communities effectively.

The Nations

God’s heart is for the nations and all nations are open to the ministry of Living Hope Ministries as the Lord leads.

The Holy Spirit

His empowering gifting and anointing is essential to see signs, wonders and lasting fruit in the ministry. Please see the Living Hope Ministries Statement of Faith for a fuller insight into what we believe.

Relationships

Living Hope Ministries is committed to encouraging those who are taught and touched by the ministry, to build strong and deep personal relationships with the Lord Jesus Christ. All the people we work with are friends, not contacts, and our service for Jesus is greatly enhanced by our being in good relationship with one another. We honour marriage as taught in Scripture. Marriage is to be safeguarded in every way and is a powerful picture of the relationship between Christ and his church. Holiness and purity are hallmarks of that relationship.

Service

We believe valid Christian ministry comes out of a serving heart. People working with us must not be empire builders in any sense but servants of the Lord Jesus.

Leadership Training

Local churches need to be led by godly leaders, whose vision is clear to build God’s church not theirs! Seminars, TV, Radio, Bible Studies, Prayer and Fellowship are all provided to achieve that goal.

Humility

Living Hope Ministries serves very poor people in other countries, but in no sense do we want to adopt a colonial style. Rather, we count it always a privilege to work with God’s people in whatever economic state they find themselves.

Focus

Living Hope Ministries was called by God to train and equip leaders – teaching them to build churches that reflect the New Testament model. We recognise the many practical and material needs that are faced by these leaders and we help where we can. However, this can never be at the expense of our goal to train and equip God’s servants, to establish churches that honour Jesus.

Core Values

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom, I give you this charge: preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage – with great patience and careful instruction.

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For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather round them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

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1 Timothy 4:1-5 (New International Version)

Statement of Faith

Living Hope Ministries exists to promote the Gospel through equipping and supporting Pastors and Leaders, both here in the UK and Overseas. Our Statement of Faith confirms our beliefs and the authority under which we work. It is by the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, that we are saved. We are members of the Evangelical Alliance.

We believe in...

  1. The one true God who lives eternally in three persons—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
     

  2. The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
     

  3. The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God—fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
     

  4. The dignity of all people, made male and female in God's image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
     

  5. The incarnation of God’s eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ—born of the virgin Mary, truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
     

  6. The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
     

  7. The bodily resurrection of Christ, the first fruit of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
     

  8. The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
     

  9. The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
     

  10. The Church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers—given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit's gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.
     

  11. The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.

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Partner Nations

We value your prayers for our work across the nations. Please join us in daily prayer for the countries listed below. If you wish to pray on specific days along with the team and other supporters, then please follow the Prayer Diary.​​​​

  • Bosnia

  • Bulgaria

  • Burundi

  • Columbia

  • Congo

  • Croatia

  • Ecuador

  • Ethiopia

  • Finland

  • Guinea

  • India

  • Kenya

  • Latvia

  • Liberia

  • Macedonia

  • Malawi

  • ​Mozambique

  • Napal

  • Nigeria

  • Pakistan

  • Peru

  • Philippines

  • Poland

  • Romania

  • Rwanda

  • Serbia

  • Sierra Leone

  • Slovenia

  • Tanzania

  • Uganda

  • Ukraine

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