Peter Hammond, born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1960, and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), is a missionary, evangelist, and author whose life has been dedicated to spreading the Gospel and supporting persecuted Christians, particularly in Africa.
He was converted to Christ on 3 April 1977 at a cinema in Pinelands. Peter worked with Scripture Union and Hospital Christian Fellowship before serving in the South African Defence Force. He studied at Baptist Theological College (now Cape Town Baptist Seminary), earning a Christian Missions Diploma, and later received a Doctorate in Missiology from Whitefield Theological Seminary and an honorary Doctorate of Divinity.
Founding and Leading Frontline Fellowship
In 1982, he founded Frontline Fellowship, pioneering evangelistic outreaches in war zones like Mozambique, Angola, and Sudan, delivering Bibles and aid despite facing extreme dangers.
Dr. Peter Hammond is also the Director of the Christian Action Network and the Chairman of The Reformation Society. He has pioneered evangelistic missions and established Christian schools and Bible colleges throughout Africa, particularly in Sudan to persecuted Christians.
Missionary Activities and Challenges
Since 1982, often travelling by off-road motorbike, Peter has travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometres to deliver Bibles to persecuted Christians in Africa and Eastern Europe. He has proclaimed the Gospel in 38 countries on four continents.
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In the course of his missionary activities, Peter has been ambushed, come under aerial and artillery bombardments, been stabbed, shot at, beaten by mobs, arrested and imprisoned. On some missions he has flown far behind enemy lines to the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan with tons of Bibles, books, medicines and relief aid. He has walked throughout the war devastated Nuba Mountains showing the Jesus film in Arabic, proclaiming the Gospel, training pastors and evading enemy patrols. The Frontline mission base and high school in Sudan repeatedly came under aerial bombardment by the government of Sudan Air Force (10 times in 18 months). Over the years, 20 people involved in Frontline Fellowship outreaches have been imprisoned in Marxist or Muslim countries. Yet, by the grace of God, everyone was freed in response to persistent prayer and pressure (Luke 18:1 - 5).
Delivering Spiritual Ammunition
Frontline Fellowship is committed to providing "Shipments of Spiritual Ammunition for Spiritual Warfare". Peter praises God for shipments of Bibles and Christian books. For example, a 20-foot container from Eagles Nest Ministries, a 30-foot container of World Missionary Press Gospel booklets (over two million Gospel booklets, each 50-pages all Scripture, in 15 languages), and 790 Bibles in indigenous African languages from the Bible Society.
All told, over 40 tonnes of literature to offload, sort, categorise, designate and distribute.
Author and Advocate
Hammond is also a prolific author, with works including:
- Faith Under Fire In Sudan
- Holocaust In Rwanda
- In the Killing Fields of Mozambique
- The Great Commission Manual
- The Biblical Worldview Manual
- Putting Feet To Your Faith
- The Greatest Century of Missions
- Biblical Principles For Africa
- The Discipleship Handbook
- Slavery, Terrorism and Islam - The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat
- The Greatest Century of Reformation
- The Power of Prayer Handbook
- Practical Discipleship
- Answering Skeptics
- Old Testament Survey
- Sketches from South African History
- Victorious Christians - Who Changed the World
- The Ten Commandments -God's Perfect Law of Liberty
- Chaplains Handbook
- Security and Survival Handbook
- The New Testament Survey
He is the Editor of both Frontline Fellowship News and the Christian Action magazine.
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Biblical Worldview and Training
Peter has developed the Biblical Worldview Seminar and Great Commission Course to mobilise churches to comprehensively apply the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life.
Through literature and leadership training, Frontline Fellowship is educating and enlisting tens of thousands of Christians to “disciple the nations…teaching obedience.” Just in Sudan, since 1995, Frontline Fellowship trained thousands of pastors, chaplains, medics and teachers.
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Involvement in Social Issues
In his desire to apply the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life, Peter has been actively involved in numerous social issues. Since 1991 he has been vigorously promoting the Pro-Life cause in South Africa, initiating and mobilising the annual Life Chains, Sanctity Life Sunday and National Day of Repentance.
He has mobilised numerous of marches to Parliament, including the Christian Voice marches in 1995 and 1996 which mobilised over 30,000 Christians in protest against the planned new secular state and its constitutional approval of abortion, pornography and other social evils.
These books and campaigns have led to hundreds opportunities to present Biblical principles through newspaper articles and on national radio and television programmes.
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Commitment to Christian Education
Peter has a strong commitment to Christian education, having helped to promote Christian education and home schooling in South Africa for over 29 years. He and his wife Lenora home schooled their four children and help provide Christian school textbooks through their Christian Liberty Books ministry.
Personal Life
Peter is married to Lenora, whose missionary parents Rev. Bill and Harriett Bathman pioneered missionary work, mostly into Eastern Europe, for over 60 years. Peter and Lenora have been blessed with 4 children: Andrea, Daniela, Christopher and Calvin whom they have home schooled. They now have two grandchildren, Jeremy and Joshua.
Along with his family, Peter enjoys hiking and mountain climbing and he is involved in various animal welfare groups. He has been involved in rescuing and caring for a wide variety of wild and domestic animals including penguins and Rhinos. He co-ordinates Wonderful Wildlife, We Love God's Animals and The Bible and Animals.
For over 22 years, Peter hosted a weekly radio programme, Salt and Light, on Radio Tygerberg in Cape Town. Peter now hosts From the Frontline radio podcast.
The Power of Prayer
Peter Hammond preaches on the power of prayer and obedience to God, emphasizing that Christians are not destined for defeat but for victory. He shares inspiring stories of how prayer has changed the course of history in countries like China, Mozambique, Angola, Berlin, Romania, and Albania, where God intervened in miraculous ways to open doors for the Gospel and defeat oppressive regimes.
Hammond encourages believers to trust in God's sovereignty and the transformative power of prayer to impact nations and bring about change.
| Country | Situation | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| China | Communist country closed to the Gospel | Doors opened, over 50 million Christians |
| Mozambique | Marxist persecution of Christians | Marxism renounced, churches allowed some freedom |
| Albania | Declared itself the first fully atheist state | Communist government forced to re-open churches |
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