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Welcome!
Kent and Andrea Powell, full-time missionaries to Mozambique, Africa and founders of Release Ministries. June 2003 to 2025.
We serve to provide economic opportunities to aid orphans, widows, and the elderly. We are stationed along the coast near the former capital, called Ilha de Mocambique.
Specifically Chocas Mar. We have developed a large plot of land on the Indian Ocean. It serves to house ministries to come for staff retreats, R&R or for evangelism and outreaches.
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I have been putting various short videos on there with no particular theme this year.
Our ministry is situated at the crossroads of poverty and witchcraft & economic development. By cultivating everyday personal relationships with people, we bridge the gap between providing basic economic needs and the gospel message.
Ministry Details.
The villages we focus on are remote and living conditions are poor. No running water or indoor toilets and houses with grass roofs and dirt floors leaving them susceptible to the elements, sickness and disease. Our ministry is very hands on and we personally know talk to and pray with each individual we help. Presently we help sustain 8 families with the basic necessities of life. All of those families are supported on a monthly bases in exchange for some form of employment. My leader in Mozambique continues to distribute the support each month no matter where Andrea and I are at the time. We see so much more suffering and need on a daily basis and know we could be helping so many more if properly funded. By creating close working relationships with each individual we can learn all the details of their lives, family and needs on a first hand basis. This creates an environment of trust and friendship. Through this daily interaction it makes presenting the gospel so much easier. We live among them and share trials and victories with our friends.
Namahamade Lodge and Restaurant:
When we first came to this area in 2009 after obtaining the land we were informed to keep the land we would have to do tourism. This was an impossible dream at the time, but now we have realized most of that dream. A huge project finally taking form. 3 cabins for guests and a full service restaurant. Unfortunately in 2025 a series of 2 cyclones came and destroyed our principal home. We continue to be receiving guest. This self-sustaining micro-business provides jobs for local that would otherwise not have such and opportunity. We insist on and provide professional training in all aspects of tourism-hotel and restaurant profession.
EDUCATION:
In addition to tourism training. Andrea being a Nutritionist was able to be a professor in the first graduating class in Nutrition of University Lurio in Nampula. Many of her students have gone on to become Professors of Nutrition or working as professionals in the field of Nutrition. I have given private and group lesson in art and design and seen architects and professional artist come from some of my students.
Our Story.
Originally I was sent from the Vineyard now Global River Church in Wilmington, NC to serve with Dr. Heidi and Dr. Rolland Baker. Andrea the same year left Sao Paulo, Brazil to serve in the same ministry.
We met in Pemba and were married there in 2003
We worked diligently to launch all operations of the base: building an orphanage, a Bible school, providing housing for missionaries, weekly evangelistic outreaches, and discipleship. In a short period of time, the base grew tremendously and our lives were busier than ever.
Working together gave us the opportunity to know each other better, and we ended up becoming Pemba’s first foreign couple to get married in the city! Rolland and Heidi performed the ceremony on the beach of Pemba, Praia de Wimbe. We saw 20 salvations and 2 deliverances during our wedding! It was great.
In 2010 we moved 150+ miles south to where we are today. Chocas Mar, Nampula, Mozambique.