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Gospel Fire International

GFI has a heart to see the Gospel transform communities

Gospel Fire International is a Christ-centred missions organisation founded by Peter and Rebekka Franz, a German couple who grew up serving God across East Africa. Peter spent his childhood on the mission field—his parents ministered in Kenya for 30 years and in Uganda for another decade. In 1988, Peter and his wife Becki returned to Kenya to continue that legacy.

Since then, they have travelled throughout Africa and beyond, preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ—calling people to repentance, faith, and new life. Their ministry has seen countless men and women encounter Christ as Saviour. As God’s Word was proclaimed, the Holy Spirit has worked powerfully to bring conviction, healing, and transformation.

The Gospel is still urgently needed in regions, districts, cities, towns, and remote villages across Africa. As a growing team of African and European co-labourers—working in partnership with local churches—this evangelistic effort developed into what is now Gospel Fire International (GFI).

GFI has a heart to see the Gospel transform communities

Josh and Jess are third-generation missionary kids now raising a fourth generation on the field.

Our family is driven by a simple conviction:
to take the Gospel to places where it has rarely or never been heard, and to see people become wholehearted disciples of Jesus.

We are committed to reaching unreached, least-reached, and frontier people groups, especially in remote and difficult regions—villages, borderlands, and communities that are often overlooked or hard to access.

Our heart is to see people encounter Christ, grow in faith through genuine discipleship, and form new, healthy church communities that follow Jesus in everyday life.

What We Believe

Gospel Fire International is a Bible-believing, Christ-centred missions organisation. We are not a church or denomination; instead, we partner with and strengthen local churches of many traditions for the sake of the Gospel.

Our beliefs stand firmly within historic, orthodox Christianity:

1. The Bible

We believe the Old and New Testaments are the inspired, authoritative, and trustworthy Word of God—true in all that they affirm and sufficient for faith, life, and godliness.

2. God

We believe in one eternal GodFather, Son, and Holy Spirit—perfect in holiness, righteousness, love, and truth.

3. Jesus Christ

We believe Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, the eternal Son of God, born of a virgin, sinless in life, crucified for our sins, risen bodily from the dead, ascended to heaven, and coming again in glory. He is the only Saviour and the only way to the Father.

4. The Holy Spirit

We believe the Holy Spirit indwells, sanctifies, empowers, and guides all believers. We affirm the ongoing work of the Spirit in renewing lives, giving spiritual gifts, and building up the Church—always in agreement with Scripture and always pointing people to Christ.

5. Salvation

We believe salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Through the finished work of Jesus—His death and resurrection—God forgives our sins, gives us new birth, and adopts us into His family.

6. The Church

We believe in the one global Body of Christ made up of all true believers.
We value and honour the local church as God’s chosen instrument for discipleship, community, mission, and spiritual growth.
GFI does not replace the local church; we serve and strengthen it across denominations.

7. Christian Life & Mission

We believe every follower of Jesus is called to a life of holiness, obedience, love, and witness. We are committed to taking the Gospel to unreached and hard-to-reach places, making disciples, and encouraging the growth of healthy, Christ-centred churches.

8. The Return of Christ

We believe Jesus Christ will return bodily, visibly, and triumphantly to judge the living and the dead and to establish His eternal kingdom.

Summary 

We are conservative in doctrine, charismatic in practice, and committed to the authority of Scripture, the centrality of Jesus Christ, and the life-giving work of the Holy Spirit.

We work inter-denominationally to support the mission of the local church and to bring the Gospel to places where it has rarely or never been heard.

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Would you like to support Gospel Fire International?

Does our work touch your heart? Our work in is fully funded by generous donations from people like yourself. If you would like to support the work we do then this is your chance to partner with GFI. Your support is highly appreciated.

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I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

-John 14: 6,7-