Sunday, April 17, 2011

Floyd McClung's Ministry












All Nations, South Africa.


Floyd McClung was born into a Christian family with the father being a pastor. As a PK (pastor's kid) he got into a lot of scrapes and problems until he was converted as a teenager at a Bible camp in USA. He developed an interest in missions, which grew into a passion. An elderly Christian with a pastoral ministry became his personal mentor and groomed him to become realistic and mature in his outlook in life and service.


He joined YWAM (Youth With A Mission) and served under Loren Cunningham who also mentored him. He graduated from an American university with a BA degree in New Testament studies. In the same year he married his life-long wife and partner Sally, who was also keen to serve the Lord.


He started off working among the hippies and dropouts of the West in the city of Kabul, where drugs were cheap and plentiful. It took some doing for Sally and Floyd to adjust to the lifestyle suited to working among such stoned addicts and hopeless souls. He served here for some 6 years before moving to Amsterdam. His book "Living on the Devil's Doorstep" chronicled his years of work among the Kabul hippie addicts.


In Amsterdam, Holland, in 1973 he and Sally set up an inneer-city ministry which over the years grew to over 300 staff and volunteers. He and Sally developed missional communities among the poor and most neglected peoples of the world. This led to establishing All Nations Family, a network of churches and communities with a common vision and values for church planting work.


Floyd and Sally with their two children and grandchildren now live in Cape Town, South Africa, where they lead a training-and-outreach community equipping church planters to work among the poor and unreached in Africa and Asia.

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