Philip Henderson

My name is Philip Henderson, and I am a missionary to Muslim refugees. I work in Athens, Greece, as part of the Mars Hill Initiative where we focus on sharing the Gospel with refugees fleeing the Middle East for Europe. Our heart is to serve “the least of these” by meeting both their practical and spiritual needs. We have a community center on the Greek island of Samos where refugees can come for English education, benevolence ministry, and genuine community. Within this context, we provide them with the Gospel presentation and then consistent discipleship for those who believe. With the Lord’s help, this fall I will be expanding our efforts to mainland Greece as we establish another community center, this time in the capital city of Athens. God has given me a passion for evangelism and discipleship, and it is my greatest joy to walk through the Scriptures with new believers for the very first time.

I have such a passion for the least reached because God called me out of my job as an assistant district attorney in Georgia and showed me that I needed to love my enemies, but not by considering them an enemy, but by considering them a neighbor and then loving them as I loved myself. He called me to work with a people group that seemingly no one else wanted to go to, and through that, He taught me what it’s like to see people through His eyes. For the past 10 years in missions, my soul has been burning with a fiery passion to see the Gospel go to people and places where it has never been before!

My greatest experience in missions was at the end of my time in Bethlehem, where I taught Bible to Arab Palestinian Christian and Muslim students. In one of the toughest classes I had, two of the boys told me that throughout their year with me, they felt the tug of God to be missionaries. It was then that God taught me the power of multiplication. Through your generous support, we can reach those who have never heard the Gospel and see them come into the Kingdom.