Biography

We are Roy and Lainey Hitchman, and we are Elim missionaries serving in Hungary and throughout Europe. Our ministry falls into three areas.

Reach

We are working with our local church to create a community of people who are living as disciples of Jesus and seeking to multiply through disciple-making. Living in a university town provides a unique opportunity to disciple young adults from diverse backgrounds. We understand what it is like to live far from friends and family and are growing a gospel community for Hungarian and international students offering them mutual support, friendship and discipleship.

Restore

We believe in God’s ability to restore marriages and families. We minister to crisis marriages many of the couples who come to them are involved in churches, ministries and programmes which are reliant upon them. A couple that feels they are drowning finds it difficult to reach out and help others. It is important to make sure couples in ministry get the help they need so they can continue to fulfil the call of God on their lives. We are renovating a house into a ministry centre so we can be even more effective in doing this. This centre will also be used as part of the member care we provide for missionaries. For returning missionaries who need debriefing or just a place to rest and recuperate and for those who may have experienced crisis or trauma.

Resource

We have been ministering to families since 1993 and use that experience to teach a range of relationship seminars for singles, couples and parents. Resourcing covers everything from training, writing books and articles, producing courses such as our Life! for Singles discipleship course, creating video courses and conducting seminars. We share hard-hitting yet life-giving principles through transparency and humour.

If you would like us to come and teach in your church, then please get in touch!