TTN History

To The Nations Ministries origin dates back to the 1920’s when Ernest Salisbury ran a mission station on the Congo side of Lake Mweru. This ministry has carried on through several generations of the Salisbury family.

Ernest’s son David Salisbury (Impaza) moved to Zambia as a missionary in 1974 – his former life was that of Bible School Principle/Insanga Campaign/Children’s TV. Ernest’s grandson, Samuel (Chimpumpa) Salisbury, who is responsible for establishing To The Nations as we know it today, continued on his Grandfather’s vision in 1994 (Africa care, Icnie and Africa for Jesus, TTN).

Today the Salisbury’s are still very connected with TTN and take up an international role of linking people with a ‘heart for missions’ to the team who are on the ground. The current team made up five full time Zambian evangelists and their wives are led by Chris Shadbolt and his wife Angela. These evangelists were disciples and trainees under Dave and Sam Salisbury.

Chris, a missionary from Australia and Angie from Zambia, worked with and were trained by the Salisbury’s for almost 10 years prior to heading up the TTN team. In 2009 the team were joined by the Hall family. Lyle and Jette (Hall) bring to the team more than 20 years field experience, YWAM DTS training, and cross cultural experience from USA/Denmark/Tanzania/Japan and Liberia.

The TTN team and their families share the Gospel, make disciples, train leaders and plant churches. The team all carry the Same Message which manifests differently in each of their lives according to the way God has gifted and called each of these men. The ministry has survived more than 70 years because of discipleship. Today we see the outworking of discipleship in many different fields of ministry.

Misheck – Follows directly in the footsteps of David Salisbury by working in the rural areas planting churches, training leaders and making disciples, as well as working across the board of Bible believing churches.

James – Senior leader in the Reform Church has a key role in church leadership as he looks over a number of rural churches, as well as being passionate for youth work. He has ministry partners in the Ubabalo Soccer Outreach and also Police Chaplaincy.

Alex – Heads up Zambia’s central provinces most prominent hospital chaplaincy programmes in the district’s health facilities. He also runs an intensives discipleship classes every 6 months.

Elijah – Along with being the team mechanic, is a church pastor, soccer coach and an Ubabalo trainer.

Jabez – Team Pastor has a passion for church leadership, planting churches and working with these groups to develop leadership to reach into their community. He also is the Director for Missions Team as well CEO of several primary schools for underprivileged children.
Lyle – Passion for the lost and discipleship. He works with our team to help them to develop a relationship with God, to grow their ministries and improve their leadership skills. He is also heading up our push into the unreached people groups of Tanzania, into Masai Land, and soon into the Rufiji Delta. Lyle is our ‘hands on’ field director.

Chris Shadbolt – Gift for helping keep his team focused in their passion, trained and released to serve God according to their calling. He refers to it as a ‘Director or Co-ordinator’ role. Chris’s heart is for the lost so he understands the importance of keeping skilled/gifted and anointed men of God in the field to reach the lost. He knows his limitations and understands that by having his team, they all have a far greater capacity to reach the lost than he could ever hope to do personally.

He works at extending ‘Kingdom Relationships’ across many different ministries and partnerships, understanding when working together so much more can be done.

Being a part of Operation Lift where TTN have been able to supply medical and educational aid has been an exciting development for To The Nations. It has opened so many doors for the Gospel. TTN has been able to go into areas that have traditionally been closed to the outside world. Through the gift of medicine and education we have been able to share God’s love through relationship.

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