Tanneken Fros

Missions History

Tanneken Fros has been in overseas missions for over 30 years. She is the daughter of parents who together with an Anabaptist Church Community fled the Nazi regime in 1937 via Holland to England. In 1940 they fled to Paraguay, South America.

Tanneken has a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education. She worked as a Nursery School teacher for underprivileged children in the slums of Hartford, Connecticut, and continued working with mentally and physically disabled children in Massachusetts and Indiana. From 1990-1995, she worked in Jerusalem, Israel as a music therapist for handicapped Israelis.

From 1995-1997, she supervised a women's program through Teen Challenge where she worked with drug addicts within the Carmel Assembly, in Haifa, Israel.

Her call to the nations has been based out of the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20, "to preach the Gospel, plant churches, train pastors and disciple believers".

Out of James 1:27 her call came to care for orphans and widows. In 1997 she moved to Mozambique, where she partnered with Iris Ministries until 2003. In 2004, God called her to partner together with Mozambiquen pastors and thus the Mountain of Praise Church was founded.

This is an indigenous African church that has over 600 churches in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The focus of the church is to care for orphans and widows, evangelize, train pastors, and plant churches.

Special thanks go to her sending church, Harvest Community Church in Goshen, IN and other churches and individuals who have partnered with Tanneken and the nationals to care for hundreds of orphaned children, widows, the handicapped, the abandoned, the broken-hearted, and the lost who have received God's love and salvation in Jesus Christ.