Hi there! My name is Ashley Diederiks, and my husband, Jaco, and I are missionaries serving in Potchefstroom, South Africa, with Fire & Fragrance South Africa. We are raising our two young children, Hans (born January 16, 2021) and Amelia (born November 14, 2022), while continuing to say yes to Jesus and the call He has placed on our family to see revival and lasting kingdom transformation across South Africa and the African continent.

Thank you for considering partnering with our family. Our ministry is our full-time calling, and Fire & Fragrance is a faith-based, donor-supported movement, which means we do not receive a salary. We are fully dependent on God’s provision through monthly and one-time partners who believe in what He is doing here. We have partners who give anywhere from $5 to $200 a month, as well as one-time gifts. Truly, every amount plays a meaningful role and is a blessing and investment in what God is doing here in South Africa. Every prayer, every gift, and every act of encouragement enables us to continue serving, training leaders, and investing in this nation long-term.

Here is a bit of how we got here and what we are currently doing in South Africa.

I first encountered missions in 2017 during my Discipleship Training School, when I went on outreach to Uganda. It was there that the Lord ignited a deep love for missions and for Africa. After DTS, I joined staff and later led an outreach to the Philippines, where we saw God move in powerful ways and even had the privilege of helping plant a church in the upstairs room of a strip club in the middle of the red-light district—one of those moments that forever marked my faith and my understanding of the gospel’s reach.

Jaco and I met through Fire & Fragrance and spent several years serving in Kona, Hawaii, where we helped pioneer and develop a training school focused on revival, reformation, and biblical worldview. During that season, we were trained, equipped, and prepared to eventually plant and contextualize this work in South Africa.

In 2022, we transitioned to South Africa and helped run the first Revival & Reformation school with Fire & Fragrance South Africa. Since then, our roles have continued to grow. Today, we are deeply involved in leadership development, discipleship, and training schools, equipping young leaders and missionaries locally and across multiple nations in Africa. Jaco plays a key role in teacher training and discipleship initiatives, helping equip educators and leaders to teach from a biblical worldview, and he also serves on the leadership team as an elder at our missions base here in South Africa.

Alongside training schools, we partner with local churches, campus ministries, prayer and worship initiatives, evangelism efforts, literacy and education projects, and broader missions expressions throughout South Africa. We have seen firsthand that God is moving powerfully in this nation, and we continue to believe the prophetic words spoken over South Africa—that it is a gateway nation for the gospel to be released into the rest of Africa.

We truly believe the time is now to train and equip local and indigenous leaders who will bring revival into their own cultures and see lasting kingdom transformation in every sphere of society. We are expectant for all that God still has ahead for our family and for this nation.

Thank you for partnering with us and investing in what God is doing in South Africa and beyond. We are deeply grateful to walk this journey with you and to see His Kingdom advance across Africa.

Blessings,

Ashley, Jaco, Hans, & Amelia Diederiks