Africa in Crisis

This Month's Articles

Rick Wood Editorial

Africa

Hope in the Midst of Darkness

Africa is a huge mess. It is riddled with wars, six million dead in the Congo alone, famines, AIDS, poverty, corruption and more. Yet the gospel has made tremendous gains in the 20th Century. How...

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Tags: africa

Feature

Africa in Crisis

Finding Hope in the Midst of Tragedy

Somewhere in the world, in the last week of October, a baby was born who tipped the human population over the 7 billion mark. Statistically there is a high probability this baby is an African....

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Feature

The PEACE Plan in Rwanda

Global Missions Partnership Process that Empowers and Transforms

The efforts of Saddleback Church and the PEACE plan (www.thepeaceplan.com) in Rwanda under the leadership of pastor Rick Warren is relatively well-known and has been widely reported in the secular...

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Tags: great commission, mission

Feature

Discipling Africa Through Higher Education

A proposal for an African Christian University

The continent of Africa is the second largest and second most populous continent on Earth, after Asia, including 22.3% of the world’s total land area.1, 2 In terms of Africa’s natural resources, it...

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Tags: education

Feature

MANI 2011 Abuja, Nigeria

A Continental Commitment to World Evangelization

In 1981, Ralph D Winter predicted in his article Four Men, Three Eras, Two Transitions that the third Era of Protestant missions would be dominated by mission sending from the former mission fields...

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Tags: mission, unreached people group, urbana

Feature

Community-Based Orphan Care

Africa Models a New Approach to its Orphan Crisis

How do you take care of 15 million orphans and children at risk? This is Africa’s challenge, and it’s not just a problem for governments, NGOs and Oprah Winfrey. Most of Africa’s orphans are from...

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Tags: children

Feature

Finishing the Task in East Africa

Tell us about your journey into frontier missions?

As the mission director of my church in Ethiopia it was my job to coordinate efforts to reach the Borana people group of Southern Ethiopia. As I...

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Tags: mission, people group, unreached people group

Dave Datema Marginalia

Africa Rising?

One of the most fortunate and profound experiences of my life was growing up for eight years in Sierra Leone, West Africa. As a child, naïve and unconcerned with things like “culture shock” or...

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Other

Mapping the Unfinished Task

The Holy Spirit cannot lead you on the basis of information you do not have.” This provocative statement is one which Ralph Winter was often known to recite. Though obviously a generalization,...

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Tags: church planting, great commission, map, mission

Glenn Schwartz Other

Ideas Can Be More Powerful Than Money

An infamous leader of the Former Soviet Union once said that “ideas are more powerful than guns.” One could add that ideas can be more powerful than money as well. While money often gets used up,...

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Tags: philanthropy

Raising Local Resources

Patron-Client Missions

In 1996, my colleague and I came up with a grandiose idea. We were missionaries in Cambodia and thought we could encourage a local Cambodian church by providing them with a medical team from...

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Tags: fundraising, mission

Greg Parsons Further Reflections

Giving and Receiving Strategies

It’s commonplace in missions today to emphasize the need to let new believers decide what is best in their context, under the prayerful guidance of the Bible and the Holy Spirit. Jesus told his...

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Tags: mission, perspectives