Every story counts in missions
Africa is known for its storytelling tradition. Huts in a village homestead were often arranged with one in the middle that was open on the sides. Children gathered there to hear stories from parents and elderly people. The villages also had offic...
Read MoreCalled: Nasiru Saidu – the cost of a voice
I lay on the floor, knees to my chest and my hands shielding my face, as my brother whipped me with a tree branch. I did not retaliate. Instead, I said, I’m ready; you can kill me. I heard a voice, and I’m not going back.Read More
Great stories stir great action
Several mission stories have impacted me personally, including one about a missionary who led 903 radical Muslim jihadists to Christ as he obeyed the Lord and went to serve where his colleague had been previously martyred. The other is Sam...
Read MorePeople Group: Bushmen of Angola
The Bushmen are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, with about 100,000 people scattered across Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho and Angola. In Angola, they are mainly concentrated in remote, inaccessible areas and ...
Read MoreThe Gospel and candy
Two young men I started evangelizing when they were eight years old are set to join me as missionaries in a few weeks. If I ever doubted that getting children involved in missions was profitable – and I never did – then this is the assurance I...
Read MoreKids pop out on kindness
“Two of my Sunday school kids were in the car when we saw the woman and her children by the roadside. We were returning from a party and the kids had been given some gifts. To my shock, four-year-old Esther popped out of the car and went...
Read MoreBook Launch – A2R: The right message at the right time
A2R was successfully launched this year in Accra Ghana, Nairobi Kenya, Vancouver and Montreal in Canada, and at the National African American Mission Conference. Mini-launches took place in Tanzania and Rwanda.
A2R has been well received ac...
Read MoreMissions resources for children
The AfriGO team has found wonderful resources that you can share with your children to help them understand more about missions, pray for countries, people groups and missionaries, and see the world through the eyes of other children.
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Children can be mobilized too
In November 2019, Jane Waithaka Mwaura from Finishing the Task and a team of children’s workers led a children’s conference at the Africa Inland Church Maraigushu at Naivasha, Kenya.
Over the course of three days, the team led t...
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