People Groups: Maba
The Maba people inhabit the Ouaddaï region of eastern Chad. At present, there is little to no Christian witness in Ouaddaï, where 95 per cent of Maba and other Chadian peoples are Sunni Muslims. This area was once the sultanate of...
Read MoreThe physician evangelist who prays
Felix Kohol, a Nigerian medical doctor and missionary, felt isolated and alone in rural, northern Cote d’Ivoire where he was on assignment. God was using his medical skills to meet the health needs of the Senoufou, a largely unreached animistic ...
Read MoreCalled: Gedeon Mashauri
“Oh You who hears prayer, to You all flesh will come.” Psalm 65:2
Journey of passion and prayer
In 2005, I was a refugee from De...
Read MoreHarnessing the Church’s prayer potential
Prayer creates the track on which the wheel of missions moves. An unstable track inevitably slows down the pace of movement. If we are to evangelise the world, then we must step up the pace of our prayers.
Fortunately, one of the greatest s...
Read More3-2-1: Following Jesus in threes
Soo Inn Tan, from Singapore, has written a book called ‘3-2-1: Following Jesus in Threes’ to show us how to cultivate the spiritual friends we need to watch over us. In his method, 3 men or 3 women meet for 2 hours once a month over a meal and...
Read MoreTestimonies of answered prayer
God provided for us through individuals and families. One time we gave almost all our food to the O. people during a food shortage. One day remained before we finished our food, and that day a girl we didn’t know purchased food and sent ...
Read MoreGod answers prayers
God answers prayers! My husband, Joshua, and I are living witnesses of many answered prayers. One story comes to mind.
We were in Bible School in Canada and praying because we were completely out of money — none even for groceries or petr...
Read MorePeople groups: hidden women
People Groups: Hidden Women
Across Africa, there are hundreds of thousands of women who, besides immediate family, only interact with other women. Purdah, taken from the Persian word for “curtain,...
Read MoreWoman to woman: how social media enables discipleship among some of the world’s least-reached women
Today, a Somali woman living in Ethiopia can simultaneously disciple women in Djibouti, Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands, regularly hosting virtual Bible studies and prayer meetings. Some women gather weekly at a home with good Internet connect...
Read MoreVoices rising: women of colour finding and restoring hope in the city
Voices Rising was recommended to the AfriGO staff by one of its writers, Beauty Gunda Ndoro of Zimbabwe, and we are very glad it was. This collection of stories of women ministering in urban contexts around the world is deeply touching emotionally...
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