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Pastors: The key to a church’s missionary vision
God has chosen pastors to direct his church. It is the pastor’s vision and example that will steer the church and its participation in mission. If you lead a church, your role is to help your congregation understand and accept its ...
Read MoreAntioch revisited: are the shepherds listening?
Acts 13 describes a church far away in Syria that became the first to officially commission cross-cultural foreign missionaries in the New Testament Church.
Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there...
Read MorePeople Groups: The Displaced
Today the African continent, along with many other parts of the world, is witnessing global migration on a staggering scale. Driven by economic distress, political and social upheaval, war or natural disaster people are taking to the...
Read MoreMANI 2016: hearing and obeying God in times like these
More than 560 delegates from over 50 countries gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 7-11 March for the third consultation of the Movement for African National Initiatives (MANI). We met in the African Union Centre, where heads of African states a...
Read MoreWe do whatever it takes to start new churches!
When going into a village, town or city to share the good news of Christ and plant a new church, it is important to first look for a “person of peace.” This is someone who is open to the gospel. We normally try to engage them using the story m...
Read MoreEngaging Africa through disciple making movements
Among other topics, MANI 2016 emphasized Disciple Making Movements (DMM). Not a programme, strategy, technique or curriculum, DMM is resulting in strong, obedient churches in Africa and globally. Key elements include:
Africans and God’s mission
When it comes to God’s global mission, Africans are often considered newcomers to the table. It was not too long ago that Africa was described as the “dark continent,” not because there was no electricity, but because the life-giving light o...
Read MorePeople Groups: The Ingessana
One of the groups taking refuge in Mabaan, South Sudan, is the Ingessana, a people who have never been conquered and are infamous for their hostility towards strangers. Because of their isolation, they have been influenced very littl...
Read MoreDoor opens for Ingessana outreach
On 1 August 2015 four young people from the Ingessana tribe travelled from the Gendrassa refugee camp in South Sudan in search of Getachew, a missionary from Ethiopia who serves with SIM. “The youth came to us with a letter in thei...
Read More“We felt as though we were in the Book of Acts!”
An outreach team travelling in northeast Nigeria late last year said they felt as if they were “in the Book of Acts” and that “God’s Spirit had been leading them.” At one point they arrived at a village and immediately felt prompted by t...
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