Unity through diversity
Our world has become very diverse and is becoming more diverse as people move around more easily and quickly than in previous years. Both corporate businesses and Christian organisations seek ways to improve their places of work and ministry in or...
Read MoreEditorial – why we go
I remember sitting in a Christian Union meeting in my undergraduate years in Kenya as the speaker preached from the book of Acts. He spoke of Paul’s desire to take the gospel where people had never heard about Christ. My heart was warmed that ni...
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 MoreWomen in missions editorial
It is my privilege to introduce this issue of AfriGO, which highlights African women in missions. In the following pages you will be introduced to some of Africa’s most intrepid female missionaries. They are proclaiming the gospel in heart, word...
Read MoreThe ministry of mobilization for such a time as this
We are all involved to some degree in the ‘art’ of mobilization – motivating, persuading or influencing others towards something. From this perspective, everyone is a mobilizer but when this is about the Great Commission, it is so im...
Read MoreHistory of Africans in mission
What can be written about 2,000 years of Africans in missions in a 12-page magazine?
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony…. And what more shall ...
Read MoreThe role of business in missions
The story is told of a group of people who lived near a coast. After years of observing shipwrecks at sea and the resultant loss of lives and properties, they decided to do something about it. They built a shelter very ne...
Read MoreEmbrace our missionary kids
How can we better embrace our missionary kids, or MKs, into mission life? Of course, they are already in the mission, but they are in the mission because of their parents. It’s natural for us to give commands and expect children to follow with...
Read MoreSharing the gospel with scattered people
A kind of earthquake is going on all over the world. Nations are experiencing cataclysms that are making people move “from everywhere to everywhere”. This dispersion of people is bringing unreached people groups within the neighborhood of the ...
Read MoreWhat can youth offer mission?
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. (1 Timothy 4:12)
When we talk about mission, it’s important...
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