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Mission Enablers facilitate missions funding

After visiting missionaries in northern Nigeria, Niyo Osomo and his team realized that a lot of missionaries had to leave the field simply from a lack of finances. In 2018, he founded Mission Enablers (ME) to raise funds across denominational li...

Mission Campaign Network

Mission Campaign Network (MCN) is a faith-based and non-denominational Christian organization that exists to mobilize and equip God’s people to participate in God’s redemptive mission to all nations. This involves serving the Body of Christ by...

Towards a strong sending African Church

With the African continent now home to the largest number of Christians worldwide, the African Church is uniquely positioned to lead in God’s global mission. Yet, this responsibility remains marginal rather than mainstream. Drawing parallels wit...

Care for single missionaries

Single missionaries have made great contributions to the spread of the gospel throughout the years. From Jesus and the Apostle Paul to the likes of Mary Slessor, Gladys Aylward and many more in our day, the cause of God’s glory among the nations...

How to thrive as a single missionary

Life as a single African woman in the mission field is not for the faint-hearted. If I had been told the realities, perhaps I would have hesitated to obey the call. The list is endless – being called to take up tasks during rest days or late hou...

Professions in Bible Translation

Bible translation involves many stages and intricate processes that need several technical experts. The Bible is the Word of God and regardless of approaches and methodologies employed, it has to meet standards of accuracy, naturalness, and clarit...

Could you be a Bible translation worker?

The task of translation is as old as human civilization. Ever since human beings began to communicate in diverse languages and symbols, it became necessary that meaning was conveyed via channels of translation or interpretation. This was the story...

Resources for reaching persons with disability

Life in Church: Theological Reflections of Persons with Disabilities

This book by the World Council of Churches is in two parts. The first part features theological reflections on the lived experiences of 10 persons with i...

Our responsibility to people with disabilities

If you are a church member and you think of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs), maybe you think of curses, demons, healing, saliva, or noises. My challenge today is that we as the Church train ourselves instead to think of Jesus’s words in John 9 ...

Sports chaplaincy: bridging the sports missionary gap

Sports Chaplaincy is the provision of spiritual care to believers and non-believers in the sports world. By integrating faith with sports, sports chaplaincy can bridge missionary gaps on the African continent. The Church has done lit...