Volume 5.1
This issue of AfriGO highlights African women in missions. In these pages you will be introduced to some of Africa’s most intrepid female missionaries. They are proclaiming the Gospel in heart, word and deed, with courage and effectiveness, where Christ is not yet known! God’s calling of women into missions is not limited to one kind of woman. As you will read, He calls younger and older women, married and single women, women who are raising children, and women with every type of gift, skill and talent imaginable.
Women 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, wor...
Here I am: send me
Tibarek Wondimu serves biscuits and tea with a beautiful smile. Her kids linger nearby, laughing and demanding cookies. She’s particularly happy today because her husband arrived in the morning from South Sudan.
Our picture of Tibare...
A crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord
Women have a role in God’s mission. In fact, women have comprised two thirds of the worldwide missionary force, shining like strings of gems threaded through two centuries of modern missions history. As such, they have been called the “guardia...
All hands on deck
A meme has been doing the rounds on social media. It’s a man and woman at the starting point of a race. The man’s track is clear, while the woman’s track is cluttered with hurdles she must jump over – babies, a heap of laundry, a washing m...
Called: Rosina Ferdinand
From child of the island to mission leader of the island, Rosina Ferdinand has walked a path of faithfulness. But she did not always know where it would take her.
Rosina was raised on the island of Nosybe off the coast of Madagascar, i...
Voices 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 emotionall...
Woman 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 connec...
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,” is the practice of separating women from the outside ...
