Volume 7.3
If we don't intentionally disciple our children in the area of missions, we will lose a generation. Missions can be taught right up from Sunday school. Children can be effective evangelists to those close to them, and wise parents and churches will teach them carefully, and encourage them to pray, share, and learn.
Children in missions – get them involved now
The 25-year-old who had attended one of our missions training programmes queried, “how come I have never heard these things even though I have been in church all my life?” She was concerned that she had never learnt about unreached peoples an...
Called: Jesse Ishaku Amah-Kabong – age 15 is not too young
I was nine years old when I first went on a cross-cultural mission trip abroad. My family and I packed our bags and headed out of Nigeria for Mali. We were going as missionaries in a predominantly Muslim region, and I didn’t think we’...
Children through a different lens
During a youth camp in Cameroon, children shared tracts throughout the local neighborhood and community. They even shared with soldiers and preached to them, making good use of their high energy level, their simplicity and flexibility.
Such...
Faithful little efforts
Fajara’s parents informed his Sunday school teachers, “You made trouble for us!” Ten-year old Fajara had shared the gospel with his Muslim friend at school, and he gave his life to Christ. Back home his friend told his parents about the dec...
Children can be mobilized too
In November 2019, Jane Waithaka Mwaura from Finishing the Task and a team of children’s workers led a children’s conference at the Africa Inland Church Maraigushu at Naivasha, Kenya.
Over the course of three days, the team led the ...
Missions resources for children
The AfriGO team has found wonderful resources that you can share with your children to help them understand more about missions, pray for countries, people groups and missionaries, and see the world through the eyes of other children.
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Book Launch – A2R: The right message at the right time
A2R was successfully launched this year in Accra Ghana, Nairobi Kenya, Vancouver and Montreal in Canada, and at the National African American Mission Conference. Mini-launches took place in Tanzania and Rwanda.
A2R has been well received a...
Kids pop out on kindness
“Two of my Sunday school kids were in the car when we saw the woman and her children by the roadside. We were returning from a party and the kids had been given some gifts. To my shock, four-year-old Esther popped out of the car and went to...
The Gospel and candy
Two young men I started evangelizing when they were eight years old are set to join me as missionaries in a few weeks. If I ever doubted that getting children involved in missions was profitable – and I never did – then this is the assurance ...
People Group: Bushmen of Angola
The Bushmen are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, with about 100,000 people scattered across Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho and Angola. In Angola, they are mainly concentrated in remote, inaccessible areas and...
