Monday, January 02, 2012

New Initiatives for a New Year

God is at work stirring in the hearts of a generation of leaders in the African church to see African missionaries and church planters identified, equipped and sent to the more than 260 million unreached Africans. We want to be a part of seeing that happen. One of our key goals over the next several years is to see four multi-cultural missionary equipping centers established in Africa. They will be strategically  launched in the east, west, central and south regions of the continent in partnership with ReachAfrica. 

Last month I was in Monrovia, Liberia in West Africa to speak at the graduation of the first group of 20 leaders to complete an intensive four month Missionary Equipping Course at the West Africa Missionary Equipping Center that ReachAfrica and ReachGlobal are launching there. What a joy it was to be able to see the passion for missions in the hearts of these African leaders and to be able to challenge them to take the baton and run the race well in reaching the unreached in Africa with the transforming message of the Gospel.  I wish that you could have been with me to experience this new dynamic of God's work in West Africa as He is raising up a generation of deeply committed African church planting missionaries to see the Gospel spread and healthy churches planted among all the peoples of that region.

Please join me in praying for these leaders and for the hundreds of other African leaders who we are seeking to equip as this generation's African missionary movement!  

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