Monday, March 26, 2012

Equipping a Generation of African Missionaries

Last December I had the privilege to speak at the graduation of the first 20 students from an intensive four month Missionary Equipping Course in Monrovia, Liberia.  It was a great joy to see the deep commitment in the hearts of these Liberian leaders to be some of the first in their country to be a part of raising up a generation of African missionaries to reach the unreached peoples on the continent.  (See the following post for more details:  http://reachglobalafrica.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-initiatives-for-new-year.html)  In the past couple of months a second group of students have started the same Missionary Equipping Course in Monrovia.

These exciting developments in Liberia are part of the vision God has given our ReachGlobal Africa Division LeadTeam for the next decade.  We are seeking to develop four multi-cultural mission equipping centers in Africa.  Our desire is to see centers launched in West, Central, East and Southern Africa.  The two courses in Monrovia are part of our first center in Liberia.  We are also moving forward to see centers launched in the next three years in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania and Kinshasa, DR Congo.  These centers will be an essential part for coming alongside our African church partners as they desire to equip and deploy a generation of African missionaries in the next decade.  


Would you join us in praying for God's clear direction and provision for these Missionary Equipping Centers and that the Lord will powerfully use the missionaries that will be equipped over the next decade to reach the more than 260 million unreached Africans with the life changing Gospel of Jesus Christ?

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