GodSighting: A New Vision for African Missions
For over 85 years the Evangelical Free Church of America has been sending missionaries to Africa. God is now doing an exciting work in giving the African church a heart for missions on their own continent.
In April 2007, ReachGlobal missionaries serving in Africa gathered with leaders from our African national church partners in Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sudan, and Tanzania. The purpose for bringing everyone together was for training, encouragement and networking. However, God had a much bigger purpose in mind.
During those days together the Lord began to lay on the hearts of the African church leaders their responsibility to reach Africa with the gospel. There are over 1,000 unreached people groups in Africa comprising a population of more than 260 million people. One African leader shared, "It is our job as African Christians to reach Africa’s unreached people." These African church leaders heard and courageously accepted the call of God to raise up a generation of African church planting missionaries.
In August 2007, ReachGlobal leaders met again with these African leaders to map out a plan and formulate a missions strategy for what they are calling "ReachAfrica." The African group chose leaders, set out a simple organizational structure and determined the first three countries where they want to send missionaries.
Over the next year, ReachAfrica leadership plans to send small "scout teams" to check out locations in these countries and to begin training missionaries. Their goal is to send multi-national church planting teams to launch holistic church planting movements among some of Africa’s least reached people. We at EFCA ReachGlobal, have the opportunity to come alongside this indigenous African missions movement to help reach the millions of Africa’s unreached people.
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