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Africa will be reached by Africans
Africa will most probably be reached by Africans. From this year we plan and work and pray to establish a Platform and basis in most Africa Countries through equipping, training and supporting natives to reach their generation for Christ. Overheads to sent missionaries into the various fields run thousands of Rand. To send for example one man to a little country like Rwanda, cost an average of $2500.00 per month to cover his costs and expenses! You may think it extravagating but it is really cutting it to the bone! This money can be better implemented into equipping natives with what they need to preach the gospel and to train them and then support them in fulfilling their call of God in Christ!
With all that is going on in the evangelical world, the time has come to return to principles that were laid down in the Word of God that were used by especially Paul in fulfilling his call in the great commission. From the “Pauline” methods we can clearly distinguish this very principle of letting natives reach their own generation for Christ so that “His Name SHALL BE GREAT AMONG THE NATIONS; and IN EVERY PLACE incense (prayer) shall be offered unto His Name, and a PURE OFFERING; for His Name SHALL BE GREAT AMONG THE HEATHEN…”
Even in South Africa with thousands of immigrants flowing into the country, locals should be equipped, trained, sent back and supported to reach their generation to Christ. The call is that “we shall be witnesses in Jerusalem in all Judea and Samaria…”
“and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
We need to fulfill this call starting with our very own Jerusalem, then all Judea and then Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the earth! When you would look at Paul, his very strategy in evangelizing his generation, was first concentrated on his immediate location (Jerusalem) then he went to the cities around Jerusalem (in Judea) and then to those across the borders (Samaria) going so far as to reach to the “uttermost parts of the world!”
In Acts 1:8 Jesus was laying down a very specific “plan” HOW they were to reach out with the gospel. This is a very basis for reaching the nations. From another standpoint if someone is saved in Nigeria, then Nigeria is his “Jerusalem” (not in truth but in principle) should be his immediate area of service. Then from there he will reach to “Judea” his surrounding cities crossing his immediate environment and then “Samaria” crossing borders and progressing to the ends of the earth. Today everyone wants to get involve in “foreign missions.” If you were never involved with “local” missions then you cannot progress to “regions beyond” for that should be entered in as one progresses into fulfilling the call. It is almost like Joshua upon entering the Land of Canaan; it was taken step by step, city by city until it was completely possessed!
Now the call comes to you and me. How will they go if they are not “send?” You can become involve today by prayer support, financial support to equip, train and support natives to reach their generation and cities for Christ and their “Judea’s” and their “Samaria’s…” to the ends of this world! One of the very effectiveness of this project is that it is very cost effective! It doesn’t cost much. The native is already established in his circumstances and with their simple life styles it cost them very little to reach others for Christ. (For some in Botswana now in rural villages it cost less than $150 per month to support a native missionary!)
You should become involve in world missions and to gather in the last “sheaves” before the trumpet will sound and time shall be no more!
This is a call to sacrificial living, because many are so “generous” toward their own ease and pleasure while thousands are dying without Christ! Many say they cannot give because they have none to give, but it is truth that is relative to their own cause. They have nothing to give to the cause of Christ to be made known among every nation and tribe and tongue, but they give generous to their own cause to a life of ease and comfort.
You will never give for the cause of Christ without becoming sacrificial in your spending and livelihood. There are a lot of things that you can do without and do with lesser, but many give if it does not cost them anything! If there is “something left” then they may give, and even that becomes usurps by this world!
This attitude has to change because now is the time to learn to become content with the very least because of the time!
BECOME ACTIVE PARTNERS in reaching Africa with the gospel of Jesus Christ the Lord. Your contribution will keep someone active in the harvest fields of Africa and elsewhere!
If you are African (Living in any African Land, Mozambique, Congo, Malawi, South Africa, etc, etc) and you want to become effective in reaching your nation for God become involve today, contact us and we will equip, train and SUPPORT you in your own sphere of service so that you may reach your generation for Christ!