A group known as the Africa Mission Association is currently focusing on a mission to serve churches in Africa by creating multiple mission associations to be established in 54 countries out of the seven that currently exists on the continent. In other words, we’re about to see an explosion in Christianity in a place that is in desperate need of the gospel of Christ. This is what it looks like to carry out the Great Commission.
“Stephen Mbogo, the vice chair of Africa Mission Association (AMA) is alive to the enormous task but equally aware of the great opportunity to formalize country mission associations that would be a source of coordinating and supporting missions in respective countries,” The Christian Post said. “Speaking to Christian Daily International on the sidelines of the Christ Over Asia Africa and Latin America (COALA 2.5) meeting in Busan, South Korea, last month, Mbogo said AMA is strategically working to establish national mission associations in each African country by fostering a sense of ownership and coordination at the national level.”
Attempting this kind of work comes with a number of challenges, one of which is the lack of representation of the significant contributions made by Africa to the global missionary movement. Just as a side note, churches here in the United States have become so compromised by liberalism that other countries from around the world are now sending missionaries to us. How far our once great nation has fallen. At least as when it comes to being a beacon of Christianity.
“This under-representation is often reflected in mission statistics and reports, which tend to overlook the extensive missionary activities undertaken by African churches and organizations,” the report said. “He said the continental association will learn from the experience of more established mission bodies, such as the Nigeria Mission Association, which has been in existence for 40 years, and the 30-year old Ghana Mission Association.”
“We were challenged by these other countries because we realized that unless you have a national association, reaching the unreached remains very disjointed,” Mbogo remarked.
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This unity of purpose brought about by an association, added Mbogo, is what has enabled Latin America through COMIBAM (Ibero-American Mission Cooperation) to have detailed and up-to date information about the number of missionaries they have sent or the number of unreached people groups “which cannot be said the same of Africa.” In 2023, COMIBAM mobilized 2,750 pastors across 24 LATAM countries for global missions, 850 churches engaged and close to 1,000 women and youth mobilized for missions, according to the organization’s 2023 report.
Here’s a fact you might find surprising. Africa, according to the Christian Post, is now the continent with the most followers of Christ. This statistic is driving Mbogo to increase his mission activities in order to see Africa transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit to not only serve churches on the continent, but to equip missionaries to be sent from Africa to places all over the globe.
Pray for the success of Mbogo, that God would use him to take the gospels to every nook and cranny of Africa.