Africa for Christ: Spectacular Church Growth

Africa for Christ: Spectacular Church Growth
By Dr. Peter Hammond

Spectacular Church Growth
Despite much political instability, numerous wars and some severe persecution of the Church, There are over 730 million Christians in the continent of Africa and missiologists project that, present trends continuing, the numbers of Christians in Africa is set to double in the next 25 years. Operation World projects that there will be well over 1.4 Billion Christians in Africa by the year 2050.  Considering that, back in 1841, when Dr David Livingstone began his ministry in Africa, there were less than 5 million Christians in the entire continent of Africa, that is phenomenal church growth! 
 
"All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord and all the families of the nations shall worship before You. For the Kingdom is the Lord's and He rules over the nations."
Psalm 22:27-28
 
The Challenge of Africa
Amidst  this unprecedented Explosion of Evangelism, the desperate need for Bibles and Bible teaching presents a crisis. Missions are failing to keep pace with the exponential growth. Only 150 million Bibles and New Testaments have been printed in, or transported to, Africa in the last 20 years. With the wear and tear of rural life, and with damp and dust, termites and travel, the average life expectancy for a Bible In Africa is less than 20 years. Therefore it is estimated that 500 million churchgoers in Africa do not yet have their own copy of a Bible, or even a New Testament! For example, it is calculated that 70% of the pastors in the Congo only have access to a New Testament, and do not yet have their own copy of a complete Bible. Most of the pastors in Africa have not had the opportunity of theological training, or even of a Bible college education. Few pastors in Africa would have a Study Bible or access to a library.

There is a  desperate and urgent need for Bible teaching throughout Africa. We do not have enough Bible colleges and those colleges that exist need more Bible teaching textbooks and more Bible teachers.

"For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12
 
Bibles for Africa
By God's grace, Frontline Fellowship has delivered and distributed hundreds of thousands of Bibles into Restricted Access Areas, such as Sudan.  Over the last 22 years, our Literature for Africa ministry has succeeded in freely distributing over 200 tonnes of Bibles and books every year. However, in the light of the overwhelming need, it is barely scratching the surface. We need to dramatically increase Bible production and Bible distribution throughout Africa in order to ensure that every Christian has access to the Word of God in their own language.
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"Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."
Colossians 3:16
 
The Greatness of the Great Commission
Our priority is to make disciples of every nation and to teach obedience to all things that the Lord has commanded. Please help us to provide sufficient Bibles and Bible teaching to the nations of Africa. By God's grace Africa could become the most Christian continent in the world, not only in terms of numbers of church members, but in terms of faithfulness to the Word of God. That is our vision and mission.

​ Africa for Christ !
"So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:11

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References:
Pew Research Centre: Their 2015 report, "The Future of World Religions," projected that the Christian population in Sub-Saharan Africa alone would grow from roughly 517 million (in 2010) to over 1.1 billion by 2050.When you include Northern Africa, the total for the continent reaches approximately 1.2 billion.
Source: Pew Research Center: The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050

​The Centre for the Study of Global Christianity estimated that the Christian population in Africa crossed the 700 million mark.
Source: Gordon-Conwell Center for the Study of Global Christianity (Status of Global Christianity 2024)

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