A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing the African Continent

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• A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing the African
  Continent

Missions Resource Network
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A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing Africa

• Led by Sam Shewmaker
• Facilitator for African Church Planting
• Respected Veteran of African Missions

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God has created a favorable environment in
Rwanda for impacting the continent of Africa.
Establishing a Base in Rwanda, Africa
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A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing Africa

• A central location
• Favor with His Excellency Paul Kagame, president
  of Rwanda
• Church registration
• Select property

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The Lord Has Provided
Property that includes a new hall that seats 600
people.
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A a new school building for 500 students.
The Lord Has Provided
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The Lord Has Provided

• A new community center
• Education center
• Library
• Offices
• Potential clinic

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A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing Africa

• MRN is opening its African offices in Rwanda to
  serve as its center of operations for the
  continent.
• Sam and Nancy have moved to Kigali, a city of
  800,000.
• Living on the continent, they will have more
  credibility with African church leaders.

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2008 Rwanda TeamStewarding Church Richland
Hills, TX
A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing Africa

• Place two church planting mission teams in
  Rwanda.
• The first will arrive in 2008.
• The second will arrive in 2009.

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A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing Africa

• We must change our paradigm.
• The Great Commission was not given to the
  American church alone, but also to the African
  church.
• We can double our missionary force if we
  encourage the African church to take its rightful
  place beside us as full partners in the gospel.
• This bold new strategy will give wings to the
  Africans Claiming Africa movement.

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A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing Africa

• Empower 100 Africans to plant churches across the
  continent by 2020.
• Enlist African churches to send and oversee them.
  
• Identify American churches to partner
  financially with these missions-sending African
  churches. .

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A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing Africa

• Use Rwanda as the platform for reaching into all
  of Africa.

Kigali
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A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing Africa

• Initiate Church Planting Movements in Rwanda and
  the rest of the continent, resulting in 1,000
  Churches and 30,000 believers by 2020.
• Establish vital churches in 20 strategic centers.
• These churches will plant additional
  congregations throughout the continent.

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A New Hope for the Future
A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing Africa
To God be the glory!
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• A Bold Strategy for Evangelizing the African
  Continent

Missions Resource Network