Africa Offers an Urgent Call!

The spread of the Christian faith in Africa represents perhaps the most dramatic advance in all of Christian history. Over the past 35 years the number of African Christians has tripled to over 390 million. Without a doubt, Africa is in the midst of one of the greatest times of spiritual harvest the church has ever known.

Africa offers an urgent call at this time. Just when the fields of Africa are ripe for spiritual harvest, false teachers are blanketing the continent with false gospels that mask the truth and confuse the people. With so few resources to identify and resist such groups, our African brothers and sisters are unequipped to respond effectively to a threat that is growing in both size and complexity.

• Over 250,000 Mormon missionaries have stormed the African continent.

• Jehovah’s Witnesses disperse thousands of tone of their literature every year.

• Muslims are building schools and hospitals as well as appearing at disaster sites to distribute supplies and counsel refugees.

• The “Word-Faith Movement” is being pumped into every corner of the African continent telling the poorest of poor that they can be healthy, wealthy, and safe if they will just have enough faith and give their money to the evangelist. Based on emotion and promises, the African people at large have bought into it wholeheartedly and are left with no basic understanding of Biblical truth, particularly about the cross of Christ.

As the body of Christ, we can’t ignore the deceivers. The stakes are too high. Our opportunity is now- when the fields of Africa are ripe for harvest. The false teachers and their belief systems must be refuted, and those who have been taken captive must be reached with compassion and truth.

Equipping with Truth Ministries believes God has called us at this pivotal time to stand beside our African brothers and sisters by providing them with the training and informational resources that they so desperately need to clearly understand and reflect the TRUTH of Christ. Our desire is to equip them to become “meaning makers” to all those around them. “Meaning makers” are people who can make sense of God, and whose lives ring with clarity and integrity in the midst of all the surrounding confusion.

In Him,

Rusty and Betty Jo McLelland