Browsing Category 'International Missions'

Youth ministry in this diocese is set up to promote spiritual and social growth so that our young people will grow up to be both Christians and Anglicans who can fit into their society-not to conform with that society, of course, but in order to transform it into Christ-likeness. 
My approach is to mentor the youth [...]

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The people we met in the diocese of Bungoma are ready to hear the good news and, fortunately, there are over two hundred evangelists and seventy priests ready to share it. Two stops in the Bungoma diocese best represent my memories of evangelism in Kenya.
One day, we visited with a woman who lived in the [...]

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In our theological training in Kenya, we try to cover evangelism in our curriculum, but we do not offer a course about evangelism as such. Rather, it is implied in various segments of different courses, especially in Christian education.
The reason for the lack of training goes back to the 1920′s and the East Africa revival. [...]

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The 1998 Lambeth gathering of Anglican bishops from throughout the worldwide communion represented a watershed in leadership for the Anglican Church worldwide. Anyone who had previously failed to notice the prominence of the African Anglican Church in particular could no longer help but note that Anglicanism is, for the most part, a black, Third World [...]

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During my day in Kenya, I spent two weeks with the pastor in the village of Kabuku. It happened to be at the time when the Diocese of Mount Kenya South was celebrating the one hundred-year anniversary of the arrival of the first Anglican missionaries in the area. The first station in Kikuyuland was founded [...]

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It is not unusual for a Kenyan diocese to have a diocesan officer responsible for mission, evangelism and church planting. One such Director of Mission speaks of his vision and his personal experience.
The outreach program of this diocese aims at strengthening Christians into a hopeful, living relationship with God through Jesus. We preach and heal [...]

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When I was in my parish, I would sometimes look at the geography and say, “If I went and started a congregation in that locality, a number of Anglicans who live there and who want to come to church can actually be served better from there.” Most people are not readily mobile and cannot afford [...]

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Prior to my trip to Kenya, I was told, “Africa will always be a part of you.” Only now do I realize how true this is.  
I was part of a team of three sent to minister in the rural diocese of Bungoma. Our team conducted four seminars over a period of two weeks, teaching [...]

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