Back again in parish ministry I met with people who had become very committed to a new kind of African ministry called African Enterprise. I think that in that time I learned these four important things about AE. First, it is indigenous i. Back in a Sydney parish again I met some people who were keen on this new kind of African mission which had begun to have a base in Australia.
African Enterprise had played a significant part in this great movement. Secondly AE is holistic i. On one occasion AE helped to bring millions of trees to an area where an increased population had removed them.
In the Christian world there has sometimes been a sad division between those who believe in evangelism and those who accentuate social action. Thankfully at the great Lausanne conference in evangelicals began to rethink this dichotomy and repent of their neglect of the poor and disadvantaged something that their evangelical forbears had never neglected.
Africa is, despite its many problems wide open to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and one thing the media never bothers to tell us is that there are large and growing churches in Africa south of the Sahara When I went to Tanganyika later Tanzania in there was one CMS aligned Diocese but now there are many in a continually growing and expanding church.
Muslims too are working hard in Africa, fuelled by petro dollars to win Africa, hoping to plant a mosque in walking distance all the way from Cairo to the Cape. So these are the days of huge opportunity in Africa and we must not miss the great evangelistic opportunity which we have.
