God Is Up To Something...in Zambia

In January of this year, Africa For Jesus merged with another African ministry- Hope Builders.  Hope Builders and AFJ both believe in church planting and disciple making by pouring into native pastors.  Both ministries believe that God meant for us to work side by side.  And both believe that God is up to something in Africa...and that something is...enlarging his kingdom...making the family bigger...and with a quickness like we have never seen.


The NewSpring Thrift Stores exist to support both of these ministries.  It gives us a great reason to get out of bed and serve our customers every day.  When we get reports back about what God is doing in Africa, it really energizes what we are doing in our stores.

Victoria Falls

Over the weekend, we got such a report from Jeff Hawkins, who is the Country Coordinator for Zambia.  Here are some excerpts from Jeff's report:  "Saturday morning we viewed the Victoria Falls from the Zimbabwe side. It was a first for me. I must say the Zambian side is best, though both are absolutely awesome.

Sunday we all went to church. Bill and I went to Pastor Soko's church. This afternoon we met with Pastor Soko's new group of 10 Hub pastors. We spent about 2 hours together explaining the method and philosophy of making disciples and training new pastors while planting new churches. Pray for them as the endeavor to establish 100 new churches by this time next year. Pray also that God would raise up the partners needed to help these pastors with Bibles and bicycles. We would like to help Pastor Soko's church complete their building. After 9 years they are still trying to find the funds to put on a metal roof. Pray with us.  Tomorrow we start mapping here in Livingstone and then travel to Mazabuka on Tuesday Morning."  

One hundred new churches in twelve months?  Really?  
These pastors believe that God is going to help them raise up one hundred churches this year?
Believers are going to continue to meet in a church that hasn't even had a roof in the past nine years?
In a land where there are 200 million BELIEVERS who have never seen a Bible in their native tongue?
And yet...they believe...and the kingdom is getting larger.
God is most definitely up to something in Africa.  


What is God up to in your world?


What has He given you a vision for that requires all of the faith that you posess?