One of the key points in the agenda of our International Team Leader Rev Dr. Stephen Mbogo for the next five years is to spread the tentacles of AE in West Africa. Our AE Ghana team forms a bridge between West-Africa and our various offices. Last month, along with AE International Team Leader Rev Dr. Stephen Mbogo, they were instrumental in casting the vision of AE leadership outreach at “Ghana 2013”, a global mission consultation and as a result, many lives were impacted with Biblical principles of leadership.
The global mission consultation took place between 25th to 28th September and was held at Fetteh Gomorah in Kasoa, the new state-of-the art conference centre of the Church of Pentecost in Accra.This Consultation is similar to the Lausanne Congresses on World Evangelisation and started 100 years with Edinburgh 1910. As a follow up of Tokyo 2010, the conference was attended by around 600 Church leaders and workers from around the globe, including decisions makers from the political arena. The theme was: ‘Making disciples of all peoples’.
AE International CEO Rev Dr. Stephen was given the opportunity to speak and he had the chance to interact with Church leaders and some senior businessmen from all over sub-Sahara Africa, along with Hon. Paul Bonju an MP from South Sudan they led a series of leadership seminars.
At the end of the conference, it transpired that Ghana can be a very sound base from which African Enterprise can reach out to West Africa and beyond! Not only has AE has been invited to escalate its work in Ghana in leadership both governmental and ecclesiastical but the team has now been invited by leaders in Nigeria, Liberia, Togo and Senegal to roll out their teachings! As these openings are springing forth in these nations which are key doors to West Africa, Ghana 2013 was a good prelude to the home of AE’s next intended pan-African mission destination, Abidjan in the Ivory Coast.
In 2002, AE attempted to conduct a stratified evangelism outreach to Abidjan but the preparations were interrupted by civil war. Since then, Cote d’Ivoire was torn by internal conflicts that have severely damaged some parts of this once prosperous nation. The November 2011 presidential elections ushered in a new government led by Allassane D.Ouattara, a Muslim from the northern part of the country. It’s worth noting that at some point of the civil war, Ivory Coast was divided into two zones (north and south), the southern part has a higher concentration of Christians and on the other hand the northern regions have more Muslim communities.
Another presidential election is scheduled for November 2015 and AE is looking into ways of conducting an outreach to the leadership beforehand in order to encourage various decision makers and leaders.
It’s a golden opportunity for AE to reach out to Cote d’Ivoire through its leaders, again our financial difficulties are glaring at us and we also are looking into various ways to overcome those challenges.
Songe Chibambo and Leonard Kiswangi have been preparing the ground for the outreach in partnership with Church leaders of Ivory Coast since 2012 and from 1st to 8th October, John Richards and Stephen Mbogo joined them to assess the progress made in order to make the next decision to proceed or not with the mission.
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