Sam Shewmaker
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· A Bold Vision for Africa - Adobe Acrobat PDF
· Africa Priority Cities and Ethnic Groups
· African Teams Served by MRN
· MRN's Africa Nationscans
· Advisory Panel
MRN has an experienced and nowledgable Africa Area Facilitator in Sam Shewmaker. He has assembled an Africa Advisory Panel composed of some of the most respected missionaries and African church leaders.
AAt the dawning of the 21 Century Africa is a paradox: a continent plagued by the monumental burdens of colonialism, tribalism, war, disease and poverty, while enjoying one of the greatest spiritual movements to Christ in recorded history.
Once dubbed the dark continent, sub-Saharan Africa has grown in one century from 9 million professing believers in Christ to almost 400 million. Yet, the African church needs to make its spiritual footprint on the north of the continent and the world by becoming a missions-sending church. Together, churches in Africa and the West can forge partnerships that will result in powerfully and effectively completing the evangelization of the continent.
Shewmaker and the Africa Advisory Panel are committed to planting churches in Africa and beyond. They are prayerfully promoting a kingdom agenda that will glorify God by:
· Fostering collaboration between the Africa Area Facilitator, Advisory
Panel and other African leaders whose collective insight and experience
will address the church-planting process.
· Targeting priority people groups and cities in Africa for strategic church
planting.
· Developing holistic approaches that effectively exemplify the grace
and the truth of the gospel for the less-reached peoples of the
continent.
· Recruiting, assessing, equipping and mentoring both African and
American church-planting teams.
· Providing consultation resources to sending churches that support and
oversee their missionaries.
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Africa Advisory Panel
The Africa Advisory Panel is an international panel advancing a collaborative, strategic approach to planting new churches in Africa, strengthening existing churches and nurturing missionaries and their families. The members of the panel are:
Dr. Behailu and Alem Abebe - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Fielden and Janet Allison Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Jim and Phyllis Beck, Lubbock, TX
Ken and Ann Bolden World Radio
Douglas and Maggie Boateng Accra, Ghana
Wendell and Betty Broom Abilene, TX
Dr. Roger and Martha Dickson Cape Town, South Africa
Dr. Chi Ekwenye Aba, Nigeria
Dr. Sonny and Eunice Guild Abilene Christian University
Dan and Brenda McVey Abilene, TX
Matt and Andrea Miller Kara, Togo
Dennis and Mary Okoth Nairobi, Kenya
John and Beth Reese World Bible School
Mike and Karolyn Schrage Good News Productions International
Tim and Rebecca Talley Tanga, Tanzania
Samuel and Teresa Twumasi Ankrah Accra, Ghana
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African Teams Served by MRN
Rwanda Team '08
