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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Christianity in Africa: Past and Present, Part 1

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Ken Mbugua, Managing Director of Ekklesia Africa, joins Dr. Stephen Nichols on this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History to discuss the history of missions in Africa.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode I have actually the next two episodes

0:06.7

of a very special guest. I have with me

0:10.4

Reverend Ken and Mugua from Nairobi.

0:14.0

Welcome to five minutes in church history.

0:16.0

Thank you for having me.

0:18.0

Well, you are the pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church there in Nairobi.

0:22.0

You're also the managing director of Ecclesia, Africa, and we'll talk about that in a moment.

0:29.0

But we're going to talk about Christianity in Africa, past and present.

0:34.0

And as you look over the sort of survey,

0:37.5

well actually we could begin with Augustine, right?

0:40.0

We forget that sometimes.

0:42.0

Augustine is African. We forget that sometimes. It's true.

0:43.0

Augustine is African.

0:45.0

But as you look over the modern missions

0:48.0

and we think about that period of Christianity in Africa,

0:52.0

there were tons, as you even said yourself, tons of efforts

0:57.0

towards missions in the 1800s. You've now got the vantage point of seeing the fruit of that.

1:03.0

What were some of the highlights to you?

1:06.0

What stands out from that moment and from the past?

1:10.0

Yeah, being from Kenya and East Africa generally, two efforts, a specialistic army.

1:17.0

One is by a group called the Africa Inland Mission.

1:21.0

They came in late 1800s sacrificed greatly. My grandfather actually came to

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