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🗓️ 28 August 2019
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For a church to become healthy and grow, sometimes it simply requires the right resources in the right hands. On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Ken Mbugua and Dr. Stephen Nichols consider the present challenges and hopeful future of Christianity in Africa.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. This week we are |
0:04.0 | picking up the conversation we started last week with the Reverend Ken DeMugwa from |
0:08.8 | Nairobi, Kenya. Thank you for traveling all this way to visit us and spend some time on five minutes in church history. |
0:16.0 | Good to see you again. |
0:18.0 | Thank you for having me. |
0:19.0 | Last week he told us a great story about your mother's uncle and how he was one of the first converts of African-Inland |
0:28.8 | Mission and now you're carrying on and that tradition of being a pastor and you're also the managing |
0:35.4 | director of Ecclesia Africa which is promoting biblical resources to build healthy |
0:42.1 | churches tell us a little bit more about resources to build healthy churches. |
0:43.0 | Tell us a little bit more about what you're doing with Eclacy Africa and what it's all about. |
0:48.0 | Amen. |
0:49.0 | So across the continent there's many awesome efforts going on. People that we would call |
0:54.7 | I'm like-minded who have confidence in the scriptures that are seeking to |
0:59.2 | expand them accurately, equip other pastors to go out and shepherd their flocks well. |
1:05.0 | But oftentimes the common denominator for all the people on our team, if you so please, |
1:11.0 | is most of them are struggling to get access to theological |
1:14.1 | resources to continue with the work of establishing churches and equipping |
1:18.3 | them. Is this true I've been told you know we do the Reformation study Bible that for many this is like a |
1:24.0 | month's wage to be able to purchase is that a so just the the |
1:29.7 | scariness of resources yeah when either it's the resources are simply not available, they're not there, or when they're there, they're too |
1:38.3 | expensive. |
1:39.3 | They're just out of reach. |
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