MOVEMENT FOR AFRICAN NATIONAL INTIATIVES

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MOVEMENT FOR AFRICAN NATIONAL INTIATIVES
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God is at work in Africa

• God is doing some of His mightiest work in some
  of the most unlikely places through some of the
  most unlikely people.
• Its in the most desperate countries in Africa
  that were seeing some of the greatest growth.
• I will build my church and the gates of Hades
  will not over come it

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Plenary preview

• Overview - MANI and African National Initiatives
• The vision and aims of MANI
• Historical development of MANI
• Basic convictions of MANI
• Strategic priorities of National Initiatives
• Unreached /Least Reached Peoples
• Nigeria case study

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A Biblical Vision

• "... the earth will be filled with the knowledge
  of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the
  sea.
• - Habakkuk 214

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Habakkuks vision fulfilled

• When in each nation there are
• Healthy churches accessible without barriers to
  all cultures and classes.
• All communities are progressively discipled.
• National churches are taking the Gospel to the
  unreached at home and globally.

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Rooted in African History

• 1960s - first national movements
• Many African nations gained political
  independence
• New sense of African destiny
• Surge in indigenous leadership in the Church
• Saturation Evangelism movements emerge in Zaire
  Nigeria

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The Second Generation

• 1970s 1980s - National Initiatives began to
  emerge across the continent
• Ghana Evangelism Committee -1974
• Target 2000 Movement in Zimbabwe - 1987
• FinTask Movement in Nigeria - 1989

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Movements Multiply

• 1990s The AD2000 Beyond Movement
• GCOWE 97 drew 1200 leaders from 46 nations
• National Initiatives launched in many nations as
  a result
• African National Initiatives adopted as the basic
  strategy of the Evangelism and Missions
  Commission of the AEA

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The Birth of MANI

• 2001 The Africa Millennial Consultation in
  Jerusalem gave birth to MANI
• Launched by 360 leaders from 36 nations
• Africas Hour Has Come!
• Convictions expressed
• The Church in Africa is to take primary
  responsibility for the final gospel thrust in
  Africa
• The African Church is uniquely positioned to play
  a major role in world evangelization in the 21st
  century.

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In MANI we believe that.

1. That the most urgent task of the Church in Africa
   is to fulfil the Great Commission in the 21st
   Century
2. The Church in Africa has the ministry gifts,
   manpower and material resources needed to
   complete this task and to make a significant
   contribution to global evangelization.

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In MANI we believe that.

• 3 If the resources of the African Church are
  properly organized, in partnership with the
  global church, we can meet our target of a
  church for every people and the gospel for every
  individual in the countries of Africa and we can
  make a significant contribution to global
  evangelization.

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MANI encourages Churches to

• 1. Plant churches in
• The least evangelized people groups,
• Geographical areas and
• Social classes of the country.
• 2. Put a healthy church within reach of every
  town and village.
• 3. Reach out world-wide to the least evangelized
  peoples and nations.
• 4. Change the way Christians think about missions.

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MANI is facilitated by

• A team consisting of a Continental Coordinator
  and eight Regional Coordinators.
• The Team seeks to facilitate the MANI vision at a
  continental level and works with
• National Coordinators
• Regional / National Church Missions leaders
• Network Coordinators

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8 MANI Regions
Francophone West
AnglophoneWest
Horn
Horn
AnglophoneWest
East
East
Central
Central
Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
Portuguese Speaking
Southern
Southern
Portuguese Speaking
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What is a National Initiative?

• An undertaking by the National church to carry
  out the Great Commission to make disciples of
  all nations (peoples)
• A process that unites churches ministries to
  evangelize the nation engage in missionary
  outreach to least evangelized peoples beyond its
  borders.
• A process in which churches ministries develop
  a shared vision and work together to complete the
  task.

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What is a National Initiative?

• A bold undertaking by the National Church to
  respond to the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus
  Christ to "to make disciples of all nations
  (peoples).
• It may be focused on one or more of seven
  strategic priorities.

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7 Strategic Priorities

• TO SEE
• 1.A pioneer church planting (PCP) movement within
  every major language and cultural group amongst
  its unreached peoples.
• 2. A saturation church planting (SCP) movement -
  multiplying healthy churches to transformation
  the nation.

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Strategic Priorities

• 3. A ministry dedicated to recruiting, training
  and sending missionaries
• 4. A movement to involve churches and individuals
  in global missions

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Strategic Priorities

• 5. Denominations encouraging every congregation
  to disciple their members and challenging them to
  active ministry.
• 6. United prayer movements for transformation,
  evangelization and mission.
• 7. All churches and ministries networking and
  partnering together to achieve these objectives.

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Strategic Priority No. 1

• A pioneer church planting movement within every
  ethno-linguistic people in a nation.
• This involves
• Penetrating and establishing an appropriate
  Church Planting Movement within all the Unreached
  or Least Reached People groups in a Nation.

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Nigerias Unreached Peoples

• Case Study on Fin-Task Nigeria
• and introduction to People Group thinking and
  strategy.
• Nyi Gbade, National Coordinator of
• Fin-Task Nigeria

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CASE STUDY FINTASK NIGERIA
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The Great Commission

• Therefore go and make disciples of all nations

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Countries or Nations?

• What did Jesus mean in His command to disciple
  all nations?" He was not referring to political
  countries like Nigeria, but using the Greek word
  ethne from which we get the English term
  ethnic group. Jesus has commanded us to
  disciple all the ethnic groups in the world. For
  example, in the country of Nigeria there are over
  520 distinct people groups.
  www.joshuaproject.net

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NIGERIA a political perspective(one country)
www.joshuaproject.net
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Nigeria an ethne perspective(over 520 distinct
people groups each needing a church planting
movement in their midst)
www.joshuaproject.net
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What are Unreached Peoples?

• Globally there are approximately 6,900 unreached
  ethnic people groups without an indigenous,
  evangelizing church movement in their midst.
  These groups are the target of frontier mission
  strategy. They need a missionary team to work
  among them, to learn their language and culture,
  and establish a church movement in their culture
  which is capable of sharing the Gospel
  effectively with each member of their group.
  www.joshuaproject.net

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Nigeria a reachedness perspective(Muslim in
north, Christian in south)
www.joshuaproject.net
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Aim At Nothing, Hit Nothing.
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By AD2000

• Denominations Made 400 Adoptions
• With over 70 New Entries into
• Unreached Peoples Fields

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Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will
be saved. How, then, can they call on the one
they have not believed in? And how can they
believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone preaching
to them? And how can they preach unless they are
sent? Romans 1013-15a
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Essential Information Process

• Research --- Information --- Mobilization
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  Church Planting
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Table Discussion

• Share and discuss.
• In our respective countries do we
• Have healthy churches accessible without barriers
  of distance or culture, to every class and kind
  of people?
• Are all communities being progressively
  discipled?
• Are churches are taking the Gospel to the
  unreached within and beyond our borders?

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WENSA South African Initiative

• Peter Tarantal Director, World Evangelization
  Network-South Africa (WENSA)
• Leader - Global South Movement, Operation
  Mobilization
• Primary focus - mobilizing S.A. churches for
  mission
• Links 18 mission and church networks
• Connects 25 major denominations and 40 national
  ministries
• Annual national consultation and many regional
  consultations
• National research process launched

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Zimbabwe National Evan. Task

• Chairperson Rev. PF Moyo (President of the
  National Baptist Convention of Zimbabwe)
• Launched by 60 denominations in 1992
• Primary focus saturation church planting
• National research process
• 10,000 churches planted in 8 years 1,200 outside
  the country
• Regional training consultations

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Finish the Task - Kenya

• Bishop Dr Stephen Kabachia Founding leader and
  Executive member
  Presiding Bishop Agape Fellowship of
  Churches East Africa Regional Coordinator for
  MANI
• Brings together major denominations and
  ministries from both mainline and Pentecostal
  persuasions.
• Initial focus Kenyas Unreached Peoples and
  missions mobilization
• Current focus Saturation Church planting.
• National Church Survey led to setting of a goal
  of 30,000 churches by .

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Ghana Evangelism Committee

• Very Rev Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, Immediate past
  Chairman - Ghana Evangelism Committee Chairman
  Christian Council of Ghana Moderator
  Presbyterian Church of Ghana
• A committee of major denominations and ministries
  first constituted in 1974 and reconstituted 2009
• Initial focus Spiritual renewal in mainline
  denominations, every member evangelism and
  discipleship, church growth and church planting.
• National Church Surveys in 1989 1993 launched a
  focus in un-church areas and unreached peoples.
• 3rd National Church Survey in progress

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What is a National Initiative?

• It is a nationwide strategy and process designed
  to mobilize the Body of Christ in such a way that
  it is
• effectively functioning together toward the
  completion of the unfinished task of
  evangelization in its own country, and
• making a significant contribution to the
  evangelization of the least evangelized peoples
  and countries of the world.