Proclaimer Blog
EMA Missions Project
It’s the EMA next week and each year we announce a missions project that we are hoping delegates will support. It’s absolutely vital that we keep looking outwards and avoid introspection and so a gathering like the EMA is an opportunity to express our gospel generosity matched by gospel vision.
This year, we’re sending resources to Kenya. Kenya is a large country with a huge proportion of the population self-identifying as evangelicals (some 25 million). But there are also 80,000 churches with untrained leaders and the prosperity gospel teaching is rapidly taking hold. Kenya is increasingly looking outward (much as Nigeria has in the past) and so there is a real risk of this false and dangerous teaching overtaking both Kenyans and many in East Africa who look to Kenya for Christian leadership.
We’re partnering with our friends in iServe Africa to distribute two key resources to help brothers fight in this battle. The Gospel Coalition International Outreach has generously given us copies of their new book on this pernicious teaching Prosperity? Hodder and Stoughton have matched this with low cost copies of The Proclamation Bible. This important resource contains an NIV Bible text and 120,000 extra words of essays, introductions and how to which will assist Kenyan brothers in preaching faithfully.
If you’re coming to the EMA, please consider giving generously to this project. If you’re not with us this year, you can still support this initiative by contacting us in the office.
On behalf of brothers in Kenya, thank you, thank you, thank you.