Click Here to read the full text of a speech presented by Shawn Tyler at the University Advisors’ Summit - 29 April 2009
The global AIDS pandemic is the most horrific, Africa-impacting medical reality ever known to man. The Church needs to help. Some of the poorest of the poor (living on less than a dollar a day) live in Africa, and the Church needs to partner. There are many refugees, many youth (50% of entire African nations are under the age of 18), many illiterate, many poor, and many unemployed who exist in Africa––for which the global Church is responsible.
At the same time, the African Church is the emerging younger spiritual brother to China, Korea, and the USA in terms of the global Christian family. With countries like Nigeria and Kenya sending out missionaries around the globe, with tremendous spiritual growth being recorded in many nations in central and southern Africa, and with the dawn of the largest global prayer initiative in the history of the world emanating from South Africa, this continent’s Church is a force to partner with today. It is a Church that sees the falsehood of materialism, the empty promises of post modernity, and the slippery slopes of secular and sexual non-biblical norms. Africa is ready to grow and help.
Click Here to read the full text of a speech presented by Shawn Tyler at the University Advisors’ Summit - 29 April 2009
