THE STORY KEEPERS’ Post

A road map for scholars in following the development of African Christian thought, the current state of research in specific areas, and methodological approaches being employed in understanding the Christian movement as it crosses different cultural, religious, and social frontiers in Africa. https://lnkd.in/eFkjjnSE #stanchuilo #africa #african #palaver

ChristianHub | Praying for Ghana’s youth One of the key features of ChristianHub is its Praying for Africa section, which is an invitation to join other believers in praying for African countries. Each country profile gives you a glimpse into the current state of the nation, including the size of the Christian population and social and economic issues people are dealing with. Ghana, with its 34.1 million people from diverse ethnic groups and faiths, has been a beacon of peace in Africa. About 63% of Ghanaians identify as Christian, and a vibrant 24% are Evangelical believers. But there's a unique opportunity - and a pressing need - to reach the young generation. With so much of the population under 15, young people hold the potential to lead a revival. Yet, in many rural areas, traditional beliefs prevail, and specific outreach to young people remains limited, especially outside the major cities. Imagine the impact of the gospel in Ghana's secondary schools, universities, and colleges if these young hearts were reached and discipled! Pray with us for a new generation of Christians in Ghana, who will bring light and transformation to the nation’s culture, politics, and economy. Ghana is one of several African countries listed on ChristianHub’s Praying for Africa page. Join us in praying for the continent: https://lnkd.in/dEAuzzha *ChristianHub is a Mergon initiative

I promised to share what I learned from Dr. Mensa Otabil and Madam Lucy Quist at the maiden Central Aid Annual lecture. Madam Lucy Quist, shared her journey as a young girl-who almost dropped out of school, how the selfless act of her Au t who took her in; opened doors that eventually led to her applying for and getting a Central Aid Scholarship years back. She shared with us "who a thought leader is and how relevant it is in shaping the African perspective".Why thought leadership? An individual or firm that is recognized as an authority , having influence over others in their area of expertise. Bearing in mind that this individual built this influence, by being shaped, refined, tried and trusted over the years. As a thought leader you should communicate within the context of your audience. Having shared similar difficulties and experiences helps you think like they do and know how to offer practical and feasible solutions or ideas. She explained that as Christians, Jesus is the standard for thought leadership. And the Church (is supposed to) nurture, the mind the soul the heart. In her opinion, Practical Christianity is the wheel that would change this country.As a higher percentage of us profess Christianity, the world would be so much better if we lived by the values and principles of Christianity in our day to day lives. Dr. Mensa Otabil pointed out the fact that Africa's problems existed before colonization. Even the African countries that were not colonized, still have problems with development because of our culture. Bear in mind, we don't mean this on 'traditional culture's rather the inner values and dominant practice of a population.The way we have cultivated ourselves to see ourselves. Here are Four major layers of problems •Foundational level,...who we were and how we were formed and what kind of people before colonization. •How Europe shaped us through colonization, apartheid, slavery etc. what happened to us after the encounter with Europe •How we thought of the colonialist, our reason for the freedom fight and how we rule our nation. •The aftermath of the consistent failure of governments. The disengagement of the people in the country. 5 main centers that control the way we respond to Pro lems •The way we related to God •The nature of the people •Moral expectations •Consequences •Realism What then is the solution, when a proper diagnosis is made. Then prescription is simple. 1.Create a culture of precision and Accuracy. In time,measure things, planning, building. 2.Create a future minded culture. Our culture is too steep on preserving the past. We must impose the burden of long term consequences, one the urgency of the needs of today.We cannot solve the present problems by using the culture of the past where we created them. 3.Create a culture of cause and effects. Move away from fatalism. Destiny is controlable. 4. A culture of trust and merit. It affects who we promote, pay well, employ, reward etc.

IBSI Pastors Presents: Vision 2050: Most of the World’s Christians will be in Africa — Tuesday, October 15 @ 8PM Eastern Description: According to Pew Center Research, Africa and Latin America will be home to the largest population of Christians. Also according to research, Africa is home to the most devout followers of Jesus despite suffering some of the worst Islamist persecution in places like Nigeria and Sudan. As the Christian population in America and in the Western world decreases, what do Black American church leaders need to know about their Christian brothers and sisters in Africa? Why is support for Israel so important among most African Christians? And how can these two Christian communities work together for the future strength and prosperity of the entire Church? IBSI Speakers Bureau Chief and South African, Olga Meshoe Washington joins Pastor Dumisani Washington for this timely discussion, IBSI’s final ‘Pastors Presensts’ of 2024. You can register at IBSI.org/dates

Here are my thoughts in this week’s The Catholic Weekly regarding Fairfield’s importance in the Australian story.

CALL FOR PAPERS The Church in Africa is having its good times compared to the global West, which now tags itself a “post-Christian” world. Some of the largest congregations and megachurches are found in Africa, and its leaders are among the most well-known preachers around the globe. With several streets filled with churches, TV and radio stations filled with sermons, and Christians being in positions of influence, including Presidents of nations, why is Africa still underdeveloped? Underdevelopment is a state of economic, social, and political deprivation in a country (or continent this time) compared to others. We believe the gospel is God’s good news and is holistic in its impact. Therefore, the African Homiletics Society calls for papers that address Biblical Preaching and African Development. Read this flyer and submit your abstract here when it is ready: https://bit.ly/40rulfd

*repost • @love_your_baggage Did you know that Whites wanted to get rid of Blacks and send them to Africa after the slave revolts began (like the one Nat Turner led in 1831) just before the American civil war (1861) and the abolition of slavery in the US (1865)? That plan failed multiple times (including in the 60s) resulting in mass fatalities each time and was ultimately abandoned. While the idea of returning to their ancestral Africa was attractive to many Blacks, the reality of arriving 3 centuries too late as culturally stripped Christianized African Americans proved too difficult. Meanwhile Whites on the other side of the Atlantic planned to get rid of Jews too and send them away to P a l e s t i n e beginning in 1891 when the Jewish Colonization Association was established. Rockefeller and other wealthy investors ensured that plan was better funded. Though this emigration project has lasted longer, it was equally unpopular in the beginning. Cultural identity is after all one of those problems you can't solve with guns and money. The Jewish colonization project wouldn't take off till WW2 when Jews were forcibly sent. Without WW2 there wouldn't be a Jewish Colonization project in the Middle East today. Source: @acikulatbuku @_mazlia_ #blackhistory #jewishhistory ⁣ #ICC #Israel #Palestinian #Netanyahu #ArrestWarrant #Justice #WarCrime #freepalestine #freegaza #un #aid #unrwa #ceasefirenow #GenocideJoe #Palestine #Gaza #holocaust #icj #freedom #bds #boycottisrael #protest #Jewish #jews #genocide #eu #uk #Lebanon #us #fascism

Provides a disciplinary map for understanding African Catholicism today by engaging some of the most pressing and pertinent issues, topics, and conversations in diverse fields of studies in African Catholicism. A road map for scholars in following the development of African Christian thought, the current state of research in specific areas, and methodological approaches being employed in understanding the Christian movement as it crosses different cultural, religious, and social frontiers in Africa. #blacklivesmatter #blm #blackfaithmatters #stanchuilo #africa

Well, Oladele Dosunmu, here you may indeed go wrong. And the lady too. I am married to an African, who is indeed my queen. The lady speaking is to some extent right but her racist blindedness prevents her from seeing the nuance. What Wanjiru Kamau (?) indeed has gotten right, is that some men belonging to the colony of intellectual invertebrates, indeed have not understood a thing of what this so called "relationship" is all about. And truly, it is not - as portrayed in the West - about love. It is indeed about importance. Which she - in my view - have gotten completely right. When now she starts blaming the West for having put the idea abouot male supremacy into Africans, well, some coughing need to occur. Because. Indeed - some men from the Western world have such archaic and old school opinions - but they belong to the same intellectual invertebrates! The space where we, in the West, got it wrong, was when women started doing mens job, and men started wearing breasts, filled with their wife's breast milk to feed their baby (!), all of it in the name of some perceived gender equality. That is what spawned the flawed "Woke revision 2" culture. The West never understood in all their gibbedigook, that equal gender rights occur when the man and the woman in a relationship have a deep mutual pervasive respect, enabling men to do what men do, and women to do what women do, on basis of mutually being there for each other, caring, and operating as "one" if you actually interpret the Bible in a better way than what Ms. Kamau was able to read it with her quite dark shades on. Now, when we - in the West - DO have this militant equal right - we see that as women and men now freely and independently can choose occupation, women to a large extent choose what women traditionally chose of work, and men do the same. So. Back to square one. Now not as a societally forced preselection but as a free will choice. What we then are grappling with, now, in the West, is that we still do not have mutual respect between husband and wife. Without that, it does not matter how you work, how you split, how you divide the work. As long as you as husband and wife are not working as one, with the deepest respect and a deeply rooted feeling of protecting each others decency, and the sanctity of the home, the family, and societal values - then there WILL be no families. And no. Africa has indeed not copied any of that gibbedigook. African men have fornicated just like men in the Western world, I think it is a problem we men have with our private parts, so in that we are not in any way different. So even here is not in any way anything we in the West have taught the Africans. Therefore, all of us, in each our cultures, have learned how to survive in each our ways, both in the biological, societal and technological ways. We have copied from each other, both genetically, behaviourally and infrastructurally. So this time, Mr. Oladele Dosunmu, I tend to differ. ❤️

Africa has become the center of Christianity in the modern world. In 2024, Ethiopia had the largest Christian population in Africa, with approximately 77.5 million people identifying as Christian. Nigeria followed closely, with around 74.4 million Christians. Christianity has a significant presence across the continent, with its roots in Africa tracing back to the fourth century in Ethiopia. Over the centuries, Christianity has spread throughout Africa, embedding itself in various regions with diverse denominations and traditions. https://lnkd.in/e8CdcvgZ