‘Hope for Africa’s mission is to awaken Christians everywhere to Christ’s full intentions for those who profess faith in Him. Once awakened, ‘Hope for Africa’provides the teaching resources that enable church leaders to disciple their members, bringing them to a mature understanding of Christian responsibilities.  In addition, this teaching shows the churches how to put their new understanding in to practice, developing a lifestyle of service to the needs of others.
 
In this work, ‘Hope for Africa’is an agenda of God’s agenda. We are servants of restoration – from brokenness caused by sin to the Biblical wholeness of God’s desire for all of life.

In response to the outcry of communities across Africa who are caught in the desperate cycle of underdevelopment, poverty, escalating crime and the devastation caused by HIV/AIDS, ‘Hope for Africa’ is committed to see a transformed Africa by helping God’s people, the Church, to

•  discover God’s glorious vision of comprehensive transformation of individual lives, communities and nations, described by Jesus as “the Kingdom of God”.
• adopt a Biblical worldview – living it out by taking truth, goodness and beauty into every sphere of society.
• practice a wholistic, incarnational lifestyle that provides tangible demonstrations of Christ’s love to broken people until Christ fills all in all.

‘Hope for Africa’ presents to Christian leaders a vision of God’s full intention for the Church and for all of life. These presentations provide Biblically based messages with an emphasis on the demonstration of God’s love to the community as a whole. This includes believers as well as non-believers. These presentations are initiated and coordinated by leadership of the Body of Christ in the areas where they are held.

‘Hope for Africa’ also calls on Christians everywhere to rise up and to serve in all the spheres of society. To praise God in church and serve Him in the world needs to be the inspiring impulse.  For too many years the authority of Christ was limited to the four walls of the church building. But a new day is dawning. All over the world Christians are awakening to their responsibility to serve people and influence whole nations for Christ.

•  Christian fathers and mothers need to reclaim the domain of the family and establish it as the pillar of civilization.
• The Church needs to nurture her people and be committed to see “the knowledge of the glory of the Lord cover the earth as waters cover the sea”. She needs to train her ranks to be servants and stewards so as to be salt and light of the earth.
• Believers need to pray for and serve in all levels of government. The Body of Christ needs to bring the principles of God back into the halls of government.
• Christians must take lead in education – to launch Christian and home schools, to be salt and light in public institutions, and serve the nation in knowledge and the wisdom that is according to godliness.
• Christian businessmen need to become the world’s diplomats; to guide the economic strata in integrity and generosity; and to take dominion over nature for the good of man everywhere.
• The arts must be permeated with godliness and glory; to worship the Creator, and give meaning to creation. Artists must be heroes who point to the creator, Who is the fountain of all creativity and beauty.
• Believers must take servant leadership in the media to proclaim the truth and propagate the Gospel of the Kingdom; to fill the earth with the knowledge of the glory of God. (Taken in part from Ron Boehme’s book, “Leadership for the 21st Century)

Application of the new understanding by Christians is critical if the teaching is to bring healing and transformation to individual lives and result in the advance of the Kingdom of God.
One way through which ‘Hope for Africa’ teaches this application is with the aid of seed projects – small efforts, bathed in prayer, led by the Holy Spirit and accomplished with local resources that eventually begin to grow and bear fruit that brings glory to God.

The Samaritan Strategy Africa network serves its multi-purposed goal through a “school of thought” that finds expression in the development and distribution of educational resources, the conduct of conferences and training, and encouragement of expanding communications and cooperation among Christian groups.
Fundamental to this work is the realization that local churches are God’s primary agency for accomplishing the transformation of individuals, communities, regions, and nations.

Vision Casting Events -

These are opportunities to cast the vision of Hope for Africa ranging from a few minutes to a couple of days. They provide an overview of Biblical or Kingdom worldview and a corresponding vision for the local expression of the Body of Christ to be engaged in and equipped for wholistic ministry based on that worldview.

Vision Conferences -

The process begins with Vision Conferences that are attended by church pastors and leaders from other Christian organizations such as Bible colleges, seminaries, and mission agencies. Here the participants are presented with a Biblical worldview and God’s full intentions for the role of the Church. Local churches and organizations sponsor the conferences. Discipleship Material

 BASICS 1-5 - BASICS is a unique discipleship curriculum for followers of Jesus Christ – Brothers And Sisters In Christ’s Service! BASICS is a training tools for pastors and lay leaders as they guide new – and mature – believers in the practice of Jesus’ commands in all areas of life.
LDTP 1&2 (Leadership Development Training Program) - The LDTP is a training tool for local church leaders who want to guide their churches in outreach to the spiritual, physical, and social hurts of their neighbors.  It offers vision and theology.  It also provides a practical strategy.  The LDTP, using Scripture, encourages a walk of faith, love and compassionate service as local churches represent Jesus to the people around them.

Small Group Bible Study

Kingdom Lifestyle Series for Small Group Bible Study

The Bible often uses the metaphor of a fruitful tree to describe a healthy life. In Psalm 1, we read a blessed man is one “like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit is season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.”
The Kingdom Lifestyle Series is based on the analogy of a healthy, strong tree. To have abundant fruit in our lives, we must start in the soil of our lives.  That soil is God and His Word. The “taproot” is our relationship with Jesus Christ. We also need strong roots that are analogous to growth in our God-given gifts and family.

Training of Trainers Following the conferences, the sponsoring groups identify leaders who will carry the vision forward in their communities. These leaders receive additional training so they can equip members of their own churches and organizations.

 Seed Projects

Application of the Biblical worldview and wholistic ministry understanding by God’s people is critical if the teaching is to bring healing and transformation to individual lives and result in the advance of the Kingdom of God. This application is taught with the aid of seed projects – small efforts, bathed in prayer, led by the Holy Spirit and accomplished with local resources that eventually begin to grow and bear fruit that brings glory to God. Lifework: Developing a Biblical Theology for Vocation Seminars

These are one day seminars designed to help God’s people understand their work, not merely as a job or a means of support, but as a vocation, a calling. It helps them to connect their chosen vocation with the narrative of God’s unfolding story, because He is not just Lord of the religious and spiritual realm. He is the Lord of all, including the Lord of our work.

Conclusion: Calling for a Kingdom Worldview

The African society and the Church are at crossroads.
The continent is in the midst of unprecedented change - Land reform issues, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, escalating crime, poverty and underdevelopment. A lot of our people are hurting and without hope; discouraged people standing on the edge of death but with the promise of the resources and agricultural methodologies to put an end to persistent hunger.
The Church has a vital message to bring to this hurting world.  It begins and ends with "Christ, our Hope of Glory."  We are to articulate a Kingdom world and life view to challenge both ancient animistic and modern atheistic paradigms. We are to proclaim vital biblical principles that will create a solid foundation upon which to build societies of unprecedented freedom and opportunity.
Will the Church challenge existing models and call for reformation of minds and hearts?  Or will we succumb to humanistic models that view the problems of our world only in material terms?  Worse yet, will the Church abandon the world, stick her head in the sand, and live in the Greek world of a spiritualized dichotomy?
Hope springs from the transformation of the heart and mind and the corresponding revolution of life and culture.
Will the Church lead or follow?
The choice is ours!

For the sake of the Kingdom