{"id":13609,"date":"2025-02-05T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13609"},"modified":"2025-02-05T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:00:07","slug":"kenya-new-training-center-prepares-african-missionaries-to-reach-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13609","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: New Training Center Prepares African Missionaries to Reach Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: International Mission Board, January 28, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International Mission Board missionaries commissioned a new facility in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 26 to prepare Africans to reach the nations. IMB missionaries, along with senior leaders from Richmond, gathered to pray for healthy African churches to send African missionaries and to praise God for the work he is already doing across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of the Lead Global facility is to equip churches to engage unreached people groups effectively. IMB missionaries aim to help African Baptist churches reach a point where they can send and support missionaries independently. Historically, missionary support has not been a priority in African church budgets, so the IMB team is working to help churches understand the value of this investment. IMB and Lead Global will work together to help churches fulfill their role in the Great Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/2025\/01\/28\/new-training-center-prepares-african-missionaries-to-reach-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We rejoice in how God has used missionaries of African descent for many years. See below for an new initiative highlighting diverse African American ministry leaders (Chasm Gaming and the National African American Mission Council).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Celebrating Black History: Custom Deck of African American Playing Cards\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ciu035Z4khQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: International Mission Board, January 28, 2025 International Mission Board missionaries commissioned a new facility in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 26 to prepare Africans to reach the nations. IMB missionaries, along with senior leaders from Richmond, gathered to pray for healthy African churches to send African missionaries and to praise God for the work he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenya: New Training Center Prepares African Missionaries to Reach Nations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13610,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions\/13610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}