Source: International Mission Board, May 5, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Africa has an urgent need for laborers to share the gospel. The image among Christian circles often portrays this area as mostly evangelical and reached. But according to International Mission Board missionary Josh Rivers, that\u2019s not really the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSenegal is less evangelical than Iran,\u201d Rivers, who has worked as a missionary in West Africa for more than 20 years, emphasized about a country steeped in Islam. \u201cThere are many places across Africa where the gospel has taken root and churches started. But there are many places where the gospel is not being proclaimed. That\u2019s where we need believers to go and make disciples.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a> to see how veteran missionaries address questions like why the gospel hasn\u2019t spread further in Africa, what can be done and how churches can help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also an article about a ministry training pastors and believers in Malawi to counteract false teaching<\/a> (FMI, via Mission Network News).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you connect with African immigrant communities, particularly in the area of church planting? Check out a new network, the African Diaspora Church Planting Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a completely different part of the world, please pray for the church in Haiti, where more than 50,000 Haitian people have now been displaced<\/a> (Haitian American Friendship Foundation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: International Mission Board, May 5, 2025 Africa has an urgent need for laborers to share the gospel. The image among Christian circles often portrays this area as mostly evangelical and reached. But according to International Mission Board missionary Josh Rivers, that\u2019s not really the case. \u201cSenegal is less evangelical than Iran,\u201d Rivers, who has … Continue reading Africa:\u00a0Urgent Need for Laborers to Share the Gospel<\/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-13750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750","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=13750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13811,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions\/13811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}