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AFRICA 2008 GLOBAL REPORT |
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When speaking in church, on a college campus or to a community group, I often ask, "What comes to mind when you hear “Africa.” They rattle off a list of liabilities: disease (the AIDS pandemic, AIDS malaria and TB), famine, political corruption, desperate poverty,and tribal conflicts. Asked to list assets, some mention its natural resources—the Nile, Serengeti, wildlife, gold/diamonds, others might refer to cultural riches—music, art, and colorful history. It is disappointing how how few mention Africa’s greatest and most powerful resource, the African people. In our travels across the African Continent, from Khartoum to Ethiopia to Swaziland, we can testify that Africa's has its fair share of challenges. |
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ALL AFRICA TRAINING |
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There is an exciting move of God in Africa. God is raising up a powerful voice of FREEDOM in this hour for the Continent of Africa Centers are in operation in
Swaziland
South Africa
Ethiopia
Kenya
Angola
Guinea Bissau
There are invitations from over a dozenother countries. |
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The visionary leadership of Teen Challenge pioneers like Rev. Kevin Ward and Jacobus Nomdoe have led the way as more centers are opening across the continent offering legitimate solutions and real results. When PASSION MEETS COMPASSION, miracles happen.
Teen Challenge is a place where African believers are bringing healing to their own continent through the power of Jesus Christ. Outside of Teen Challenge, the combination of poor pay, poor working conditions, political instability, and deteriorating security for lives and personal property have led African professionals to vote with their feet. |
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As the continent bleeds human resources in the health sector, engineering and professional services, Teen Challenge is finally harnessing Aftica's greatest resource, the Afican people. Nelson Mandela said, “Africa is beyond bemoaning the past for its problems. The task of undoing that past is on the shoulders of African leaders themselves, with the support of those willing to join in a continental renewal."Teen Challenge is raising up a new generation of visionary leaders who know that Africa can take responsibility for its own future and that transformation is possible through he power of Jesus Christ.
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Is cocaine now ruining Africa |
West Africa is under attack. The region has become a hub for cocaine smuggling from Latin America to Europe. States that we seldom hear about, such as Guinea-Bissau and neighboring Guinea, are at risk of being captured by drug cartels in collusion with corrupt forces in government and the military.
With the exception of cannabis in Morocco, Africa never used to have a drug problem. That has changed, however, in the past five years. Around 50 tons of cocaine are being shipped from the Andean countries to Europe via West Africa every year -- and that is a conservative estimate. Actual amounts could be at least five times higher. The volume seized is rising sharply: from 266 kilograms in 2003, to 3,161 in 2006, to 6,458 in 2007. This steep increase will no doubt continue. This month alone, more than 600 kilos were seized in a plane with fake Red Cross markings at the airport in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and at the international airport in Bissau, several hundred boxes were unloaded from a jet.
The profiteers in this illicit trade -- mostly but not only Latinos -- stand out on the streets of West African towns. They drive luxury cars, buy up the best hotels and are building haciendas and other opulent examples of ''narcotecture.''
Law enforcement has been helpless against this onslaught. Drug planes don't have to fly below the radar, because in most cases there is no radar (or electricity). Soldiers sometimes help smugglers by closing airports and unloading the cargo. Police cars run out of gas when giving chase or are left in the dust by smugglers' all-terrain vehicles. There are no local navies to intercept the ships coming from Latin America or to chase the 2,000-horsepower boats that speed drugs up the coast to Europe. Traffickers are seldom brought to trial; in some cases, there are no prisons to put them in. Even when they are charged, they are usually released because evidence is not collected or needed laws are not in place.
Drugs have become a security issue as drug money perverts the weak economies of the region. In some cases, the value of the drugs being trafficked is greater than the country's entire national income. The influence that this buys is rotting these fragile states; traffickers are buying favors and protection from the police and peddling influence through the candidates in elections.
Quick intervention by the international community five years ago prevented a crisis in Cape Verde, but the cartels merely shifted their operations to Guinea-Bissau. Now Guinea is under threat; Guinea's neighbor Sierra Leone could be next. Without a regional response, the problem will move from country to country. |
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UGANDA: We will be meeting with Fresh Start Recovery Home in Kampala for staff training, High School ministry, street ministry, Sunday Church ministry.
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KENYA: Open House, choir training, drug outreach for schools, staff training, outreach.
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MAURITIUS: has been postponed until November in order that GTC Africa Regional Representative can lead the mission. |
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2008 INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULE
A F R I C A
UGANDA August 10 to 18
KENYA August 19 to 28
Mauritius postponed to Nov 9
A F R I C A
SOUTH AFRICA
10 th Anniversary
Teen Challenge Western Cape
October 25-Nov 1
SOUTH AFRICA -
Bloemfontain
November 2-8
ALL AFRICA LEADERSHIP TRAINING
MAURITIUS
Nov 9 to Nov 16
SWAZILAND
Nov 17 |
Cathy and I were honored to produce the 50th ANNIVERSARY VIDEO
for the celebration in New York City.
If you would like to view the
video stream, click here.
DVD's are available upon request.
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STATESIDE SCHEDULE
Current services. How about YOU?
September 8-10, 2008
SPIRITUAL IMPACT
New England Teen Challenge
October 13-15, 2008
SPIRITUAL IMPACT
Long Island/Brooklyn Teen Challenge.
Camp Champion New york
September 26-27, 2008
CROSSWALK MEN's Retreat
Chanco on the James |
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PARTNER
PRAYER
FOCUS |
1) Pray for the services, staff training, school meetings and organizational gatherings in Uganda August 10 to 18.
2) Pray for the Kenya open house, ministry at the Assemblies of God General council, services and outreach in Kenya August 19-28.
3) Pray for workers for the Harvest ... we currently have invitations to start Teen Challenge in 43 nations. They are crying out for help. They need the power of God to meet a pressing social need.
We offer SPIRITUAL RESOURCES to meet the need.
MATTHEW 37-3 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 38 Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”
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