One question, four answers

Peggy Kabonde
‘Everywhere in Africa, the Church is recording growing membership’

Church life in Africa is characterised by deep faith, the joy of worship through music, dancing, praying and responsive meditation, and social responsibility undertaken in nearly all denominations…

Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde is the Minister of URC/Methodist congregations in Melksham
and Bradford-on-Avon

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Nigel Uden
‘Ubuntu is a building block of Africa’s spirituality’

Forty years ago, my interest in Africa was sparked through a student placement with Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in South Africa….

Nigel Uden is Minister at Fulbourn and Downing Place, Cambridge, and is a former Moderator of the URC General Assembly

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Israel Oluwole Olofinjana
‘An average Christian today is a woman from west Africa’

Current data suggests that Africa now has the largest concentration of Christians in the world and this is set to continue for the foreseeable future….

Israel Oluwole Olofinjana is Director of the Evangelical Alliance’s One People Commission

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Keith & Ida Waddell
‘African Christians are more ready to give the reason for their hope’

We have been in Southern Africa since 1994. Our experience is mainly from Reformed Churches such as the Presbyterians and the United Church of Zambia (UCZ)…

Keith and Ida Waddell are Church of Scotland/Methodist mission partners with the United Church of Zambia, focussing on special needs and health

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This is an extract from an article published in the April 2024 edition of Reform

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