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Assemblies of God World Missions represents a growing
family of more than 4,000 people — 2,035 appointed missionaries,
615 missionary associates and 1,500 missionary children —
scattered throughout 212 countries and territories. These dedicated
men and women, along with their children, are taking the gospel
to cities, urban areas and remote villages, telling a lost world
that Christ loves them and came to redeem them from their sins.
Together they work with more than 280,000 national pastors in six
geographical regions — Africa, Asia Pacific, Eurasia, Europe,
Latin America and the Caribbean and Northern Asia.
A word that accurately describes Assemblies of God World Missions
today is “unprecedented.” The worldwide Fellowship now
numbers more than 52 million members and adherents with over 275,000
churches and preaching points. The doors of opportunity to preach
the gospel of Christ also are unprecedented as missionaries and
national believers minister to those who have never heard.
– Executive Director, L. John Bueno
Information sourced from www.worldmissions.ag.org
One reaps what one plants! For
more than a decade, our 300 Gideon’s Army-like
missionaries have prayed and worked for AN INCREASINGLY
REDEEMED AFRICA! Church leaders embraced this vision of
increased harvest. In partnership with their dynamic churches, we
have pursued evangelism, church planting and pastoral training.
And God has “given the increase!”
In 1990, the Assemblies of God in Africa consisted
of 2.1 million constituents in 11,800 churches in 26 countries.
Today, Assemblies of God churches are found in 43 African and nearby
island nations, with upward of 10 million constituents in more than
33,000 congregations!
Churches with thousands of attendees are increasingly
common. Nearly 12,000 attend La Borne Assembly in Kinshasa, capital
of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Several of La Borne’s
22 daughter churches also count attendees in the thousands. In March
2002, City Christian Center in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, laid the
cornerstone of a nine-story, 4,000-seat church facility. In Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, the Assemblies of God Worship Center, which has
grown to 12,000 attendees in just six years, broke ground for an
8,000-seat sanctuary in May. Nairobi’s Buru-Buru Assembly
will soon occupy its new 4,000-seat, three-story edifice.
At Calvary Temple in Lomé, Togo, 3,000 adults
plus children worship in a four-story, city-center church and have
helped plant 70 other churches in the city. Central Assembly in
Koudougou, Burkina Faso, also 3,000 strong, has planted 24 other
churches in the city. Their total attendance is now 11,000! Adjamé
Assembly, the first Assemblies of God church in Abidjan, Ivory Coast,
counts 4,000 members and has helped launch 45 thriving Abidjan churches.
Yopougon Assembly near Abidjan began through a tent crusade in 1988.
Today, 3,000 Ivorien believers worship in a three-story building.
It has started a dozen daughter churches, and more are planned!
Africa’s increase includes recently organized
national churches in Niger, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Cape Verde,
Guinea-Bissau, Swaziland, Namibia, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Central
African Republic, Burundi and Rwanda. Born in 1993, the Rwanda Pentecostal
Assemblies of God celebrated its first General Council, ordination
and Bible school graduation in February. With 92 congregations already,
this nascent church has set its sights on starting many more! It
too has embraced the vision of AN INCREASINGLY REDEEMED AFRICA!
No wonder church growth observers are saying, “Look out, the
Africans are coming!” And they are — to every region
of Africa and far beyond!
BA DEGREE PROGRAM
Our Mission
Biblical Training to the Nations in the power of
the Holy Spirit
The mission and purpose of the Assemblies of God
School of Theology {AGST} are summoned up in the above mission statement.
We are thus committed to three things. < Read more >
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