Thank you for your faithful support last year. I pray you’ll be encouraged as you read this Impact Report.
As you know, there are many challenges in Africa – social problems, violence, advancing Islam, and more. But God in you is using you to bring His truth to broken lives, and to bring unity and strength to churches so they can transform their nations for Christ.
The Aid & Development Projects you have supported have impacted many lives, as you’ll read in Belinda’s story. And the missions you invested in have led many people to Jesus, like Tefera and Ali.
Let’s thank the Lord for all He’s done, and pray He’ll continue to use us to transform more lives in Africa in the coming year – as well as entire cities.
TOGO Your Time has come!
After years of prayer for the nation of Togo, God has finally given African Enterprise an open door for citywide missions in Lome! We’re so thankful for our friends and partners in the nation who have a burden to see Lome reached for Christ!
In early May, AE Ghana Team Leader, Ben Sachie, accompanied by Emmanuel Kwizera and Lynn Nwagbara visited Togo and connected with local Christian leaders and pastors to plot a way forward for AE missions.
I have found that AE’s method of stratified evangelism: engaging entrepreneurs in evangelism is the best strategy if we are to reach the whole nation for Jesus!”.
Rev. Happy Aziadekey, the chairman of Federation des Evangéliques au Togo told us, “You have come here at the right time! I have done my doctoral research on mission and evangelism in Togo and I have found that AE’s method of stratified evangelism: engaging entrepreneurs in evangelism is the best strategy if we are to reach the whole nation for Jesus!”.
Campus for Christ Togo have also partnered with AE for this process and will help create links with local churches so that a national strategy for evangelization can be established. The AE team also met with the heads of different churches in Togo who are already on fire for proclamation evangelism. They want to see all the spheres of influence in the city of Lomé saturated by the Gospel! Praise God!
“We can’t wait to see the launch of this three years mission process. We are ready to team up with you and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all Togolese people.”, said Rev Mitré Djakouti, the President of the Assemblies of God in Togo and Chairman of the largest national church network called the Christian Council (Conseil Chretien).
God opened the doors for many strategic meetings for the AE team including: the President of the Church of Pentecost in Togo, the Rev Antoine Kossi Adedje, the President of the Baptist Convention in Togo, the Rev. Agbatan Remy Agossou, the President of the Institute of Advanced Studies of International and Strategic Relations the Dr. Senyéebia Yawo Kakpo. They also connected with the Alumni of Haggai Institute in Togo. “All these meetings have confirmed in our hearts that this is a “Kairos” time for Togo.”, said Lynn Nwagbara of AE Europe.
“All these meetings have confirmed in our hearts that this is a “Kairos” time for Togo.”
The team also connected with local Pastor, Rev. Mesmin Kokou Tchaou, who had studied at the Institut Biblique Belge some years ago and had a mutual friend through Lynn. They had an excellent time with him and his colleague as we shared stories from Belgium and how different methods of evangelism might be implemented in Togo.
Please Pray for Togo
- Pray for our brother Edouard Ametou, the National Director for Campus Pour Christ and his team in Togo, for his involvement and their strategic role to mobilize the church in Togo for evangelism and discipleship.
- Pray for the Togo consultation meeting on national evangelization which will be held before the end of this Year
- Pray for the AEI Mission team and AE Ghana in this process of engaging the church and ministries in Togo for the Citywide Mission in the next four years 2018-2021
- Pray for other local evangelistic efforts in Togo to transform the whole nation with the power of the Gospel
- Pray for peace and stability in Togo.
- Pray for that God would provide the funds needed to hold the mission.
When Anastazia Joseph divorced her husband, she was left with four children to care for. She tried getting a job but no one would hire her. She was already 30 and had very few formal qualifications.
In desperation, she took up work as a prostitute. 
“I was doing it only so that I should have something by the end of the day to feed myself and my children,” she said.
After a year of this work, she found a job as a security guard and spent long hours watching the properties of various companies. It was lonely, thankless work and she was sometimes treated unfairly.
“The last company I worked at would take deductions from my salary for mistakes that I didn’t even realise I was doing,” Anastazia said.
She had to keep going to provide for her children because she had no other options.
Then on 17th October, 2017, something happened that changed her life forever.
“My church had a crusade in one of big stadiums in Lilongwe and the preacher shared about eternal life and about what one needs in order to attain this everlasting life,” she said
Though she was a faithful church member, Anastazia had never thought about her own need for eternal life.
“At the end of the crusade, the preacher asked if anyone wanted to commit their lives to Jesus so that He could be their Master, so I raised my hand.”
She followed the pastor’s prayer, confessing her sin and giving her life to Christ.
Not long after this, Anastazia switched companies and started guarding the property of a group called African Enterprise Malawi. After a few months of work the team leader, who had noticed the long hours she was doing, told her about a sewing school for women that African Enterprise ran every year.
“He said this when he saw how challenging the job I was doing, especially as a lady on my own. I didn’t hesitate!”
She ran to the project organiser to apply and was accepted in the 2018 class of women.
“For me to come to this vocational centre is by God’s love which I saw through the National Team Leader of African Enterprise Malawi,” she testified.
“I am being reached with the Gospel every day and have already learnt how to run a sewing machine and make straight lines!”
Things are looking up for Anastazia. Not only is she learning a new skill with which to make money and start a business, but God has also answered her prayers and she is engaged to be married.
Christ, her Master, is providing for her needs through the help of African Enterprise.
We’re excited to announce that African Enterprise are planning to carry out mission work in the West African nation of Burkina Faso.
AE’s International Mission Director, Emmanuel Kwizera, told AE Australia that the organisation are looking to run missions in the nation’s capital of Ouagadougou after mission work has started in neighboring Togo.
Depending on finances following the Togo missions, AE are looking to hold a Leadership Mission Ouagadougou in 2019 and a City Wide Mission in 2020.
Emmanuel is encouraging AE supporters to be praying for the churches in Ouagadougou and Burkina Faso, and hopes that AE will be able to mobilise and partner with the local churches on these missions.
Burkina Faso is another strategic mission-point for AE as we look to expand and evangelise to more people groups in the North of Africa, which has a strong Islamic presence.
The country has a population of 20.1 million people in which 2.7 million people live in the capital. 61.5% of people are Muslim, while only 6.5% of people associate with Protestant forms of Christianity.
Burkina Faso is also a rapidly growing country and has been expanding by 3% each year. It has a high mortality rate though resulting in 65% of the population being below the age of 25.
Despite having significant food shortages and a high poverty rate, the country has been a prominent destination for refugees. According to 2017 estimates the country hosts 33,500 refugees from Mali. The country also attracts migrants from Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana where AE has previously conducted mission work under the leadership of Ben Sachie.
Burkina Faso faces threats from drought with a large portion of the country relying on subsistence farming. On top of that the country has an unemployment rate of 77% which can have ongoing social impacts.
Please keep Burkina Faso in your prayers and pray that our teams will have the strategic wisdom to be able to reach this country for Christ.
Read more about our missions coming to Togo.
Khamisi Kwela’s father was a strong Muslim believer who took his eight children to the mosque and made sure they attended weekly Islamic classes.
“My dad was very strict when it came to religious matters,” Khamisi said. “There was only one religion allowed in our family.”
But when Khamisi was 10, his dad died and the family lost their way.
“We became completely financially incapacitated,” Khamisi said. “My older siblings and mum worked hard to ensure we had food, but we struggled to put a meal on the table. Poverty was part of us.”
It was a hard life. But it was also brought a little freedom to Khamisi’s mother and she started going to church.
“My mum had wanted to know Christ for a long time, but due to the restrictions of our dad, she would not have even dared,” Khamisi remembered.
Soon Khamisi’s mother and older brothers all started going to church and soon became Christians. But Khamisi and one of his younger brothers didn’t
“We wanted to maintain the religion of our father,” he said, “so we continued to attend mosque.”
Khamisi knew about Christianity from his friends at school and from the Christian Religious Education classes there. But still, he lived in darkness for five years after his father’s death.
“I FELT AS IF SOMETHING WAS BURNING WITHIN ME. I WAS GLUED TO MY SEAT AND LISTENED ATTENTIVELY TO THE WORD OF GOD AS IF THAT IS WHAT I HAD COME TO DO.”
Until one Sunday when he went to pick something up from one of his brother’s at church. When he arrived the church service was still going.
“I sat in the last row, waiting for the service to end. As the worship was going on, I felt as if something was burning within me,” he said. “I was glued to my seat and listened attentively to the Word of God as if that is what I had come to do.”
When the pastor asked if anyone wanted to come forward and become a Christian, Khamisi couldn’t resist.
“Whatever was burning within me became stronger,” he said. “I was pulled to the altar by the power of Holy Spirit and for the first time in my life, I felt the need for Jesus.”
The pastor prayed for him and his family was overjoyed.
Khamisi joined the discipleship class and was mentored by the senior pastor to help him grow in his new faith.
“Today I call him my spiritual dad,” Khamisi said. “When he learned about my story, he took over paying my school fees. I went to a school in Malindi town, which even in my dreams I never thought I would do! I had never seen such demonstration of love.”
Khamisi read his Bible with an undying fervor and did all he could to learn about prayer and ministry in the church. In his last year of high school, he became a leader of the Christian Union, sharing his testimony with as many people as he could.
But in 2017, tragedy struck his family again.
“The death of our mum last year was the lowest moment of my life after salvation,” Khamisi said. “Her sickness took her when we needed her most.”
He and his siblings have struggled with this loss but are leaning on the love of their church community.
He joined the AE Kenya Foxfires this year after seeing last year’s team minister at his school during the Malindi Mission.
“I look forward reaching out to young people with the Word of God in 2018. Through our interactions, I want them to know and experience the love of God as I have.”
Because of you, Khamisi and many others have joined the Foxfire programme as an outlet for ministry and personal growth in 2018. Without your support, this programme would cease to exist. Please consider giving to this programme. To find out more, visit out Foxfires page here.
