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African Harvest Cry Update
It's Coming In! I don't know if you remember an old song we use to sing that says, "It's coming down, down, down, it's coming down?" When I was a teenager tarrying at the altar that's one of the choruses the sisters used to sing as they played their tambourine, tarrying with us young people to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Well, There's a new song for Africa today and it's called, "It's Coming In."
I can hear many of you asking what is coming in? The answer is “the funds” (tithes and offerings) that our members have pledged to bring into the storehouse of the Lord, so that we can have enough to make poverty a thing of the past in the work of the Lord in Africa.
Already some nations are reporting this money coming in from their local churches. Let me share with you some of the comments coming from some of the Overseers and Field Secretaries as they gather these funds:
Malawi
"I would like to inform you that God is performing wonders in the Church of Malawi. I am saying so because people in Malawi have now started giving what they have to God. This is so in regard to what we learned in Accra, Ghana, during the continental meeting we had last year. Out of that idea, people have started giving $1.00 tithe to their pastors. As of now, we have managed to raise about $517.00. for this year's quarter. This Bishop Sir, to me, is just like a dream and I thank God for teaching us this way of giving.
Guinea - Conakry
"We have raised up to 1.000.000. FG ($225.00. USD). We have decided to open a separate account for this fund."
Liberia
It's Coming In! I don't know if you remember an old song we use to sing that says, "It's coming down, down, down, it's coming down?" When I was a teenager tarrying at the altar that's one of the choruses the sisters used to sing as they played their tambourine, tarrying with us young people to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Well, There's a new song for Africa today and it's called, "It's Coming In."I can hear many of you asking what is coming in? The answer is “the funds” (tithes and offerings) that our members have pledged to bring into the storehouse of the Lord, so that we can have enough to make poverty a thing of the past in the work of the Lord in Africa.
Already some nations are reporting this money coming in from their local churches. Let me share with you some of the comments coming from some of the Overseers and Field Secretaries as they gather these funds:
Malawi
"I would like to inform you that God is performing wonders in the Church of Malawi. I am saying so because people in Malawi have now started giving what they have to God. This is so in regard to what we learned in Accra, Ghana, during the continental meeting we had last year. Out of that idea, people have started giving $1.00 tithe to their pastors. As of now, we have managed to raise about $517.00. for this year's quarter. This Bishop Sir, to me, is just like a dream and I thank God for teaching us this way of giving.
Guinea - Conakry
"We have raised up to 1.000.000. FG ($225.00. USD). We have decided to open a separate account for this fund."
Liberia
"We have already collected L$3.000.00. (which is equivalent to $60.00. USD). This money we have used to open a separate account for the Vision project funds as they come in.
You will have noticed these examples are from the smaller (and even newest) nations in our family. I am anxiously listening to hear from South Africa, Kenya, Swaziland, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo; those ten nations listed in the pilot program started in Accra.
Back to our new song for Africa "It's Coming In." The image that comes to mind is of a poor family who've invested everything they had in farming maize, rice and other cash crops. This family like other families in the area of the nation devastated by blight and drought, waited patiently for the harvest to come. Papa and Mama had promised the children that they would be getting new clothes, toys, etc., if the crop was a good one.
The first day the first batch of maize, rice, cassava, etc., was reaped and transported by donkeys to the home where the storage rooms were: One of the little girls looking expectantly saw the first donkey arriving fully laden with the crop and ran all over the place shouting, "It's Coming In, It's Coming In, the harvest is coming."
I call upon everyone to let us rejoice in anticipation of what God is finally doing among us in Africa. I sense the barrenness is about to be broken, I hear the sound of not just rain but 'abundance of rain.' The time for talking is over, the time for planning and conferencing is over; it's now time for every Overseer to roll up the sleeve and demonstrate that your nation is not just a consumer nation; but that it can also produce and produce, ".. Some an hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold." Oh, I wish somebody would join me as I join that little girl in the story and skip, dance and shout, "It's Coming, It's Coming," the Harvest is Coming in Africa.
A person all wrapped up in himself, makes a pitiful package. If we fail to get connected into the bigger picture for the continent, our children will not forgive us. Time is not on our side so we must act now.
"And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hands of the Mideanites: Have not I sent thee?" (Joshua 6:14). The hands of poverty has been strangling us for far too long. My prayer is that you Overseer will be the deliverer (the Joshua) to break the hold of poverty from the neck of your nation and that of Africa as a whole.
Note: While our Africa ministries are working to rise up on their own feet we can help them. The African Harvest Cry is an attempt to come along side them and press the harvest further while the doors are open and hearts are receptive. Please join us in preparing your offering in these days before the International Assembly. Harvest Partner churches can send this offering as a Harvest Partner Level Two offering. Individual donors and churches that are not Harvest Partners can send this offering as a Helping Hands offering. Both avenues should be clearly designated as “African Harvest Cry” offerings. Let’s join our brothers in the great harvest of Africa.
You will have noticed these examples are from the smaller (and even newest) nations in our family. I am anxiously listening to hear from South Africa, Kenya, Swaziland, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo; those ten nations listed in the pilot program started in Accra.
Back to our new song for Africa "It's Coming In." The image that comes to mind is of a poor family who've invested everything they had in farming maize, rice and other cash crops. This family like other families in the area of the nation devastated by blight and drought, waited patiently for the harvest to come. Papa and Mama had promised the children that they would be getting new clothes, toys, etc., if the crop was a good one.
The first day the first batch of maize, rice, cassava, etc., was reaped and transported by donkeys to the home where the storage rooms were: One of the little girls looking expectantly saw the first donkey arriving fully laden with the crop and ran all over the place shouting, "It's Coming In, It's Coming In, the harvest is coming."
I call upon everyone to let us rejoice in anticipation of what God is finally doing among us in Africa. I sense the barrenness is about to be broken, I hear the sound of not just rain but 'abundance of rain.' The time for talking is over, the time for planning and conferencing is over; it's now time for every Overseer to roll up the sleeve and demonstrate that your nation is not just a consumer nation; but that it can also produce and produce, ".. Some an hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold." Oh, I wish somebody would join me as I join that little girl in the story and skip, dance and shout, "It's Coming, It's Coming," the Harvest is Coming in Africa.
A person all wrapped up in himself, makes a pitiful package. If we fail to get connected into the bigger picture for the continent, our children will not forgive us. Time is not on our side so we must act now.
"And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hands of the Mideanites: Have not I sent thee?" (Joshua 6:14). The hands of poverty has been strangling us for far too long. My prayer is that you Overseer will be the deliverer (the Joshua) to break the hold of poverty from the neck of your nation and that of Africa as a whole.
Note: While our Africa ministries are working to rise up on their own feet we can help them. The African Harvest Cry is an attempt to come along side them and press the harvest further while the doors are open and hearts are receptive. Please join us in preparing your offering in these days before the International Assembly. Harvest Partner churches can send this offering as a Harvest Partner Level Two offering. Individual donors and churches that are not Harvest Partners can send this offering as a Helping Hands offering. Both avenues should be clearly designated as “African Harvest Cry” offerings. Let’s join our brothers in the great harvest of Africa.