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We have
churches and groups in about fifteen nations in Africa. Some are existing
churches and ministries who have felt led to affiliate with Maranatha, and
some are new groups that are just starting. Our strongest presence so far
is in Kenya, Burundi, Ghana, Nigeria, and Congo. We also recently did our first pastors' conference in Uganda. We have contacts in about twenty other African countries.
New
groups are always starting, and from time to time existing churches or
groups of believers decide to affiliate themselves with us.
If you
would like information about the churches or groups in a particular area,
please write to us at askapastor@maranathacentral.org. We usually answer
emails within 48 hours. We can provide the email address of a pastor or
responsible for the nearest group, and other contact information.
If you
are a member or leader of a group of believers that might like to affiliate
with Maranatha, we would love to hear from you. A growing number of groups
are expressing interest, and it is a blessing to help sincere believers
become integrated into a larger body of people devoted to serving God.
Please
do not contact us with mere solicitations of funds. For those who contact
us, we provide spiritual support, teachings, ministry training, and the
prayers of a large body of believers. Unfortunately, we are not able to
give financial grants or donations for charitable works (orphanages,
schools, or even church buildings) for all the groups who contact us, but
we would love to hear from you about any questions you may have regarding
Maranatha's faith or practice.
This is a
group of African church leaders who visited Brazil for three weeks in June
2005 to attend conferences and evangelistic events, and to visit numerous
local churches and meetings. Leaders from churches or ministries in
Burundi, Congo, Kenya, and Rwanda were in the group. Future seminars in
Africa are already being planned, as well as follow-up visits of African
pastors to our seminars in Brazil.
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