Simple Churches All over Africa – Projects Community Transformations work with

Everything we as Christians do, should be directed towards the goal of knowing God and making him known to the people around us who don’t know him. We will be working with a local church planting movement to help pioneer and encourage some small church plants, known as ‘Simple Churches’. They are focused on making disciples and sending out trained leaders to start simple, reproducing, Jesus focused churches.

Floyd and Sally McClung who head up All Nations, the main ministry Community Transformations partners with in South Africa, have written an inspiring article on their vision for South Africa here, below in a short extract relating to Church Planting:

On the large scale, our dream is that Jesus would be loved, worshipped and obeyed in every village, every city, every university, every tribe, every business, and every nation in Africa. We believe Jesus deserves nothing less than the love of Africans in all fifty-four countries on the continent.

Our mission is simple and focused: we are called to make disciples, train leaders and plant church planting churches. There are 800 million people in Africa, most of whom suffer every day from poverty, war, injustice, and preventable diseases. 6,500 people die every single day from malaria and other causes. That is the equivalent of a worldwide disaster every month!

Our strategy is to train and send people who are equipped to start new churches where ever they find open hearts: in the schools and universities, in businesses and government offices, in art studios and coffee shops, in the farming fields and in people’s homes.

We believe in holistic church planting and leadership equipping. Because of the huge needs of Africa, we believe the gospel must be given with two hands: one hand giving practical hope in the form of farming, micro-enterprise, and medical care and with the other hand sharing the good news that Jesus is the son of God who died for the sins of the whole world.

Please click here to read a more in depth discussion of the concept of simple church planting and why it seems that it is so applicable for the context in South Africa.