The Angolan Baptist church is strong, but many local believers do not know how to share the gospel and make disciples because they don’t understand the Bible well themselves. A deeper understanding of Scripture produces stronger disciples; stronger disciples produce a vibrant church. Your gift to this ministry will make God’s Word available in an oral format their preferred learning style — for all people groups and languages of Angola. IMB personnel will equip, coach and mentor African colleagues to reach the unreached people and places of Angola using Tell His Story evangelism training and Bible storying discipleship groups. This training will strengthen and equip the Angolan church in the missionary tasks of engaging and evangelizing, planting churches, discipling new believers and developing leaders who guide churches to plant other churches.
Your partnership with this ministry project will take God’s Word to the Angolan people in a way they can understand and respond to, making strong, reproducing followers of Jesus who create healthy, indigenous, reproducing churches. The specific goals of this ministry include (1) Reaching the unengaged, unreached and under-reached peoples and places of Angola. (2) God’s Word for Bible-less peoples of Angola. (3) Healthy reproducing evangelism, discipleship, church planting, and leadership development. (4) Mobilizing the existing church for the missionary task. (5) Developing partnerships with GCCs and nationals. (6) Equipping, coaching, and mentoring national partners in the missionary task. Give today to spur on the sharing of God’s Word orally among all unreached, unengaged and under-reached people groups of Angola!
Pictured is Steve with Ezekiel on the right and local missionary-pastor João Quintas on the left. They are standing beneath a tree where they believe a church could be started. 
Because of your generosity, the “Tell His Story” training team recently led a workshop for a small church on the outskirts of our city. Since receiving the training, the church used what they learned to start two preaching points, each having around 20 adults participating. Both preaching points show the potential of becoming a church. Please pray for the pastor and church leaders who are discipling these followers of Christ.
In February of this year, the Tell His Story training team went to a northern province in Angola to lead a workshop for 104 church leaders. On the final day, the team participated in an outreach that resulted in more than 500 people making commitments to Christ! Please pray for the local churches as they seek fruitful ways to disciple these new believers.
The team led a workshop in southern Angola in April, with over 40 participants from two provinces. Those who attended the workshop shared the gospel with more than 400 people using stories they learned in the Tell His Story evangelism training. More than 50 people accepted Jesus as their Savior and Lord. The training opened the door for work to begin in a southern providence of Angola.
Your generosity is truly changing lives! 
From the jagged Atlas Mountains to the vast Sahara Desert and the wildlife of the Serengeti, Africa is unrivaled for natural beauty and the hospitality of her people. Most Sub-Saharan Africans live hand-to-mouth, surviving on what they can harvest and herd, but regardless of status or wealth, most Africans share a common bond in community, family, and tribe.
Home to 2,500 ethnic groups, the region once characterized by sweeping poverty is redefining itself with bustling economies and technological enterprise. Eleven of the twenty-five fastest-growing global cities are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whether urban-or-village dwellers, though, many Africans still try to manipulate spiritual powers through charms, sacrifices, and divination. The hope of the gospel is desperately needed.
African believers are catching a vision for sharing their faith. Sub-Saharan Africa is poised to become a tremendous missionary-sending force. Ask God to fan the flames of evangelism and cover Africa with his glory.