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Theological education is of paramount importance across all sub-Saharan Africa. Across the sub-continent, aberrant theologies such as the prosperity gospel and neo-Pentecostalism weaken many churches at the core and significantly limit their potential for fulfilling their place in the global story of the Great Commission.
For many years Southern Baptists and other like-minded partners have engaged in theological education efforts and started many schools. Many of those schools have been turned over to local leadership in recent years and are attempting to find their way forward in a rapidly changing cultural environment. To assist and encourage them, IMB’s Sub-Saharan Africa affinity has embarked on a radical, continent-wide strategy of theological education to re-engage in partnership with most of these schools.
Together, IMB teams and African Baptist leaders are developing new, exciting approaches to theological education in places where no training currently exists. Their goal is to bring the entire continent of Baptists into a unified network with a vision for preparing future leaders who will strengthen the church in Africa and take the gospel around the world. Your partnership is key to this plan’s success. Your gift to “Theological Education in Sub-Saharan Africa” will enable existing schools to have limited, but vital, extra support to increase their capacity and to enable them to do more than they can currently do. Your generosity will help with the development of African pastors and missionaries this year and develop resources and publications that will continue the work long into the future. Give today!
Gifts equip national partners. Your partnership with us in theological education in Sub-Saharan Africa is critical to seeing the next generation of African theologians, pastors, and missionaries developed for future Kingdom work. The Africa Baptist Theological Education Network (ABTEN) brings African Baptist seminaries and Bible schools together so they can dream, collaborate, and concentrate on developing healthy African churches that send African missionaries to the nations. This organization helps Baptist theological institutions impact local African churches by strengthening and promoting sound, missional, and contextual theological education rooted in the Bible and responsive to Africa’s socio-cultural realities.
Conference trains more than 150 Africans. Recently, your gifts helped host the Fourth Continental Africa Baptist Theological Education meeting. This year’s conference theme was “Theological Education & Missions.” The meeting was hybrid, with over 100 theological educators in attendance and more than 50 who joined by Zoom. This gathering was our most successful to date, and your giving made it possible. Thank you for continuing to pray for healthy churches in Africa, for ABTEN and its impact, and for African missionaries to go to the ends of the earth. Please pray for our convenor, who recently stepped into the role, and the new steering committee as they lead the viral work of this organization.
Thank you for your generosity and prayers. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness. 
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.