Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
Liberian pastors grateful to God for Langham resources and training
Just last week, eleven people attended a special Langham Preaching training event in Liberia. Attendees includes local trainers, who were being refreshed in how to lead seminars, and Preaching Club coordinators. The participants were extremely grateful not only for the training, but also for a book pack that Langham Literature gave to each of them.…
Read MoreLangham trains 14-yr-old ‘future church leader’ in Lesotho
Langham’s main aim is to equip the next generation of Bible teachers. In Lesotho – a landlocked country in southern Africa – a teenager has been identified as “one to watch”, with huge potential for church leadership. 14-year-old Lipallo was one of a few young people who attended a Level 1 Langham Preaching training event…
Read MoreA passion for transformation across Africa
Langham Scholar Dr Sunday Agang has a passion to see Christians in his native Nigeria equipped to live with bold faith that brings the Gospel outside of the church and seminary walls and into society. Nigeria is ranked #12 on Open Doors’ list of the top 50 countries where persecution is very high. He says Christianity…
Read MoreHausa edition of Africa Bible Commentary published
The Hausa translation of the hugely influential Africa Bible Commentary has finally been published, over seven years after work began on the project. This Hausa version is called ‘Sharhin Littafi Mai Tsarki Don Afirka’, and is over 200 pages longer than the original English. The commentary has been published by Africa Christian Textbooks (ACTS) in Nigeria.…
Read MoreProfound thanks expressed for Langham Library Grants
Every year, Langham Literature provides thousands of books free of charge to Bible Colleges around the world. We recently heard from students who were extremely grateful for Langham’s Library Grant programme. In December, we heard that several leaders in Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi had expressed their “delight and appreciation” at having received their Langham books.…
Read MoreA ‘milestone’ for Langham Preaching in Ethiopia
Last month, a diverse group of Langham Preaching trainers from across Ethiopia gathered at a retreat centre on Lake Babogaya to receive training themselves. Jennifer Cuthbertson, Langham Preaching’s Coordinator for Trainer Development, co-led the workshop. She used learner-centred techniques to teach the attendees how to lead Langham Preaching seminars. Jennifer described the 14 participants, which included…
Read MoreEquipping generations to preach faithfully in Botswana
Three members of the same family, along with a 74-year-old great grandmother, have completed all three levels of Langham Preaching training in Botswana. At the end of the week-long event in August this year, 15 people in total ‘graduated’ from the course. They are the first people in Botswana to have completed the three levels,…
Read MoreThe Privilege of Preaching in Ethiopia
In his nearly 10 years as youth pastor at Mekanisa Kale Heywet Church, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Pastor Misgana has seen a thing or two about the power of God’s Word to transform. When he first started working with the youth, their knowledge of the Bible was not strong. So, he started a Bible a…
Read MoreStaff Spotlight: Mercy Ireri
Meet Langham Preaching‘s East Africa coordinator Mercy Ireri, from Kenya. How did Jesus find you? “Mercy, you are old enough now to tell us your testimony,” Dad said to me one Saturday evening. I was 12 years of age. I stared at him, blankly. Deep within my heart, I knew I had never had a…
Read More‘Historic moment’ for Eritrean believers
Last week, the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea officially ended an 18-year long ‘state of war’ between the two countries. Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a declaration during a landmark meeting in Eritrea’s capital Asmara. A peace deal in 2000 had ended a war in which tens of thousands…
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