An African Woman is the Face of Christianity Today

Pictured: Mary with our Ugandan leaders.

“I’m planting seven more churches among the E. Pokots,” shared Jackie*, a slight Pokot woman about her own unreached people group in a region in northern Kenya with no running water and electricity. As a result of hers and others’ work, gangs of cattle thieves and raiders have now organized themselves as “reformed warriors for Jesus,” preaching the Gospel, making disciples, and planting churches throughout this arid region. Today, women comprise the majority of the global church.**

Today, there are more Christians on the
African continent (667 million) than any
other continent.*** Today, African women,
like Jackie, are the face of Christianity! 

I am writing from Kenya where we are gathering our East African local church planters, who now lead thousands of disciples and have ignited church movements. Many of them shared about their hard past and fatherless upbringing, and of their sacrifice to plant churches among the last, the least, and the lost.

Pictured (L to R): Ugandan ghetto disciple-maker and church planter; Mary with our Ugandan leaders.

It all started in 2006 when our founder Floyd McClung had a dream to train and send African disciple-makers “from Cape Town to Cairo.” Today, they are going beyond Cairo to the Middle East and Asia! We are activating the DAWN initiative—Deploying African Workers to the Nations! Some like Rola* are going as a barista. Others like Hope* will serve in the hospitality industry. We envision waves of African leaders spreading the Gospel from Africa to the ends of the earth. We want to thank many of you who have given to DAWN to provide skills training, security preparation, and cross-cultural equipping.  There’s a new DAWN coming! 

Before Kenya, we spent a week with our Ugandan leaders, Wilson and Stella, in the ghettos and prostitution areas of Kampala. In 2012, Wilson left his lucrative banking job to make disciples and plant churches in the ghettos and among the prostitutes, Sudanese and S. Sudanese refugees, gangsters, and the unreached Nubians and the Menings. Many of them are now church planters and leaders of church networks and disciple making movements. There are now thousands of simple churches that have multiplied 14 times (generations) across multiple populations streams among the least reached! We want to thank many of you who have given to the Floyd McClung Scholarship Fund for Empowering African and Women Leaders. Please hear from Stella, who because of the Scholarship, was able to complete her master’s degree in public administration and is now applying her skills to bring administration and planning to the movement. Please also hear from Johnson who just graduated with his bachelors in education and has been teaching in Thailand as a missionary and teacher. 

Pictured (L to R): Johnson and Stella share what the recent donations have meant to them as the first two recipients of the Floyd McClung Scholarship Fund.

For such a time as this, when Africans—especially African women—are the face of Christianity, it is such a privilege to serve and learn from our African brothers and sisters.

Blessings from Africa, 
Mary Ho

*name changed 
**Gina Zurlo, Women in World Christianity, 2023.
***Todd Johnson and Gina Zurlo, World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, 2020.

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