Given the clear mandate in God's word and the overwhelming evidence of the needs in Africa, we must get beyond mission awareness and get to action driven by love and the urgency of the task.    What a privilege to be alive at such a time as this and to witness the final harvest in Africa! As our understanding of biblical missions increases, we need to bear in mind what Jesus said in Matt. 28:19  Go and make disciples of all the nations.   This is the time to get involved!   This is the year to get involved! 

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ACF is an organization of African Christians in the Diaspora, who through fellowship strive to create better societies both where they reside and in the continent of Africa.

ACF seeks to facilitate unity amongst African Christians of all denominations in order to sound the voice of the oppressed and persecuted in Africa, bring physical and spiritual relief and build healing bridges between Africans and the people around the world. 

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Joy Ngobi, M.D., M.P.H., knows hopelessness. One of her brothers was killed in a bar fight the week he graduated from college, and two more of her 11 siblings died of HIV—devastating Ngobi’s family, especially her mother.

The family experienced another blow when Ngobi’s sister—who had been taking care of the seven children her three brothers had left behind in addition to her own three kids—died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Ngobi had moved from her native Uganda to the United States in...

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One of the four core areas or strategic plans of African Christian Fellowship USA (ACFUSA) is “Building Bridges” (BB). Granted that none of these core areas can independently stand on its own, BB has a unique place in every objective for which ACF exists or every strategic plan of ACFUSA:  Building-bridges is found within ‘Building the ACF Family and Community’. It is in ‘Reconnecting with the Continent’. It is also present in Passing on the Legacy’.  But to clearly distinguish its primary focus from the rest of the core area classifications, BB’s express mission is to ‘Establish consistent, viable, and productive relationships with Africans and other groups in the United States’. 

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 The U.N. refugee agency is reporting high levels of malnutrition among young children in Ethiopia’s Dollo Ado camps, which are home to tens of thousands of Somali refugees.  The UNHCR says a nutrition survey at the Kobe and Hilaweyn camps found Somali refugee children under age five in a critical state.   International attention to the crisis in the Horn of Africa seems to have peaked.  But, according to the United Nations, the crisis itself is still going strong.   

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