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By Charles Woodrow

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February 2019

Articles > World Mission > Africa > Eastern Africa > Mozambique

Mozambique: Visit from the Former Vice Minister of Health

When I arrived in Mozambique back in 1990 the government was still Marxist and aligned with the former Soviet Union. Throughout the 1980s the nation was the poorest country on earth. At the beginning of that decade, only two countries had fewer doctors per capita than Mozambique. So Americans were rare and trained surgeons even scarcer. From 1990 to 1998 the Lord brought a lot of attention to the surgical program in the small government hospital where I worked five miles outside of Nampula. The work being done at this 150-bed hospital became known throughout the north of Mozambique. People trekked from all over Nampula...

By Cliff Barton

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January 2019

Articles > World Mission > Africa > Kenya

North West Kenya: Growth in Reformed teaching

In Britain today we live in days when the gospel is being attacked from many sides. Some churches face decline. Some have grown. Efforts are being made to revive declining churches and also to plant new ones. There are both discouragements and encouragements. The church is violently under attack in some parts of the world with some believers suffering and some even losing their lives. But in other parts there has been remarkable growth. I have made several trips to Kenya over the last 10 years. There many are under the influence of the so-called prosperity gospel, which is not the gospel. By the mercy...