From being served to be the one who serves.

“A challenge for the renewal Africa”

Dr. Samson B.K. Makhado

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POPULATION STATISTICS FOR AFRICA

AFRICA REGIONPopulation(2010 Est.)

Pop. %in World

Internet Users,Latest Data

Penetration(% Population)

Use Growth(2000-2010)

% Usersin World

Total for Africa 1,013,779,050 14.8 % 110,931,700 10.9 % 2,357.3 % 5.6 %

Rest of World 5,831,830,910 85.2 % 1,855,583,116 31.8 % 420.5 % 94.4 %

WORLD TOTAL 6,845,609,960 100.0 % 1,966,514,816 28.7 % 444.6 % 100.0 %

Nielsen OnlineITUWWWData from this table may be cited, giving the due credit and establishing an active link back to Internetworldstats.com. Copyright © 2010.

Remember, since creation God never repeated a person, every child is unique

• Has most of the world’s known minerals

• Has the potential to produce 40% of the world’s hydro-electric power

• Fine agricultural land: If Zambia, Zimbabwe & DRC were to realise their agricultural potential, they could feed the whole continent

• Has 22% of the world’s land mass, but only 13% of the world’s population

AFRICA IS WELL RESOURCED

How will all this potential be harvested for the benefit of Africa's citizens and in a way that promotes stability in Africa and beyond?

Colonial Time

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Africa political and economical challenges

Slavery • In 1532 AD, the first slave was taken directly from Africa to the Americas.

• The Europeans brought the kings rifles, ammunition, and other goods. Then the African slaves were packed into big sailing ships.

• The ships took them to the Colonies of America and to the island nations of the Caribbean.

• They were traded for tobacco, cotton, sugar, and molasses. Then these items were taken to Europe and traded for the guns.

Through this system, called the Triangle Trade Route, about 10–12 million people were sold into slavery.

• It lasted for three hundred years until many countries made it illegal to sell people.

• To this day, because of the slave trade, you find millions of men and women of African descent all over North and South America.

Colonialism

Independence and Dictatorships

• Africa is today, forty to fifty years after independenceunfortunately, the current generation of Africans hasseen many upheavals.

• There have been wars, famines, floods, droughts,locusts, political instability, social unrest, incurablediseases, economic regression and increasing poverty.

• Many Africans today are asking themselves, ‘why did wefight for independence from colonial rule? What has itachieved for us?’

• The many years of military rule in many Africancountries have made a lasting mark on the moral fabricof African society.

Africa Spiritual and worldview Challenges

• Islam• Shallowness of the gospel• Animism• Dualism

Their goal : to rule the world

Their agenda: the child

Muslim children in Koranic schools Education is used as a tool to conquer Africa …

• Two types of Jihad – The radicals using arms.– The professionals using

education.

The analyses of Islamic situation today by their own professor Mirza Yawar Baig

Animism

3. Dualism• This is a virus that

is weakening the power of the Church and Christian schooling

• Separating God from His creation

• Tension between Christian belief and what we do at work

• Sunday Christianity

Dualism divides God’s creation into two spheres.

The ChurchSacredSpiritual Religious Priests

The Church… Church membership

SecularState Politics Business

The World … Real life

The World

The Spiritual Core

The Worldview

The Culture

The Behavior

Shallowness of the gospel

Transitional Times but caught in the double shift from one world to another

From the world of boundaries to the global village

Where are we?

• We as Christians, live at the cross roads of the biblical story with its call to faithfulness and the Western story of modernity collapsing into post modernity and the African story of fighting for its own identity though covered by the new blackest called post modernity.

• That begs the question: What is the truth that will take us towards the noble goal of greater faithfulness, the truth that will be able to bring the Judeo-Christian story back to the center.

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• This shift moved slowly and softly without the church’s realization

• It started by Christianity has fallen into the ancient Greek dichotomy of dividing the world into spiritual and physical realm

• As a result secularism freed man from all absolutes, able to decide what is true and false, right and wrong

• The impact of individualism has rooted out all the traditional communal structures

• In most cases, faith is removed from public squire

The Shift

The shift was well planned by the leaders of Humanist movement in US

• You can look at the seven Cardinal Principles which stressed humanist ethical values to replace those of traditional religion

• John Dewey and 33 other liberal humanists drew up and signed the Humanist Manifesto

• It called for the abandonment of traditional religion and replacing it with a new secular religion better able to accommodate the new moral relativism inherent in human-centered, godless world.

• Concerning God, Humanist Manifesto II states: "No deity will save us; we must save ourselves."

• Concerning ethics, the document states that "Ethics is autonomous and situational, needing no theological or ideological sanction."

What has been shifted from the school curriculum

The view of God as Creator, human and creationThe secular humanists shifted the view of human from being created to being evolved, from being human to be an animal

– Carl Sagan said "The universe is all that is or ever was or ever will be."

– Roy Wood Sellars rejects the supernaturalistic position with its postulated Creator-God and cosmic Ruler

• Secular Humanists believe in evolution. Julian Huxley, for example, insists that "man ... his body, his mind and his soul were not supernaturally created but are all products of evolution.“

What will the Global South o differently?• It is not about the Global South and North.• The labors in your corner of God's world correspond to those of

others near and far. • We need to rejoice together and give God the glory; "great things

He hath done.• The educational wealth and experience that the North collected

for so many year, need to be used wisely to deepen and mature the Global South.

• In turn, the global South need to remember that it is what it is because of the the Global North

• Therefore the growth of the Global South should benefit the Global North

• It is not about us and them but the unity of the body of Christ.

Shift always look glorious in the eyes of man

1Samuel 8:19-20 People refuse to listen to Samuel ”No!” they said we

want a king over us, we will be like all other nations”. They did realize that they were moving from one• The two worldview are different not only in how

they understand nature of reality and existence.• They are also inevitably produce totally different

result. Francis Shaffer

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The African wave of change

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Africa will never be the same

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The growth of Christianity and Christian schooling in Africa

• Africans represent 33% of the planet's Christians. Europe, by contrast is the only continent where Christian numbers are declining.

• (David Barrett) illustrate the emerging trend of dramatic Christian growth on the continent of Africa.

• In 1900, there were only 8.7 million adherents of Christianity; now there are 390 million, and it is expected by 2025 there will be 633 million Christians in Africa

The big challenge!

• Christianity is becoming more and more non-Western.

• The big question is, why Christianity good as it is , is not transforming cultures in the Global South?

• Andrew Walls predicted that the agenda for Christianity and action would be set and determined by the rising Christian movements from the Global South.

• He predicted that Africa would become the new heartland of the Christian faith.

• The growth of Christianity and Christian schooling shows the signs of his predictions.

• Today Christian schooling is growing in Africa like a wildfire.

Andrew F. Walls, “Christian Scholarship in Africa in the Twenty-first Century,” Journal of African Christian Thought 4 (December 2001): 47.

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It is Africa’s time

• Education renewal in Africa needs an interconnectedness of Fathers, Mothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters in Christ.

• This is not a process where people attempt to fit the template of a model. Rather, people disciple others through proper relationship and the relationship creates connectedness.

• In Africa we need to grow people. The people are the resource and they need to be the participants in shaping their own future in Christ.

• We need partnership that should result spontaneously as people touch hearts. In the words of John C, Maxwell “You touch a heart before you ask for a hand

Africa Renewal

The Process • George Euvrard (Dean of Education at Rhodes University, South

Africa) distinguishes between a practice and process model:

• “The practice model describes one (or more) possibility, while the process model describes what to consider in developing a unique practice in a unique context” (Models for best practice). Africa is unique.

• The process must overcome the inherent ‘structural incoherence’ and ‘alienation’ of Africa’s people or it is doomed to repeat the failings of the past.

• The vehicle of the model is the person from and living in Africa, it is the village, the community, the Church, the song, the dance and the drum.

What can the Global North learn from the South?

Walls predicted some thirty years ago that the agenda for Christian thought and action would be set increasingly by the rising Christian movements from the global South and East. Very few people, outside the realm of "mission studies," paid Walls any heed. Today, however, the signs are much more prevalent. If I may preach to the North Atlantic delegates a bit, it is time for us to take heed. The rest of you may want to listen in, because it is time for you to step up to take the lead.

Andrew F. Walls, now retired from the University of Edinburgh, predicted thirty years ago that Africa would become the new heartland of the Christian faith. See his "Towards Understanding Africa's Place in Christian History," in J. S. Pobee, ed., Religion in a Pluralistic Society (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976), 183.

• Walls concludes that “it is Africans and Asians and Latin Americans who will be the representative Christians, those who represent the Christian norm, the Christian mainstream, of the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries.” The rising Christianity of the south and east is no longer distant or exotic. It is in fact starting to change the whole church, even up in the North.

• Andrew F. Walls, “Christian Scholarship in Africa in the Twenty-first Century,” Journal of African Christian Thought 4 (December 2001): 47.

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Andrew Walls’ predictions

Challenges facing the growth of Christian Schools in Africa

Africa is faced with two great forces:• Globalization: which means a major increase in the volume

and rapidity of international exchanges of goods, services, money, people, information and ideas.

• We are in the midst of one of the greatest periods of religious change in the history of the world, Christianity's dramatic growth in Africa Latin America Asia.

• Competing and conflicting worldviews (Animism, Secular & Biblical Worldview etc)

• Teachers who are trained by the secular Higher Education institutions

• Systems that are characterized by examinations as the major focus

• Teachers who are prepared to teach their subjects not children

Educational Challenges Facing Christian Schools in Africa

Therefore, We need an African brand of Christian Education.

• Remember, differentiation creates ‘Brand’ Branding creates influence.

• Influence brings changes in the nation• ACSI and other organization are a new vehicle

that the Lord has provided for Africa• We believe Christian education will be an

instrument to prepare for Africa’s revival

Our goal is to should be ‘Standard Bearers of Christian Education’

Short term thinking long term successAbraham Kuper wrote in one of his news paper column:

• We are working for the long haul. We aim not for the apparent triumph of the moment, but for the ultimate success for our cause. The question is not what influence we have now, but what power we will excise in half a centaury, not how few we have now, but how many of the young generation will take a stand for our cause.

In order to move smoothly, we decided to use the following countries as a starting point in each of the regions:

• DRC – Francophone Central Africa• Uganda – East Africa• Nigeria – West Africa• Burkina Faso – Francophone West Africa• Africa – Southern Africa

The impact of Africa Roundtable in the growth of Christian Education in all parts of Africa

The following questions can shape our way forward

1. What is an authentic Biblical Worldview?2. What are the essential elements of a real

Christian School? 3. Are our Christian Schools really Christian?4. How can help our Christian teachers teach

Christianly?5. What is the role of the church in Christian

schooling?

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Sothern Africa RegionSouth Africa NamibiaZimbabweZambiaSwaziland MalawiAngolaMadagascaBotwanaLesothoMozambique

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NigeriaGambia Ghana Liberia

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The biggest challenge

You can see the Gap between the above school and Royal Family Christian school

It is Africa ‘s time12 October 2011 will be remembered as a historical day in Nigeria the birth of ACSI West Africa Anglophone Office

Central Africa

DRC Central Africa ACSI OfficeDemocratic Republic of Congo is the only country in the world where 65 Protestant churches denomination form a union under one name: The Church of Christ in Congo

According to 2011 Department of Education, Protestant churches have

1. 291 Pre schools2. 11 707 Primary schools3. 5 833 Secondary schools and 4. 7 Universities

It is Africa ‘s time

19 January 2011 will be remembered as a day on which the above decision was put into action, a new ACSI office was born, the office was named “ACSI DRC Central Africa Office”

Uganda

• The are in a process of starting with the Children at Risk program

• . Started with registration of schools

Starting a “Train the Trainer” program

1. Uganda has more than 500 Christian schools that are registered with the government

2. Number of Schools that are already registered 52

3. Number of Universities 1

The West Africa Franco phoneWest Africa Francophone

nations

1. Cote d'Ivoire

2. Benin3. Burkina

Faso4. Mali 5. Mauritania6. Niger 7. Equatorial

Guinea8. Togo 9. Senegal

As partners we need to move away from the spirit of competition and follow African Ubuntu… Ubuntu means that people are people through other people…the principle of caring for each other’s well-being… and a spirit of mutual support… Each individual’s humanity is ideally expressed through his or her relationship with others… it acknowledges both rights and responsibilities.

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Africa needs a partnership model

Together in Christ we can change World

THE UNITY OF THE BODY OF CHRIST

.“And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples John 13:34-35

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