OCTOBER 2015

AFRICANHARVESTFEATURING:ZIMBABWE: Harare Pan-African Leadership InitiativeKENYA: Thousands reached with the Gospel in EldoretSOUTH AFRICA: A gang leader surrenders to Christ

CLEANING A CITYFROM THE INSIDE OUT

HARARE PAN AFRICAN LEADERSHIP INITIA-

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CONTENTS from the CEO

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

3 Harare Pan African Leadership Mission - September 2015

5 Switched On - Port Elizabeth

6 Great Eldoret Mission

7 SA Gang Leader Saved!

COVER PHOTO: Volunteers stand in front of Town House in Harare City, having just completed sweeping the streets in a symbolic gesture of cleaning up the city not only physically, but also spiritually.

Editor: Krista Burns / Rachel BellDesign & Layout: Krista Burns

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“I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Timothy 2:1-4 ESV)

Dear friends,African Enterprise shares God’s desire that all people be

saved and have just conducted two of the biggest missions in AE history; first to Eldoret, Kenya in July and then to Port Elizabeth in August. Over 200 local churches and 1400 mission volunteers were moved to be part of the Eldoret mission that reached over 8000 people! During the Switched On Mission to Port Elizabeth, 5000 people gathered in a cricket stadium for the opening ceremony alone! By the end of the week 80,000 school children had been reached with the Gospel and over 1,700 people came to salvation. These numbers show that God is moving among the people of Africa through the work of AE. But we have not and cannot stop; in September we targeted some of Africa’s top leaders.

In the 1980s and 90s the world looked at Africa with great hope in what was called the “new generation” of African leadership. Many strong leaders have risen up and done good for their countries – Nelson Mandela of South Africa, as well as Africa’s first elected female head-of-state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia. Others, however, have battled wars in places like the Congo, Ethiopia-Eritrea, and Somalia, there is still widespread corruption and rising unemployment in many of Africa’s countries and a huge influx of refugees driven from the homes. The continent is in need of Gospel-driven, truth-filled leaders.

In light of this, AE’s Pan-African Mission this year, in Harare, Zimbabwe from September 19th – 27th targeted top leadership from every sector of society – the military, judicial, academic, religious and political spheres. AE reached out to the country’s most influential leaders in an effort to change hearts with the Gospel.

Read the stories here and as you do, pray for the leaders of Africa’s nations! Pray for God’s wisdom and peace in their lives, that they may work for the good of their people and the peace of their countries. God desires all peoples to be saved; from kings and presidents, to professors and policemen, not only the poor but also the rich and influential.

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““he room was filled with hundreds of Zimbabwe’s leaders, some of the most successful, influential and

hard-working people in the country: city councilors, businessmen, women leaders, diplomats, high school students, heads of NGOs , pastors and more – all were gathered around tables and each person danced,

clapped and lifted their hands and voices to God, together.“Lord, we pray that the walls of destruction in Zimbabwe would be spiritually torn down,” prayed Jacqueline

Anderson, a local NGO leader; “that you could bring a standard of righteousness to this country.”

She was one of five Zimbabweans that stood to pray for the country at a National Presidential Prayer Breakfast in Harare, on Saturday, September 26th. It was the penultimate event of this year’s Harare Pan African Leadership Initiative and was attended by about 500 local leaders, an AE team from all over the world, and the Vice President of Zimbabwe, Emmersen Mnangagwa.

Dr. Michael Cassidy, founder of African Enterprise, addressed the crowd

of successful people: “I don’t care if you’re rich, wise, clever, or powerful,” he said; “it’s not enough to be patted on the back by

society and have nice big cars and houses unless you know Christ. That’s what really, really matters.”

He told them all that the most successful thing anyone can do in life is to choose to have a relationship with Jesus. “If you give your life to Christ today, he gets your money, your influence, and your political power, he gets everything,” he said.

Vice President of Zimbabwe, Emmersen Mnangagwa, addresses the crowd at the National Presidential Prayer Breakfast, hotel by AE

“Tsvaira Moyo” - Sweep My Heart, Sweep My Soul

“DR. CASSIDY HAS JUST SHARED THAT PEOPLE NEED TO ASK WHO IT IS THAT LEADS THEIR

LEADERS,” SAID VICE PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA. “I HAD NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT MYSELF; I THOUGHT

IT WAS ENOUGH THAT WE SIMPLY LED THEM!”

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In the four days preceding this prayer breakfast, AE held daily meetings for each specific group of Zimbabwean leaders, bringing them together and challenging them to lead with integrity in whatever their sphere of influence. Zimbabwe is a nation that claims to be 80-85% Christian. However, though Christianity is seemingly widespread, it very often represents a shallow understanding of the Gospel. This is a situation that the Harare Pan African Leadership Initiative sought to address in reaching out to leaders from every walk of life. Including the Presidency.

“Dr. Cassidy has just shared that people need to ask who it is that leads their leaders,” said Vice President Mnangagwa. “I had never thought about it myself; I thought it was enough that we simply led them!”

After the breakfast, and as the final event of a week focused on top leadership, over 300 people met at Harare’s Town House to sweep the city and pick up litter. It was an act that mirrored the servant leadership of Christ and symbolized the need for a cleaning up of our hearts. At the cleaning, CEO Stephen Mbogo reminded those gathered that they all need to look inward. “As we clean up the city,” he said, “let’s look inside where there is hatred, tribalism, and corruption, and clean up inside ourselves.”

“Tsvaira Moyo,” the crowd sang, which means, sweep my heart, sweep my soul.

Sounds of worship to Jesus engulfed the conference center at Rainbow Towers Hotel, Harare as some of the most

influential people in the country sang songs of praise and prayed for God to move mightily in Zimbabwe.

“It was a really beautiful event because it brings together business and the praise of God. Sometimes I think that I am where I am because of my own doing but after today I know that God is leading me and that I am here today by His grace! He has been the One to give me the wisdom and ideas that I need in my business.

I’m going to share all these things with my employees so that they also know that we need to put God first in everything in order to prosper. I think it’s important that every woman out there understands the grace of God and how God can impact their business.”

Nyasha - Women’s Event

I liked what the speaker said about identity crisis. It was something that I think we really struggle with. We don’t know who we are so we do what we see on TV or what our friends do.

Thank you to everyone who helped with this program. It has really opened my mind to see that I can do more than just sit at home. Education is a good thing but there is more that I can achieve as a person in Africa. I can help other people too!

Nigel - Youth Event

Harare Pan-African Leadership Initative

Testimonies

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he “Switched On” Mission officially opened with a festival at St George’s Cricket Oval with Christian bands including We Will Worship who

took part in the “Fired UP” Mission at the University of Pretoria last year. 5000 people gathered and were welcomed by Danny Jordaan, mayor of Port Elizabeth, after which the crowd in unity prayed for him, the City Manager who was also in attendance, as well as the rest of the leadership of the city. Michael Cassidy preached on “The storms of life”. He spoke about different storms we face in life. But, he told the crowd, no matter how big the storms are, Jesus can calm them. Stephen Lungu followed by sharing his testimony. He spoke on the many storms in his own life, and how Jesus had calmed those storms and had given him peace.

Many people responded to the call to give their lives, as well as the storms in their lives, to Jesus. Counsellors worked for hours after the end of the meeting leading people to Christ, praying with them and taking their details down so that they could continue to build their friendships and invite them to join a local church. Patrick Douglas-Henry, one of the local pastors, said, “One of our counsellors experienced the power of God in a very meaningful way. The young man who he prayed with could not understand what was being said at first because he was so deaf. His hearing was so impaired that he was the recipient of a disability grant from the government. The counsellor laid hands on him and Jesus healed the deafness. Then he could hear and receive the Gospel of Salvation in Jesus.”

During the week of proclamation the “Switched On” team including Vanessa Goosen, Gary and Debbie Kirsten, Afrika Mhlophe, Errol Naidoo and many other local and visiting evangelists, ministered

in over eighty five different schools, in prisons, police stations, magistrate courts, businesses, old age homes, drug rehabilitation centres, on the university campus, at sports lunches run by well known sports people, in hospitals, clinics, on street corners, in parks, taxi ranks, at music concerts, “youth bashes” and more.

Dieter Lubbe, part of Errol Naidoo’s Watchmen on the Walls film crew, was in PE to film a documentary

on ‘Switched On’, and was overwhelmed by the open doors

into the schools. At one of our morning meetings he encouraged the team to continue working together in this, “This morning we went to a school with the Foxfire

Team. We made an altar call and the entire school put their hands up and prayed the sinner’s prayer! We’ve just come from Advocates for Africa and there are currently six or seven schools under legislation. So this window that you guys have now is a grace gift. But it’s not a gift you can take lightly. I want to encourage you to keep taking this opportunity way after AE leave. You know that in certain American schools if you are even seen to be praying you will have legislation against you. I just want you to appreciate what God is doing and appreciate the magnitude of it. It is an act of God. This word ‘unity’- it’s been an overwhelming, disorientating thing... We don’t even know how to respond to this. It’s raising our expectations putting this film together! I know it’s going to be infectious to the whole of Africa as we put it out onto the airways... What God is doing here is going to encourage people that we can trust Him for whole cities. These last few days have challenged me to the core to believe God for whole cities to turn to Christ.”

Port Elizabeth “Switched On” - South Africa

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“THIS MORNING WE WENT TO A SCHOOL WITH THE FOXFIRE TEAM. WE MADE AN ALTAR CALL AND THE ENTIRE SCHOOL PUT THEIR HANDS UP AND PRAYED THE

SINNER’S PRAYER!

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he Eldoret Mission in Kenya during July 2015 was the largest in recent AE history with nearly 200 hundred churches and

1400 mission volunteers involved. Eldoret is the fifth largest city in Kenya and was a strategic point to impact with the Gospel within Kenya. The city was strategically divided into five zones (North, South, East, West and Central) so that the AE Team could effectively reach each portion of the city. The generosity and willingness of the volunteers and churches to come alongside each other for the sake of the gospel was yet another indication that it truly was time for Eldoret and for this important mission.

The first act of the mission was as symbolic as it was physical. Hundreds of AE’s mission volunteers descended on the centre of Eldoret to clean the gutters and the rubbish tips. Passers by looked perplexed as to why all these people would suddenly come and start cleaning things that no one wants to clean. It was a symbolic act of devotion to the city as well as an expression of their desire for God to cleanse the city and it’s people from their sin.

One volunteer said, “One man stopped to ask us what we were doing. He could see that we were cleaning the dirtiest places. Places that no one else would dare touch. I told him it was because once I was dirty like all this rubbish, but when God came into my life he made me clean and we want to share that with others. He decided to accept Christ right there on the sidewalk.”

As the mission kicked off across the five zones reports of salvations started flooding in. On the first day in the central zone alone, 700 people accepted Christ. Teams were sent to nearly every school in

Great Eldoret Mission - July 2015

every zone to run programmes for students. The jails, hospitals, slums in every zone were reached and thousands of doors were knocked on with the message of the gospel.

Joseph told us, “One morning during door to door evangelism, a man saw us coming and began running to us. He knelt down with tears in his eyes and said, “I want to receive salvation.” We didn’t even preach to him! Another woman was about to go to the hospital to try to sell her kidney because she had nothing to eat. As she prayed with us to accept

Christ she became so excited she burst from her house declaring to everyone that was around, “I am saved today!”

She will no longer try to sell her kidney as she knows that God will provide for her every need.”

Even in the evenings the mission did not stop. One of the local teams went into the pubs and the brothels to preach the gospel. Sometimes in spite of all our efforts and planning we see that God is still definitely in control. One evening the police conducted a raid on prostitutes and as two of the women fled they looking for hiding, they found themselves on the doorstep of some of the AE mission volunteers. The group welcomed the prostitutes in, gave them a meal and shared the gospel with them. The women accepted Christ that evening and stayed in their home until morning.

Over the 10 day mission over 103, 394 people were presented with the Gospel and 8,672 people accepted Christ! Join as we thank God for his incredible generosity and faithfulness in Eldoret. We are so thankful to our donors across the world who gave financially and prayed for this mission. It’s because of you that Eldoret has been touched so deeply with the Gospel.

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I WAS DIRTY LIKE ALL THIS RUBBISH, BUT WHEN GOD CAME INTO MY LIFE, HE MADE ME CLEAN... HE DECIDED TO ACCEPT

CHRIST RIGHT THERE ON THE SIDEWALK

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n the two-week run-up to the Switched On Mission in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Pastor Kenny Nonkonyana decided to pitch a tent and hold nightly meetings for anyone who

wished to come. Little did he know the powerful impact this simple act would have on that community.

“At first the outcome was not much. Then on the third day we saw the power of God moving in the tent; I prayed for a girl who was involved in witchcraft and God delivered her. After that first miracle we saw many people come to the tent and we began adding fifty chairs every day.”

Before long, 500 chairs weren’t enough for all those who came and people had to take turns standing. Then one day, in walked Xola, a gang leader in the infamous local ‘26 Gang’ of Port Elizabeth. His reputation preceded him and it wasn’t a good one.

“In this area everyone knows me, even the children,” he said. “The police would frequently come to my house to do raids. I smoked Tik and also Mandrax and among the gang I was the notorious one.”

Before that day when he walked into Pastor Kenny’s tent, Xola had shunned God and the church.

“I didn’t want to come to church,” he said. “I didn’t even want to hear about church. If someone told me about church I would tell them, ‘Go away!’ I told myself, if I was to go to church I would think about robbing people’s cell phones, or that other gangs would come looking for me.”

In his heart, however, Xola always knew those things were taking him nowhere. About six months ago he was stabbed in the back of the head and the left side of his body was paralysed completely. When he heard about the miracles and healings taking place in this mission tent, he decided to go see it for himself. Perhaps God could heal him too. He walked in and

told the Pastor, “I came to repent and to be healed. I want to be saved. I want to live a straight life now.”

Pastor Kenny prayed for Xola and his physical injury was partially healed. The greater healing, however, has taken place in his heart.

Following this, about fifteen of Xola’s gang came to accept Christ and it has made a difference in the community already. In that area, robberies and crime are a common, daily occurrence, but from the time the tent ministry began, the robberies ceased.

“Over the weekends we would normally have people sleeping in the tent to guard it,” Pastor Kenny said. “One day the gang asked me why we still do this because if anyone would rob the tent, it would have

been them! So they told me to go and sleep at home and that the

tent would be safe.” And it was. “Leaders in my church who go out to preach on the streets in the mornings, were held up at gun-point twice in two weeks. But since the tent meetings started they have been safe! One of the guys who held them at gun-point gave his life to Christ in this tent.”

The ‘Switched On’ mission has transformed the community. “We go and preach in front of the taverns and the clubs. One club is open till 5am, so at 5 o’clock in the morning every Saturday and Sunday a group of young people go there to preach outside. Souls are born again at that club.”

Praise God for the souls brought to Christ through the Switched On Mission! Pray for Xola that the Lord would provide him with a job to keep him from going back to crime. Pray that he would be healed fully. Please pray also for the ministry that continues in that area, that the Lord would unify the churches to work together to reach further into the community with the love of Christ.

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South African Gang Leader Turns To Christ

“I CAME TO REPENT AND TO BE HEALED. I WANT TO BE

SAVED. I WANT TO LIVE A STRAIGHT LIFE NOW

Xola, local gang leader gave his life to Jesus at a tent meeting during the Switched On Mission in Port Elizabeth.

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