SENTINEL WATCH April 2, 2007 Issue

SHINING NEW TESTAMENT FACES IN AFRICA

KIM SHIPPEY, SENIOR WRITER

KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA —In the January 2007 issue of Christianity Today, Christopher J. H. Wright pointed out that in these early years of the 21st century, at least 70 percent of the world's Christians live in the non-Western world—more appropriately called the majority world.

For example, more Christians worship in Anglican churches in Nigeria each week than in all the Episcopal and Anglican churches of Britain, the rest of Europe, and North America combined.

I'm writing this column in the South African countryside, among the rolling green hills made famous by novelist Alan Paton. Here on a 150-acre campus on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, groups of church people of many different races and from many different African countries come together from time to time for interdenominational, cross-cultural leadership training in ways to mobilize their congregations in outreach to Africa's cities.

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