The Newfrontiers churches around the world rallied to help our family in Zimbabwe during their recent crisis. Here in the US many gave sacrificially, enabling to send $88,000!

Details:

• Aid agencies are warning that over 40 % of the population of Zimbabwe face starvation by early 2009
• Cholera epidemic has affected thousands, even as the Zimbabwean President denies it's presence
• For more details, read this Crisis Appeal document.

In a new video, Nigel Ring reports about the on-going work in Kenya in response to the political violence that erupted in the end of 2007.

by Sam Poe

Over this last year or so Marlene and I have had the privilege of working with a wonderful team of friends in Zimbabwe on a plan to plant churches there among people who are oral learners.

Oral learners are those who don’t learn through reading and writing. The printed page does not shape their thinking to any significant degree. Their cultural perspective is primarily oral and event-oriented. Among the world’s least evangelized people groups at least 70% of them are oral learners and communicators.

A team of 12 people from seven Newfrontiers USA churches, led by Tim Chambers, was sent to North Africa in May 2008.  They spent a little over a week in North Africa in May 2008. They were able to get a broad glimpse of the work God is doing in the areas visited, meeting people in big cities, in coastal towns, isolated deserts, and mountain villages ....  (Read the full report of their trip here.)