Africans Look to Revive Christianity in the West
While Christianity blossomed in Africa in the 1800s through Western missionaries, the Africans are now bringing a revival of mission back after being powerfully transformed.
Posted: Tuesday, August 8 , 2006

While Christianity blossomed in Africa in the 1800s through Western missionaries, the Africans are now bringing a revival of mission back after being powerfully transformed.

With church-going on the wane in Europe, Africa's vibrant Protestant churches are sending an array of missionaries to the West to win souls and revitalise shrinking congregations -- an ironic twist on the 19th century drive by Western missionaries to convert Africans.

According to African missionaries, Western churches are too timid when it comes to religion.

"The church in the UK has become shy about faith," said Kenyan minister Patrick Mukholi, employed by the UK-based Anglican Church Mission Society."

Maybe as African missionaries we can encourage them to be more exuberant about knowing God," said the priest, who worked in Mombasa before moving to England, which he had never visited before. the rest