OUT OF EAST AFRICA: ANGLICAN CHURCH PREACHES GOSPEL WITH JOY AND POWER
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
MT. KILIMANJARO, TANZANIA

(8/11/2006) ---Joy. It is the infectious quality of the African church. In the midst of suffering, pain, poverty and HIV/AIDS, there is joy unspeakable. Nothing can hold it down; it spills out in hours of worship, in the daily grind of life, and while driving along roads with potholes the locals call "Hippo ponds" they are so deep...but there is always joy.

The East African Revival is alive and well; millions are coming to Christ in the midst of grinding poverty. Evangelists fan out across Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania with barely enough money to survive, bringing the Good News of Jesus to tribal groups, Islamic communities and to anyone who will listen.

Schools are built, children educated and fed, health care is provided, and the parents, mostly illiterate, learn from their children. The "Jesus Film" is shown and slowly it dawns on them that these Christians have come with love and learning, care and comfort in their hearts to tell them the ageless story of Jesus and His transforming love.
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