Connect May – August 2022
14 million African-born immigrants already live in Europe. In this edition, we ask how do we love our neighbours, proclaim Christ, and equip churches to work with the African diaspora?
14 million African-born immigrants already live in Europe. In this edition, we ask how do we love our neighbours, proclaim Christ, and equip churches to work with the African diaspora?
We reflect on how we exercise the role God originally gave us to care for creation while also living out the gospel in anticipation of the restoration of creation.
Women have been a key part of AIM since our very inception. Margaret Scott was instrumental in leading AIM’s first missionary foray alongside her brother Peter. Our history is marked by the actions of remarkable women, who at great cost to themselves have pursued God’s commands to take the gospel to those in Africa who have yet to hear it.
If Africa still needs Western missionaries, it’s not because Africans cannot do it on their own – Africans are pioneering ministry without Western involvement. The main idea now is synergy.
‘Look up at the sky and count the stars…so shall your off-spring be’ (Genesis 15:5). Time and again in the long years that followed, Abraham would have been reminded every time he looked up at the night sky of this promise from God.
What has changed in 125 years? Missionaries from the early 1900s would not recognise much about the AIM of 2020. And today’s missionaries might not recognise the AIM of 2050. Or even 2030.