A dramatically fruitful part of FaithByTheWord’s World Missions has rapidly developed since 2022. Our Executive Director, Pastor Dave Winstead, has completed East African Expeditions to Kampala, Uganda in September 2023 and Nairobi, Kenya in October 2024.
Highlights of accomplishments by FaithByTheWord Ministries International in East Africa for 2024 include:
6000 Pastors and Spiritual Leaders trained by The Theological Bible Studies Institute in Uganda and Kenya combined.
Church Planting has increased to 2 per week since 2023.
Bibles shipped to East Africa this year has reached over 6,000. For every Bible distributed 12 souls will accept Christ the first year and even more each year thereafter.
Commitments to Christ for 2024 alone have reached 1,920,000!
Cost per soul saved this year is down to $1 for every 100 professions of faith!!!
Uganda is located in eastern Africa. Uganda is bordered by South Sudan to the north, Kenya to the east, Tanzania and Rwanda to the south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
This region is East Africa and also referred to as Sub-Saharan Africa.
The map of Africa in the middle of this page includes most of the Mediterranean Sea and portions of southern Europe. It also includes most countries of the Middle East. It presents the continent in the form of a Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area Projection. It views the Earth from a point located directly above 10 degrees north latitude and 20 degrees east longitude. It is what you would see from a satellite located immediately above that point and high enough above the Earth to see the entire map area. It is made by projecting all points on Earth’s surface up to the satellite and recording them on a horizontal plane that is tangent to Earth’s surface directly below the satellite. This type of projection best preserves the relative size and area of features on Earth’s surface.
- The average Sub-Saharan African lives on $4 a day and cannot afford a caffe latte from Starbuck’s.
- Sub-Saharan Africans value relationships over tasks making them very willing to discuss Christ instead of doing their chores.
- In Sub-Saharan Africa, 62% of the population is under age 25 and by 2050 one-third of the world’s youth will live there.
- Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many of the world’s fastest growing cities and by 2100 the three largest cities on earth will be there.
- Sub-Saharan Africa has the most refugees and internationally displaced peoples in the world with over 22 million Africans having fled their homes due to violence, natural disaster, and persecution.
- More Christians live in Sub-Saharan Africa than any other region and by 2060 four of ten Christians in the world are expected to live there.
- More than 70% of Central Africa’s population live in extreme poverty.
- Half of the Central African people are under the age of fifteen.
- Over one million of Central Africa’s 4.6 million people live in camps that provide little sanitation, have limited access to clean water, are surrounded by mud, and riddled with disease.
- Violence and fighting have left the Central African justice system, schools, and administration centers understaffed and inefficient.
- The Central African economy is dependent on subsistence agriculture, yet even with World Bank loans, economic recovery is prevented by a lack of secure infrastructure and the threat of resurgent rebel factions.
- More than half of Central African’s people consider themselves Christian, but they mix their faith with local animistic traditions and have a very limited grasp of biblical truth.