{"id":47557,"date":"2022-05-09T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47557"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:53:00","slug":"how-to-partner-with-african-churches-well-an-interview-with-ken-mbugua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47557","title":{"rendered":"How to Partner with African Churches Well: An Interview with Ken Mbugua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How should Western churches partner with churches in Africa? Mike Christ\u2014the dean of the Central Africa Baptist University in Zambia\u2014recently interviewed Ken Mbugua\u2014the lead pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Nairobi\u2014about this question. Below is an edited transcript of their conversation.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Mike Christ:\u00a0You lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekklesiaafrika.org\">Ekklesia Afrika<\/a>, which developed out of a burden for theological education for pastors. How did God give you that burden?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ken Mbugua:\u00a0I did an internship in 2014 at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC and came back with a strong desire to see healthy churches spread across the continent, starting with East Africa.\u00a0The internship was heavy on books. It laid a burden on me that, by helping pastors read and discuss good books, a lot of fruit could come.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s where we started. We invited a couple of partners to Nairobi and laid out the vision. We began by saying we wanted to set up a resource hub because we noticed that in Africa resources are not available, affordable, or accessible. When they are available, often they are too expensive for most African pastors. When they are affordable, they\u2019re still not very accessible.\u00a0Our long-term goal is for Ekklesia Afrika to become a full-fledged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Western organizations land in places like Nairobi with the apparent aim of growing their brand. Churches like ours almost become a hindrance because we are already doing a lot of those things.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-47557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-discipleship","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47559,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557\/revisions\/47559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}