Note From The Unite4Africa Board – Dec 2013 – Ken Martin

The power of empowerment. Have you ever really considered it?

If the scientific world announced that some college dropout in a little lab in the basement of a small business had actually produced a bona fide perpetual motion machine that was fully tested and vetted, whose construction was absolutely repeatable with simple parts and methods; it would be an international sensation.

Empowerment is a foundational principle of Unite 4 Africa. It is finding the dynamo inside an individual, starting it, adjusting it, encouraging it, optimizing it and staying with it until it can run on its own. Dynamos like these are contagious, their presence start others within communities. When this is done well, it’s very much like a machine of perpetual motion in that it doesn’t continually require the input of others resources. It thrives on what it can do with itself, for itself; and becomes incredibly powerful when it combines with others who are empowered, and are like minded and community minded.

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Note From The Unite4Africa Board – Oct 2013 –John Tabor

I’m sitting in a cool, comfortable room as I write this.  I’m completely hydrated  and satiated – I’m safe and don’t have any interference from flying or crawling insects. I am blessed beyond belief.  I’m certain that my circumstances are not all that different than yours.  But, such is not the case for those we serve in Kenya, Ethiopia and Ghana.

We are so very privileged – we have so many options in life and very, very few threats to our lives. There typically are myriad solutions to our problems.  Our change (pocket or otherwise) in many cases is more than what many make in the countries we serve in a week or month.  And yet, still, we have not truly listened to our Savior Who exhorts us to help the needy…to love our neighbors and to take His gospel to the ends of the earth.

Please, please consider giving to Unite 4 Africa.  Their mission is not only community transformation but personal transformation.  The water projects they are involved with are more than just drilling for a life sustaining liquid but also for living water that only Jesus can provide. Click her to donate.

Those we serve are scoring on both fronts! The children and villages U4A ministers are learning a new way – the way of Jesus!

John Tabor
Board Member
Unite4Africa
www.unite4africa.org.

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Note From The Unite4Africa Board – June 2013 – John Tabor

Psalm 67

1 May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make his face shine on us—

2 so that your ways may be known on earth,
your salvation among all nations.

3 May the peoples praise you, God;
may all the peoples praise you.

4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for you rule the peoples with equity
and guide the nations of the earth.

5 May the peoples praise you, God;
may all the peoples praise you.

6 The land yields its harvest;
God, our God, blesses us.

7 May God bless us still,
so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.

As I spend some time considering and meditating on the above Psalm it occurred to me that Unite 4 Africa’s success in ‘moving its mission’ is because God has so blessed its work that His shining face is reflected in the countenance of all those living and working to make Him known.

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Note From The Unite4Africa Board – April 2013 – Paul Nzomo

Dear supporters and our directors in Africa, a lot has been happening in our ministry in Africa, which could not have happen without the grace of our Lord and your support.

Kenyan’s went to the polls in big numbers, people were waiting on line for 3 – 5 hours and some the whole day to cast their historical vote for the President, Senators, Governors, House of Representatives and Women Representatives. The election was peaceful. Although the presidential election was challenged in court, the people waited patiently for more than 2 weeks for the Supreme Court to decide the presidential winner.

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