Samaritan Greetings: July 2010

Dearly Beloved,
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
"What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means!. We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” Romans 6:1-2.

Thanks so much for all your collaboration and prayer support. Our second West Africa regional mentoring program ended successfully in Accra. Seventeen (17) participants from Niger, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Japan attended.  The enthusiasm to learn and be equipped with new insights, excitements, prayers and fellowship was just wonderful. Beloved, we cannot continue in the same type of Christianity that has only converted souls but has not been able to transform lives and societies. God’s children are now taking their rightful positions to be God’s agent of transformation in our societies including politics and governance, commerce and business, civil and public societies and in the market place, legal and justice system etc. We cannot be passive observers shouting “ Amens” without doing anything about the high corruption in Africa, poverty, hunger, hatred and the ‘pull him down’ syndrome. We have to  be proactive, very active participants of all of God’s intentions on earth, representing Him in every domain of life. This is our day, our time to assiduously work to make God’s Kingdom, come on earth as it is in Heaven!

Remember,
“If the Church fails to disciple the nations, the nations will disciple the Church”.

Thanks so much for this opportunity, please continue to support us in your prayers:  Praise God, the US team visit to us was very successful. This week, there is a consultation meeting of Church leaders, business people and politicians in Lome, Togo. It is pioneered by our team leader, Pastor Happy and l will be part of it, kindly pray with us. Pray for Mercy Ship’s Pastors and Church leaders conference in Togo of which the wholistic message and worldview and development message will be widely exposed, please do pray for us. Continue to partner with us as you pray for our programs and activities across the nations of Africa. Until next month, don’t forget to live a life of “Coram Deo” ie always living a consistent life before the face of God.

Before His face,
Chris Ampadu

FRENCH
(Désolé pour mon mauvais Français)
 

Biens aimes, 
Que la grâce et la paix de Dieu,  de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ vous soient  accordées:
"Que dirons-nous, alors? Irons-nous dans le péché afin que la grâce abonde? En aucune façon!. Nous qui sommes morts au péché, comment pouvons-nous y vivre plus longtemps?"
Romains 6:1-2. 

Merci beaucoup pour tout votre collaboration et soutien par la prière. Notre deuxième programme de mentorat Afrique de l'Ouest s'est terminée avec succès régional à Accra. Dix-sept (17) participants du Niger, Togo, Bénin, Nigeria, Ghana, Côte-d'Ivoire et le Japon y ont participé. L'enthousiasme à apprendre et à être équipé avec de nouvelles idées, émotions, des prières et des bourses a été tout simplement merveilleux. Bien-aimés, nous ne pouvons pas continuer dans le même type de christianisme qui a seulement transformé les âmes, mais n'a pas été en mesure de transformer des vies et des sociétés. enfants de Dieu prennent désormais des positions légitimes d'être agent de Dieu de la transformation de nos sociétés, y compris la politique et la gouvernance, le commerce et les affaires, la société civile et publique et à la place du marché, juridique, etc système de justice Nous ne pouvons pas être des observateurs passifs criant: «Amen "sans rien faire au sujet de la corruption de haut en Afrique, la pauvreté, la faim, la haine et le« lui tirer en bas »syndrome. Nous devons être proactifs, des participants très actifs de l'ensemble des intentions de Dieu sur terre, qui le représente dans tous les domaines de la vie. C'est notre jour, notre temps de travail sans relâche de faire le Royaume de Dieu, venu sur la terre comme au ciel! 


Souvenez-vous:
"Si l’Église échoue dans le discipolat des nations, ce sont les nations qui feront le discipolat de l’Eglise".

Merci pour cette opportunité ; continuez de nous soutenir dans la prière. Dieu soit loué, la visite de l'équipe des États-Unis nous a été très fructueuse. Cette semaine, il ya une réunion de consultation des dirigeants de l'Église, les gens d'affaires et les politiciens à Lomé, au Togo. Il est mis au point par notre chef d'équipe, le pasteur heureux et Je vais en faire partie, veuillez prier avec nous. Priez pour les pasteurs Mercy Ship's et des dirigeants religieux de conférence au Togo dont le message holistique et de la vision et le message de développement seront largement exposés, s'il vous plaît priez pour nous. Continuer de collaborer avec nous comme vous priez pour nos programmes et nos activités dans les pays d'Afrique. D’ ici la n’oubliez pas de vivre une vie Coram Deo, c’est à dire, vivre chaque instant de notre vie comme étant  devant la face de Dieu.

Fraternellement,
Chris Ampadu

Seed Project Story from Niger Republic

Pastor Wakasso from Niamey, Niger recounted how his small poor church of 150 members responded to the Haiti earthquake. “Having leant from Chris how to demonstrate God love through Seed Project, the Haiti disaster touched my hearts and l shared with my Church what we can do to help. Niger is the poorest country in the world but my church was able to raise $200 which was sent to Haiti. The next thing that happened was that we saw our name on the internet as one Church in Niger that has contributed something to help the people of Haiti. When the big churches of Niamey saw this, they said, if even a small church like ours in a country which we all claim to be poor have contributed to help Haiti, then we can also do something. Because of this small gift of ours, churches in Niger started contributing some gifts to the people of Niger. Praise the Lord”.

The Local Church

We must confess that we have failed. As the body of Christ (the Church). As individual Christians. As people. 

We must long to live like Christ. To belong to the body of Christ and long to bring change (transformation) in our lives, community and nation.

• God's primary agent to carry out His redemptive agenda is the local church, ministering in a comprehensive, wholistic manner to man's physical, spiritual, social, and mental brokenness—as well as his broken relationships with other people and with the creation.
• God intends for the church to manifest—to incarnate—the same compassion and service in this broken world that Jesus did, imitating His comprehensive, redemptive agenda.
• Seed Projects provide a simple, helpful methodology that local churches can use to reach out wholistically to the brokenness in their community.

You are Welcome to the Samaritan Strategy West Africa!

We need to build Kingdom churches that are salt and light in their communities, willing to critique their culture and stand for justice and truth in the midst of corruption. We need to build churches, which understand that God’s character is compassionate and that He wants to manifest his compassion though the church. We need to disciple Kingdom Christians and build Kingdom Churches.

We are not merely to live a Christian lifestyle within the context of our culture: we are to live before the face of God (coram Deo) in ways that help redeem our culture and build our nations. The Great Commission is a call to disciple nations, “teaching them to obey all I have commanded you …”

God wants to redeem all tribes and nations for Himself. This begins, but doesn’t end with the evangelization of individuals. From there, one must disciple nations. His call is not just to disciple people to be merely religious, not only to hear all that Christ has taught, but to hold precious all He has taught.
Vision: The Model to Success

The vision of the Samaritan Strategy is to see engaged, credible, high-impact local churches, in critical mass, effecting real transformation in their communities and discipling their nations. Our mission is to launch and support movements of local churches around the world that are envisioned with a biblical worldview and equipped to practice a wholistic, incarnational ministry in all spheres of society. We accomplish this mission by advancing a specific set of ideas, or a “school of thought” rooted in the teachings of biblical worldview and wholistic development. 

Areas of emphasis include:

• “Discipling Nations” as a vision for comprehensive transformation
• The central role of local churches
• The power of a biblical worldview in transforming culture
• Emphasis on wholistic ministry practically lived out