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Imagine it is the middle of the night. Your phone rings. With your heart thumping and your head slowly clearing you answer. “Hello?”
On the other end is a voice you don’t recognise. “Please help me,” the caller says. “I can’t find my family.”
What do you do? Now imagine getting message after message like this. Five months ago, that was reality for Dennis Tongoi, Executive Director of CMS Africa.
When post-election violence erupted in Kenya, Dennis, who is based in Nairobi, set up his mobile phone as a message centre. He advertised his number - and text messages poured in from displaced people trying to contact loved ones. Some sent texts recounting events as they took place. This information was helpfully shared with the Red Cross and the United Nations.
But that’s not all.
Dennis quickly realised that Kenyan churches had an opportunity to step up and bring order to chaos. He took a lead role in bringing churches in Kenya together so they could meet the needs of people in trouble. Like Joyce.
Joyce’s Story
As most Kenyans watched the elections unfold, Joyce was wheeled into a hospital to deliver her third baby, a boy named Eugene.
 Dennis Tongoi
After a couple of days, Joyce was connected to a volunteer at the National Alliance of Churches (NAC), the emergency response team that Dennis helped form.
The NAC arranged for Joyce and Eugene to be airlifted to Nairobi and reunited with their family.
In Africa, for Africa
Joyce was one of hundreds of people helped through the efforts of CMS people in Kenya.
But our commitment to Kenya - and to the rest of Africa - isn’t just in times of crisis. CMS has made mission in Africa a priority for over 200 years. And we plan to continue sharing Jesus and changing lives in Africa. To do this, we need your help.
In addition to supporting 80 UK mission partners in Africa, CMS also supports hundreds of African-born Christians doing amazing mission work throughout Africa. Like Benjamin, who leads a church in a refugee camp, and Pauline, who trains future leaders in vital skills, and Albert, who runs an HIV and AIDS centre.
You can play a vital role in helping African Christians respond to the call to serve fellow Africans. CMS needs to raise £476,000 this year to help transform lives and communities in Africa.
Your gift today will
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cover expenses for African-born mission partners doing cross-cultural mission throughout Africa, including urban mission and mission among Muslims
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help continue exciting programmes like the Samaritan Strategy, which empowers African churches to use the resources they have to transform their communities
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provide crucial skills training for future African Christian leaders - helping them become teachers, pastors, medical professionals - which Africa desperately needs. These leaders usually receive training in Africa and will use their skills to transform communities in Africa.
With your prayerful support, we can continue to help transform lives today and tomorrow.
Please join us as we come alongside our African brothers and sisters answering their call to mission.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. Whatever you can give towards CMS work in Africa will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely in Christ,
Tim Dakin
General Secretary
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PS Your gift today will go a long way toward helping African Christians answer their call to mission. Thank you for being a vital part of CMS work in Africa.
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