East-Central Africa Division

Addis Ababa, Etheopia • Bujumbura, Burundi

Throughout the East-Central Africa Division, the population is now moving into the cities. That’s where the people are, and we need to be there, too.

People in the cities are a busy people, and to find the time to reach them sometimes become a challenge. However, we see certain potentials in major cities of our division, and see great potential to reach out. Now once we establish a presence in the cities we have difficulties in getting plots for constructing churches, and that’s a major challenge in the region.

I would really like to see our cities covered. When we still have large pockets of cities that are not touched, yet it really poses a great challenge to me.

In Ethiopia, I’ve seen the work grow in the city of Addis Ababa in an amazing way. In the past five years they’ve been able to plant more than 10 churches here in the city. Just five years! And it took fifty years just to have one church here in Addis Ababa. So there is such a great potential and we are very hopeful.

Geoffrey Mbwana
president, East Central-Africa Division