Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance. Proverbs 1:5
“My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers averted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that goes to make up life and my poor service. I can testify, with a full and often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer.”
Mary Slessor (1848-1915) as recounted in Great Preaching on Prayer, Volume 8, comp. Curtis Hutson (Murfreesboro: Sword of the Lord, 1988) 206. For the remaining days of my trip to Africa (through the end of the month), I will cite quotes by famous missionaries who served here.
Slessor was a Scottish missionary to Nigeria, one of the countries that actively working to launch AfCAA to serve all of Africa. Today marks the culmination of the hopes and prayers for hundreds of people from many African nations. God has “given guidance marvelously” to humble, faithful and trusting servants.
After today’s launch celebration at All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi, churches and ministries in Kenya and across Africa who demonstrate faithful administration and fulfill accreditation requirements will get the AfCAA seal to send a message to God’s people that all money collections are handled with integrity.