Courageous Calling: Tshepang

Apr 7

Jesus Christ is building His church in Africa. And the Lord of the Harvest is calling more and more African laborers into His harvest fields. AIM is excited to play a part in inviting, equipping, sending, training, serving, and encouraging African workers to take the gospel to the remaining unreached peoples of Africa and beyond. Explore this ongoing series about Africans on the front lines of this work, and AIM’s part in it.

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My name is Tshepang. Basupi is my surname, and I'm from Batswana.

A few years ago when I went to University, I went to University with really a vision to pursue my dream of becoming a politician.

A friend of mine convinced me to go attend a missions training that was happening in another part of Botswana, and in that meeting, really God called me there, for the first time I heard about there was unreached people groups.

And God made me aware, that you know, all my dreams were all about me. It was all about me, all about my family, and it just made me realize how selfish I was.

And God challenged me to consider doing something that was bigger than myself, and in that case it meant, you know, being part of His work among the nations of the Earth.

Today in Africa we have about 184 million evangelicals according to Operation World, and out of those [about] 184 million evangelical Christians we've sent less than 50,000 Missionaries from Africa.

So, our role as mobilizers is to raise awareness in the Church and make the Church in Africa aware of her responsibility to take the Gospel to the Nations of the Earth.

Missions is there in the Bible.

It is not invented by men or any organization. It is something that is there in Scripture, and if that can be translated into the Sermons every Sunday, not just something that happens once a year, people could be envisioned and Churches could possibly get a glimpse of what it means to be part of the Mission of God.

The Seminaries where the pastors are trained, there needs to be more intentional training on the theology of missions, and make them aware that there is a greater need outside.

And that will translate into their Sermons as they preach in their Churches and carry their congregations along.

The Lord is in need of many more people that really can play a role in sharing the Gospel either as a missionary, or somebody that will support missionaries financially, or the ones that will go on their knees and travail in prayer on behalf of the nations.

And we also need many others that'll mobilize, you know, go out there and blow the trumpet and announce the need for this thing.

And we also need advocates that can actually go to their Churches and become the contact person that will knock in that Church and say, "In that Church budget, where is missions? Why can't we go on a missions trip? Why can't we support a missionary?"

If somebody is interested in missions, I would say, really, I can't think of a better way to spend your life than spend your life investing in the plight of the unreached, and making sure that the unreached get the opportunity to hear about the Gospel.

Christ gave us a commission to go and make disciples of all nations.

Going to the nations as a missionary is actually in obedience to the Lord. And if we love the Lord we need to obey Him.

And over 2,000 [years] since Christ came we still have close to 3 billion people in the world without access to the Gospel. We need to approach the work with alot of urgency because alot more people need to hear that Christ died for them.

And it is His will and it is His desire that they will also hear.

Sharing stories of God’s redemptive work all over Africa in the hopes of seeing Christ-centered, reproducing, culturally-appropriate churches formed among African Peoples.

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