Deo Volente

Did you know? Here are some insights to discuss around the dinner table this holiday season.

From all of us at Deo Volente, Merry Christmas.

Did you know that populations in Africa are increasing compared to birth rates in the world's major economies? Did you know that Nigeria will surpass the USA and be third in most populous countries globally by 2050? Did you know that Islam has a 100-year strategy? How does this affect our objectives for advancing God's Kingdom?

Our research has uncovered insights regarding the future of Africa and the globe. Our intent is to share these findings to help inform future evangelistic and church-planting strategies.

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While there is a lot of heaviness in the world right now, and we are joining with the prayers, we wish we could share this celebration cake with you. We move forward with both "tears and tambourines" as a dear friend once shared with us.

We shared a video earlier of some of the highlights of what God has done over this past anniversary year, which are pretty sweet. We are trusting God for even greater things in this next year, especially with the vast and dire need laid before us.

We are humbled to have the opportunity to collaborate with such excellent, Kingdom-minded mission organizations.

Imagine a single cluster of grapes being so heavy that it required two men to carry. These leaders from Numbers 13 and 14 carried this undeniable, tangible evidence for miles. Evidence of a land bursting with life and steeping with potential. Evidence of a land they ached for and a land God was calling them into by faith.

And yet, only two of these twelve leaders responded in faith over fear. For the majority of these leaders, the obstacles to entering the land overshadowed the calling. When the majority of these leaders took inventory of their own ability to conquer the land—instead of God’s ability—they felt as small as grasshoppers.

As our team reflected on this passage this week, we let the weight of its significance sink in. How it applies to us as an organization in how we collaborate with others is extremely important. We aim to assist other organizations to enter the full scope of what God is calling them into by faith—not fear. We want to be found to live like the two, and not the ten.