Reaching out to isolated, unreached, overlooked, neglected or rebel-traumatized villages along the rivers of the Congo River basin provide very many challenges. Those villagers that are reached rejoice with the angels … but even with a bible in the hand, they are still poor, hungry and long for more in life. How can the global church and international Christian business do better in the eastern DR Congo, now that President Trump managed to broker a peace? There was, once upon a time, a model for commerce and industry along the rivers, with factories in larger towns. Palm oil. Soap. Saw mills. Grain milling and silos. A sugar cane processing plant. Indigenous food plants. Farming with tilapia, chickens, goats, rabbits and cattle.

What then is the use of spirituality, morals and ethics after hearing the Good News and turning your life around, if faith in the newly reached but isolated village does not translate into action. Actions of good works prepared for us to do! Not to earn salvation but as practical and sustainable proof of our Christian life! The overflowing joy of our salvation! Works for which we will earn rewards and crowns. Farming God’s Way is designed and tested in Southern Africa. While the Bible based message remains valid, along with the discipline required by Farming God’s Way, there are indigenous plants for food and medicine, for man and animals, that can be planted in villages on the Equator regions in the DR Congo.

Following the faith obtained through the Good News, the faith must translate to Good Works. It is a curse when villages along the rivers in the Congo River Basin are deprived of their agricultural efforts by rebel activity. Yet, while the workers of iniquity do injustice, the children of God must do the works of righteousness. Revelation 22:11 -12. Farming God’s Way provides a Biblical and disciplined way to do basic agriculture. Please, do visit farming-gods-way.org/

Congo River Mission, in cooperation with the indigenous churches of the DR Congo, promotes stewardship of God’s creation along with the Good News of Salvation and true Peace in the knowledge of our Redeemer. The bush meat trade is extensive in rural and suburban DRC. Anything that moves in the rain forest is snared, trapped, speared or shot with bow and arrow or with rifles. Many areas of the Congo River and its tributaries do not have hippos and crocodiles or monitor lizards any more. All hunted out, along with small buck, antelope, bush elephants, monkeys and chimpanzees! Teaching basic agricultural skills and indigenous plants as food and medicine for man and animal are hindered by continual rebel activity that displaces the rural Congolese people and interrupts agricultural planting and harvesting cycles.