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.

I am in Kisangani. Praise God! But where are all the other bigshot international missions and church organizations?

How many villagers had died along the Congo River and its tributaries, – without having heard the Gospel of Good News preached through every generation, – since the Baptist Missionary Society had withdrawn (after 1925) after planting the mission stations at Bolobo (1888), Upoto (1890), Monsembe (1890) and Yakusu (1896). Please support this mission! Departing again, soon!

Christianity had allegedly been known in Africa before Colonialism. Jesus, according to some, was black. Then surely Africa must be able to do much better to shake of the chains of slavery and Western oppression? Spoken as a Pastor in Africa.