Africa Digital Discipleship Project
Empowering Lives Through Digital Strategies
Why the Africa Digital Discipleship Project?
Africa is undergoing a digital revolution. In recent years, mobile phone subscriptions in Africa have surpassed 600 million people. Africa is also the fastest and largest growing Church globallyi with the youngest median age. We have a unique opportunity to reposition missions in Africa and equip a new generation of digital champions and missionaries.
In August 2023, Digital Strategies Africa hosted a Digital Summit in Lusaka, Zambia that drew digital champions from 30 countries. The goal of the Summit was to identify missional gaps and creatively design opportunities to reach into the African harvest. At the end of the Summit, the 30 nations signed the Lusaka Declaration committing to collaboration, prayer, and digital innovation to reach the missional gaps in Africa on an unprecedented scale. This declaration has inspired the Digital Discipleship Project, which seeks to reach and disciple 50 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa through leveraging digital tools and platforms.
Our Vision
A digitally empowered Africa where every person has access to the Gospel and every believer is equipped to make disciples online
Our Mission
To equip churches, leaders, and digital missionaries with the tools, training, and resources needed to transform Africa’s digital spaces into vibrant arenas of evangelism, discipleship, and innovation.
What’s the problem?
The problem in Sub-Saharan Africa is multifaceted, with challenges such as poverty, disease, and spiritual darkness affecting millions of individuals. Despite efforts, there are still significant missional gaps and unreached people groups, hindering access to the Gospel message. Without intervention, communities will continue to struggle with limited resources, lack of spiritual guidance, and social challenges.
What happens if the problem isn’t solved?
If the challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa are not addressed, communities will continue to face poverty, disease, and spiritual darkness. Missional gaps and unreached people groups will remain isolated from the transformative message of the Gospel, leading to continued cycles of despair and lack of access to spiritual resources
What are the opportunities and challenges?
Although there is a wealth of laborers who can be mobilized to face Africa’s significant missional gaps (an identifiable community and audience that lack the critical mass of multiplying disciples to effectively reach their community with the gospel ) composed of over 1900 unreached People Groups, two of the greatest challenges in Africa are infrastructure and financial capacity.
The major missional gaps that were identified at the Digital Champions Summit are the following:
Muslims
Women
Children, Youths and Students
Immigrants/Refugees
Isolated People Groups
The digital strategy national teams across Africa mostly have only 1-2 staff. The others team members are volunteers. However, our greatest challenge in reaching these missional gaps is not the lack of laborers. Having the infrastructure, and finances to recruit, equip and train new laborer to unleashing this huge missionary force.
Our Five Key Strategies
Digital Evangelism
7000–10,000 online campaigns reaching over 507 million people.
Targeted outreach to Muslims, youth, women, and refugees.
Discipleship & Follow-Up
Mobilizing 5 million digital missionaries to disciple 51 million new believers.
Establishing 10,000 hybrid digital churches.
Leadership Development
Training 5,000+ digital leaders through the Digital School of Leadership.
Creating networks for mentorship and innovation.
Digital Content Creation
Producing 10,000 culturally relevant audiovisual resources in African heart languages.
Reviving 200 Jesus Film translations for new evangelistic campaigns.
Sustainability
Building 5 language-based Digital Innovation Hubs (in Angola, Cameroon, DRC, Nigeria, and South Africa).
Establishing financially and theologically sustainable digital churches.
What are we raising funds for?
We are raising funds to support the implementation of the Africa Digital Discipleship Project, which focuses on digital evangelism, discipleship, and community transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The funds will be used to establish 5 digital media centres, conduct outreach to Muslim populations (over 300 million), address missional gaps (almost 300), and resource national ministries (50) to become autonomous in their digital strategies
How will God impact your life?
You have the opportunity to be part of a transformative movement that brings hope and faith to millions in Africa. Your contributions will help you:
Make a Tangible Difference: Your support will directly equip
digital missionaries, create culturally relevant content, and evangelistically reach into missional gaps in Africa coupled by follow-up and online discipleship and community.
Experience Fulfillment: You will be contributing to lasting change in people's lives, bringing you a profound sense of purpose and impact.
Leave a Legacy: Your support will help build a vibrant and sustained digital missionary sending force that will reach and disciple Africa for Christ.
Who will benefit
- Muslims, isolated people groups, refugees, and immigrants will have access to culturally relevant Christian content and digital evangelism and discipleship efforts in the most culturally relevant manner. Hundreds of abandoned translations of films will be revived and used
- Refugees will be discipled and when relocated will become opportunistic missionaries to African and other immigrants communities in the diaspora.
- Students /Youth and Children in their millions will be reached online outreach and followed-up by vibrant online Christian communities in several nations.
- Local Christians and churches will be equipped to use digital tools, training resources, and follow-up strategies to strengthen their various ministries and sharpen their reach.
- New believers online will join networks of online churches that will provide ongoing discipleship and support for them and equip them to become disciple-makers.
How You Can Partner
Your partnership helps turn Africa’s screens into spaces of salvation and discipleship
Give financially
Contributions will help establish Digital Innovation Hubs, train missionaries, create Christian digital solutions and content, launch online campaigns, TV and radio programs, and ensure millions of lost people not only hear about Jesus but are also discipled in local communities.
Spread awareness
Sharing information about this project with your network of family, friends, church members and acquaintances will provide them opportunity to enjoy its benefits and increase the project’s reach and impact globally
Pray
Your prayers and that of your church and Christian networks are vital for the Africa Digital Discipleship project’s success and the spiritual transformation of lives in Africa.
Our 5x5 Vision Impact
50
Nations reached
5
Digital Innovation Hubs
5M
Digital Missionaries Mobilized
50M
Disciples Made
5000+
Online Churches Planted
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