DAVAR May 2010

Dear Reader,

 Flags flying from lampposts announce "20 days to go to the World Cup". Posters, banners and billboards call the nation to unity. It's Friday so the people are coming to work wearing their national colors. When I arrived in the country a week ago my hosts presented me with a t-shirt sporting the beautiful colors of South Africa. It's exciting and it's contagious.

God is using Africa and Africans to change the history of nations. I am a great soccer fan but the World Cup 2010 is not the main event. This week I witnessed 6000 people in a church service kneeling before the Lord and crying out for Him to send revival. In March over 400,000 men gathered outdoors on a farm to hear God's Word and to pray. Across the continent business owners are committing themselves to Biblical standards of righteousness as part of a movement to be "unashamedly ethical". Sunday, millions of people from every nation participated in the Global Day of Prayer, which was launched here in South Africa. Across Africa, God's people are committing themselves to see the Bible in audio form penetrate and pervade every oral learning community not only in Africa but around the world.

This is just the foreshadowing of what God desires to do. Prof. Jenkins, the renowned historian, reports that in 1900 there were 100 million Africans of whom 10 million were Christians, a 1 to 10 ratio. By 2050 the population of Africa will be 2.25 billion yet 1 billion will be Christians, a ration of 1 to 2.25. Africa will by far the biggest Christian population in the world. One of every three Christians worldwide will be African. The potential is astounding.

Yet today nearly two thirds of all Africans do not have access to God's Word because they don't read. God has raised up Davar Partners to be a small part of the great things He desires to do in and through Africa. Through audio Scriptures Africa can become one of the most transformed continents of the earth by the power of God's Word. Just as cell phone technology has spread more rapidly in the African market than in many more developed nations that had extensive land line technologies in place, in the same way oral learning communities can leap past more literate ones in Biblical knowledge. Not long ago a seminary in East Africa did a training program for illiterate Bible students utilizing oral learning methods. At the end they outscored their literate counterparts when given the same Bible knowledge exam administered by a well known American seminary.

Will you pray and believe with me for God to transform the illiterate communities of Africa through audio Scripture engagement? If you would like to know how you can be involved please visit our website at: www.davarpartners.comIn

In Faith,

Dr. David Swarr
President & CEO
Davar Partners Intl.

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