Evangelism Concerns

Africa’s tabernacle evangelism is a highly innovative approach to providing church buildings for “worthy congregations” across Africa. This approach is a cooperative partnership involving both national church and missionary team resources.

A heavily populated rural area, a neighbourhood, a village, or a major city is targeted for church planting evangelism. The master plan involves on-sight intercession, crusade, follow-up, and tabernacle construction (Bowman, 1999).

The tabernacle evangelism may help to some extent, but how far does that go? Thousands of churches have not even heard if there be any such thing as “tabernacle evangelism”, and yet much money is being spent on the few “worthy” locations. A total of $35,000 is needed to ship a pre-fabricated tabernacle container to Africa. Instead of all the energy being spent on shipment, the coordinator can buy local building materials to erect cheaper churches in areas deemed “worthy”.