In May, Freedom in Christ hosted its first Africa leaders conference in five years in Uganda, bringing together an impressive assembly of leaders from across the continent. The Kenya team came out in force and were joined by representatives from Nigeria, South Sudan, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, and more—a total of nine countries were represented.

The conference was spearheaded by our Africa Area Director, Ibrahim Dikko, Howard Ostendorff, our South and Eastern Africa Coordinator, Josh Shaarda, our National Leader in Uganda and ably hosted by the amazing Uganda Team. The theme was "Stronger Together", with opportunity to explore how each country can grow in prayer, people, provision so see God's plans and purposes fulfilled across the continent. It was also a great time to commission new team members into new roles, including Michael, our new Uganda National Leader, Josh, our new International Head of Resources, and Nyambura, our new Africa Area Prayer Co-ordinator...

TRANSFORM is an unparalleled opportunity for Christian leaders to dive deep into the personal freedom, fruitfulness and transformation Jesus has for them - at a time when the context and circumstances of leadership are incredibly challenging. 

It's a committment - praying, studying and meeting together every week for the best part of 10 months, we recommend you set aside 4 hours a week to get the most out of it. But if you're responsible for strategic vision and direction in your church, organisation or ministry, TRANSFORM will, well, as it says on the tin, transform your leadership.

There are three stages to TRANSFORM - Reposition, Retune and Refocus. The first seeks to ground your identity in Jesus and deal with anything that's holding you back personally. The second, Retune, begins to apply your new found freedom more specifically to your leadership adventure, and the contenxt within which you lead, before finally, in Refocus, we unpack...

It's always a joy to see what God is doing all around the world! It's been a while since we caught up with Alan & Alice in Estonia. I had the pleasure of spending a day with them in Tallinn but we had so much fun that we ran out of time to get a video update! Thankfully they had a video crew to help out and they sent over a video letting us know how they are getting on and where they feel God is guiding them this year.

Watch the video here or below...