We dream of a day when Africa will be a net exporter of food. There is so much potential on this continent and we want to be a part of unleashing it to its fullest.
In 2017, worldwide GDP was $75.4 trillion USD. Can you guess what the GDP of Africa was in 2017, based on the rough estimate that the continent holds 20% of the world’s land mass?
The figure you may have guessed was around $15 trillion USD which would equal 20% of world GDP, but in actuality the figure in 2017 was $3.3 trillion USD. Year after year, Africa contributes only 4% to global GDP when it has access to 20% of the land resources.
It is this global picture that continually motivates us as we seek to network with partners of the Evangelical Missionary Church.
In late February, Joel Zantingh (Executive Director of EMCC World Partners) and Dan travelled to Mwanza, Tanzania. They spent a week with an EMCC partner organization called Mibos that works primarily in Mwanza, Arusha and Kigoma. The organization’s director was very keen to show them as much as possible of what Mibos does, and to have them meet key beneficiaries. 
It was a hectic travel schedule with 14 hour driving days through rural and remote parts of Tanzania. Joel and Dan were met, more than once, with requests from groups and communities for funding and equipment. “If we only had a tractor and irrigation equipment,” Dan was told, “this farmer’s group would really make a go of it!”
Dan was also saddened by the condition of the farming fields, “Everywhere I looked, the soil had been plowed and moved to create ridges and furrows. I haven’t yet found the reasons for this, but apparently this is an agronomy method practiced in Tanzania and Malawi. It’s a terrible practice, speeding up soil erosion and evaporative losses.”
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But this is not the end of the story! God is on the move!
On this trip, Dan and Joel met a young leader named Moses. As they discussed proven principles of asset-based development, he became very interested and asked a lot of questions. When Dan introduced him to the Farming God’s Way tool, he got very animated. As they travelled from Kigoma back to Mwanza over two days, Moses asked question after question. Dan wishes he could remember Moses’s exact words, but he said something like, “I feel like a switch has been flipped in my mind, and now my head is exploding with all kinds of new possibilities!”
From that moment, Dan resolved to do whatever he could to get Moses some high quality Farming God’s Way training as follow-up to what has begun through their initial connection. Moses was beginning to grasp that the resources locally could be used to bring transformation to people and communities. We are happy to report that through EMCC World Partners funding, Moses was able to take a trip to Kijabe, Kenya in April for a week of training done by a master trainer there! We have been receiving updates via WhatsApp with all the wonderful things he is learning.
Moses’s official role with Mibos is in IT. Something new and exciting has been awakened in Moses. Please pray for him, and Mibos, for wisdom for next steps and for the powerful release of the Farming God’s Way tool within their networks. We believe that through leaders like Moses Tanzania could be transformed into a GDP powerhouse.