From Zimbabwe to Kenya
In March I attended the 6-monthly Foundations for Farming Champions Conference in Zimbabwe. It was a great pleasure to meet two men from Kenya. One, Ashford, I knew from a previous visit to his country when I accompanied him on a medical visit to an unreached people group in Tharaka. He is [...]

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Nigel Ring on April 9th, 2010

Following my time in the Harare area a 4 hour drive to Bulawayo took me to the farm of Peter Cunningham, successful ostrich farmer and visionary, who seeks to help empower the poor by ‘out-sourcing’ the husbandry of young ostriches to village people and then buying them back for processing. I was also amazed to [...]

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Nigel Ring on March 30th, 2010

A week in Harare
Everybody says ‘what good can come out of Zimbabwe?’
I say ‘My glory, My glory will come on the dry bones that laid slain.
I have breathed My life into a mighty army of God, the bride of Christ.
Like a city on a hill, Your light so shines.
‘And My glory shall be seen in [...]

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Nigel Ring on March 20th, 2010

We are very privileged to have Dr Goodwill Shana (who likes to be addressed as ‘Shana’) as a speaker at this year’s Newfrontiers leadership conference, Together on a Mission (TOAM). Shana is President of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) and has played a key role in bringing the church in Zimbabwe into a significant [...]

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Nigel Ring on March 16th, 2010

About 30 years ago Brian Oldreive, a former Zimbabwean test cricketer, was farming tobacco when he and his wife Cath became Christians. He is now well-known for being the visionary behind Foundations for Farming, formerly Farming God’s Way.
In this interview you get to meet him and to learn something of his background, and why he [...]

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