Cultic groups are flourishing across Uganda and virtually all of sub-Saharan Africa. The response of the Christian churches is not equal to the scale and severity of the harm caused by these movements and by unsound theological trends.

Pastors, Christian workers, and lay believers need a robust and reliable source of factually sound, biblically informed information and analysis so they can identify, answer, and evangelize the wide range of false and defective religious groups that pose a constant challenge to the proclamation of the Gospel and the building of the church.

 

ACFAR’s director is missionary John Divito. John was raised an active member of the Mormon church; today he is a gifted defender of the historic Christian faith with a passion to train and equip pastors and Christian leaders in Africa for discernment and the defense of the faith and to raise up a generation of African believers who are fully equipped to defend the Gospel in their own culture—and transform the church’s response to the cults and false teaching on a scale never seen before.

Read John’s testimony (coming soon)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Challenge of the Cults in East Africa

The Africa Center for Apologetics Research (ACFAR) is to be a nondenominational, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization of evangelical Christian conviction, developed and maintained as a long-term partnership by CFAR and the Kampala Evangelical School of Theology (KEST).

In light of the Scripture’s commands to defend the faith once for all delivered to the saints (e.g., Jude 3–4), the Center’s fundamental purposes will be to:

• Monitor and continuously compile accurate data on new and controversial religious groups active in Uganda and East Africa
• Analyze the beliefs and practices of such groups in the light of Scripture, and develop practical apologetic responses
• Warn and inoculate the greatest possible number of lay believers against both indigenous and imported cults and aberrant Christian movements
• Equip pastors, seminary and Bible college students, Christian workers, and lay believers with tools and training to enable them to recognize and respond effectively to such groups (both apologetically and evangelistically)
• Raise up African apologists who will model balanced, biblical reasoning and responses to the challenges posed by heretical movements

The geographic scope of the Center’s activities will be, in order of priority:
• Uganda
• the rest of East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi)
• the rest of English-speaking Africa
• the rest of sub-Saharan Africa

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ACFAR WEBSITE:
www.acfar.org

 

To send the Divito family to Africa and launch the Center in Kampala, we’ll need the partnership of both individuals and churches.

Invite John Divito to speak at your church
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