The Christian church is growing in Ethiopia, an east African country that has suffered drought, famine, and war for the past 20 years. We've seen a great harvest. Evangelical Christianity is growing swiftly in the nation of 60 million, a church leader who left the country last year because of persecution told Religion Today . His home church had only 2,500 members before the revolution, but has 25,000 today.
Laymen are on the cutting edge of evangelism.
Ordinary people are bringing thousands of their peers to Christianity by their personal witness, the church leader said. They have a tremendous impact through the testimony of their lives. Lay leaders are training others. Each student is told to return to their church and train 20 others, who in turn will each train 10 more. Every church member is involved in evangelism.