JOIN ROYAL RANGERS AND MASTER'S TOOLBOX
TO PROVIDE SWAHILI SPEAKING NATIONS IN EAST AFRICA WITH THE RESOURCES THEY NEED TO START ROYAL RANGERS
BE ONE OF 700!
For the next two years, the national Royal Rangers office will present Master’s Toolbox projects that will assist Royal Rangers International with initiatives to strengthen existing ministry overseas and to plant new outposts internationally.
We hope to accomplish three goals in the near future: (1) provide Royal Rangers training and resources in Swahili, (2) equip and build new structures at the national Rangers training center outside of Nairobi, Kenya, and (3) establish the Royal Rangers ministry in four new nations. Our challenge for Africa is that you will help us plant 700 or more African outposts.
—Missionary Doug Marsh, director for Royal Rangers International
Rangers Materials in Swahili: Swahili is considered by Africans in that region as “the language of our grandfathers.” Royal Rangers resources offered in Swahili bring about a higher level of comprehension and application while also adding to the perceived integrity of the resources and ministry.
Royal Bridging Centre (RBC): “The RBC is an extension of the Royal Rangers ministry in Kenya and was created by Kenya Assemblies of God Pastor Patrick Kawe as an ‘alternative rite of passage for adolescent boys,’” says Missionary Andy Whitman. The tradition of African families is to take 13-year-old boys through a right-of-passage ceremony that is conducted by witch doctors. Since this ceremony is so steeped in the tradition of Africans, even Christian families engage their boys in this ceremony.
Rev. Kawe points out the tragedy of training up a child in their early formative years but then abandoning them to the world during their critical adolescent period. He describes it, in a classic African way, as ‘leading a child by the hand until we reach a river, and because there is no crossing, we ask a crocodile to ferry the child to the other side. Of course, the child never arrives because the crocodile eats him on the way. Instead, we should be building a bridge across the river to safely guide the child on the way to adulthood.’
—Missionary Andy Whitman
Expanding the Rangers Ministry: Karl Fleig, national director for Royal Rangers USA, states that the goal will be for outposts in the USA to sponsor the development of brand-new outposts in Africa. It takes only $429 to sponsor each new African Royal Rangers outpost! Your Master’s Toolbox offering of $429 per outpost will provide the most critical resources needed for each outpost to begin.
