East Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology2019-09-252019-09-252016-03-191982http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/235764"It has become customary for printed comment on African Christianity to begin with a flood of statistics and a sigh of concern. The flood informs us of the estimated 200 million Christians in Africa, of the projected 400 million by the year 2000, of evangelical denominations doubling every decade. and of 50% of these statistical "people" being under the age of 16. The sigh that accompanies this statistical flood bemoans the theological and pastoral rootlessness of these masses. In some ways the undiscipled masses of African Christians are becoming a new kind of "Hidden" people - Christians, mind you, but hidden from the short arm of Christian leade rsh ip and pastoral care. The roar of the flood and the whisper of the sigh can both be deafening."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderAfrican ChristianityChristiansAfricaevangelical denominationsReligious ethicsIntercultural and contextual theologiesAfrican theologiesChristian denominationsPractical theology and theological educationArticle