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    Challenges of the Small Christian Communities in the Evangelization of Eastern Africa
    (Tangaza University College, 2000-02) Carbonero, Pedro
    In the present long essay I want to tackle some questions that arise from my motivation. What are the challenges and difficulties of SCCs in Eastern Africa? What can the SCCs do to face and to overcome these challenges and difficulties? What is the evangelizing and missionary dimension of the SCCs in Eastern Africa? Is the SCC relevant to the African environment and it really responds to the problems and needs of the African people? These questions create further interest to research on SCCs. When I started to participate in the SCCs at weekends in Kibera (Nairobi), I was amazed by the spontaneity of the members in sharing the bible according to their own understanding. When praying, they speak to God in the second person with familiar confidence to express their problems, sorrows and difficulties. The atmosphere lived in their meetings is of teaching, communal life, celebration and prayers, just like the first Christian community of Acts (Acts 2: 42-47). This has been the motivation behind that made me choose this topic_ This led me to know more about SCCs in Eastern Africa. This long essay has been the opportunity to research on it and to understand better the dynamics and the role of the SCCs in the evangelization process and missionary work.