What is the SIAFU Network?

What is the SIAFU Network?

The SIAFU Network is a national association of chapters anchored in local urban churches and ministries dedicated to the city. SIAFU chapters are designed to help identify, equip and release spiritually qualified servant leaders to reach and transform our neediest, unreached communities in urban America.

The name for this new and exciting collaboration of urban Christians is taken from the example of the African Siafu ant community, hailed by the Discovery Channel as the world's fiercest and mightiest social community. A powerful example of community builders, their nests can hold up to 22 million members, making them the world's largest social community and easily one of the most productive, inventive, and remarkable groups ever. Siafu are small, vulnerable, and pesky, easily overcome if you attack or seek to destroy one of them isolated and alone, as a mere individual.

However, when banded together in common unity for the single purpose of the survival and strengthening of the community, they are virtually invincible, taking down all kinds of different animals, even from goats to buffalo, and (as has sometimes been reported) even elephants in their wake. Their ingenuity and industry (and absolute fierceness) are well known among those who study all the creatures of the insect kingdoms.

They are a fitting symbol of the potential that urban Christian men and women possess if they only can unite for the sake of mutual inspiration, edification, equipping, and empowerment. The advancement of the Kingdom of God in America's inner cities lies with urban Christians--identified, inspired, trained, and released for Christ!

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