ABSTRACT
Pentecostal Churches, driven by the realization of ambitious prophetic visions, have sponsored pioneering church planters on foreign missions to industrialized countries in order to project their churches as truly possessing an international flavor. The chapter examines each of the factors that have contributed to the incidence of reverse missions. Efficacy of prayer, reality of the spirit world, power of God's kingdom on earth, ritual of holy water, power of biblical words, extraordinary popularity of the psalms, and power to heal. The doctrine of causality, which is core to the African religions and worldview, becomes a stumbling block for the reverse mission movement spearheaded by African Pentecostalism. One of the greatest successes of African Pentecostal churches is their fundraising ability, which has resulted in the ecclesiastical empires that dot the landscape of many West African nations, especially Nigeria.
