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Frontlines Issue 2 June 2019

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Many have walked this path before us and have gained courage that only comes from God, to take action.

What is in your hand, the LORD asked Moses. A rod that Moses may have thought of replacing due to having seen better years, a sling that David may have repaired severally before, a tent pin and mallet that Jael may have kicked around wondering if they will be of any use in the fuAnne Kasombo ture, two small fish and five loaves; Director, CBN Kenya the boy may have complained to his mother that they will not even make Dear Partner, Do you ever get so fed up of some him full. These small items and faith situations around us, things that in a big God secured countless lives are just not working as well as they and changed destinies of nations. should? The question that comes to our minds is why can’t someone do We only need to look at our hands something about this! This has to for they are loaded with all good and perfect gifts that come from change! our Father of Lights above. We only Many times we do not know that need to tell Him that we and all He we are the ones the world is waiting has bestowed upon us are at His for to initiate this change. We ask disposal. You can purpose today to God to do something, or lament, make that lifetime change around can’t the government do something. you in your community, in the life Then, the thought comes and does of a lonely child, to a youth who has not leaving us, it finally dawns on lost hope, to the mother who needs us, in addition to praying, I can do surgery to make her well enough to something! This reality hit comes take care of her children and much, with fear, anxiety and feelings of much more… timidity, which overwhelm us. We Luke 3;11 wonder where and how to start? “Whoever has two coats should share Then we shelve it because, “we have with somebody who has none, and whonothing that can help” and “are not ever has food should do the same.” in a position of influence”.

Orphan’s Promise

GIVING HOPE

PROMISING LOVE

Update on Sammy

Last year we visited Sammy at the Bethany Kids Hospital in Kijabe and helped pay his surgery medical bill.

Today Sammy is jovial and very playful after undergoing the procedure.

Thank you partners for your donations. You touched his life and family. We pray for his complete healing.

Orphan’s Promise Global Summit In the month of May, Orphan’s Promise global staff and project coordinators gathered in Louisville, Kentucky for training, fellowship, prayer, and preparation!

The summit provided the staff with the much needed training on trauma competency, child protection, and the latest trends on Orphan care.

The training also prepared the team for project implementation and reporting.

Dedication of Church/ School at Ekwar village in Turkana

New Church/ School

Old Church

Thank you for sharing the gospel in Turkana through clean water projects! In the previous quarter, we dedicated clean water wells drilled through the help of you our partners. The community at Ekwar also received a house of worship where they can attend regular services and learn about Jesus’ love for them. This will also house a school during the week for ECD classes.

Your help has touched so many lives.

Teresia’s Transformative Story

Teresia was born by a mentally unstable mother who was also an illicit alcohol drinker.

Unfortunately, Teresia was fed with the illicit brew as a baby to make her stop crying and this adversely affected her brain development.

She especially struggled with learning and tended to have minimal comprehension, memory and focus.

Even when playing with other children, teachers could notice how quickly her mind wonders away and lose focus. During her days in a regular school, the teachers would simply pass her as “daft” because she seemed to make no progress. At 15 years Teresia should be on her way to completing primary education but she is still in lower primary

due to her learning challenges.

Since joining Heritage Leadership Academy, a school supported by CBN Orphan’s Promise, she has been receiving personalized attention and her teacher has given a promising report on her progress. We are very grateful to CBN’s Orphan’s Promise for the financial support Through this kind of partnership, Teresia is now able to read and comprehend mathematics. She has shown great determination and has gained a lot of confidence when reading words. She is now writing clear and sensible sentences. When quizzed on the content that she has read, she is able to comprehend, recall and respond appropriately.

Had Teresia not been offered

the opportunity to join HLA, she would have merely done her years in a regular school but would have come out having learnt very little, if any.

Partners who give to CBN, ensure that girls like Teresia get to partake of this transformative opportunity.

Superbook News Gizmo Holiday Tour The month of April being a Schools’ holiday season, turned to be very busy for Gizmo and the Superbook team. In partnership with churches and organizations, the team participated in various life changing events.

EASTER VISIT TO OUR PIONEER SUPERBOOK CLUB IN TAVETA Over the Easter holiday our Superbook team went to Pioneer Superbook Club in Taveta that has 90 members. Through this club, most of these children have come to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They have also found joy, hope and purpose for their lives in the Lord.

The Easter event was designed to reach the club members as well as children of the surrounding areas with the good news of Jesus. We had a great time with 123 children, their parents and teachers.

Before watching “Naaman and the servant girl” we had the super truth for the day “GOD heals me and makes me whole” It was all shouts of joy and excitement to see Gizmo and host him for the first time in Taveta. The children danced to the salvation poem and each one of them had a story to tell.

The choir and the preacher of the day were

Superbook club members.They are blessed, the Lord is using their gifts to touch and impact their fellow friends and the community in a great way. It was encouraging to see young people living for God and having a deeper relationship with Him. For sure, Superbook is having a major impact in the lives of children and their parents here in Taveta.

They had a lot to learn from the story.

During question time, there were gifts from Gizmo for every answer given.

As we came to a close of a fruitful blessed day, we shared a meal together, where we got to interact with the Superbook Club members. Just before we left the children were asking when we are going to visit them again. If asked? We would have loved to stay in Taveta with these wonderful children for three or more days but we had to come back. It was an Easter to always remember. It was unforgettable experince for all of us.

HELP US IMPART LIFE CHANGING VALUES TO CHILDREN HERE IN EAST AFRICA AND BEYOND BY GIVING TO CBN

This quarter, Gizmo has been very busy.

On the 21st of April we visited Cornerstone Faith Assembly Church VBS, where children had fun with Gizmo, we ministered to 200 children and 15 of them gave their lives to Jesus.

On the 26th of April we took Gizmo to a children’s convention at JCC Parklands where we ministered to 250 children and 50 of them

Taveta

JCC Parklands

gave their lives to Jesus.

On Sunday 28th of April, we took part in the Sunday school service at JCC Eastlands where we ministered to 270 children. The Children learnt biblical truths from the story of Joseph and the dreams At the end of may, the team went to Agape Hope School in Waithaka where they ministered to 217 children.

Connerstone Church

JCC Eastlands

Partners Dinner 2019 We are grateful to God for this Year’s CBN Partners Dinner held on 28th March 2019 at the United Kenya Club. Partners, staff and volunteers gathered to celebrate the milestones that we have been able to achieve over the last one year. We were also able to share

about the numerous opportunities available with our Partners.

Thank you for helping demonstrate the love of God and the message of hope to millions of hurting people every day.

You Make a difference.

Former Child soldier transformimg Communities My name is Andre. I was taken into the armed group at 13 years old. While in the bush, I experienced a lot of bad things such as killings, looting, stealing and raping. Most of the time we were put in the front line on the battle field. I escaped death twice and I began to look for ways of going back home. I was very traumatized I was brought in Goma where I spent three months before being reunited with my family.

Life was not easy for I had a lot of flash backs of my atrocities. Through Child Protection Assistance of MONUSCO, I was introduced to Peace Lives Center and Exile International which is supported by CBN’s Orphan’s promise East Africa. I went through different programs such as Empower, Promoting Peace and Transformational Leadership. Through these programs, I was able to discover myself

and God’s purpose for my life. I realized it was not too late to rebuild my life. I was taken to school and after graduating from high school I also joined the University.

Thank you CBN Partners for your support.

You not only brought change into my life, but also to so many others. I have been able to initiate four village peace clubs of 79 children.

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Devotion: Called To Serve

Service per the dictionary, is the “action of

treasures that God put out there to do what he has called us to do in our different cahelping or doing work for someone.” pacities. Piece by piece we God has created us and “And He Himself gave some to will complete the puzzle of given us an opportunibe apostles, some prophets, some life that was set before us in ty to serve one another. evangelists, and some pastors Ephesian.

It doesn’t matter what and teachers, for the equipping level of education we of the saints for the work of min- So are you a Lawyer, doctor, hold, position we hold istry, for the edifying of the body teacher, father, mother, a sibat our work place or of Christ” ling or more so a president??? in our families, the ulEphesians 4:11-12 (AMP) Let’s all work out our salvatimate call is to serve tion with fear and trembling, each other. Our greatknowing that the person we meet each and est example of service is Jesus Christ who every day of our life, is the one God has was a servant leader of all times. He did the called us to serve, not in the four walls of a least of things to serve the people his father building but that person who is the church had entrusted him with – His disciples, up and the body of Christ. to the point of washing their feet. We all know what runs in one’s head when you Your life is the greatest gift God has given mention feet; - dirty and smelly, but he was you, value it and use it as an instrument to serve him and others. humble enough to do that.

As we live to fulfill this mandate, let us Sheilla humble ourselves and see each other as

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Into the Whole World

“Thereafter, Jesus appointed seventy others also and sent them out two-bytwo to places where he was about to go. And he said to them, “The harvest is great, but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.”

(Luke 10:1-2) Son of God told His disciples to pray that God would cast out, drive out, and thrust out laborers into the harvest field.

You might think Jesus would have gone easy on the first Christians because all of this was brand new to them. But in the first seven chapters of Acts, the disciples didn’t leave Jerusalem. They didn’t go out to Judea, Samaria, or the uttermost parts of the world. Even after receiving the baptism of the Holy Sprit, the disciples stayed in Jerusalem.

So what happened? Eventually, the disciples were thrust out.

Acts Chapter 8 says, “At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria … Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.”

Then in Acts 8:4, the Bible says something very interesting:

Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word.

Jesus knows us; he knows our desire to stay home—just as the first believers wanted to stay in Jerusalem. They could hear James, Peter and John preach, maybe all in the same day. Peter walked the streets, and his shadow healed people. Why would they want to go to the uttermost parts of the earth when they could stay and witness all of that?

So how does the Lord of the harvest send us into the harvest field? He compels us to go. Persecution arises. The disciples scatter. Then, as it says in Acts, those who are scattered go everywhere preaching the word.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14 NIV)

Gordon Robertson CEO - The Christian Broadcasting Network and president of CBN’s humanitarian organization, Operation Blessing International.

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