Life partners magazine

L.I.F.E Partners Magazine LIFE Ministry Kenya Publication.

Issue 1

2017

Main Feature

Multiplying Church Communities -Ol Kalou

Kibwezi Food Distribution

East Pokot Mission

Ignite

A couple giving their L.I.F.E to help fulfil the Great Commission

Contents LIFE Partners Magazine

Significant Woman Ministry

This news letter is periodically published by the LIFE Ministry Kenya Partners Relations Department

Multiplying

Church Communities

Olkalou

Executive Producer : Arnold Nzova Chief Editor : Jane Kioi Editor : Benson Njagi Story Contributers Sherly Bett Bill Dindi Pst Louis Kimani Pst Maingi - Kibwezi Maina Mukenga Thanks to Global Fund development office

Passion

Ignite

Kibwezi

East Pokot

Amongst the Students

Food Distribution

A couple giving their L.I.F.E to help fulfil the Great Commission

Mission

Olkalou Ministry Olkalou Ministry LIFE Ministry Partners LIFE Ministry Staff

From the National Director e“And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied [greatly]; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.” Acts 6:7 (KJV) Welcome to this first issue of the L.I.F.E Magazine produced by our Partners Relations Department (PRD) to help you connect to God’s work through the LIFE Ministry Kenya.

L.I.F.E is an acronym that refers to the opportunity we give our ministry partners to effectively use their Leadership (L), Influence (I), Finances (F) and Expertise (E) through the LIFE Ministry Kenya to help fulfill the Great Commission. Our long term desire is for our ministry partners to become engaged with us in ministry besides giving their finances.

We desire that they become all God intended them to be by fully investing their leadership skills, influence, financial success and professional expertise towards the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

This magazine was designed with our ministry partners in mind and we desire to see it in the future as partner driven, from disseminating reports to allowing them have a taste of ministry experience, opening ourselves to accountability and an opportunity to connect directly with the ministry. We want your voice as a partner to be at the core of our organization and this publication. It’s my great pleasure to thank you for your continued partnership and this magazine is a gift for you!

This inaugural magazine gives me a platform to reflect on what God has done in the last 3 years and record what the organization has been able to accomplish to God’s glory. You will read stories of God’s acts through the Holy Spirit from our key field ministry priorities with the main story featuring “Multiplication of a church movement” in Olkalao Nyandarua County.

Every year, we prayerfully endeavored to seek God in giving us a scriptural theme to build our spiritual base as a Christian organization.

In 2015, and in line with DEEPLife vision, our theme was: Called – Connected – Committed (CCC) from Nehemiah 9:38 “In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it.” In the year 2016, we perceived God taking us to “Go Deeper to get exceptional results” - “If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops

and the trees their fruit. Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land” … I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you” (Leviticus 26:3-5,9).

Our theme this year 2017: Expanding to Reach Our Scope from Acts 6:7 (quoted above) is derived from where we are as a ministry to where God wants us to be as we journey towards our 2020 ministry goals.

Our expansion efforts are motivated and inspired by what characterized the first church in the Book of Acts where the word of God spread, the number of disciples increased rapidly (multiplication), and a large number of priests (our staff and all believers involved with us) became obedient to the faith.” Acts 6:7 (NIV).

We thank God for the major milestones we have experienced as we continue soaring high to impart and impact lives to see a changed and transformed Kenyan society, as we become Intentional in what God has called us to be as THE LIFE MINISTRY KENYA. There is already an effective collaboration among all our field ministries that will contribute and lead to both local and national multiplying movements that are expanding to achieve scope within Kenya and even beyond. We desire to continue experiencing God Himself as we abide in Christ which leads to our organizational values of expanding our faith that results in growth and greater fruitfulness, to His glory. We have seen effective partnerships and good relationships with other members of the body of Christ as we build movements among students, leaders, churches and use of digital strategies that are increasingly achieving national scope by impacting all domains of society. We already have a very active national board of directors, a national leadership team and developing other organizational infrastructure to support and accelerate movements. The DEEPLife vision, goals and focus will ensure that both depth and scope are being achieved through multiplying movements (quality and quantity).

In the past years, our national ministry has made great contribution in blessing other nations by offering leadership, sending of

resident missionaries, sharing best-practice movement models, organizing international mission projects, hosting regional, continental and international conferences and events. Financially, the ministry has stabilized as we increase our efforts of developing local financial and other resources in order to minimize dependence on global funding and even begin contributing financially to the global movement by adopting some countries.

As you read in this magazine, in the recent times we have had the privilege of touching the lives of poverty stricken families through relief food distributions that brought a sparkle to their faces and giving them hope. We have also distributed Bibles in about 10 counties. Besides our win, build and send strategy, it’s our desire to minister holistically, touching all aspects of humankind, spiritual, emotional, physical, psychological and social.

By God’s Grace in the last 44 years of our existence we attest this far the Lord has been Ebenezer, I echo the words in Isaiah 45:21 “ I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars,” Isaiah 45:21.

Join us as we embark on this journey to see spiritual movements in every county in Kenya and communities of multiplying disciples.

ARNOLD A. NZOVA

The LIFE Ministry Kenya Board members

Sammy Langat Board Chairman

Col Goefrey Muturi

Prof. Hellen Sambili

Hon. Justice Daniel Musinga

Bishop Jonah Obonyo

Mrs. Mary Kiptui

Prof. Musyoka

Mr. felix Ndambuki

Prof. Levi Obonyo

Prof. Aseka

Mr. George Mamboleo

Ms Caroline Kariuki

The LIFE Ministry Kenya; National Leadership Team

Arnold & Rebbecca Nzove National Team Leader. LIFE Ministry Kenya

Dr. Farai & Chipo Katsade Team Leader. Campus Crusade for Christ (LIFE Ministry)Southern and eastern Africa

Maina & Carol Mukenga Head of Operations

John & Liz Maithya Digital Strategies

Simon & Ziporah Andiki Global Church Movement

Mwakio & Ann Shake Fund Development

Dr Sammy & Dr Winnie Ndumu Leadership Development & Human Resource

Bill & Nancy Dindi Student Led Movements

Main Feature

Multiplying Church Communities Olkalou

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A ministry transforming the villages.

The Ol’Kalou LIFE Ministry Church movement started on 30th August 2003 when members of Deliverance church trained the first 11 members in New Life Training Curriculum (NLTC). After many years of LIFE Ministry Kenya training and equiping many churches including Deliverance Church, the church leadership contextualized our training and called it the School of Evangelism, New-life and Discipleship (SEND). The 1st graduation NLTC group was on 11th Jan. 2004 The group elected Sis. Beatrice N. Kuria as their Coordinator in 2004. The group immediately was able to multiply very quickly through evangelism and trainings that included: Better choices seminars, Child evangelism seminars, Evangelizing to Muslims seminars, Leadership seminar, Small group dynamics seminar, Prayer-Care Share Seminar and in the last few years Transformational Leadership Movement (TLM) Training. In the last one year, the movement has grown from five (5) center’s namely Rurii, Ol’Kalou, Kasuku, Ol’Joroork, Kwajiku and Nanyuki in Laikipia to four (4) more centers in Rumuruti (Turkana’s), Tumaini, Gatero (Turkana’s and Samburu’s) and in Karandi. There are over 200 trained associates who are very active in the ministry. As a result of this fast growth, they saw the need to establish LIFE Ministry Office in Rurii, without much help from the National office.

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A JOURNEY OF FAITH AND DETERMINATION: THE LIFE MINISTRY OLKALAO MOVEMENT The tale of the Life Ministry Olkalao Movement is a most fascinating one filled with amazing testimonies of the growth and multiplication it has undergone since its conception in 2003. Its future prospects glow even brighter with promises for more expansion into new territories for both the advancement and fulfillment of the Great Commission— all through the able guidance of its passionate leaders.

“The journey has been great, with the pioneers having their fair share of moving mountains and even going down to the valleys when it was required of them to bear their own burden by being self sufficient. To have come this far, it has taken the hand of the Lord,” Pastor Louis says.

INCEPTION OF THE TRAINING INITIATIVES In the month of January in the year 2003, Pastor Louis had the opportunity to join the Life Ministry training initiative, New Life Training, at Kambu in Kilifi County.

On his graduation he invited his wife and one elder of his church called Peter Mungai (who also happened to be his landlord), to join him in that. Around the same time one other pastor from the Deliverance Church Olkalao where Pastor Louis comes from, too desired to know about Life Ministry: how he could have involved himself with their

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mission, and also to undergo training similar to the one that Pastor Louis had gone through. Along with Pastor Louis, Peter Mungai, and other pastors from the region, a pastors meeting was held and the Life Ministry concept was warmly embraced. Another meeting was organized for the pastors and leaders in the Olkalao area, and Pastor Louis was named the facilitator of the task as he had by then become a (TOT).

The training was extensive and strict; a lot of discipline was instilled among the students which brought about tangible results. The different churches involved were: Deliverance Church Olkalao, Jesus Exaltation Church, and ACK church.

After the NLT training, what followed was the Introduction to Evangelism. As more trainings were conducted, it gradually became evident that the pastors of the churches had also released their leaders to go through the trainings.

A lady by the name of Beatrice Kuria emerged from the first bunch of graduands after this series of trainings were completed. Before that she had been a class representative, her contribution in that capacity having been felt immensely by her centre due to her mobilization of other leaders.

In 2003 Beatrice was chosen as the coordinator of the region in which she became very influential as the centres grew in terms of members. Having been amongst the first graduates of the first bunch of disciples, she then went on

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Church to influence her husband to also do the training. After that they both became amazing trainers of trainers.

With the collaboration of Pastor Louis and Beatrice Kuria along with her husband, more growth was experienced as other other centres were established around Olkalao. These were: Kasuku.

Rurii, Oljororok, Kirima, and Laikipia. Essentially, what had caused the birthing of these centres was attributed to a pastor’s meeting organized by Pastor Louis who had really cottoned on to the mission of Life Ministry.

In 2004, the first hand of these centres took place in Olkalao. The training for this had taken place in September 2003.

Soon word spread to Nyandarua County on the growth of these churches after their leader and pastors had gone through the Life Ministry trainings which included New Life Training and Introduction to Evangelism and Discipleship. The beauty of the classes was that there would be no graduation of individual students if one had not gathered at least 5 disciples for whom they had labored for.

With that the students took seriously note of the endeavour and in between lessons they would be granted permission to go do evangelism.

One of the students, Mr. Jackson Waigwa, shared his experience as narrated below.

It so happened during his training that by the time graduation rolled about, he had not yet gathered all the five disciples he had to have labored for in order to qualify for graduation. He thus had to make an extra effort to go forth and reach out to lost souls; at some point he even asked his friend to take him out for a night of evangelism as he had one disciple in target that would take him to his required five. The man he had set his sights on was named John: he had never entered into a church although his wife was an established church goer. Due to Jackson’s determination and by the conviction of the Holy Spirit, John made the decision to accept Christ as his savior, and to date he still attends church on a regular ba-

sis. As for John’s wife, the experience played out to her as nothing short of a miracle. Thus the effectiveness of the training was felt in the sense that it was powerful enough to play out so beautifully in a practical sense. Up to this day, exponential growth has been realized in the area of Nyandarua.

This success story is one of many that need to be embrace by all. This was especially made clear to pastors in the Olkalao region who started being approached by pastors from different churches in different regions that requested for the training to be taken to their own areas.

THE GROWTH PROCESS Today a team led by Beatrice Kuria and Pastor Louis bears much fruit in this regard. They partnered together with Life Ministry Nairobi to send out more trainers as the work became overwhelming due to the numerous invitations for training services that went out to them. The skills with which the leaders were empowered were those that go into the use of the 4 spiritual laws, spiritual growth, the ability to organize missions and facilitate them, and the ability for churches to raise mission funds on their own.

The trainings would also enable the students in different ways such as would bring growth and increase in numbers to their churches. For instant in the discipleship class mentioned earlier, the effort was extended to bring in at least 3 to 5 disciples in a strict manner yet necessary manner, and this in turn infused the students with a deep passion for evangelism. On the other hand in the context of targeted evangelism, a mission would be planned and executed in an orderly manner such that a program would begin at 5AM in the morning. This set the pace for every subsequent meeting held. Further if in one of the centres something new was to be introduced to the students such as a Bible study, the same would be applied to the rest of the centres too. This encouraged uniformity.

Another initiative that was undertak-

en was to have various meetings held in member homes or other surrounding churches. This lessened costs and in turn encouraged families to come together, furthering the impact of the training. Out of this effort centres that came into being were those in Rurii, Kasuku, Oljororok and Kwajiku. Classes multiplied even more as they replicated the same process.

One unique tale of spotting an opportunity to grow and expand started out with Pastor Louis getting a transfer from Kambu to Kwajiku in Laikipia County. On arrival he observed that there was not one active not to mention regular Christian meeting being held, thus he saw a opening to introduce Life Ministry training into the area’s church. He garnered favor with the local pastor he met by the name Emilia and thereafter began the training class.

“The ministry is in you,” Pastor Louis says regarding the above, “…and wherever you go, start.”

FRUITS OF THE LABOUR There has been a tremendous growth in church planting in Olkalao.

One of the churches that were birthed through the discipleship and evangelism class is Kenya Assemblies of God (KAG). It was through the combined efforts of the faithful committed disciples that this amazing transformation came about. Since its birthing the church has been growing day by day, and the same people who ministered to it at the onset have matured in their knowledge and understanding of the word to now serve in leadership positions.

Another milestone of the training initiative has been opening the path to more trainings in the Transformational Leadership Movement, a training movement specifically geared towards leaders. This movement has boosted a number of leaders who have gone through Life Ministry training to then stand in a better place to join the ACK Berea College in Nakuru as they go on with their desire to further pursue theological studies. This proves the quality of training offered by Life Ministry Kenya.

Significant Woman Ministry Women Ministry

WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT WOMAN TRAINING? Whatever season of life you are in, you may be asking “is there some reason I am the way I am? Do I have something to offer that will help others and will reflect the God in whose image I was created? Is there really a life of significant for me?”

Your job or career can be consuming. Does what you are doing really fulfil your deep desire to be special? Is your life really counting? Does personal meaning come with your success?

As a woman who may have moved through years of her life, you might be wondering if it is enough. Perhaps you have seen success and it was not as deeply fulfilling as you had hoped. Perhaps you have children who are grown and you are wondering is there anything for me now? Perhaps the challenges of changing body are taking time, energy and finances and you are wondering if it all worth it.

These are the questions and thoughts we will be looking at together in The Significant Woman course.

This principles are: ï Pursue your uniqueness

ï Embrace the source

ï Activate your mission

ï Refocus your life

ï Live internationally

ï Sustain for life.

This resource is the only one of its kind to combine life coaching and a biblically based curriculum that equips women with the principles for living a life of purpose and meaning. It provides the benefit of both a group environment and a peer-coaching relationship.

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Ministry Background Information The year was 1973, a dictatorial regime in the neighboring nation of Uganda drove out USA and other national missionaries from its land. Among them was a team that fled to Kenya and helped establish The LIFE Ministry Kenya. Thus a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International was born 10 years after the East Africa’s regional hub’s independence.

The LIFE Ministry Kenya can best be described presently through the lifespan of an eagle that has to make hard decision in its 40’s. In the last 43 years of existence, we have been on the mountain tops experiencing God’s faithfulness but have also definitely gone through the valley. We have had various seasons since our inception: Seasons of great harvests, expansions, equipping the body of Christ, sending of missionaries to over 15 countries, staff growth, major national projects and great impact in Kenya.

However, in-spite of all these great accomplishments and successes over the years, we have also had seasons of serious challenges, up’s and down’s, declines, human failures

and painful moments especially in the last 10 years now. Partiality through the Eagle’s life (40 years), he will go through a molting process that will bring great depression. It’s a painful experience and a wilderness time, with calcium deposits on talons and beak, walking like a turkey and no strength to fly and depending on other eagles to provide food. Unfortunately, some eagles will not receive the help of other eagle’s and will die in the valley while others will regain their strength and soar again with greater strength than ever before and climb the mountain in which they were raised on!

We are currently in the later category of eagles, regaining our strength and making us stronger than ever before in the Lord!

As we move from 40 years to Jubilee year (50), we are soaring to victory like an eagle and we trust God (The Divine Eagle) to lift us up spiritually and on fire for Him to overcome all internal and external challenges as we run to Him for our help through raising resources locally towards self-sustainability and contributing globally.

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Church Students Leaders Integration teams Operations

Common Focus To have The LIFE Ministry Kenya characterized by vibrant prayer teams, models of multiplying leaders and movements of disciples, with self-sustaining local resources

Life Frontier Primary School A place of academic excellence | community intervention

Life Frontier Primary is in Garrissa Tana River County (Bura Constituency) at Mandogo.

This is our primary school that provides quality education among the marginalized communities in Garissa region. Most of them are nomads, extremely poor and cannot afford to pay school fees.

Please consider sponsoring a child at Ksh. 1,500/month.

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“We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying.

You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books, lets study..” — join in the cry” Charles Spurgeon

BOOKSHOP -Bibles -Devotionals, -Church -Leadership -Evangelism -Discipleship -Marriage -Parenting -Inspirational ..........

Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV) 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.�

Movements Everywhere...........

Among the Young Generation : Student-Led Movement Professionals and Executives : Leader Impact Churches and Communities : Global Church Movement

“Until EVERYONE knows SOMEONE Who Truly Follows CHRIST.....”

2 Timothy 2:2(ESV) 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Feature; Staff Profile

Passion Amongst the Students

Bill & Nancy Dindi

Students

Winning, Building and Sending Students who Win, Build and Send others.

In the year 2010, 11 young Kenyans boarded a plane at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on a scheduled flight to Johannesburg South Africa.

Out of these, 8 were University students, two interns with Life Ministry Kenya and one a volunteer with the Organization. The team was merely transiting through South Africa, their final destination was the tiny Kingdom of Swaziland, Africa’s last surviving absolute monarchy.

The previous year, the Life Ministry Kenya’s Student ministries department under the leadership of Robert and Grace Balusi had struck a partnership accord with Campus Crusade for Christ in Swaziland to send teams of missionaries into the country for some 3 successive years to help establish their ministry in the Universities and Colleges of Swaziland.

Lynnette Maina, then a student leader at the University of Nairobi was a critical player in the structuring of the agreement with Paluku Bushu, the Swazi Student Led Movements Director.

The team of Kenyan missionaries was led by the Life Ministry interns, Bill Dindi and Rachel Kihahu. One of the members of the team was Nancy Ngatara, an energetic second year student leader from the University of Nairobi’s Kikuyu Campus.

During this mission, Bill and Nancy became friends and continued to keep in touch beyond the mission.

‘I loved her passion for the Great Commission, and particularly her commitment to minister to Students in Universities and Colleges’, Bill notes.

They both believed that reaching students is urgent and strategic. “Kenya’s median age is 19.1, and as such anyone serious about reaching and transforming this nation must have his sights trained in the learning institutions”, observes Bill. Young people are typically energetic, idealistic and open to explore spirituality particularly in this age group as most are still building their convictions and shaping their worldviews.

Nancy and Bill had met while preparing for the Pamoja Africa 2 Missions and Leadership Conference in Ivory Coast. The focus of Pamoja 2 was mobilizing youth from Sub-Saharan countries to ‘Go North’ into the predominantly Muslim nations as missionaries.

Pamoja Africa conferences are organized by Campus Crusade for Christ’s ministries in Africa and are held once every three year’s.

After the Swaziland Mission, the next time the two met was yet at another mission, this time at the University of Dodoma in Tanzania, some two years later.

In the course of the mission at the University of Swaziland’s Luyengo Campus Bill met and shared the Gospel with some five freshmen in one of the hostels. Beyond the initial contact, he continued teaching and discipling them. One of those was an energetic young man called Melusi Zikalala. The young man was a believer by the time Bill connected with him, but needed to be assured of his Salvation and encouraged to maximize his obvious leadership potential.

Successive teams through the next two years, led by Benson Maina and Maithya Muthama, continued to travel to Swaziland and build up on the works of previous teams.

By the year 2014, the Student movement in the country had grown to an extent that the students could mobilize resources and send six of their colleagues to travel to Kenya and be part of a Holiday Outreach and missions program in the Kenyan Universities.

Upon graduating from University, Melusi Zikalala, the leader of that initial team committed to join Campus Crusade for Christ as a full time staff. Coincidentally, he, alongside a colleague was sent to Kenya to do his New Staff Training, and once again Bill was his direct coach and trainer.

It turns out that Nancy also got to join fulltime staff with Life Ministry Kenya and in 2013 got married to Bill. Nancy and Melusi got to share this New Staff Training Class.

Today, Bill and Nancy are married, and have been blessed with a beautiful daughter, Savannah Naledi.

Melusi is part of the leadership team of Campus Crusade for Christ in Swaziland as the Director of Student Ministries. Additionally, he sits in the Southern and Eastern Africa’s Student ministries leadership team. The team oversees student ministries across the 24 countries of Southern and Eastern Africa. Bill is also a member of this team.

Melusi has the direct charge of coaching the nations of Lesotho and Madagascar as they seek to grow their student ministries teams.

“This is one of the best illustrations for me of our corporate commitment to make multiplying Disciples who impact their countries and beyond,” notes Bill.

Bill and Nancy are now the team Leader’s of the Student-Led Movements, the department at Life Ministry that focuses on reaching out to students in High Schools and Universities. They are trusting God for more ‘Melusi’ type of students who can impact their Campuses and beyond with the Changeless message of the Gospel in these Changing times.

The Goal of the department is to raise 40,000 such students by the year 2020.

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Passion amongst the Students

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Student Led Ministry (SLM)

In SLM, we are committed to winning urgently students for Christ, discipling them deeply and sending them urgently to do the same to others. In line with the DEEP LIFE strategy, everyone disciples 5 in SLM.

WINNING URGENTLY;

Across our different strategies, our teams have been involved in aggressive evangelism, focusing on the approximately 80,000 freshmen who were admitted in the different Universities nation-wide. One of the highlights of the season has been the use of technology to reach out.

BUILDING DEEPLY

Fatuma Muinde, a Life Ministry Kenya staff met Agnes Mutethya ( a second year Law student at the University of Nairobi) in church.

Upon engaging her, Fatuma realized she eagerly yearned to grow in Christ. She saw leadership potential in her and encouraged, mentored and involved her in high school ministry. During her long holidays last year, she volunteered to work at Life Ministry and underwent MC2 with staff. This helped her understand movement building.

This year she ran a discipleship initiative of 25 on her own. She has been endeavoring to build a spiritual movement among law students at her University.

MEET RODGERS

Rodgers is a student at USIU. He shared with me his testimony. He has been a drug addict ,last year April he went to rehab and was on medication for 6 months.After rehab he gave his life to Jesus but after a short while he went back to drugs ,due to peer pressure, even more than he was before .But even while doing drugs he continued to read his Bible and this year in April in the confine of his room he prayed for forgiveness. After this he became radical he deleted all

his contacts,changed his number ,relocate from his off campus house to kasarani far from his former friends,he left all social media groups and now his phone book has only 5 key contacts.He stopped cheating in exams and he now seats in the front row. He resolved to spending most of his time reading the bible,praying, in fellowship with other believers and doing bible studies. He also reads a lot of christian books yesterday he had two in his bag.He is so on fire for Jesus, when we went to mobilize for pamoja a few weeks ago he is the one who was sharing and you couldn’t guess that he would be this young in salvation.God is at work in his life.

Ignite Profile

God Almighty is working within the LIFE Ministry Kenya! Here is a recent story of how God is moving within the LeaderImpact movement of the LIFE Ministry Kenya.

It is the story of Dr. Keith and Dr. Esther Dindi who have been actively involved in our Young Professional ministry that we call Ignite which is a part of the LeadersImpact. Both are medical doctors by Profession – Dr. Keith is aSurgeon and hair Doctor Specialist (Trichologist) and Dr. Esther a CEO at Doctor Fitness in Kenya. They have been married in the last 10 years and have always loved working amongst young people and have been very supportive in the work of the LIFE Ministry as a partner to many staff.

Both Keith and Esther pursued their undergraduate studies in General Medicine, before taking their Master’s degrees. Esther specialized in internal Medicine and Keith on General Surgery. They are now both consultants in these respective fields. Esther took further courses and is now also a fitness expert and runs a company called “Doctor Fitness”, while Keith took further courses in hair transplant and is now the first hair transplant surgeon in East and Central Africa.

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Robert Balusi (a staff member) met both of them at Moi University as Medical students and discipled them as well as help them disciple others, something they still actively do to date. Later they introduced Bill Dindi ( an SLM staff leader) to Robert Balusi and the LIFE Ministry Kenya.

The couple had a privilege of traveling with with some LIFE Ministry staff for a ministry trip to Bali-Indonesia on 4-7th August 2016 , an event that was truly life changing for them.

They heard the Lord clearly and felt greatly challenged by testimonies of business people giving their L.I.F.E towards the fulfillment of the Great Commission. They were very inspired by what they heard and saw, and during prayer, they heard the Call to get back to Kenya and engage with the LeaderImpact - Ignite vision of our Professional ministry.

LeaderImpact - Ignite vision of our Professional ministry. LeaderImpact Kenya exists to engage, equip and inspire current and emerging market place leaders who ignite, accelerate and multiply Christ-centered movements to transform communities, cities and beyond. This couple

looked at the L.I.F.E concept and saw an opportunity in each of those areas where they could engage fully within the ministry. A week after Bali event, Dr. Keith spoke in a breakfast meeting held at Biblica Guest house in August. meant to raise funds for the Young professionals movement and and challenging other “Friends of Ignite” to invest their L.I.F.E in the Great Commission.

Later they also spoke in another breakfast briefing meeting for IGNITE Indonesia event where several invited leaders listened to the experiences and exposures of the Bali event and engaged and envisioned them.

They started a program for engaging final year medical students, in a discipleship program with a focus on helping them start their professional life with a clear commitment to serve God with their L.I.F.E (Leadership, Influence, Finance and Expertice).

Esther and Keith have so far partnered with our Young professionals program run by the LIFE Ministry and rolled out the mentorship/Discipleship program at Kenya’s biggest medical school that is a part of University of Nairobi (UoN) and soon

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thereafter they got requests from four (4) other medical schools within a month. In this new initiative to disciple final year medical students and orient them to Life beyond medical school in partnership with our young professionals team. This program now is runs at University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University. In early October, they launched the program in the second medical school at Moi University Eldoret (4th biggest city). They are now planning to launch it in two other medical schools before the end of this year.

They plugged into the Young professionals forum, because they see it as a great avenue to influence the next

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generation of leaders, and they have been active as speakers and mentors in these forums, and they felt the Lord leading them to give sacrificially to the discipleship program.

They looked at the budget of the Ignite movement and decided to settle one quarter of the budget as part of their financial gift to ministry.

On 29th October, they launched the Young Professionals outreach and discipleship program for Young Doctors who are 5 years or below in clinical practice and so far they have more than 100 Doctors who have confirmed attendance.

They are excited about what the Lord is doing and the Ignite spark

is truly alive in their life, and it’s spreading to the people they are interacting with and influencing.

They have started a facility in their village community where they are reaching out to Students via a vision called “Dare to Dream”, where they get various professionals to inspire students to believe that whatever their dreams are, it’s possible for them to achieve it. They are looking forward to the Ignite vision taking root in Kenya and have committed themselves to be active members of Kenya’s History’s Handful and want to make their Live’s count for eternity. They are grateful to God for the ministry trip exposure to Bali.

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East Pokot Feature

Church Planting - East Pokot

Mission

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The East Pokot This is one of the best and challenging mission we ever attended.

Pokot is a diverse land. The natives there are not educated and grazing cattle and goats is their only source of livelihood. Majority of young girls at the age of 13 get married and most men at the age of 30 already have an average of 3 wives and 10 kids. It’s a big pride to have many wives, kids and animals. Women are more of property than beings. In pokot, civilization ended like 300 kms back in Baringo. No schools, hospitals, shops or any basic amenities. I saw the livelihood of the Pokot people and I was really touched. Some came from far away to come to the mission stations since they had an assurance of food.

By Gods grace we had a chance to carry missionary Medics and Vets. Women, children and the aged walked long distances to come for medicine. The men were so full of joy to have their animals treated. This gave us a chance to share the love of Christ to them as we inter- acted with them. A major hindrance was the language barrier since even the interpreters had only the basic education and could not understand or communicate fluently Besides the medical and Vet camps, we had other amazing programs like vocational bible school for kids, Jesus lm shows, prize giving for school kids, a camp for all the high school from the region, Peace meetings with the elders and Morans.

I had great joy seeing people vest is plentiful but the workgave clearly showed how God were now new beings. The old

receiving Christ. Surely the harers are few. The testimonies they had changed their lives and they had gone and the new had come.

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Church Planting - East Pokot

Mission

Gospel Conversations at the well:

Medical Camp

Majority of us having came from Nairobi, the only shower they know of is a hot shower. well, to our shock, water is gold in the region. One of the most Challenging things in Pokot being a dry land, is water. All across the vast land, you only encounter huge dry river beds. It only rains seasonally evidenced with lots of floods that in some seasons fatal. These floods dry o within a day since the soil there is sandy. Pokot people have no permanent settlement hence there are no dams or water catchments.

During these rainy seasons, the women get to the dry rivers and dig wells. After some time the water gather and they are able to get water for domestic use. Water in Pokot is the most priced product. Infact, we were told we can leave all our gadgets anywhere and we will find them, but if you lose sight of your water bottle for a minute, you will never find it.

Some NGO’s have dug a few bores in the region. Women and Children have to travel very long distances in search of this precious commodity. During these sessions of the Great search for the precious commodity, we used to have blessed opportunities to share the gospel with the locals. We had learnt the art of taking shower by the bush. As the locals found it so funny for us finding it funny to shower by the shrubs, we took those moments to build relation- ships and gospel conversations ensued.

Every time you meet a community’s felt needs, you reach their heart.

This was the strategy we had carrying on medics . The region has different dispensaries but all of them are not functional. Medicine was dumped there by time ago but it has not been helping the locals due to lack of medics. The place are just remote lacking the basic facilities like shops and transport and communication, and heightened insecurity at the same time. This has pushed o the medics and or any investor to have any development programs there.

We thank God for the many people that we reached them through the camps we had every day.

The Miracle Baby One day as the Medical camps were going on, a man came running crying for help. We realized that they had walked for over 8 kms through the bush with his wife who was due. It was such an incredible scene to behold. Immediately, we organized a makeshift delivery room in one of the class rooms. With the Help of Dr Mercy, the child was delivered and we named her Mercy after the doctor . This is truly touching lives

East Pokot Mission - Bridgers’ Testimonies About Bridge Bridge is LIFE Ministry’s Ex-High Schoolers program. Bridge is a program designed to help those leaving high school get ready to deal with life in university/college and beyond by helping them understand beforehand the opportunities and challenges it o ers and how they can make decision that help them in laying a rm foundation for a successful life in college

Youth Camp My name is Sheryl Bett. I just accomplished the Bridge Mentoring program ( A discipleship program for ex candidates) by LIFE Ministry Through AGC church in Kericho.

The East Pokot mission was huge and it involved different strategies such as Medical and vet camps, peace meetings, Open Barazaz, Youth camps amongst others. I was part of the team that was doing the youth camp. It was the best experience anyone could ever get in a lifetime. on arrival on the 23 of April we slept at Ngoron high school for the night. The next day, we got divided into groups after being joined by some of the local student. Some of them got into the truck and into the bus. The ones in the truck went to the dispensary to help out, they

and the rest of their living. The program applies Biblical principles.

Expected Outcome

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Students joining campus having known their identity in Christ, identi ed their core values and living by them.

2. Ex-Bridgers will make the most out of their college experience as they will be e ectively prepared for their next great adventure using the internationally took a nature walk and they were taught about Archery. They happened to see some of the locals going to the river beds and digging for waster. Top the most of the Bridge students this was such a strange sight since they always thought that the water has to come through the taps, but to the locals, this was their livelihood. The other group went to Kolerach (A small market regarded as the administrative center) for an open air crusade. The experience was amazing to see the locals join us and attentively listen to the gospel and respond to the call. We later enjoyed the Jesus Film at night and we had a good time talking to the new converts though the language barrier was such an impediment.

After getting familiar with the environment and the harsh climatic conditions, the missionaries especially the bridge students, started making friends around with the local students asking about their schools, their walk with Christ , their families and even their lives at large. The local students were receptive and very welcoming.

Within no time, they were speaking and interacting like they had known each other for a while.

The locals were grouped into small

Church / Students recog- nized ‘College Ready’ series.

3. Equipped youth with competencies and necessary skills e.g. networking, relational skills and con ict resolution that will enable them to navigate life.

4. Young adults who are personal leaders and stewards of personal resources e.g. time and relationships.

5. Students who are value-centered leaders and understand, appreciate, participate and cooperate with authority. groups to train them and mentor them on the basics of salvation and their Christian walk. These program was mainly meant to help them grow both mental- ly and spiritually. This was also a leadership development strategy to the locals and even the Bridge students. They went through the program every morning. It was supposed to end on Friday but we had to nish on Thursday because the local students had to leave to go back and help their parents and prepare to return to their schools which are miles away.

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Ol kalou

In the 13 years since it began, the achievements and transformations that have taken place in Olkalao stand as a praise report of what The Lord has done.

Lives have been changed and empowered to the glory of God. The pastors, leaders and members have been very selfless in their giving in serving God. In conclusion, Pastor Louis, a great leader in his own right, states that the members of the church in Olkalao can be likened to the church in Macedonia that gave until it was more than enough. Though the journey has not been without its challenges, more so in that it has not been able to offer much to the Life Ministry office seeing as leadership positions in their local churches are extended to their trained members; the leaders of Life Ministry nevertheless soldier on in raising funds to continue the training intiative both within and without, extending their efforts to the Laikipia and Nakuru counties.

Church Multiplication in Ol kalou

Church COMMUNITY OF MULTIPLYING DISCIPLES CONCEPT EMBRACED IN UMOJA DELIVERANCE CHURCH.

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“Then Jesus came to them and said, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”. Matthew 28:18 In line with the Vision of Life Ministry; WIN BUILD AND SEND, through the Global Church Movement, there has been praise reports from various churches

that it has partnered with in its endeavor to fulfill the Great commission in the New Life Trainings. And one such church is the Deliverance Church Umoja whose report was outstanding as seen in the chain tree chart indicated… the church adopted the concept which has bore encouraging results influencing others to multiple generations of a spiritual multiplier.

2 Timothy 2: 2 NIV “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others”.

As Life Ministry it’s a great blessing to have the churches replicate CMD Model approach as many others are sent to the harvest.

Leah Wamuyu

Lydiah Chepkemoi

Lilian Achieng

Gilbert Rotich

Lorna Awuor Cosmas

Carol Adhiambo Muthoni Malimali Pamela Wamalwa Juliet Wanjiru Jerusa Mbaya Nick

Janeth Cheroitich Faith Ngozi Belvin Khayasi Lilian Machini Nercy Cherono Betsy Awiti Naomi Cheroitich

Robert Helen Rose Ken Josephine Magdaline Simon Kiarie Leah

Ibrahim Elijah muigai Peter karanja Keneth Angel mwamba

Magdaline Cheptoo Evelyne Atieno Lesly Chelangai Evelyne Atieno Jackline Akoth Janet Mutheu Clinton Omondi Liz Ogutu Ema Odongo Elizabeth Mwende

Carol Adhiambo Muthoni Malimali Jerusa Mbaya

Janeth Cheroitich Faith Ngozi Belvin Khayasi Lilian Machini

Robert Magdaline Simon Kiarie Leah

Angel mwamba

Evelyne Atieno Ema Odongo

Helen Rose Ken Josephine

Ibrahim Elijah muigai Peter karanja

Clinton Omondi Janet Mutheu Jackline Akoth Elizabeth Mwende

Pamela Wamalwa Juliet Wanjiru(Job Place)

Prayer

The Purpose of Prayer Although His day was filled from morning to night with many pressures and responsibilities -addressing crowds, healing the sick, granting private interviews, traveling, and training His disciples -- He made prayer a top priority. If Jesus was so dependent upon His fellowship in prayer alone with His Father, how much more you and I should spend time alone with God.

The lives of the disciples and other Christians who have been mightily used of God through the centuries to reach their world for Christ all testify to the necessity of prayer. They are examples of obedience to our Lord's command to pray.

Someone has wisely said, "Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks our wisdom, but trembles when he sees the weakest saint on his knees." Prayer is God's appointed way of doing God's work.

This lesson will help you understand why prayer is so important to our Christian life. Study the lesson carefully, taking time to meditate and apply the principles you will learn.

Why Pray?

Read John 14:13, I Thessalonians 5:17, Acts 4:23-33, and Matthew 9:38.

1. Identify at least 3 reasons for prayer.

The Apostle's Motive Read Acts 4.

1. What problems did the Apostles face and why did they not ask God to remove the persecution?

2. For what did they pray? (Verse 29) Why is this significant?

3. What was their real motive? (John 14:13)

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Your Motives for Praying On the basis of your personal experience, list at least 4 reasons you pray.

God's Motives in Teaching Us About Prayer Read John 3:5-8 and 4:23-24.

1. In what form does God exist and what must happen to us before we can have fellowship with Him? What kind of worship does He desire, and what is His delight? (Proverbs 15:8) 2. List some purposes of prayer from each of the following Bible references: Matthew 7:7 , Matthew 26:41, Luke 18:1.

3. From your understanding of these passages, what do you think God wants you to realize about Him?

Prayer Meets the Heart's Needs 1. According to 2 Corinthians 3:5, what is the source of the Christian's sufficiency? How do you tap into that source?

2. Read Psalm 63. Note the elements of worship and write below the word or phrase that describes how we should worship God; include references (for example, "My soul thirsts for you ‐ Psalm 63:1").

Life Application 1. What conclusions can you now make concerning your relationship with God in prayer?

2. Begin a prayer list. Keep a record of the things for which you pray.

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Food Distribution - Kibwezi

Kibwezi Food Distribution

Background

Kibwezi is a town in Makueni County and is located 194 kilometres from the Kenyan capital that is N airobi. It is found in the Mikuyuni sub-location of Kikumbulyu, in the Kibwezi Division of Makueni District, Eastern Province.

The town is also the headquarters of Kibwezi Division which is one of the 15 administrative divisions in Makueni County, and is estimated to have a population 80,236 of whom 4,695 people are classified as urban dwellers. The predominant religion in the area is Christianity with the Catholic Church and AIC holding sway.

Despite their strategic importance within the geographical location, Kibwezi town and its surrounding villages have not realized strong self-sufficiency systems to sustain their own development. Because of this, strong opposing ideological and cultural forces have built up to the point of starving the region into non-development. By way of combating this, government agencies and professional development organizations have in turn worked to alter Kibwezi’s already strained and tenuous social geography by testing development theories that have overall proven to be inadequately suited to the needs of

the local community.

On top of this, famine experienced over the past years have become a cyclical problem througout Makueni District, partly because little has been done to improve water harvesting in the chronically dry region, let alone to develop improved and sustainable use of the area’s rivers. This has let the people to depending more on relief food as rain is infrequent, sometimes delaying for as much as five years. As rivers dry up, the trek to a source of water can stretch to something between 5 and 7 kilometres.

Into this arena, Life Ministry Kenya in partnership with GAIN, saw the need to take the gospel to Kibwezi so as to bless a number of needy

families that were living in abject poverty. The

mission turned out to be a success as we brought needed to relief by addressing their physical needs while also catering to their spiritual hunger. Bringing a gleam of hope to the faces of the residents, below is a documentation of the problems we faced along with the solutions that addressed them, plus a narrative of some of the encounters experienced by the group.

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Intial challenges The Kibwezi Mission took place between 15th and 20th of November, 2016 with a team of 18 men and 4 ladies for a total of 22 missionaries.

The journey was rocked with challenges from the beginning, but we saw it through thanks to the protection of the Lord our God. On our day of departure we left Nairobi at 3:00pm, having had to stop along the way to buy foodstuff for the mission. The journey was long and scary as it rained heavily along the way. Adding to the worry were the heavy trucks carrying cargo along Mombasa Road, something that the average motorist worries about on a normal day. With consistent prayer and deep faith, we made it through. However just before reaching the destination at around midnight of the same day, one of our cars got stuck in the mud. It was both frightening and amazing because the area we were visiting had not seen rain for a year, but with our arrival it seemed to now be raining on a daily basis. Thankfully with the combined effort of the men we were able to get the car out of the mud after 30 minutes of steering and pushing.

Soon after that we finally arrived at the home of

Hope made alive One of our door to door activities took place in a small village known as Kevada, which is famously associated with being a witchcraft stronghold.

The reception we received from the villagers was very cold. As we approached the area from the dusty terrain with the other missionaries, you could sense the unusual quietness, especially considering that kids were on holiday. There was little appearance of life save for a few kids raising an alarm because of the new visitors driving into their village. However, there were some villagers who failed to be impressed by a mere vehicle; they went on their business in the shamba, business as usual.

In our quest to identify a desperate case, we were directed to one home by one of the locals accompanying us by the name Josephine, She gave us a brief history of the lady we were to visit whom we found in the shopping centre searching something for her 2 year old baby, the needy lady went by the name Muthoki, upon meeting her, you could just read it on her face she has been living a life of struggle, her face was sunken, bones protruded from every part of her body, she wore a loose hanging dress that depicted of her situation. Arriving to her small single house built for her by neighbours, made of bricks, gathered around her were 7 small children varying between the ages of 2 to those in teenage hood.

Out of curiosity our team asked concerning the father to the children, the neighbour Josephine who had directed us, shared that the children are of different men and she doesn’t have a husband but men take advantage of her situation and illiteracy, sleep with her and leave her some small amount of money for the day to feed her children as she has no source of income. We entered

Bishop Mbithi,a friend to the ministry. We were received warmly and had a late supper. After a prayer of thanksgiving we all moved to our respective places of residence: ladies in the bishop’s house, and men at Peter Muli’s place one of the staff member of Life Ministry.

On the mission grounds the next day we came to learn that our first bit of opposition arose from the notion held by a few people that we were ‘the illuminati’ come on a mission to blind them. It was said by the villagers and the local pastor that

a recent group of similar do-gooders had visited the area under the guise of wanting to introduce to residents a quick way of acquiring wealth.

However with the help of 21 locals from the village together with the host pastor Maingi of New Life Restoration Centre, we were gradually able to bypass the skeptics and ably identify the families that were in urgent need of food and supplies. The food was thus distributed accordingly through the centres in Kyanginywa, Kevanda, Masaku Ndogo ,Salama, and Kasemeini.

The mission was also met with strong resistance in some cases such as with our first respondent who was an elderly lady in her late 70s. She refused to give us audience and defensively insisther house which speaks volume of the severity of poverty in her family, the room is dusty, meaning the surface is the soil, no seats only two make shifts of wooden beds not exactly how a normal bed looks like with no mattress save a few tattered pieces of cloths and blankets, the condition was so sad that it grieved our hearts, with situations like that leave you speechless having not achieved as much as you would want to offer and that leaves us with a burden to consider doing much more. Muthoki’s 2 year old son clutches on to his mother eating on a snack that seems to be the only meal for him for the day not knowing what awaits later. We gave Muthoki a box full of rice meal provided by GAIN, with a bag of beans. It was joy unspeakable for her as she fum-

ed that she was already born again. One of the missioners Jane asked to make a prayer for her or other needs she may have been having, but all that fell on deaf ears she denied us the opportunity and finally we had to leave her compound.

The local missionary accompanying us gave us a brief history of the area, that the first missionaries to come there were the Catholics thus the religion has bound and deceived many as even small kids were unwilling to listen to us. On the other hand, teenagers appeared to be more receptive to receiving our gospel. Most of the homes we went to bluntly resisted us, especially if they were elderly women. One went so far as to say in Swahili “Huku hatutaki maombi” translated to “Here we don’t need prayers”.

Another considerable challenge came with the language barrier. The Kibwezi native language is Kamba and the literacy level of the community is very low. However once more with the help of kind locals,helping in interpretation, the problem was bypassed and communication on a deep level was achieved.

bled the words, “Ahsanteni sana na Mungu awabariki”, which translated is, “Thank you so much and God bless you”). We thanked God as hope and brightness lit the face of Muthoki.

When asked about her faith, she said she believes in God, and we preached the gospel of salvation as the local pastor Maingi encouraged her to take her kids to Sunday school as she attends service too. For the gesture of food supply given to her she said she will commit herself to attend church service, we agreed that the Pastor on the ground will be following up with her family and see how she can be assisted more. We bless God for the support for the donation of food given to us to bring and spread the love of God through word and deeds.

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The Runaway This was the pain of one young girl in her teenage years, Faith Mwikali is her name. We got to meet her in one of the days we went for door to door ministry. She was in the company of a neighbour who didn’t give us his attention but left upon our arrival. The neighbour was an elder man in his 40s, he was busy mending his bicycle which seemed to be very precious to him. The girl gave us audience despite her condition, being physically challenged, as she was on a wheel chair, basking under the sun.

We got to learn that she was born with that condition; the mother died some years back, 7 years, when still at a tender age, and now she lived with her dad and sister who is younger than her. The amazing thing she was eloquent, as she had studied up to standard 8 2years ago but she couldn’t be able to proceed due to lack of finances though she still has a dream to continue her studies in high school.

Her sister had just completed her KCPE with the hopes that she would be able to secure a spot in a high school as their father had no permanent job but tried out on casual labour in different places.

Upon sharing the 4 spiritual laws, Faith accepted Christ as her personal saviour, and we made a prayer for her as we trusted and had faith God will heal and change her situation, we promised to visit her the following day as we did the food distribution.

Food Distribution - Kibwezi

The following day being on Saturday after we had our morning devotion and breakfast, we set out with our team of four that was specifically assigned for the food distribution, in the company of the local pastor to visit Faiths home first, but to our surprise we met her on the road, as our car stopped we called her but she could not even turn back, pushing herself on the wheelchair speedily which startled us, finding it very strange...our Faith ran away from us but we couldn’t comprehend why she acted that way as previously we had communicated very well without her resisting. As we stood beside the road trying to figure out why one can do that, the Pastor explained to us that the people in that area of Kevanda remains to be a witchcraft stronghold and they believe that people who comes with cars are devils from the illuminati, it was such a paradox as the notion witches are not satanic. The weirdest of it is that there were people mashetani (devils), farming in their shambas but they took not even the slightest notice of us because of the notion devil worshippers have come, thus they would rather stay in their poverty than receive help, as they would close up their homes and when we begin moving out, you see people coming out of their homes, very strange! The whole area their souls, mind have been captured and bound by their belief system which is a piety.

Before we left that vicinity we made a prayer that

we would not be resisted as we may touch the lives of these people. As we veered through the dusty road to the northern part of the Kevanda village, to another needy home where one of our team members had located, we saw the young girl Faith fading of to another house and in my heart i was determined to reach out to her, as the rest of the team members agreed. As we were waiting for the other beneficiary of the foodstuff as we didn’t find him in the house but met the wife who wasn’t very good to us, when we explained we want to bless the family with food, she said they don’t need and brushed us off, the same incident of the notion, we are devil worshippers, good enough she sent some kids to go call the husband.

In that instance we headed to the house where Faith had entered, we found her outside in the company of the owner of the home who was very welcoming, with a number of young kids in the compound. We exchanged greetings and told the man whose name is Musyoki the reason why we were there, reaching out for Faith, he opened up to tell us that she told him the whole story why she was running away from us, that she couldn’t receive the food since her father was not in neither her sister. Musyoki, who seemed to be well to do, as he mentioned to us that Faith’s father had bought some sukuma wiki (kale) from them, which we found her cutting.

Musyoki was open minded, he gave us an incident of other missioners from our team who had passed

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Global Aid Network GAIN is a worldwide humanitarian relief and develby his house the previous day, they had goodies like biscuits from the kids, interestingly one of his friends who was with them asked the kids to throw the biscuits away but him he told his kids to eat for he is not afraid, knew we weren’t devil worshippers as presumed by the other locals.

Thus he accepted the food we had for the family of Faith, he told us they were truly needy and the foods will be a great blessing for them. We asked if Faiths father will cause trouble, he told us, he’s a friend to him, and Faith was no longer afraid and she gladly received the food, a box of rice meal.

Gave them the directions on how to cook and we prayed together. We thanked God for the victory He gave us.

Our other friend whom we were waiting for, the mzee finally came, we had first thought he had changed his mind too as it had been mentioned to him by the person who was Maina that he would come to bless him with food. This man was jovial, he took us to his house, which seemed impassable when heavy rains pour, but still managed to get through, unlike his wife who had ignored us, this man in his early 60s had small kids in his house, John appreciated us with his face lighting with a smile of the box of rice and beans, he later became very helpful as he volunteered to take us round the village identifying the desperate needy homes that needed help. It was a great blessing, as the exercise was very successful.

opment organization dedicated to bringing hope and tangible help to the poor and the suffering.

It’s mission is to demonstrate the love of God, in word and deed, to hurting and needy people around the world through relief and development projects.

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Food Distribution - Kibwezi

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Joy unspeakable for Granny In the sparsely region of Kasiemeni village, in the quietness of the home with no close neighbours lay a house that seemed deserted, but as we veered through the home, sat an old grandma, with the company of three little boys almost age mates between 5 and 6 years, and a youthful man besides.

They were all warming themselves in the fireplace after the heavy downpour of rain which was a great miracle in the whole of that area as it hadn’t rained the whole of the year 2016, so that was really something to be thankful to God for. The small family was sharing late lunch which was a mixture of boiled maize and beans; the little boys seemed to

have been enjoying themselves and nothing could stop them even in the presence of visitors.

One could only tell they must have not had anything in days.

Pastor Maingi the local pastor of the area had identified the lady as one who was helpless in the context that she had no one to care for her, she had been left with 3 little boys who are orphans to care for, at her age approximately from 80 years, she didn’t have the ability to even fetch water, the boys are the ones assisting her to do so, bearing that they had too go afar off in search of the water a km away. It was such a joy for her when she saw us off load the 2 cartons of rice to her, she rejoiced and expressed her gratitude knowing that for the next few weeks or month she wont worry where the next meal will come from, the burden it carries on her shoulder of the 3 little boys who are under her care. The young man who is her son built her the house, as the one she was living in just next had fallen off the bricks and the thatched roof had fallen of on one side.

We got to learn the son gets manual work which he contributes to their survival.

We got to share the love of Christ with her and the Pastor encouraged her to attend church so that the kids could also grow in Sunday school. We prayed with the family, as we left, the grandmother expressed her joy and gratitude that God had remembered her.

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”

James 1:27New International Version (NIV) Restored hope The last home we visited was in Kyangiywa village, it was a family of 10 children who were orphaned but they lived in different places. As the Pastor shared with us, he knew the family as they came to church just a few. The time he arrived in that village to settle, he found them with no parents that they had passed away in strange circumstances. The elder brother whose name is Mutisya, is not of help at all as he’s bound to alcohol, any money he gets he spends it on local brew to the state that he doesn’t recognise himself, having a wife and 3 small kids, the wife is the one who bears the burden of raising and feeding the family. The young man who is a brother to Mutisya is much sober, 14 years old just completed his primary education his name is James Musyoka, he tells us his family comprise of 6 girls, 4 boys. He has his separate house away from his brother. We handed him the box of rice as he stays alone, and relies help from his other siblings who have already moved out.

It was a joy for him, appreciated as

the Pastor encouraged him to attend church, we prayed together with the family.

We were able to Reach 10 homes in total distributing the rice meal boxes and beans. We also blessed 3 local individuals with 3 bags of rice meal each as they had helped us to reach out to the neediest families. On the same note the distribution of food was done as people went to the door to door meetings and crusades, though the reception was the same, the villagers thinking that we are illuminate, we got to learn that a group of people had come into their villages, assuring them they will show them how to get wealthy quickly, thus the word spread from far and wide. In one case a lady received the rice meal in the crusade, the husband was near, he got very angry commanded her to return back the food but it was unfortunate that the lady was in need but because of the husbands threat she returned. One of the pastors, Pastor Fred Abok, spoke to them.

In conclusion, the challenges we faced were the resistance we found among the people and bad attitude irrespective of the help that was being extended to them to a point where the other locals were saying among themselves if it were them received, that was the irony of the whole scenario, in the situation whereby its between a spouse, the wife needs help but the husband is against it due to the toxic belief that has blindened the minds of many, with the notion that devilish people were in the village. We pray that God will change the mindset of the people.

We thank God that the whole exercise was very successful, with the assistance of the three local people, who are known to them helped the team achieve good reception in other different parts in the village. It was put in mind that, incase of another exercise of food distribution, there shall be involvement of the local chief area and publicizing of the distribution so as to have the cooperation of the people in the locality.

We appreciate the support received form Gain, as we were able to touch the lives of many in word and deed, all to the Glory of God.

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.�Matthew 28:16-20 (NIV)

And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.

2 Timothy 2:2 (NIV)

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