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Kenya Missions UpdateSeptember 2, 2007Greetings and Blessings in the Name of Jesus! First of all, thank you for your prayers. Our Lord has met all of our needs according to the Richness of His Glory! Also, the annual meeting was very successful. We had our biggest turnout in years, we were 68 in total. The topic was on ‘giving’. We
continue to pray that people will practice what they were taught! From 29th Aug. until today we have had 22 young men at Saroiyot. Eight of them rode their bikes about 20 miles to attend the meeting! They are working in the mornings digging trench around the 1 ˝ acres that the Church of Christ owns and planting kiapples as a living hedge. In the afternoons and evening, we are teaching them spiritually. I personally am having them help me to name and birth a newsletter for youth in our area. The first issue will go out next week to 102 churches that receive my newsletter. The newsletter will be called, “The Youth Challenge Newsletter“. Joshua will be the person whom we talk about in the first newsletter. Joshua was mentored under Moses for 40 years before he lead the nation of Israel. These young people also are preparing to lead one day. This article was taken from The Sunday Nation Newspaper on Aug. 19, 2007 Being a road user in Kenya is statistically more dangerous than being a soldier in Iraq. If you scooped up all the blood spilt on Kenya’s roads in one year, it would fill a 40,000 litre petrol tanker. That is 12,000 people injured, 6,000 maimed and 2500 dead. About the same as if a jumbo jet crash-landed a Jomo Kenyatta International Airport once a week. Every week! Industrialized countries have more than 20 million vehicles. We have just over half-a-million. The toll puts the average Kenyan road user on a risk level roughly equivalent to living in a war zone. In a more civilian context, Kenyan motorist are statistically at something around 50 times greater risk than their counterparts in countries with “good” road safety records. KIRSTEN AND RUTH KORNER Back to school tomorrow. They have had a good holiday. Playing was the major activity of the month off. OH, how hard it will be tomorrow to get up at 6 AM and go to school! Prayer Requests 1. Future students to attend the Nairobi Great Commission School Extension Program to start at Saroiyot. The last day for interviews is 7th Sept. and the first two classes will be from 17th – 28th September. Sammy Kibet and I will teach these first two classes on ‘Back to the Bible’ and ‘How to Study the Bible’. And pray for provision from the Lord so that we might be able to put electricity at the facility. Sosten Kering is the principal of the NGCS Ext. Program. He wrote up the philosophy of the our school. Here is what he wrote: The Saroiyot Christian Training Centre – Nairobi Great Commission School Extension Program is a theological institution offering advanced certificate in Bible and Missions. It is a vibrant program intended to equip local church leaders both men and women who are willing to serve God in church ministry. It is true what the Bible says, “The field is ripe unto harvest but the harvesters are
few”. Therefore, there is a great need to train and nurture church leaders for ministry. The Bible is a collection of 66 different books written by different authors with lots of uniqueness, so for one to become an effective leader they need to be trained to know how to use this book more correctly and accurately. For this reason, we believe that our goal is to produce graduates in school with effective Bible knowledge and Christian changed lives. The kind of life which will be pleasing to God and man. In order to accomplish our vision of this project, internships and field experience will take place while the student is in school. Also the personnel of this school shall be making follow-ups year after year of its students after they graduate. The school should have clear understanding and knowledge of what one is doing in his/her local church after completion. The graduates of SCTC – NGCS Ex. Program shall be able to demonstrate their Christian changed life in their local churches as well as in their entire communities as living examples. Our prayers are to see SCTC – NGCS Ex. Program being an institution producing the next generation of servant leaders of God in the future. 2. Pray with us for the seeds that we sent with Gene to Turkana, that they will make a difference in the lives of the Turkana peoples. 3. The word is out in Turkana. As follow-up to the last newsletter. Gene told Bob Clark about the seeds that
I gave him for trying in Turkana. Yesterday we also gave seeds and info to Bob who is a Baptist missionary in Turkana. He has a Christian who loves to farm and lives next to a school. The school purchases their vegetables from him, so he is looking to improve his income and as a results, the students at the boarding school will get a better diet. 4. I heard from the TV, that something like 1.5 million
Christians are persecuted each year. 160,000 will die each year for Christ. That is 438 per day or 18 per hour (i.e. a person about every three minutes.) Pray for those who live in especially North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Russia where the most cases occur. Ministry Health – Report from Epke Church of Christ. This church has undergone some trying times in the recent past. They live on the slope of the escarpment. If you don’t know what that means, if you are on the top and look down (about a mile below) you will see the Rift Valley floor below. Epke is about half way down the slope. With the rains earlier in the year being too much, a land slide came and brought mud and stones which displaced 200 families for a period of time. Granaries and food were lost as well as the food in the fields. They are still in need of maize for eating. Here is their letter; I believe with Christ they have the hope of a better future. “In the side of prosperity, God has done a lot in our ministry at the moment. W are 80 members 16 among this are new converts. Every Friday we have rotational home fellowship and this has contributed a lot to church growth. Since we emphasize evangelism in our church we have a plan to revive Kapkoi church. In the side of evangelism we have the minister who serves as part time due to insufficient funds from church member’s commitment and we pray God to open doors of assistance. In the side of the project, we have completed constructing the nursery we plan to open and enroll kids as from early next year. The aim of this project is to equip the child spiritually and academically, also to have funds to meet some evangelism requirement. Lastly we have the vision to have a computer room in the near future for we are planning to apply for electricity for we have been blessed in the area to have the electricity; we are only looking for funds.” God bless you, Yours faithfully The Church Elders In Service to Christ, Keith & Grace Gafner Eldoret, Kenya
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