In October, I (Joshua) spent about two weeks with our teammates in Turkana land. I taught two courses at Turkana Bible Training Institute (TBTI) in Lodwar and was able to get out in the bush a few times. I’ve finally been able to post some new albums to our photo album page: my TBTI classes, [...]
equipping churches, teachers, and church leaders … our strategy … what’s going well? If you’re interested, Read our November 2011 “ministry summary” (pdf file)
some encouragement: One of our co-workers is Ellen Ombati, a missionary with NMSI. She and Ruth are collaborating on a new story-based children’s curriculum and have previously worked together with sunday school teacher’s training. Ellen also works with some of the mamas at Nasha’s Creations. Here’s an excerpt from an email Ellen sent us recently: [...]
A highlight from teaching Church History to Turkana church leaders in Northwest Kenya: at the end of the course two of the students told me, “now I can see that the Church is not a wazungu (foreign white people) religion. It has been in Africa since its beginning and has deep roots in African soil.” [...]
It looks like the team for the translation/adaptation of the “Enkinosta Ororei Le Nkai” lessons into kiSwahili is coming into place! This will allow these lessons to be used in our town and mixed-tribal congregations. (See our Ministries page for more information about this curriculum.)
The sunday school teacher’s training on October 1st went well. Go to our photo albums page for the link to some pictures. Yesterday I was able to lead a teachers’ training session for the teachers of the Narok Community Christian Church. They want to implement the “Eating the Word of God” lessons. The time went [...]
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. (Romans 10.17, NIV) If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me. (1 Corinthians 14.11, [...]
A new house, curriculum development, training sunday school teachers for the Maasai churches, a special visitor from America … click here to view a PDF of our latest newsletter. We’ve posted some new pictures of the Maasai Women’s Ministry on our photo album page. Have you ever wondered just where we live? Take a bird’s [...]
“The worst drought in East Africa in 60 years …” Back in 1979, Jan Voshaar observed that due to the forced redistribution of land in the early 1900s “in some dry areas there is no longer question of any grazing system. If the weather is good, there is grazing, if not, there is drought and [...]
For our pray-ers: a pdf copy of our April prayer update is available here.
