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.
I (Joshua) had a wonderful opportunity to teach a few weeks ago (28 January – 1 February). Twenty-one pastors and elders from our churches came to our training centre at Ewaso Ng’iro. They represented 19 different communities and eight different geographical regions. I taught the Enkinosata Ororei Le Nkai curriculum that we finished just before [...]
In 2010, the number of CCC churches in Kenya grew from 135 to 163! (CCC is “Community Christian Church”, the name of the fellowship of congregations planted by CMF … including the daughter, grand-daughter, and great-grand-daughter churches. Currently, the CCC church planting movement is expanding among the Maasai, the Turkana, and the Samburu peoples. Note: [...]
January begins our work as curriculum development coordinators … For our pray-ers: click here to download a PDF of our January 2011 prayer update.
Our friend and co-worker, Jackson Meing’ati, came over today to drink shaai (tea with milk and sugar, or honey, in this case) and “chew the news.” Zerachiah, who hadn’t met him yet, quickly made friends! We discussed the implementation of the Enkinosata Ororei Le Nkai curriculum in the Maasai churches. He also told me that [...]
At church today we had seven baptisms. While the new beginning and new birth of baptism is always exciting, this baptismal service was particularly special, for two reasons. First of all, there were four different tribal groups represented: Maasai, Kikuyu, Luyha, Kisii. What a wonderful foretaste of heaven! Just three years ago, Narok was on [...]
We’ve learned a new phrase in the Maa language. Parmang’at is an adjective that describes that state of in-between-ness experienced by those in transition. It means being neither here nor there, but being somewhere in between, or perhaps being mostly here but still a little bit there. When you have shifted your cows because of [...]
