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.” [...]
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 [...]
For our pray-ers: a pdf copy of our April prayer update is available here.
For those of you who are not on our snail mailing list … click here to view a PDF of our March 2011 newsletter.
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 [...]
January begins our work as curriculum development coordinators … For our pray-ers: click here to download a PDF of our January 2011 prayer update.
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 [...]
