Our trip, which was to prove a very exciting and fruitful
mission, began with a very warm welcome from Nicholas’
parents Professor Wasunna and Marigold, and a truly
excellent breakfast. We had a few hours rest before heading
off to Entebbe.
ENTEBBE
Flights worked well and we had 3½ hours. This enabled both
Bryan and me to speak to about 150 leaders and some church
members. We were very well received, and it was good to see
representatives from Kampala, Biseruka and Bushinee. We
achieved 5 objectives:
We preached the Word and supported the churches.
It was good to publicly establish Peter Kasozi as the Living
Hope Co-ordinator for Uganda.
We were able to get a foothold into Entebbe, which is the
airport city.
We were able to prepare the way for the for the November
conferences in Uganda.
We were able to pass on many gifts, letters and radio
programmes made in the UK for Top Radio and TV programmes
for Lighthouse. This saved a lot of money and guaranteed
delivery. PRAISE THE LORD!
RWANDA
We were welcomed and settled into a guest house, which
proved to be a good base for us as a team. It was a little
far from the conference but adequate and homely.
SEMINAR
The two days of seminar went well, and we saw 41 different
churches attend, which amounted to 100+ people. Pastors were
very appreciative of the teaching. Rwanda is still very much
recovering from the genocide, and the whole atmosphere in
the church needs a lot of prayer. Economically things are
very hard and one wonders how they will manage after the
initial waves of aid subside.
LUNCH TIME MEETING
The church was full, and it was a great joy to see about 7
people saved and many responding for prayer. I felt a
particular sense of liberty in preaching, and it is a great
venue. I have made tentative suggestions about next year
using this as a base and having pastors’ meetings before and
after the lunch hour meeting.
SUNDAY MINISTRY
It proved to be a very fruitful day for new converts. Bryan
saw about 22 respond to the Lord and elsewhere 4 turned to
Christ. Nicholas and I travelled a long way near to the
Ugandan border and arrived at a large mud hut church with
about 100 people. These seemed quite new in their faith, but
it was good to teach foundational truths, see people saved
and also many respond for baptism. We moved on to another
church where people had waited some hours. They too hungrily
received the Word and as Bryan was back at Kigali it
released us to stay. The evening celebration was well
attended and so we prepared for the flight to Nairobi.
NAIROBI BIBLE SCHOOL
Pastor David Eaton had already arrived and commenced the
Bible School. It was very encouraging to see about 80+
leaders present and this continued during the week. This
project has been taken up well and it was particularly
pleasing to me to see how well it ran without me. When we
returned from Kisumu Friday, numbers remained high and the
morale was very good. We were able to give out a lot of
certificates for the previous work and it was great to see
how highly prized some of them found them to be. The Bible
School needs a lot of prayer as to how to develop it and
maintain a high standard.
NORTHERN KENYA HOSPITAL
We were pleased to offer some support for this project which
exists in a very needy area. It proved quite an adventure
for Professor Wasunna, Carole and Nicholas with accidents,
guns and operations but praise God they themselves were
safe! Watch out for the video, which Carole filmed and will
be first seen Tuesday May 29 at Lancing Tab 7.45pm.
KISUMU PASTORS
100+ leaders attended the teachings. Pastor James was very
supportive and he had organised well. A memorable session
was when we went through the book of Revelation and the 7
churches. I asked them to itemise strengths and weaknesses
in the Kenyan church. It was an honest time, and we trust to
see an application of truth in their lives. The big
challenge is to know how to respond to the several other
centres of Western Kenya as well as maintain what we are
doing.
KISUMU CRUSADE
In some ways this was the most amazing crusade I have ever
participated in. We saw 44 respond to a call for salvation
on the first night and the figure rose to a total of about
90 by the time we left. Reports of Moslems coming to Christ
were exciting. Five members of a cult who wanted to follow
the JESUS I had proclaimed received Him, and then turned up
to our humble venue at night to be taught some more. Also, a
local area leader came to express his gratitude that two
known thugs who harassed the area with guns had been seen
going forward at the crusade to give their lives to Christ.
James assured us that many were healed of various diseases,
but the most outstanding was a man virtually blind who now
claimed he could see! I remember him looking very happy.
PRAISE THE LORD! The gospel changes lives.
NAIROBI CRUSADES
The crusades in slum areas of Nairobi were very simple
open-air meetings, well arranged locally, at no cost to
Living Hope. It was very raw evangelism but we saw about 10
people give their lives to Christ. The first of those
evening was a very humbling experience as a lady came
forward and spontaneously knelt in the mud to invite Jesus
into her life. People were coming and going all the time in
these meetings, but the Lord was working, and we pray for
these dear people living in such harsh surroundings to be
kept by the power of God as they wait for his return.
TANZANIAN PASTORS
It was great to see 9 brothers from Tanzania join us for
Friday and Saturday. We had an excellent time and the
objective was well achieved of making good preparations for
the conference in September.
FAMILY TV KENYA
We were able to deliver more programmes, and I was invited
to be part of a Friday Night live TV show. I went alone, but
was thrilled to see Nicholas, Carole and Philip walk in just
before we began. The topic we were discussing was changed
without warning, but it was a joy to be asked about the
Second Coming of Jesus!
SUNDAY IN NAIROBI PENTECOSTAL CHURCH WEST
I was grateful to Nicholas for opening this door. It was a
very great joy to minister with Rev Frederick and Lydia
Kilonzo. The church is very well organised and Jesus who
sets us free was working in lives, liberating and expanding
visions.
So we return very tired, but happy to have seen the Lord’s
hand so often working. Dividing the team to multiply the
areas we serve was good, but time to communicate as a
complete team was not easy, and we can work on that. The
resources God’s people provided meant that all the bills
were paid, and it was good to distribute Bibles and many
tapes/ books/notes/studies. We paid for TV up to September
in Kenya, and provided many hundreds of lunches. All the
designated gifts were distributed.
Thank you for praying. Please be encouraged: JESUS IS THE
SAME YESTERDAY TODAY AND FOREVER. We thank God for keeping
our families safe while away and it is good to be home.
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