This November we had a team from the USA. They joined the East Africa School of Theology (EAST) mission team plant a church in Turkana. The team was from Sheldon Full Gospel (Wisconsin) and First Assembly of God (Minot, North Dakota).
Kakuma, Kenya is a community of about 50,000 that is host to a refugee camp of about 100,000 people from Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Somalia.
The vision I have had for the mission team was brought to a new level on this trip. We desired to see a church planted/strengthened in a vibrant way. The goal is not just for a large number of souls to be saved, but for the church to be established.
One of the questions that typified this philosophy was the location of the crusade. If we held the crusade in the market center we knew more people would come, but not as many would become disciples and retained in the church. If we held the crusade at the new church plot about a kilometer away we may not have as big of a crowd, but more would likely return to the church after the crusade was over. We chose to have the crusade at the plot. We had prayed for 250 converts, the largest harvest our EAST mission had witnessed. When the week was over we saw 288 people come to the Lord. Of them, more than 180 came to church the Sunday after the crusade. Praise the Lord of the harvest!
Two that were saved that week were prostitutes. They both testified on Sunday morning of what God had done. The pastor called the Sunday after we left to report that one of the former prostitutes had prayed for a sick person who was healed.
6J’s
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