service of earlier CPM (Church Planting Methods) training. Many praises came from the day including how God is blessing the past and current Baptist work in the Central region of Kenya! Praises also include the fact that Jack was able to drive the distance without any difficulty and was even able to write on the chalk-board again! To be honest, I think it was the fact that he could no longer accomplish this necessary feat of teachers that led him to the shoulder surgery in April! Thank you again for praying him through his shoulder replacement.Two bits of information are not on the blog – The trip to TuruTuru took over 1½ hours on roads that were better than many, but horrible in places, including a long stretch of dusty massive road construction. As we made the final turn to the church, the friend with us said, “When you return, go the other direction – that road is finished.” And it was – much of the return trip was on a brand new well-paved road that shortened the trip by 30 minutes! The only consolation of the longer first leg was that we were in the foothills of the Aberdare Mountains and the scenery was incredibly beautiful and the slower, longer way simply allowed us to take in the view a little better! I cannot explain why we were given the directions of the longer way initially – but this has happened more than once before!
Also, on the blog I include pictures of the meal served at the church. Earlier in the day while I took pictures of the “chefs”, they switched to Kikuyu and began giggling. About an hour later, I was called out of the meeting – turns out that as the women prepared lunch, which included peeling lots of potatoes, they had slipped a few whole ones in the coals to roast for their treat – and without realizing it I had caught them in the act. They called me out to tell me that MY baked potato was ready. It was one of the best potatoes I have ever eaten – but how often does one get to eat a potato that was still in the ground only hours before!I’ve included this week a picture taken Sunday at Parklands Baptist Church during the commissioning service of the “Women of Impact” who recently completed a Bible Study. Early this year, twelve women of the church studied this discipleship book written by our pastor, Ambrose
Nyangao. They then taught it to 12 women each and this group of over 100 of us are now “commissioned” to teach it to at least 12 others! The goal is for 20,000 women to be quickly discipled using this multiplication tool! Pray that those commissioned will have the needed confidence to share what they have learned. Pray for me as I begin teaching the book to two young women on Friday. I hope to teach it to a larger group later in the year. Pray also for a Bible study being held tomorrow evening by all the House Groups of Parklands. Their study is the one I wrote earlier this month – Discipleship: All you need (Ezra7:10). Pray that they will be challenged by the reminder of our Christian responsibility to teach all we know with others who can teach it to others (2 Timothy 2:2).Jack needs prayer this week as he attends several meetings. Pray that he will be an encouragement to the others and that the meetings will strengthen our ability to share the Good News with the lost in Kenya and challenge Kenyan Christians to truly be disciple makers.
Sorry, this is so long, but your prayers are too important to us and I simply couldn’t make it shorter! Bert Yates
No comments:
Post a Comment