Why? Why? Why?

View this morning on the KBTC campus.

WHY did a small group of workers continue working at the Kenya Baptist Theological College (KBTC) for long periods without receiving a salary (the only income for many of their families)?

WHY did two of these workers meet daily before their work days DURING the times of no salary to pray for KBTC's restoration and the college’s ability to train the shepherds of God’s people?

Nelson (KBTC's chai brewer) and John (KBTC's man with the green thumb),
the early morning prayer team, with Ron Langston, an IMB worker who served
for many years at KBTC, at Ron's and his wife's retirement celebration.
(Shared in our April 15, 2015 blog post.)

WHY did some take new jobs and invest their lives in KBTC without any assurance of long term employment or receiving salaries in a timely manner?

Shared in our January 30, 2013 blog post.

WHY have volunteers and others provided time, monies and other resources to help rescue KBTC when the place looked forsaken (one elderly Kenyan man’s description in early 2013)?

WHY have Baptist families from the United States come to work at KBTC for long periods when there was no assurance that KBTC could be revived, restored, resurrected, revised and rescued?

The road was too steep and rough for a truck, so when
students first moved to Baraka Hall, it was done by donkey!
(Shared in April 24, 2103 blog post.)

WHY were students willing to return to KBTC with their fees and live and study in a building which required wading through water in the hallways when it rained even when the future of the college was still unknown?

Photo captured this week of the renewed joy of KBTC!

WHY have those at KBTC faced persecution and frustrations and continued striving for KBTC to become “once again in a place where African Believers can be prepared to REFLECT the PRESENCE OF GOD and become qualified and capable workers in our Father’s Harvest Field.”

Yes, all these questions do relate to the #WhyWeGo theme which I’ve mentioned many times as we approached this Lottie Moon Christmas Offering season! The answer to all the above questions is that these people, including Jack and I, have gone and done all this BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS!

Baraka Hall in January 2013.

We all have “persevered and have endured hardships for [HIS] name, and have not grown weary” (Revelation 2:3) BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS! We all desire to “Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful works among all the peoples” (Psalm 96:3 HCSB).

View captured this morning of Baraka Hall!

Just preparing for and reading what I just wrote leaves me tingling with excitement as I review what has happened at KBTC in the last three years and what is happening! God is at work and we thank Him for allowing us to join in His work in Kenya and among IMB Sub-Saharan African Peoples.

Today's Nudge to Action for IMB Sub-Saharan
African Peoples - a part of Bert's work as Prayer
Networker for SSAP affinity. CLICK the SSAP
tab above for another WHY from KBTC.

WE ARE ALSO THANKFUL FOR YOU and your partnership in His work, which includes the support and encouragement you give us by praying, giving financially (especially through the Cooperative Program, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and other global missions offerings) and through sending volunteers or even coming as volunteers to be at work in our part of the world! BERT YATES