Jerry & Sherry Daniels|
Church planting continues to expand so fast that it’s hard to keep up with what’s happening!! Right now there are at least FIVE major church planting outreaches initiated by our Mt. Kenya Fellowship of Churches. Here is a brief translated exerpt from one of our fine evangelists, John Longisa: “This month we did evangelism with our team of preachers at Cheptamas, where 19 souls were saved, and 5 baptized on that Sunday. We did a small fund-raising on Saturday for a new church building. One poor Pokot lady made a generous contribution of a goat in this special offering – she had just gotten saved that same week! Praise God! Our team of preachers will be doing evangelism next month at another village called “Kait”, and then I will travel up into the Northern Frontier region, to Baragoi, for evangelism and fellowship with the brethren there.” |
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Posts Tagged ‘Longisa’
Victory & Counter-Attack
VICTORY:
Passage to Manhood Camp of the Timau Bible Baptist Church. Many of you prayed specifically for this outreach, and some even sent financial assistance for additional bedding. The camp itself is completely self-funded by the Timau church, which is a strong indicator of the church’s commitment to infusing biblical values into the culture. This year’s camp was a great success, with 102 young men accepting Christ as Saviour, and others surrendering their lives to Him for service!
COUNTER-ATTACK:
However, with great victory, there is often visible opposition from our spiritual enemy. These culture-changing programs are not universally accepted by some tribal leaders who oppose biblical values. And we often see overt, supernatural attacks from the enemy.
For example, another effective Pastor/Evangelist, John Longisa, and his wife, Lucy, along with their whole family have been enormously effective in planting churches in harsh remote areas of the North of Kenya. Their firstborn daugther, Margaret, was a role model of a Christian young lady. She was married a year ago, and was actively serving the Lord with her husband. Tragically, just before Christmas, she contracted a killer strain of Hepatitis and suddenly died! Pastor John and his family, church members, and all of us are still in shock!
The age-old question keeps coming up: “Why do bad things happen to good people?” We don’t claim to have all the answers, but we continue onward for the Lord, trusting in His sovereignty and wisdom, and praying 1 Thes. 3:1-3. Lucy has struggled with chronic illness herself, so this tragedy is hard on her. She and John were preparing to move farther North, into one of the wildest and most harsh environments on earth. It was quite a step of faith and commitment, involving great financial sacrifice as well as increased danger. Obviously, the death of their daughter has been a crushing blow. Please pray for Pastor John and his dear wife as they work through the grief, and refocus on their commitment to reaching out into the Northern Frontier.
May God bless you for your concern and prayers,
Timau Soccer Outreach
The Timau Churches’ annual Soccer Tournament and Evangelistic outreach has finally concluded with great spiritual victory! Because of a number of drawn matches, the series was extended several weeks, giving more opportunities to preach the Gospel. 
The championship game looked more like a gospel crusade than a soccer match! 27 people gave their lives to Jesus, which brought the total to 63 for the series! Pastor Stephen writes.. “when the winning team was celebrating their soccer victory, we were celebrating the spiritual victory.” Thanks to all of you who prayed for this outreach! As I told you before, some of our present-day church planters have been reached for Christ and entered our Bible Institute as a result of the sports evangelism programs in several of our Churches like Timau.
Another Church which uses this profitable tool is Crossroads Baptist Church in Rumuruti. Pastor John Longisa has had a passion for reaching youth this way for many years. 
By the way, John and his dear wife, Lucy, are up in the wild and inhospitable far-North of Kenya right now, preaching and surveying places which need the Gospel. John and Lucy’s deep commitment is an inspiration to us!
Brother Andrew Lettsome is leading this expedition to the North, with the aim of facilitating new chuch plants in this isolated area. Vehicle problems are one of the greatest challenges out there! Andew finally got a servicable vehicle, and it is already showing the strain of just this one trip to that wild country! Please pray for Andrew!
Thanks so much for your support during these difficult times! We don’t take you for granted!
Baragoi
In November, two Kenyans pastors, led an evangelistic and “reconciliation” team to the troubled area of Baragoi, in the Northern Frontier of Kenya. One pastor/evangelist, John Longisa, is from the Turkana Tribe. The other, Stephen Lepakin, is a Maasai, which is the same broad ethnic group as Samburu. Turkana and Samburu tribesmen have been fighting in Baragoi District for a long time. Many have died, and tensions are very high. The town of Baragoi is divided sharply into Turkana and Samburu sections.
Our two faithful evangelists, one from each of these tribes, made their first trip to Baragoi last June. They saw many come to Christ and a small church was planted. They followed up with another trip in November, baptizing, and teaching, again, on reconciliation through God’s love.
John and Stephen have brought a light of hope to this troubled, remote area where many souls need to hear the message of Salvation. Pray for them as they travel this very rough road again in about two weeks. They want to meet with Government officials this time, and arrange a major meeting which will include tribal leaders, government leaders, and the general population of the whole area. Their aim is to preach reconciliation! Of course, as we know, the only permanent reconciliation begins in each person’s heart as he/she accepts God’s plan of reconciliation between sinners and a holy God!
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