School Visit

Hello,
We visited several schools today and interacted with students. We learned about their fears and the challenges they have in school.

We visited primary school and the boys only school.

We realize that the students are working really hard and we are hoping that the they will pass in their education.

Please continue to pray for them as they prepare for their final exams coming in the few months.

I love these students. they are such a blessing group.


Enjoy the pictures.

God bless,

Sunday Service

Hello,


We had a great service here in Kericho, Kenya. 

We witnessed many new people coming to know Christ and the church had good attendance.

Please continue to pray for church growth in this area and for men to know Christ more.

After the service, we visited a family who had a good lawn and a great house. The host of the house was very welcoming to the guests who go to this church often.

The owner of the house also has a farm and so we had a great visit to his farm and saw the cattle, bananas and tea. It was so much fun. 

Enjoy the pictures

God bless,

Christmas Comes to Kericho Prison

Today (Friday) I had a great visit to the prisons here in Kericho.

We visited both the men and the women.
There were almost 300 men
and the women were 59 in number.
I so much love to visit them as the message of truth comes into our visit. We told them about Silas when he was in prison, and the story of the Samaritan woman (John, chapter 4) was delivered by Kisaka. Kisaka is the lady in the picture (below) preaching. She is from Turkana and we are glad she is here in Kericho to study.

We gave out food and drinks for these dear ones.
Continue to pray for them.

Many Blessings

A Message of Hope

Hi,

Vacation Bible School (VBS) is here again. We have been busy working to prepare the materials for over two months now. Praise God they are ready for distribution!

Here is the desk where I've been working at the computer writing these books.

Here I am holding the finished product.

Hard at working packing the booklets for distribution.

We are going to have over 500 teaching centers and over 10,000 kids will be learning about Christ through these booklets. We also hope to reach some rehabilitation boys in VBS in a few weeks with these teachings and the message of hope.

Please pray for us as we continue to distribute these books. It is a difficult work and we do hope we will make it.

Many blessings to you all and to those in the USA, Happy Thanksgiving.

Evangelism in Kapsuser, Kenya

Hello,

Today we have started house to house evangelism. We are just so excited to share the good news.

As you can see in the pictures today, many came to the Lord and we praise the Lord for His Love.

Continue to pray for us as we go to Kapsoit tomorrow. Today we were at Kapsuser to the southwest of Kericho, Kenya where I live.

Enjoy the pictures.
God bless,
Jonah

Visiting the Maasai

[Caption: Maasai greeting me (far left) with a blanket]

Hello,

My trip to the Maasai 'country', in Kenya was great. We had lots of interactions with the people there and we loved it! It took us over 5 hours to travel to Narok in Maasai land and we had to work hard to see that what we wanted to achieve there was completed during our visit.

[Caption: Little boy in front of me at the garden]

[Caption: Young shepard boy. What a wonderful smile.]

Maasai country is a vast land and the people are hungry for the Word of God. We are trying to use all the means that we can: friends, colleagues, classmates and friends we have there in Maasai country, to reach out to the people with the Word of God. Please continue praying for this work and outreach to the Maasai people. Enjoy the rest of the photos.

Pastor Jonah

Last Days in Kampala

Hi friends,

Our last days in Kampala, Uganda were wonderful! We really wanted to stay behind as we grew to love the people so much. The Ugandan students were great and we thank God for getting to meet them.

What an awesome challenge it was for us on the day that we went house to house, or shall we say dorm to dorm and to the surrounding schools and the chapel. We loved doing all that and we really want to Praise God for taking such good care of us.

On our last day in Kampala we were involved in shopping and taking a group photo and then we headed back home to Kericho, Kenya. The last picture I took was while we were in Jinga, crossing the longest river in the world, the great Nile River.

Shopping - Uganda Mission Part 3

Kenyan Youth Group Photo - Uganda Mission Part 3

The Great Nile River - Uganda Mission Part 3

As I write now, I am rested and thanking God for our time in Uganda.

Have a great day and may God bless you

Jonah

Kalenjin Circumcision & Initiation

hello,

the month of December is always like our summer here in Kericho, Kenya, as the rains stop for a few weeks.the month of December has also become a time for a long time now, that my people group,(the Kalenjin) were involved in circumcision of the boys. I'm told that in some other countries,circumcision is done when the baby boys are 8 days old or so. in our communities, we circumcise when the boys are between 10-12 years and they are also given lots [of teaching] of life lessons.



as a church we have used the ritual time of circumcision to "meet the people where they are. in our nearby communities we have over 100 boys and we hope we can reach all of them for Christ before they graduate after 30 days of seclusion in the bush.
u can read more about circumcision in the following. i was reading through some of them myself and these articles give the pros and cons concerning circumcision. just know that true circumcision is that of the HEART.

enjoy reading
http://www.kalenjin.net/newsite/content/view/678/234/
http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/glass2/
http://www.kenyarunners.com/pages/167371/index.htm


God bless.
Jonah
Note: For some reason the first link does not appear to be working at the moment. I'm leaving it up as it was working when the post was uploaded and hopefully will become active again. The other links appear to be working fine.

Suffer the Little Children

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hello friends,

ministry to the kids is the greatest joy of all.
over the past few weeks i have been going out in the village with my brothers and sisters to reach the little ones for Christ.

what a joy to meet them in their current situations and to see them happy. i realized that at the end of the day, getting the boys and gals to be friendly takes just a short time.

I love it when I can share the love of Christ with these little ones.


Mark 10:14 Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.


enjoy the pics
and God Bless
Pastor Jonah

Kids' Outreach

hello friends,

this past week was my greatest week.
i have been interacting one on one with the kids in the community and trying to teach/reach them about Christ.
most schools could not allow kids to go to school for three days or so as the rest of the kids were sitting for national examinations so when i was visiting in the community and
handing flyers to the kids about Christ, i felt in some way that the kids were learning something.

personally i was converted to Christianity through the same strategy. i feel so touched when i can get to meet kids who are ready to accept Christ at such a young age. please continue to pray for abigael and debra (those in the pics) as they grow in Christ.

because He lives,
Jonah