A Weekend of New Beginnings

The graduation ceremony at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) went well.  The graduate is here.

 

Dr. Tokuboh Adeyemo was on the lips of everyone as he he died in March of this year. The Governing Council Chairperson reminded us of the work that Dr. Adeyemo did for the college and encouraged the students to emulate him. He was such a great encouragement to many of us in Africa and the whole world as a whole. Read more about him (picture below) here.

I will going back to NEGST in a weeks time for the conference indicated here
http://nairobiconference.org/NairobiConference/Home.html. Please pray the conference will be a success and a blessing and that those who attend will journey safely to and from home.


Coming back from the graduation I had a chance to attend an after party for a friend who got married on the same day. It was so much fun.

Have a great day and God Bless

A Pilot Friend Takes a Wife

Hello,


We had a great day today. There was a wedding of a friend of mine named Joshua. He is a pilot. Then we also spent time with the youths at the Chagaik Arboretum. We really had a great day; a full day. One of encouragement and love for each other. 

 

We had a small distraction of rain but all ended fine. The cake was interesting with a picture of a plane on it. What a great surprise from Joshua. Though of course I am happy for my friend, I miss spending time with him even now.

Otherwise I wish him and his wife a happy family.
Enjoy the pics.

It's Raining Blessings - My World

Hello,

I attended a wonderful wedding Saturday between Dr. Chege and Chepkoech Deisy from Kericho.
The beautiful thing about this wedding is that the bride and groom are from two different communities (tribes), which sometimes do not work together.

As a peacemaker, I made it a point of attending this wedding. I had other things to do in Nakuru as well so this was a perfect time to also attend the wedding.
You can see from the wedding photos, that the wedding itself was so beautiful even though it occurred in February, an odd month for weddings here. But people squeezed in their schedules and attended.

After the wedding ,there was a lot of rain. Floods swept through a market. The rains were torrential as you can see in the photo. Even now it is raining.

What a blessed wedding this was (as in Kenya, rain means a blessing).

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Enjoying His LIGHT and LOVE

soon we shall celebrate and and enjoy the "fruits" of this wedding that recently took place here. this is my great expectation as the young couple [in photo above] who married looked very excited. we are so happy that the two young people love God and are ready to serve Him.

many, many years ago, our weddings were traditionally done in the pitch of the night. but when the LIGHT [of God] came calling we had 2 change and now we do this [wedding ceremonies] in the middle of the day.

what a joy it is for the whole community, including the children, to witness this wedding. this is what is happening here as you people in America celebrate your Thanksgiving holiday.

Psalm 118:19 "Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good: His love endures forever."

Because He lives,
Pastor Jonah

New Beginnings

Last Friday I went with a team of Christian leaders to take food to the displaced in Eldoret (see my January 11th post). The next day I attended a wedding and it was a great break. It was also great because it is a demonstration of the blending of western and African cultural backgrounds. Not only that, it speaks to the love of God for all his people and how christians should be able to transcend racial divides.

The bride has been a missionary here in Kenya for several years and has been running an orphanage that cares for 29 children. The groom is from my tribe, the Kalenjin tribe of Kenya.

In Kalenjin culture, the family of the groom must pay a dowry to the family of the bride. In this case, the father of the bride is "planning" on taking the dowry (of cows) back to Ohio, USA. Dowries can also include sheep and/or goats.

Life is not yet back to normal here and the political situation is still tense. Please continue to pray for peace here in Kenya so that celebrations like this will continue and peace for all Kenyans will prevail. Thank you so much for your prayers.

Pastor Jonah