Thursday –Friday – Marvin and I headed out early to Diguma Bible Training Center where he was teaching on how to understand and reach out to the Muslims. Marvin is an excellent teacher and spent 5 hours on both Thursday and Friday with the students. Did you know that there are 1.3 Billion Muslims in the world and they are rapidly growing because of the wealth of oil? Islam is expanding rapidly all over the world with the building of mosques, schools and hospitals as a method of outreach to attract more and more people to their faith.
Each morning I had the opportunity to open the sessions with a topic for the students. One day I taught about the passion Christ had for connecting people to the Father and the second day I taught about “Becoming a Fisherman”. The students loved the teaching time and were eager to learn more about reaching the Muslims in Kenya. The students were with Word of Life Bible Institute and had moved to this camp as a result of the riots in January. There camp in Nairobi was threatened by an angry tribe called the Mungiki who said they were coming into the camp and taking some heads of the students and staff. God is protecting his people in the land of Kenya. Continue to pray for these students and others who are growing in their faith.
Friday afternoon – Marlene and I were transported out to a bush church where we spoke to the folks on how to have a Godly Marriage and Family. The people are so poor- most of them live on about $125 a month and have to walk over dusty roads and get on crowded little buses to go into other areas to work, but they were so gracious and interested in learning about how to have a Godly marriage. The questions were interesting and they begged us to come back and tell them more the next week if we could. I told them we would get them a great book called The Word Filled Family by Dr. John Barnett and they were very excited to learn more and share it with others. They shared how they felt like their country needs a revival in Godly families and they wanted to help others families learn what we shared in our short visit of about 3 hours.
Each morning I had the opportunity to open the sessions with a topic for the students. One day I taught about the passion Christ had for connecting people to the Father and the second day I taught about “Becoming a Fisherman”. The students loved the teaching time and were eager to learn more about reaching the Muslims in Kenya. The students were with Word of Life Bible Institute and had moved to this camp as a result of the riots in January. There camp in Nairobi was threatened by an angry tribe called the Mungiki who said they were coming into the camp and taking some heads of the students and staff. God is protecting his people in the land of Kenya. Continue to pray for these students and others who are growing in their faith.
Friday afternoon – Marlene and I were transported out to a bush church where we spoke to the folks on how to have a Godly Marriage and Family. The people are so poor- most of them live on about $125 a month and have to walk over dusty roads and get on crowded little buses to go into other areas to work, but they were so gracious and interested in learning about how to have a Godly marriage. The questions were interesting and they begged us to come back and tell them more the next week if we could. I told them we would get them a great book called The Word Filled Family by Dr. John Barnett and they were very excited to learn more and share it with others. They shared how they felt like their country needs a revival in Godly families and they wanted to help others families learn what we shared in our short visit of about 3 hours.
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