CHURCH PLANT, AUDIO BIBLES AND FOOD DISTRIBUTION

In the month of June, we planted a new Church in Nomayaai Community. In July, during our monthly fellowship, we again chose to visit the same community to encourage them to continue being faithful to our Lord. Our team was greatly encouraged by the love they have in Christ. In fact, the tree under which they worship was inscribed “Church.” They have made themselves seats for their services by using felled tree trunks. During the visit, we were able to give Audio Bibles and food stuffs to all church members and others from the community who were present. Audio Bibles have been of great impact especially to the illiterate in communities. We would like to thank our U4A partners who have been walking alongside us in empowering individuals and families, planting churches and reaching the unreached in different communities.

Fig. 1&2: A tree where the Church is planted and U4A leaders demonstrating how to use Audio Bibles.

Fig. 3&4: Church members keenly following the teachings and later receiving some food stuffs and Audio Bibles.

Written by: Pastor Titus Musenya U4A Outreach Director.

SANITARY PADS FOR GIRLS

In the last quarter we reached out to at least twenty schools and as a result more than one thousand, five hundred girls have been mentored and issued with enough sanitary pads to serve each for the three months of a school term. Sanitary pads are an essential need for every girl yet not all are privileged to access them.
The embarrassment of staining their clothes causes many to miss school during their menstruation period for lack of pads. Some also fear to request for pads from their parents. We are so grateful for U4A’s support and keeping these young girls in school. One of the teachers, Mr. Kajara from Leboo Primary School that has benefited from this project, said that he is now certain that the improvement of the girls performance in schools would be attainable because they are no longer missing school.

Fig:1&2, Different school girls receiving sanitary pads.

Fig: 3&4 Prayers offered by Pastor Titus before giving pads to the girls and teacher Josephine appreciating the partners for supporting girls.

Written by: Pastor Titus Musenya U4A Outreach Director

GILGAL: A DISCIPLESHIP HUB AND LEADERS TRAINING CENTER.

Ten years ago, Gilgal Community Church was started at Kimokokua, Tanzania, located next to Namanga at the border of Kenya and Tanzania. Since then, this has been a center of discipleship and training for leaders from both countries and other parts of Africa. Many of the Maasai communities along the border of the two countries have not got to hear the Gospel. Rev. Kaako, who is the Gilgal Pastor and one of the Tanzanian regional leaders, organized a discipleship training for all regional trainers and leaders as they marked their ten years anniversary. It is such a joy that in the ten years more than many souls have given their lives to Christ and over one hundred churches have been planted as disciple making movement continues in the region.

Fig. 1&2: Dr. Okongo, U4A president as an invited guest to the training of regional trainers and leaders.

Fig. 3: The ongoing construction of their new Church building and training Hub that U4A has partnered with them to help finish.

Written by: Pastor Titus Musenya U4A Outreach Director

DISCIPLED, TRAINED AND SENT TO REACH THE UNREACHED IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.

“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” (Romans‬ 10‬:14).‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

‬‬‬Many people in different communities have not yet believed the Gospel but this is because they have not yet heard it for lack of someone to share it with them. In a span of one week’s outreaches, we were graced to share the Gospel to nine hundred and thirty-seven people at their homes, water points, places of works, grazing grounds and schools and thankfully, two hundred and seven gave their lives to Christ. We appreciate our U4A partners for graciously supplying us with Evangelism and training materials that helps us train people to be grounded in the faith. We are also so thankful for providing all our local leaders with motor bikes that are now making it easy to reach many far and wide within the vast Maasai community.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Fig. 1&2: Pastor Titus leading new converts in the repentance prayer and Trained Disciples ready to leave for door-to-door outreaches.

Fig. 3&4: Men and women commuting their lives to Christ and Pastors praying over them too.

Written by: Pastor Titus U4A Outreach Director.

MURANG’A SCHOOL OF TYRANNUS

U4A has been focusing on empowering faithful leaders in the local households of faith who are ready to disciple the new converts as well as give a defense to their faith as a result of being grounded in truth.

Faith Family Chapel in Murang’a has been undertaking an interactive forum dubbed the School of Tyrannus that was started in January 2023 and takes place every Sunday morning prior to the Sunday service. Believers are getting established and empowered to be deeply rooted in the Truth, become disciple-makers and prepared to open autonomous churches as the Holy Spirit leads and guides.

In the month of July, the focus was an in-depth study on prayer as Word based, Spirit led, relational communication with God. One of the participants, a High School teacher, said she’d appreciated the interactive forums because they are beneficial in deconstructing wrong mindsets and restructuring the mind and heart scripturally. She added that she has been using what she had learned to teach others. Another one said that what he has learned has taken him to a whole new level. ” A lot of knowledge has been impacted and I am able to stand and defend my faith. I am now willing to lead corporate prayer and have a clearer sense of direction in my Christian walk.”

Fig. 1&2: Pastor Maina teaching in the School of Tyrannus and one of the participants making a contribution.

Fig. 4: The 2023 school of Tyrannus participants.

Written by Josephine Maina.

Prayer Requests

1. Give thanks with us for the wonderful things God is doing among us.
2. Pray that the new converts would grow into committed and faithful disciples of Christ.
3. Pray for the trained leaders to disciple and equip many more leaders as they also grow into spiritual maturity.
4. Pray for the expansion of God’s work through U4A in Kenya.

 

 

 

 

 

CHURCH PLANTING AND STUCTURE BUILDING

Over twenty-five years Unite 4 Africa has been partnering with different communities in Kenya empowering them holistically, economically and socially bringing abundance lives in Christ by planting churches among the unreached communities. Through U4A outreaches we have now managed to plant over one hundred autonomous churches and with different denominations. In the Maasai community, we have been planting and starting churches under trees. Late in the month of May and early June the Lord, through Unite 4 Africa helped us construct three churches in different communities, Naibala, Impoori and Oiti communities respectively. These communities had been having fellowships under trees during hot, cold and rainy seasons, undeterred by the harsh elements. We thank U4A for partnering with us such that these disciples of Christ can now have a place they can comfortably meet irrespective of the changing weather conditions.

Fig 1&2: The new church at Ewangan community under construction and later being officially opened.

Fig 3&4 respectively: Leaders ready to dedicate the new church building and thankful members worshiping and praising inside the new building.

 

Written by Pastor Titus Musenya, U4A Outreach Director

THIRSTY AND HUNGRY FOR THE GOSPEL: MONTHLY OPEN-AIR OUTREACH IN ILPARTIMARO TOWN.

Some years back through Unite 4 Africa, we did an outreach in Ololepo community and many people committed their lives to Christ and in that connection, Gladys Nchao donated a piece of land where we planted and started the current Ololepo Community church. This has been a place of intensive and deliberate discipleship from which disciples have been sent and over sixty new churches have been planted in different communities in Kenya.

We are so thankful that Unite 4 Africa has been supporting us in our monthly outreaches in different communities. In the month of June, we carried our monthly outreach in Ilpartimaro trading center and eighteen people gave their lives to Christ. Glory to God!

Fig 1&2 respectively: congregants worshiping and praising God at the trading center.

Fig 2&3: Pastor Titus preaching and teaching in the open air and congregants keenly following the teachings.

Written by Pastor Titus Musenya, U4A Outreach Director.

ESEKI COMMUNITY CHURCH – BIBLES AND FOOD DISTRIBUTION.

In the spirit of empowering the Believers and in following Mathew 28:18-20, sharing the Word of God through outreaches to the unreached and discipleship, we have distributed this month some Maasai Bibles to the members of Eseki community. We also distributed foodstuffs to the community, as many go for days in search for work or support for their families.

Pastor Amos Sironet who leads Eseki Community Church travels from his home on Saturday evening to spend the night at the Church on a mattress so that he can minister and be present in good time for the Sunday service. We took a moment to encourage him and pray with him. Please pray for him to continue serving zealously in the strength of the Lord, for from the Lord he shall receive his reward.

Fig. 1&2: Rev Moses leading in the distribution of bibles, and women from the community happily holding their bibles and foodstuffs.

Fig 3&4 respectively: women sending their appreciation to those who donated the bibles and foodstuffs.

Written by Pastor Titus Musenya, U4A outreach director.

PASTORS AND CHURCH LEADERS SEMINAR

Empowering pastors and key leaders for works of service is a strategic way of impacting members of the households of faith and the communities at large. This June, part of the Kenyan team went to one of the semi-arid areas in Kenya and ministered to about 40 key church leaders together with pastors in Mbitini village, Kitui county. This is in the interior parts of Eastern Kenya.

The theme was in line with Eph.4.15-16 “But, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head, Christ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”

Training the church on the biblical roles of the church leadership and that of the congregants enables all to do their part for the effective functioning and edifying of the whole body. As Christ, the Head of the body prayed, “that they may be one”, we believe everyone knowing their place and appreciating the contribution of the other is a sure way of forging oneness in the body.

Many pastors and church leaders need empowerment if the church is going to stand and advance against the onslaught of evil powers in the present age.
Those who attended were refreshed and strengthened. One of the pastors said that the seminar stirred the courage to nurture and disciple the small church they lead with passion and zeal as unto Christ and as though it were a very big congregation!

Fig 1&2 Josephine Maina and the pastors following the teachings.

Fig 3: Rev. Maina, U4A Mission Director, discipling and training pastors and leaders.

Written by Rev. Maina, U4A Mission Director.

PRAYER ITEMS

1. Pray for all new believers to hold on to Truth, committed to the Lord and walking worthy of the Call.
2. Pray for the lasting fruit from the monthly outreaches in all the difference places and communities and also for the vision of buying public address system for our outreaches.
3. Pray for our inter-denominational fellowships as we continue planning for the August Men’s Conference.
4. We request for prayer for the church leaderships’ humility, wisdom and unity that will foster an environment for discipleship in the local churches.

 

 

IMPACT OF DISCIPLE MAKING PROGRAM (DDM)

Obedience to the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19 is U4A’s passionate commitment. “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

Eight years ago, Unite 4 Africa in collaboration with local Maasai leaders planted a church after an Outreach where they shared the gospel among the Maasai in Ilpartimaro and Ololepo communities. Through the Discipleship Making Movement {DMM}, we were able to raise leaders who later were ordained as Pastors and as a result, we have by God’s grace, planted eleven more churches within the unreached Maasai villages.

The disciple making efforts has been fruitful such that in early June 2023, all the twelve churches held a joint Gospel outreach and over one hundred people gave their lives to Christ and were all baptized. There is a genuine hunger and thirst for God in this community and it’s a joy that U4A is part of the labor force in the harvest.

Fig 1,2,3 &4 Some of the new believers being baptized by Dr. Okongo, Pastor Titus and other pastors from the local churches.

SANITARY PADS PROGRAM

In the month of May, U4A team visited over thirty schools in the rural Maasai communities and distributed sanitary pads to one thousand five hundred girls in the different schools. In some of the schools visited, both teachers and students shared that these essentials were timely and came in the hour of need. In Impoori Primary School, we noticed that immediately after issuing the sanitary pads to the girls, some of them rushed to the washrooms to use them. On inquiry, Mr. Meshach who is a teacher in the said school, shared with us that he had noticed that one of the girls had earlier on been uncomfortable in class.

We thank the partners of U4A who see to it that such a girl doesn’t have to go through the embarrassment of stained clothes or even stay out of school during their monthly period.

Fig 1. One girl giving thanks to Pastor Titus, U4A Outreach Director, sharing that she needed the pads.

Fig 2. Lydia Rianto posing for a photo with the girls and one of their teachers, Madam Josephine.

Fig 3. Pastor Titus praying for the girls.

MOTORBIKES FOR PASTORS

As new churches continue to be planted among the Maasai community, one of the challenges that pastors face is the long distances they have to walk from their homes to the church premises. Thankfully, U4A has been coming alongside pastors to provide motorbikes for such needy, deserving and hardworking pastors. In the last one month, 4 motorbikes have been gifted to them.

These pastors have testified to how the motorbikes have transformed their lives in that, whereas previously they could only go to the church only on Sundays due to the long distances, now they can do that several times in a week since they have quick means of transportation. Additionally, they are using the motorbikes for income generating purposes which has improved their livelihood economically as the proceeds from motorbike “taxi” are used to buy food and other necessities for their families. This is true empowerment for these dedicated disciple- makers.

Figures. 1&2

Dr. Okongo leading in the handing over of two new motorbikes, Pastor Titus praying for the Pastors and their families while giving thanks to God for the motorbikes.

Figure 3. Pastors Jackson and Isaiah ready to ride off on their new motorbikes.

PRAYER ITEMS

1. We give God all the glory for all the great harvest in our outreaches and ask for prayers for the new believers to continue being faithful followers of Christ.
2. We thank God for all the newly planted churches and for the provision of motorbikes for the leaders and the construction of three new churches Impoori, Namunyak and Ewangan. We request for prayers for the upcoming church planting endeavors in Maasai land and other areas.
3. Join us in Prayer as we plan and prepare for the Men’s conference scheduled for August 2023.

LESAILON TUMANKA’S BLESSED INDEED THROUGH U4A ORPHAN GOAT PROJECT.

In September last year, some of U4A Kenya leaders led by the President Dr. Okongo, visited Kilalash community and supported a number of orphans with goats. Kilalash is a community that has not been reached by the gospel for so many years. When our team visited, they shared the gospel and planted a church.
Tumanka Lesailon is 13 years old and is one of the orphans who received a goat and few months later, it gave birth to two female kids. When Pastor Titus, U4A Kenya Outreach Director recently visited the Guardian’s home, he learned that some of the goat’s milk was being sold to help with Tumanka’s sustenance. Tumanka also sold one of the kids to help clear his primary school’s tuition fee arrears. We trust that as Tumanka continues caring for his goats, many more kids are born and this gift from U4A will be a great source of livelihood for him.

Written by Pastor Titus Musenya

Tumanka with his goat and the two kids

Pastor Titus with Tumanka at his home

Tumanka at the entrance of their house.

WOMEN CONFERENCE AT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH.

Zion Baptist Church hosted over 400 women for a four-day conference. The U4A teaching team led by Rev. Shyla Samson charged the women to fulfill their ministry by living out and sharing their faith, beginning from their homes. God’s word prevailed powerfully among the women as He presented to them deeper understanding and opportunity to confess, forgive and receive His healing. We had a session near the end where the men came in and sang over the women and made a prayer of confession on behalf of ‘all’ men and asked for the women’s forgiveness. It was so powerful and had many women weeping. Even some of the local Maasai men were crying as this confession was made. This was truly a move of God’s healing power as forgiveness was corporately given and embraced. Culturally, this was a ground breaker for men to apologize and seek forgiveness from women because it is considered weakness to do so. We trust God to complete the good work He has begun.

Maria, one of the ladies who attended had this to say through a note to the U4A teaching team: “I’m very thankful for the time and money spent on your travel just because of us. I’m personally happy and have learned a lot from you. Even though I’ve been through much together with my children, I’ve received hope through the teaching. I’ve forgiven all those who have wronged me because today I have learned that I’m not the only one that has been wronged. I’m holding fast to the teaching you have given us.”

Written Josephine Ruguru, Unite 4 Africa Leader

The women listening keenly

 

The training team (Shyla Samson, Jody Mayhew & Josephine Ruguru) were gifted with dressed by the Maasai women

 

Men singing over the women and giving their heartfelt corporate Confession.

From Living in the Streets to Becoming a Devoted Disciple Maker.

Elijah was the first person to accept Christ as his Lord and Savior during our U4A outreach last November at Murang’a town. He responded to the altar call and received Christ while living in the streets and doing drugs. Jesus Christ received him as He says that “him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). Elijah had been in the streets of Murang’a town for four years, driven there by addictions to drugs.

Thankfully, after this monumental decision, Elijah was taken in by one of the pastors who has a prayer center in our locality and now lives with and disciples him. Elijah is growing as a bold witness of Christ. In fact, he is currently discipling Kevin, another young man who was also lost in drugs and surrendered his life to Christ. Kevin found Elijah at the center and now he is teaching him what he has learned. His testimony is living proof that a relationship with Jesus Christ brings freedom and can change whosoever comes to Him.

Elijah is joyful and excited about his faith in Christ and not ashamed to share His love with others, especially those addicted to drugs. He is full of life and hopes to keep sharing the gospel even as he anticipates starting a business to help him gain financial autonomy. Our prayer is that he will stand steadfast in faith and that even when tempted, he will not go back to the former life. We also pray that he will grow in the knowledge of God and in fellowship with others believers knowing that he belongs to the household of faith.

Written Josephine Ruguru, Unite 4 Africa leader

Elijah on the left, Kevin on the left while Dr. Okongo is sharing their story.

Dr. Okongo encouraging and praying with Elijah and Kevin.

Prayer Requests:

-Pray for the new converts recently discipled and baptized at Ololepo community and Murang’a.
-Let us pray for people, like Elijah, to be freed from drug abuse and restored into God’s image and that many more will be reached to become disciples of Christ.
– Thank God for the successful women conference.
– Thank God for new church construction.
– Pray for new Church Plants in new communities.