Rumuruti Day 2
Rumuruti Day 2…
Day 2 may have been even better than our first day. We started the day off with our breakfast at the Daisy Chalet. But soon we were off to the church.
Door to door evangelism in the morning took us up until lunch. The poverty here is at such a level that I may have never witnessed. As we went and shared the gospel, the overwhelming evidence that we were in the presence of need was too much for the Kilgoris team. Tears began to flow as we heard the testimony of the people we had gone to witness too. Willingness and pure need for the hope of Jesus have made for a bountiful harvest of new brothers and sisters in Christ. I have never been anywhere that had such a harvest. Best we can tell our team from West Wountain had more than twenty Rumuruti Massai souls to the Kingdom of heaven this morning before lunch. The teams were splitting up today as the teams got more comfortable and we were reaching more people, but with limited translators we didn’t get a all inclusive record of the mornings work. We can rest knowing God’s record book reflects more accurately than ours and we are not in competition so the exact number is of no consequence. The team did all they could with what time we had, stewarding every resource and opportunity at our disposal.
After breaking for lunch we were back in the church for testimony. Rachel was able to give testimony from her experience in Kenya ten years ago. Her story of healing in her own life was so encouraging to the church members but there was more to come. The Kilgoris team member Jackalynn Sakaja was following next with her testimony of God’s miracles in her life as well. This is a lady that was beaten down, literally and emotionally, by a husband and culture that would, apart from God’s hand, have no chance of escape. She, however, was set free at the hand of God and so was her husband. She shared with the congregation of the miracles that have happened in her life as her husband has been saved, stopped beating her, quit drinking alcohol, and started being good too her as he should. She told us the whole truth, that even though he did get saved, he did change, and he is continuing to change, she still needs prayers. She desires he would attend church, which still has not happened. He is a good man, I know him, and I was there at his moment of salvation. Join us in prayer for David Sakaja, pray that even more miracles can continue to change the life of Jackalynn…she is faithful to make disciples…and my favorite part of her testimony was near the end when she stopped, wipped the tears from her eyes and said,
“I know my husband is changed or he would have never agreed that I could come here!”
I can tell you with certainty, this is the story I referenced in the first update of this trip, this is a testimony that changed my life. There was never a day in my life that I was more certain that God was with me, than the day I returned the home of David and Jackalynn Sakaja. I’ll not publish the story in it’s entirety at this time, but I would love to speak to you about it in person upon my return, and share more stories of Kenya.
Reggie stepped up after Jackalynn and spoke with great boldness and delivered so much truth and wisdom from the third chapter of James. He humbly spoke of the tongue and the power our words hold, he communicated with excellence how we could never control our words on our own but that with God it was possible. Jesus didn’t die to send us a holy spirit with tied hands. He shared with us a part of his own journey of learning to control his tongue, and how after receiving the gift of salvation that because of the power of the Living God he was able to move closer himself to the image of his creator.
Quick quickly started chapter 4 of James but he was cut short by time. He too did a Wonderfull job communicating a encouraging word from the first several verses of the chapter. We were running low on time by that point in the day, and in order to be respectful to the people of the church we had to stop by the hour of 4 pm. The crowd consists of mothers, fathers, shepherds and others that had to get children fed, animals tended, and chores done before dark and before they returned at 7 pm for the night revival being taught by the Kilgoris church.
Today was a eye opening day for me. A first not just for Kenyan ministry, but a first time to ever experience a region that doesn’t know the name of Jesus. Four homes in a row we went to this morning had no bible, they had never been to a church, they had never heard the name of Jesus.
My testimony for today is the story of a 90 year old man who for the first time heard the name of Jesus. He said he had never seen a bible nor had any idea of the story or content held within the pages. The moment he stepped into my view I was captivated by the life I could see in his eyes. They stayed squinted, the whites of his eyes were yellowed and bloodshot, the skin of his face was as old and wrinkled, but he was listening with a passion not often witnessed. He and his wife of similar age, stood and held hands, something I’ve never seen from a Massai, as they prayed to receive salvation. Their son stood watching intently and had been there as the gospel was presented, he also with a tear in his eye, stepped up and halfway through, began to pray along side his parents as they all received salvation at the same time. His wife and cousins were saved in the next few minutes and the process of discipleship started immediately. If I’m being honest I felt frustrated that I had to move past that place, I didn’t want to continue to take the gospel further into the bush at that time, I wanted to stay and teach this new family of believers all the things of the bible that I could until it was time to fly home. I would be happy to go to that place from daylight to dark for the remainder of this trip and teach those few until time to board the plane and come home. But that is the job of someone else, I’m almost envious of the man that will get to sit down with that old man and watch his eyes as he hears the story of the word of God for the first time.
Not more than 100 yards away from that mans home I was blessed to lead a young shepherd, who had been raised catholic, though the gospel, and he too prayed on the spot to receive salvation. He questioned about what came next and we were excited to see he already recognized there was going to be more to this choice than just a quick prayer. Within only minuets of my flesh wanting to stay with the old man, to teach him all I could… God confirmed that it might have been good to stay and talk with him, but it was best that I keep moving forward with the gospel.
The stories from this day might have no end, but it is time to wrap up the day here. Please join us in prayer today as we prepare for the morning that we have coming soon. Tomorrow morning it’s time to tackle the FGM, it’s time to address the culture of a proud tribe. Ill be forced to say things to these people that you’d never imagine if you didn’t get out of the USA. We will preach boldly the truth of scripture and have the discipline to leave our opinions unspoken in order to try and bring freedom to generations of young women and young men of the Massai people. If it is God’s will the messages tomorrow will prevent actual torture from being inflicted on little girls by their mothers and grandmothers. I’d be absolutely lying to tell you anything other than the simple fact that I am scared about tomorrow. I’m not afraid to be obedient, I’m not afraid that I’m not prepared, I’m just afraid that they won’t receive the Word of God…I’m afraid that I might be the plan that God has used to set them free and that I might fail. It won’t paralyze me, but make me rely totally of Jesus, and that is the best place I could be. I couldn’t imagine a better group of men to fight this with than Reggie, and the Roberts. They are a unique balance of grace, boldness, matter of fact, that God has seen fit to put here at this time, for this purpose. Rachel and Becky to speak into the lives of the women and have a compassion that men do not generally possess. God sent them here with us as well, for this day, even before time was being counted, God knew. But I will pray, and I will step into that church in the morning prepared, God has to take over from there. Failure is not an option. Allowing my flesh to get in the way is not an option. Complete submission, total obedience, a saturated reliance on the Holy Spirit to do it’s job is the only hope. Jesus is the only hope these young ladies have. I am totally unworthy and unqualified to do this, BUT GOD told me to do it anyway. Pray for me, pray for us all, pray for the hearts of the resistant, the boldness of the ones who want to fight for freedom, the West Mountain team, the Kilgoris team, pray for us all!!! Please!
We believe, we obey, and then we will see what God does and where we are to go from here.
Thank you for all your prayer up to this point. I believe it is evident that the Spirit of God has come here ahead of us, and we are seeing the harvest of the work that God has prepared for us to do together.
Day 2 may have been even better than our first day. We started the day off with our breakfast at the Daisy Chalet. But soon we were off to the church.
Door to door evangelism in the morning took us up until lunch. The poverty here is at such a level that I may have never witnessed. As we went and shared the gospel, the overwhelming evidence that we were in the presence of need was too much for the Kilgoris team. Tears began to flow as we heard the testimony of the people we had gone to witness too. Willingness and pure need for the hope of Jesus have made for a bountiful harvest of new brothers and sisters in Christ. I have never been anywhere that had such a harvest. Best we can tell our team from West Wountain had more than twenty Rumuruti Massai souls to the Kingdom of heaven this morning before lunch. The teams were splitting up today as the teams got more comfortable and we were reaching more people, but with limited translators we didn’t get a all inclusive record of the mornings work. We can rest knowing God’s record book reflects more accurately than ours and we are not in competition so the exact number is of no consequence. The team did all they could with what time we had, stewarding every resource and opportunity at our disposal.
After breaking for lunch we were back in the church for testimony. Rachel was able to give testimony from her experience in Kenya ten years ago. Her story of healing in her own life was so encouraging to the church members but there was more to come. The Kilgoris team member Jackalynn Sakaja was following next with her testimony of God’s miracles in her life as well. This is a lady that was beaten down, literally and emotionally, by a husband and culture that would, apart from God’s hand, have no chance of escape. She, however, was set free at the hand of God and so was her husband. She shared with the congregation of the miracles that have happened in her life as her husband has been saved, stopped beating her, quit drinking alcohol, and started being good too her as he should. She told us the whole truth, that even though he did get saved, he did change, and he is continuing to change, she still needs prayers. She desires he would attend church, which still has not happened. He is a good man, I know him, and I was there at his moment of salvation. Join us in prayer for David Sakaja, pray that even more miracles can continue to change the life of Jackalynn…she is faithful to make disciples…and my favorite part of her testimony was near the end when she stopped, wipped the tears from her eyes and said,
“I know my husband is changed or he would have never agreed that I could come here!”
I can tell you with certainty, this is the story I referenced in the first update of this trip, this is a testimony that changed my life. There was never a day in my life that I was more certain that God was with me, than the day I returned the home of David and Jackalynn Sakaja. I’ll not publish the story in it’s entirety at this time, but I would love to speak to you about it in person upon my return, and share more stories of Kenya.
Reggie stepped up after Jackalynn and spoke with great boldness and delivered so much truth and wisdom from the third chapter of James. He humbly spoke of the tongue and the power our words hold, he communicated with excellence how we could never control our words on our own but that with God it was possible. Jesus didn’t die to send us a holy spirit with tied hands. He shared with us a part of his own journey of learning to control his tongue, and how after receiving the gift of salvation that because of the power of the Living God he was able to move closer himself to the image of his creator.
Quick quickly started chapter 4 of James but he was cut short by time. He too did a Wonderfull job communicating a encouraging word from the first several verses of the chapter. We were running low on time by that point in the day, and in order to be respectful to the people of the church we had to stop by the hour of 4 pm. The crowd consists of mothers, fathers, shepherds and others that had to get children fed, animals tended, and chores done before dark and before they returned at 7 pm for the night revival being taught by the Kilgoris church.
Today was a eye opening day for me. A first not just for Kenyan ministry, but a first time to ever experience a region that doesn’t know the name of Jesus. Four homes in a row we went to this morning had no bible, they had never been to a church, they had never heard the name of Jesus.
My testimony for today is the story of a 90 year old man who for the first time heard the name of Jesus. He said he had never seen a bible nor had any idea of the story or content held within the pages. The moment he stepped into my view I was captivated by the life I could see in his eyes. They stayed squinted, the whites of his eyes were yellowed and bloodshot, the skin of his face was as old and wrinkled, but he was listening with a passion not often witnessed. He and his wife of similar age, stood and held hands, something I’ve never seen from a Massai, as they prayed to receive salvation. Their son stood watching intently and had been there as the gospel was presented, he also with a tear in his eye, stepped up and halfway through, began to pray along side his parents as they all received salvation at the same time. His wife and cousins were saved in the next few minutes and the process of discipleship started immediately. If I’m being honest I felt frustrated that I had to move past that place, I didn’t want to continue to take the gospel further into the bush at that time, I wanted to stay and teach this new family of believers all the things of the bible that I could until it was time to fly home. I would be happy to go to that place from daylight to dark for the remainder of this trip and teach those few until time to board the plane and come home. But that is the job of someone else, I’m almost envious of the man that will get to sit down with that old man and watch his eyes as he hears the story of the word of God for the first time.
Not more than 100 yards away from that mans home I was blessed to lead a young shepherd, who had been raised catholic, though the gospel, and he too prayed on the spot to receive salvation. He questioned about what came next and we were excited to see he already recognized there was going to be more to this choice than just a quick prayer. Within only minuets of my flesh wanting to stay with the old man, to teach him all I could… God confirmed that it might have been good to stay and talk with him, but it was best that I keep moving forward with the gospel.
The stories from this day might have no end, but it is time to wrap up the day here. Please join us in prayer today as we prepare for the morning that we have coming soon. Tomorrow morning it’s time to tackle the FGM, it’s time to address the culture of a proud tribe. Ill be forced to say things to these people that you’d never imagine if you didn’t get out of the USA. We will preach boldly the truth of scripture and have the discipline to leave our opinions unspoken in order to try and bring freedom to generations of young women and young men of the Massai people. If it is God’s will the messages tomorrow will prevent actual torture from being inflicted on little girls by their mothers and grandmothers. I’d be absolutely lying to tell you anything other than the simple fact that I am scared about tomorrow. I’m not afraid to be obedient, I’m not afraid that I’m not prepared, I’m just afraid that they won’t receive the Word of God…I’m afraid that I might be the plan that God has used to set them free and that I might fail. It won’t paralyze me, but make me rely totally of Jesus, and that is the best place I could be. I couldn’t imagine a better group of men to fight this with than Reggie, and the Roberts. They are a unique balance of grace, boldness, matter of fact, that God has seen fit to put here at this time, for this purpose. Rachel and Becky to speak into the lives of the women and have a compassion that men do not generally possess. God sent them here with us as well, for this day, even before time was being counted, God knew. But I will pray, and I will step into that church in the morning prepared, God has to take over from there. Failure is not an option. Allowing my flesh to get in the way is not an option. Complete submission, total obedience, a saturated reliance on the Holy Spirit to do it’s job is the only hope. Jesus is the only hope these young ladies have. I am totally unworthy and unqualified to do this, BUT GOD told me to do it anyway. Pray for me, pray for us all, pray for the hearts of the resistant, the boldness of the ones who want to fight for freedom, the West Mountain team, the Kilgoris team, pray for us all!!! Please!
We believe, we obey, and then we will see what God does and where we are to go from here.
Thank you for all your prayer up to this point. I believe it is evident that the Spirit of God has come here ahead of us, and we are seeing the harvest of the work that God has prepared for us to do together.
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