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    I returned recently to the United States from my fourth mission trip to Kenya. I had teamed up there once again with some of the staff members of Onfire Agape Ministries stationed there. We had a great time together, and I ‘m delighted to let you know about my trip.

      One of the unique things about Onfire Agape Ministries is that as an organization, it focuses on students in primary and secondary schools, introducing them to the Gospel while they are still young, and their minds still fresh, equipping and enabling them to learn what they will need when their turn comes for them to reach the lost. This endeavour is urgently needed in countries that still allow the Bible to be preached in the public schools, before they are also influenced by those who have denied their children the knowledge of their creator God by claiming the separation of church and the state.

       I arrived in Nairobi on January 14 2012, at around 8pm Kenyan time. The warm air heated by the hot equatorial climate felt wonderful after leaving the cold sub-zero temperatures of the North-Eastern United States. Kenya is a country of vibrant people, varied cultures, breath taking panoramas and prolific wildlife, yet sadly it’s story is also written in blood of colonialism, tribalism and genocide.

        I was received at the airport by some of the members of Onfire Agape Ministries. We immediately drove to the guest house they had booked for me, which was to be my place of residence during the mission trip. I was to spend the next 14 days meeting and working with the supporters of Kaiyaba primary school projects, and evangelizing in schools.

       We travelled to those schools through some of the most inaccessible roads in the Kenyan Rift Valley. We drove to the schools through pothole filled dirt roads, in and out of villages’ without churches, which strengthened our intentional resolve to continue evangelizing in those schools by all means available. The first school we Evangelized was Kaiyaba primary school, our main school of interest.

       Kaiyaba primary school is still in dire need. It is located 15 Km from Nakuru municipality. It is a coed school, and has an enrollment of 500 pupils, with two streams from standard one to eight. The school has faced many challenges, lacking basic resources like provision of classrooms, desks, water and toilet facilities among others.

1  Classrooms:  Most of the existing classrooms are mud houses, poorly situated both in the hot weather and in the rainy season. In the hot weather, the classes are filled with dust making it very difficult for the pupils to learn, and when it rains, they are flooded making them unusable.

2  Desks :  The school is in need of about 100 desks to bridge the existing gap. In many cases a desk meant for two children has to be occupied by up to five children.

3 Water:  The school needs clean  water for drinking and for cooking. The water the school currently has comes from rain harvested through rusted tin roofs which is very dangerous to the childrens' health and wellbeing.

4 Toilet facilities: The school needs good clean pit latrines. Some of the latrines have no doors, and many girls are embarrassed to share these latrines with boys, but they have no other choice.

       Life is also very difficult for the parents of the children of Kaiyaba primary school. To get their children to school is tough. They rise before the sun is up, in a house with no electricity. They carry water from long distances to bathe their children. The families often have no money for breakfast, and many parents must walk their children long distances to school before the 7am bell rings. The school report that by 11:30a.m, most children due to their empty stomachs, look too exhausted to continue with lessons whereas they are expected to go up to 4:10p.m.

     We were welcomed at Kaiyaba primary school by the Head Teacher who took us into her office to sign the visitor’s book. We gave her a laptop computer to be used by her students when the school gets electricity. Then we had lunch with all 500 hundred children in the school at the same time, for two days. This was not the feeding program that we had started, but we ate with them as a sign of our friendship, letting them know that they were not alone in their struggles, and that there were people willing to partner with them during their endeavour to get an education.

    After the children had eaten lunch, we evangelized to them using a Christian movie, which we repeated in the other schools. We had decided to tell them the story of God’s redemption through his servant Moses.

 The film showed how God used Moses to deliver the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt.

      The new King of Egypt learned that the children of Israel were of great service to the kingdom. This King ranked the children of Israel with the class of slaves who sold their flocks, their herds, their land, and themselves to the Kingdom. He therefore made their lives bitter with hard bondage. He commanded that the male children be killed as soon as they are born, and the women to work in the fields, as though they were slaves.

       When this cruel decree was in full force, Moses was born. His mother hid him as long as she could with any safety. When she could no longer do it, she prepared a little vessel of bulrushes, making it secure with pitch, that no water might enter the little ark. She then placed it at the edge of waters of the river Nile while the baby’s sister, with apparent indifference, watched to see what would happen to her little brother.

           The Angels directed the footsteps of pharaoh’s daughter  to the river, near the very spot where the innocent little Moses lay. Her attention was attracted to the little child, and she had compassion on him. She decided at once that the child should be her son, and called him Moses.

         The Pharaoh expected to exalt his adopted grandson to the throne. He educated Moses to stand at the head of the armies of Egypt and lead them to battle. Moses was a great favorite with Pharaoh’s host and was honored because he conducted warfare with superior skill and wisdom. But the Angels instructed Moses that God had chosen him to deliver the children of Israel from their bondage, which he eventually did.

     The children enjoyed the film till the end, and wanted us to continue coming back with other such films. Nearly all the children  raised their hands when we asked them whether they believed in the story of God's redemption of the children of Israel. We then explained to them that just as God had sent Moses to redeem the children of Israel, He loved the people in the world so much that many years later, about two thousand years ago, He also sent His beloved son Jesus Christ to the world to die in order to redeem the people who accepted and believed in Him from their sins that they had commited against God, so that they could have eternal life.

   It is not God's will that anyone should perish, and we appeal to you, the people of God to partner with us in spreading this message. Please pray for us that our mission may be successful,and that God's will be done through Onfire Agape Ministries.

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