{"id":1346,"date":"2017-11-01T17:52:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:02:38","slug":"a-glimpse-into-rural-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2017\/11\/01\/a-glimpse-into-rural-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"A glimpse into rural Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AIC pastors from Nzaui region<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Salama, and greetings from rural southern Kenya, friends. I thought for this blog entry I’d give you a\u00a0brief look into life in the bush country of Africa. I have just returned from leading two Pathways networks in various areas, and all went extremely well with the groups as they soaked up our training in how to study, understand and preach God’s Word.<\/p>\n

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Small group interaction is vital in the Pathways program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Sunday I preached at about five different “services.” This was a youth gathering from a local high school:<\/p>\n

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Preaching for 300 young people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The testimonies were very encouraging:<\/p>\n

\"\"Pastor Dismas Kavemba \u2013 \u201cI am so humbled to be reminded to go back to the text. In our contemporary societies, so many speakers speak powerfully but not from the Bible. We need this training. May God bless you and expand this work. Let us vow we will practice what we\u2019ve been taught and as we do, we and the church will be changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Pastor Philomena Mwanzia \u2013 \u201cWe\u2019ve been blessed with these teachings. I\u2019ve been discussing with other pastors how you\u2019ve been using the Bible. It often happens that we choose a few verses and skip over others. Now we see the need to preach the entire Word.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pastor Ronald \u2013 \u201cThank you for Pathways training. We are growing step by step. It is challenging learning the Pathways steps, and yet we are making improvement. We are practicing and passing on the training so more pastors will preach the Word well.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was so blessed during my time in Kenya. I was invited to live with a Kenyan pastor named Onesmus, and his extended family, in their home for the time I was there.<\/p>\n

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Onesmus and his family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each day we rode on Onesmus’ motorcycle back and forth to the training, navigating dirt roads and trails sometimes with deep crevasses in them.<\/p>\n

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One time we took a “motorcycle taxi” and with three of us on the bike we were cozy. But the bike had no brakes (which we didn’t know when we climbed on) so on a steep part of the road the driver lost control and we crashed. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt, but it made for an interesting morning.<\/p>\n

To watch a video of us on the motorbike, click below:<\/p>\n