Friday, May 25, 2012
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Friday, April 6, 2012
Breadth from Depth
Breadth from Depth:
William Still was a gifted pastor in the United Kingdom. He has impacted the lives of great preachers in our day like Sinclair Ferguson, Ian Hamilton, and Phil Ryken. This is a quote from his book The Work of the Pastor. In our churches we need to labor for both breadth and depth. But as he asserts, the breadth, often and necessarily flows from the depth:
William Still was a gifted pastor in the United Kingdom. He has impacted the lives of great preachers in our day like Sinclair Ferguson, Ian Hamilton, and Phil Ryken. This is a quote from his book The Work of the Pastor. In our churches we need to labor for both breadth and depth. But as he asserts, the breadth, often and necessarily flows from the depth:Some of the hardest nuts to crack in the Christian world are those who have been so busy evangelizing that they have never allowed the Word to be turned upon them, and who therefore regard the Bible as a mere book of Gospel texts to hurl at others, or at least to bait them with. The sad decline in the quality of Christian life and witness in our country (United Kingdom) is largely due to the fact that the evangelical church has for several generations been a huge nursery, not only of infant babes but, much worse, grown-up babes…If our use and direction of the power and gifts of the Spirit tend in practice towards a short-sighted tactic rather than to long-term strategy, then we shall precipitate a problem that we may not have the means to solve. As a result the whole school of Christ will become one vast kindergarten, overflowing the classrooms. Nor will there be any teachers for them, because all the should-be teachers are out driving more and more infants to school. And when the teacher is away, the children play! Here then we have a school overrun, almost infested with infants, and all the monitors, guardians and teachers are out looking for more!…It is doubtless, a fine thing to be evangelistic: who is not, who deals faithfully with the Word? But it is one thing to gain converts, another to produce evangelists, missionaries, ministers—not to speak of powerful witnesses for Christ in innumerable lay fields. The church’s task is not only to gain converts, but so to build them up that they are ‘thrustable out.’
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Two New Missionaries
In the annual business meeting the MKBC adopted two new national missionaries. These men and their families are serving in two extreme locations and to diverse people groups
End of January, the pastors and
deacons presented two new missionaries for adoption for support at the MKBC.
The first one is Joseph Leleruk from
Suguta Marmar. Suguta Marmar is a
small trading center found on the way to Maralal. It is at the boundary of Laikipia and Samburu Counties. Brother Leleruk and his family were
members of Bible Baptist Church Kawangware in Nairobi. He felt the burden for his people of
Samburu. He left the comforts of the city of Nairobi where he had a job earning
him Kes 15,000 ($175). He left
with no pledge of support but a burning passion to reach his people of Samburu
(who are cousins of the Maasai tribe). He started a small congregation with the
help his pastor and church. The church that he came out of was not able to
continue supporting him. He kept
the faith though!
Our first contact with Leleruk came
with Pst Daniel Kalasinga a vateran missionary of MKBC who had gone on an
evangelistic campaign in Kirimon in that area. It was then that we made plans for him to come to the Mt.
Kenya Baptist Church, during our Missions emphasis month of September
2011.
His testimony of how he left his
comforts of the city of Nairobi where he had a good paying job to go to Samburu
was inspiring!
Our second missionary is Josephat
Misuko Nyang’au who is from the Bible Baptist Church Wendani in Ruiru, near the
city of Nairobi. He was introduced
by Missionary Ole Konnerup and there after by Pst Sudi his pastor.
Brother Nyang’au and his wife Zophia visited the MKBC in
early October 2011 for our Missions emphasis. His Church has sent him to the area of Jamuhuri in Nairobi
to start a new congregation.
Currently they have a small Bible study ministry in the said area.
It is with this that we are reminded of our participation
in the great commission Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, 20* “teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you;
and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
We will be blessed because we participated in this
commission. It is likened to that
farmer who sows seed. God will
bless with the harvest.
2Corinthians 9:10* Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food,
supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your
righteousness,
11 while you
are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving
through us to God.
God has supplied the seed through the MKBC forks and
wished that to be translated to sustainance and usefulness or fruit for
you. God will provide what you
need (Philippians 4:19) and what you
desire v 11 so that thanksgiving will be made to
God thru you! Praise the Lord!
Our prayer requests are that :
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More support funds will be available to support
these missionaries,
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The families of these missionaries will have
their needs met – not only for sustainance but also health and the education of
their children.
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That these missionaries will be empowered with
tools to enhance their Ministry work of the Gospel.
May your giving this year be translated to fruit that
remain, grace and favor in our lives that will cause thanksgiving through us to God!
Blessings!
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