Onto Your Marks Get Set...Go!

Thank you brethren for your steadfast prayers! We rejoice that finally this coming week we will measure out the site as per the Architectural Plans and thereafter break the ground!

As I echoed in a previous post I am not the first one.  Others have done splendid buildings they now call home.  So I am sure that soon we will look back and be thankful that Proverbs 24:3,4 will be sight!

Some exciting events took place during the construction of the site store/office.  On Thursday, 9 June 2011 the young man seen standing here was the helper of the carpenter building our storeroom.  This helper called me and told me that he was in need to know the Savior Jesus Christ.  I sent Pst Joseph Murage and Deacon Simon Kariuki during lunch time on that day! They shared the Gospel with him and he prayed and asked Jesus to save him!!  John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him...."

 We now have completed the store which was constructed from locally available materials.  We converted our car park to provide the roofing.  Our old cow shed iron sheets provided the walling at the back.  Deacon Simon assisted in getting 10 iron sheets for the nice frontage seen on the photo.  Thanks be to God for a good friend!

The Store house is one of those extras we have realized as very important in a construction site - but not usually included in the building estimates.
The Hydraform machine will be on site in a fortnight hoping at that time we will have broken the ground, done the foundation and poured the concrete and the flooring!  Brother Noah will help with the trial blocks to test for shrinkage!

Brethren and friends we looking forward to some busy days, we pray will have have a good measurable work!

We welcome you to prayer and intercession for us!  Rejoice!


Onesmus & Millicent Kibera

Marks of a True Christian - By Kevin De Young

Marks of a True Christian: "
How can you tell the difference between a true Christian and a false professor or heretic?
Wilhelmus à Brakel in The Christian’s Reasonable Service (1700) lays down six propositions to get us started.

Proposition1: A Christian must have a great love for the truth; all splendid pretense void of love for the truth is deceit.
Proposition 2: A Christian must have great love and esteem for the church.
Proposition 3: The Holy Scriptures are the only rule for doctrine and life.
Proposition 4: Regeneration is the originating cause of spiritual life, and of all spiritual thoughts and deeds.
Proposition 5: A Christian avails himself of faith.
Proposition 6: All of man’s felicity, here and hereafter, consists in communion with and the beholding of God.

To be sure, the list could be longer, but à Brakel is trying to warn against “Quietists,” “fanatics,” and “Boehmists” in particular. In any case, propositions 1 and 2 seem particularly relevant for our day. And proposition 6 sounds like John Piper.
As you read blogs and follow folks on twitter and keep up with the latest video to go viral, be sure to save time for godly dead guys.

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Men With God And Accountability

Read a good article from Dr David McGee which is helping to answer these questions:

Do we need accountability?

Do we need accountability in Men Of God?

I am convinced that we do

Find the answers here in this good read.

Not The First One

Proverbs 24:3,4 ¶ Through wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established; By knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches.

I am not the first one, but it is our first one.  Millicent and I have been engaged in the elementary phases of the eventual construction of our family house on Plot 397, Kenyatta Drive. From the architectural drawings to the slow process of approval by our Municipal Council.  Getting the material piecemeal by piecemeal!

Saturday evening we visited with Deacon Charles Kahindo of Nanyuki Bible Baptist Church.  He has an experience of building.  He has gone through the challenges of building a house.  Detail after detail he poured in our ears until I started feeling overwhelmed.  He wants us to deal with Realities not Dreams!!! He wants us to have all the Bills Of Quantities and Materials down on paper.

Yesterday the workmen dismantled the car port for our ministry car and are moving it to the site where it will be converted into a Storeroom/Site office! Cheers! 

I thank all my friends and family that have already lent a helping hand in this project. 

Sure enough WISDOM IS NEEDED! Millicent and I need it - James 1:5 We need understanding to have it established and knowledge!

So you are all welcome to an earnest and vigilant invitation to prayer! Welcome!

Pst Onesmus Kibera

Mt. Kenya Baptist Church, Kenyatta Drive

PO Box 483, Nanyuki 10400

Tel. 254733600213, 0724626720

OKibera@gmail.com