According to Rich...
Kibera is one of the two slums that our group goes to and evangelizes on a weekly basis. Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi with a reported one million people living in one square mile. The way the evangelism works is that one Kenyan pastor will accompany each one of us and the two, or sometimes three, of us will go out in groups and the Kenyan pastors will translate what we are saying into Swahili to those who cannot understand English. Over half the people I personally witnessed to today could understand English. I am not wanting to brag or promote ourselves, but just to give you an indication of how ripe the harvest is here, we went out for two and half hours evangelizing and between our three groups of Chris, Frank, and I there were 62 people today who prayed the prayer of salvation and gave their lives to Christ.
We don't just leave them after they have given their life to Christ, we provide them with a small book in Swahili that more fully outlines the decision they just made and their new life in Christ. There are a few questions for them to answer and if they return the book to one of the Kenyan pastors that live there in the slums, they can come to the "celebration service" we have once a month where they will receive a bible in Swahili and be invited to get involved in a church.
I have provided a couple of pictures that still only paint a small picture of Kibera. The one picture I have included of myself is with pastor Indiazi. He was involved with a church and bible college for a number of years in Singapore. He has also pastored a very large church for many years in Nairobi, and he now serves as president of Berith Bible College as well as still pastoring his own church. He is an amazing man of God and I admire him greatly.
We don't just leave them after they have given their life to Christ, we provide them with a small book in Swahili that more fully outlines the decision they just made and their new life in Christ. There are a few questions for them to answer and if they return the book to one of the Kenyan pastors that live there in the slums, they can come to the "celebration service" we have once a month where they will receive a bible in Swahili and be invited to get involved in a church.
I have provided a couple of pictures that still only paint a small picture of Kibera. The one picture I have included of myself is with pastor Indiazi. He was involved with a church and bible college for a number of years in Singapore. He has also pastored a very large church for many years in Nairobi, and he now serves as president of Berith Bible College as well as still pastoring his own church. He is an amazing man of God and I admire him greatly.
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