Amazing Life Fellowship International
On one of our first trips to Africa, we met a man called George "Agai" Olendo. George was selected as a driver by a friend of ours from Kentucky who had previously known him.
We wanted George to take us across Kenya to see how we could share our lives with others in Africa. All during our trip we talked with our friend about the corporate life of Jesus Christ we were living. We didn't really notice but George was intently listening. One evening, George asked us if the life we talked about could happen in Kenya. We told him yes and over the next few months, as we traveled back to the States, George began to gather people. Three months later, he emailed us to tell us he had over 60 people meeting together in a soccer field, preaching the Gospel door to door, and trying to take care of the poor among them. George told us of his heart to see African Christians really come together as a family, sharing resources, and taking care of one another. We encouraged him. So, we began looking for ways to help them.
After a few more months, George called and asked if we could come back and help him with the people he had gathered. We said we would be delighted.
Upon our next visit with George, we saw and were appalled at the incredible needs in the slums of Nakuru where George lives. Orphans roaming the streets, begging for food, often with open and untreated sores. Children that were being used for illicit purposes. Children with no parents and little hope. In the slums of Kenya there's not even much to beg from. AIDS is rampant in Kenya. There are 1.2 million people with AIDS (about 1 in every 30 persons). AIDS widows and their children die of starvation or sickness in the slums. Mosquitoes carry Malaria and Typhoid is everywhere because of the unsanitary conditions. In the slums, people rarely have beds, much less mosquito nets to protect them at night. Our hearts were both touched and challenged to do something.
Now we are traveling to Kenya on a regular basis and watching God build a church that is run and equipped by the people of Nakuru. We come and share what we have heard and seen of this incredible Life and Love of God, and they turn right around and put his commands into practice. They are beginning to look a lot like the people in the book of Acts. God is blessing them and they are growing up into Christ.
We have started a micro-financing program that has allowed some of them to double their business and help them help each other. They now have a young people's program that is attracting young teens. The people of the Church are learning to help and support each other.
Our next trip was in August of 2010. We concentrated on helping the youth find ways of bringing their peers together and proclaiming the Gospel to them. We taught them how to help their peers walk uprightly and become productive citizens. They have a deep burden for their friends and other children who have been diagnosed with AIDS, steeped in drug addiction and prostitution. They are call themselves the "Kingdom Hikers" because they say the walk with God is a real hiking trip and everyone needs help along the way. We brought them over a hundred T-Shirts designed with the "Kingdom Hikers" logo on them to wear and give to others who would join them in following God.
In 2011 we took a trip for 3 months starting in June. Three teams came over and helped the church look together with spiritual eyes and see where God was leading them. The ladies had a conference and the men received training on how to come together and develop a friendship with one another. A weekly meeting of local Nakuru pastors began and they held their 1st pastors conference for training and coming closer together in lifting up the Kingdom of God as the body of Christ in Nakuru. The Kingdom Hikers held a Talent Show which was a phenominal display of local singing, music and love for God. The church is beginning to collect money to build a more permanent structure to replace the blue and white striped tent they now meet under. Grain distributions continue to take place each month for those in the church that are in need of food items. Clan meetings are in place and the church is coming together.
The little slide show that follows is a pictorial story of what is happening...Should this touch your heart...help us...help them... help each other.
Click on the link below to support our missions in Nakuru, Kenya.
