Message from the Director

All of the students except three reported on time for the February school session. These three faced challenges like children getting sick or just not being able to raise fare to school on time which is all understandable. We appreciate all that continue to pray for these students and for successful training sessions. All this would not be possible to put together without prayers.

Accommodation

All the students were booked into 7 tents with men in tents 2,3,4,5 & 6 while the ladies took tents 7 and 8. Tents 1, 9 & 10 were reserved for faculty. Paul and Fred shared tent 10, Randy was in tent 9 while Tom and Peter shared tent 2.  It was a great joy and privilege to be able to enjoy basic facilities such as toilet, shower and warm beds all which were not in place in the last school. We however faced a few workmanship issues which we tried to address in addition to the training.  All in all it was a great chance to try out our tent facilities with full occupancy and we hope we can run it in the future with minimum workmanship challenges especially plumbing.

One great testimony I want to report here is that one of our former student James Kimani called two days before the school began and offered to come serve the present class in cleaning up the tents and running errands as a way of giving back to the school because of the training he got. We praise God for such an offer which is a huge encouragement to all of us.

We also had the privilege of having our American brother Fred Moore staying with us at the tented camp and he was of great help in coordinating the repair of whatever needed to be worked on in the tents. We called him “the maintenance guy”.  We thank God that Fred could sacrifice to come.

In the December 2011 training we had to do with a make-shift kitchen, but for this school we had our kitchen up and running though some work continued in the course of the school. Basic facilities such as refrigerator, deep freezer and washing machine were also in place for this school.

The Lord also lined up for us great kitchen staff who worked hard to ensure that the pastors got all their meals in time. Both our two cooks were called William and so the kitchen was christened “William and William Café” in the February training.

Courses taught:

The Lord granted as in all other trainings great faculty for the training and the pastors were a great encouragement with a great hunger to learn whatever was taught.  Pastor Randy Larson traveled from the United States, Wisconsin; city of Sparta and the pastors literally drained him out.  He brought a great experience in ministry having served as a pastor for 29years.  The students asked questions across the board even outside his course.  Paul used him to tell the class how he did counseling as a Pastor and managed to strike a balance with other pastoral responsibilities.