Kazi Yake ( His Work) at Nyaigesa Baptist Church

Judy Pitt, the Executive Director of KAZI YAKE ( His Work ); an organization she founded a couple of years ago and now working alongside teams of volunteers has a great vision for ministry in the rural villages of Kenya.

Today, I extract just to share part of her great mission work in Nyaigesa village located in the south Western part of Kenya, Africa! She has helped start a Baptist church in this village to share the gospel of Christ!

Several miles away from her motherland country, the United States of America, Judy chose to obey God’s call to go and serve Him in the very rural villages of Kenya alongside very needy people. In description, she is a matriarch of great vision.

I got the opportunity to worship in the same church during the festive time of Christmas of 2009. I made several observations and identified areas of need to share:

• There is a need of evangelism and discipleship for the growth of this church
• There is a financial need to construct this church building to make it complete
• There is a need to empower this community spiritually, academically and economically.
• They need clean water may be drilling a well can do

In all, we can too obey when God is calling us for ministry and can as well support great visions like Judy’s to serve our God!!!

Above all, pray for the gospel in RURAL Kenya!!

By Vincent Mokaya

Little Dresses For Africa, Kenya!!

It is Christmas season again! Preparations to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ the Savior, the only begotten son, Messiah, Emanuel, the Morning star, the Prince of peace is on top gear. This is the time when pockets ‘talk’. People buying gifts for their loved ones and movement of people from urban areas to join families in the country side.

Ladies and gentlemen, however, in Gachie, a village neighboring the city of Nairobi, this great season is approached in a very different way altogether. Hear briefly about this village and may be marking a few items to pray for: Illiterate and unemployed youth have extended their time in drinking illicit liquor. Drug abuse like is no longer a crime as it is committed in broad day light without fear. All in the name “celebrating Jesus’ birthday’.

Majority of children in this village can sing Christmas songs but never imagine of gifts. Most of their parents have either lost their lives in crime or as a result of HIV and AIDS pandemic. This has led the village to having many guardians, mainly old, weak and poor grandparents than mothers and fathers.

Then today, when we distributed dresses that were donated by well wishers through ‘Little Dresses for Africa’ organization, it was observed that the donation was timely and well placed. One of the guardians confessed that since the beginning of the year, she has never gotten the opportunity to purchase even a second hand dress for her grand daughter due to financial lack. But for us it was an opportune time to speak the gospel and share the love of God through His only son =, Jesus Christ.

The children expressed their desire to know more about this Jesus whose love through His followers provided a dress for them. However, many had the same need but just a few managed to get at least one dress! We got encouraged so much that we wish to organize a bible club for them! We finally shared a meal and dispersed!

Winslowkids Education center Emerges the best pre-school in the community!

The day started with a very tight schedule for pre-schools here at Gachie, Nairobi Kenya! Something unusual lay ahead of the many children. An expectation. Parents/guardians accompanying their children to public schools for interviews that would see some of them getting accepted in government primary schools to be part of the beneficiaries of the free primary education program that is offered by the Kenya government.

For your information, Early childhood is so expensive in this Gachie village like many of the villages in the country as they are run privately. Considering the economic struggle in the villages, many parents opt for the government primary schools once the children have the qualifications.

With the Winslow kids education center, I got the opportunity too to experience again this time about what goes on during the interviews. In total, 176 children were able to attend today's interview in Kamuiru Primary school here at Gachie. Except the Winslow kids education center, all other pre schools are privately owned and charge fees that many villagers cannot afford.

In all God is merciful and Gracious! The Winslow kids center that has no facility performed so good that it emerged the best of all the academies that participated. The picture uploaded here bears the subject performance of one of the children from the center. He is an orphan.

Ladies and Gentlemen who value education, these children from the Winslow education center have gone through hardships for the time we have been together. They hardly have a meal for lunch and even we thank God friends of goodwill provided a uniform for these kids! In spite of all these hardships, they have really managed the interview.

For now, they are facing another challenge of acquiring a school uniform for the new school they are set to join next year.

Finally, the teachers need sponsorship for their salary allowances for the previous sponsor is unable to continue supporting them due to financial lack!
Keep these children in prayers!!

By Vincent Mokaya

A BLESSING MOMENT AT THE 'EDGE' OF 2009!

Busy moments again for the ‘towards the edge of 2009’ is here! The poor like the rich, young like the elderly, students like professionals, believers just like the pagans are busy thinking about festivities that are due in a few days!
In Kenya, the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination is in progress while those of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education are due in a week!
Besides, 26 Winslow Kids too are looking forward to be interviewed in the process of trying to secure opportunities to see them get accepted in public primary schools for first grade in 2010!

Behind the curtain of the on-going events lie a secret! A classical distinction is evident and active. The ‘haves’ and the ‘lacks’ share one thing. Just the Oxygen! In this behind the scene, the little advantaged in community never even want to remember an occasion! They hardly afford a celebration expense! When other children from able families do crafts and make Christmas ornaments to give to adults during the gift exchange and even decorate cakes and enjoy other refreshments their poor friends go sometimes without a simple meal!
But the bible instructs; "If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that" (James 2:15-16). Romans 15:26 is a great example of where funds were gathered for the needy saints in Jerusalem

For this reason, the Winslow kids Community like previous years, is preparing a sharing hour with the needy in community! During this time, for Christmas celebration, we are expected to share the birth story of Jesus Christ, share a meal and disperse clothing too to the needy members of the Community!

We have started collecting the clothing and even the funds for the meals! We appreciate the volunteers who are working with us from the community and even overseas especially to prepare dresses for girls and even donating toward the event. May God Bless us together.


By Vincent Mokaya

sautivin@yahoo.com

Mission continues in Gachie, Nairobi-Kenya!!!!

Likoni Ferry- Below

On Tuesday , July 7, 2009, 9:41a.m, part of the Wayland mission team led by Mr. and Mrs. Dr Richard Shaw arrives at Gachie west Baptist church ready, well equipped, and in full gear to serve in the children ministry! Wow! In an expectation mood, the children standing by the door to the church hall usher the team in! During the day, a variety of activities take place Romans 6:23 (the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord!) being the main scripture!
During this mission time, through door to door, out reach and evangelism, personal testimonies and the word of God are shared and a couple of people from the community accept Jesus as their savior!
In the process, Dr. Shaw and the team assisted by pastor John Nzibo presides over a child dedication service. The child Phyllis is named after one great mother from the First Baptist Church of Plain View Texas, who loves children and has a caring character!

The team winds up missions at Gachie by offering a two day free medical services and attention to over 500 hundred people from the community who to date do appreciate these wonderful services as well as longing for similar missions in future!

The Winslow Kids Community looks forward to partnering with entities and individuals of the same mind; working towards uplifting the little ones in communities! We need you in prayer most! Currently we are working on how to raise funds to purchase a plot for this education program. You can contact us for more information about this issue on winslowkids@gmail.com or sautivin@yahoo.com!

Now on behalf of this community of Kids; the Winslow kids, the staff of this education program, all participants, my family and my self do appreciate you all who made their contributions in prayer, encouragement and financial back up to make everything possible. I thank God for the love He continues to nurture in His people! Thanks in advance and be blessed abundantly!

By Vincent N Mokaya,

Gachie west, Nairobi-Kenya!

The winslow Kids Education mourns Eliakim!!

The Winslow Kids Community mourns Eliakim Okech, one of their own! This wonderful son aged 4 joined the Winslow Kids Education Centre on 5th, January,2009. He has been a source of great joy to this community of Kids. He was a very bright son. Last term, he scored very well in the end  of first term examination where he was ranked  the third best performer in his class. Before they closed for April holidays, he actively participated in the church beautification project where he planted a flower and watered it twice a day every week day along side his coleagues!

He is son to Mr.& Mrs. Okech. He was the fifth and last born in this family of five siblings!

He met his death accidentally on the 29th of April,2009. He fell to a 17 feet deep pit while playing with his young friends! The scan and Xrays indicated a severe head injury that damaged the head and caused bleeding deep into his brain. He spent four days in the ICU but all in vain.

He was finally burried today and never to be seen, heard speaking or ...... again!!  

Truly it is a grief moment for US ( the School community).Please pray for this Kids and their families! Amen!!!

Beautifying the house of God!

”Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem”:-- Ezra 7:27 New King James version BibleTwo things Ezra blessed God for:1. For his commission. If any good appear in our hearts, or in the hearts of others, we must own that God put it there, and bless him; it is he that works in us, both to will and to do that which is good.2. For his encouragement: God has extended mercy to me. Ezra was a man of courage, yet he ascribed this not to his own heart, but to God's hand. If God give us his hand, we are bold and cheerful; if he withdraws it, we are weak as water. Whatever we are enabled to do for God and those around us, God must have all the glory.
For the Winslowkids at the Gachie West Baptist church, it was their day to worship and thank the Lord for all that He has done in their lives by doing what they could; Beautifying the house of the Lord.
Despite the dry climatic conditions, the Kids have agreed to water the plants twice a day to make sure the House the Lord is beautiful. And if it pleases the Lord, then may He forgive us of our sins and on behalf of the country and shower us with rain to end the longest drought that has been experienced in Kenya!

By Vincent; Gachie West, Nairobi-Kenya