This weekend, beginning today (Thursday 28th May 2009), all the way to Sunday 31st May 2009, we are holding crusades in Githurai, a town on the outskirts of our capital city, Nairobi. The crusades will be taking place from 4pm to about 7pm in the evenings.
We had been there a couple of weeks ago, and we are going to do some followup of the work that began then. We are partnering with Neema Christian Church, from Muguga, World Compassion Outreach Ministry church in Juja, and the Tumaini Community Church in Githurai.
As much prayers as can be offered are needed, and physical attendance too.
May God bless you as you partner with us in prayers.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Who do you look up to?
Last Wednesday, we held our usual staff prayers in the morning. We prayed for several things. We prayed that the Drilling Department would get contracts, that the Carvings Department would be able to do the finishing on the carvings in readiness for their sale, and that the Tent Department tents and chairs would continue to be hired and generate income for the ministry, and we thanked God for His provision of the same. You can join us as we pray for the World Mission Institute School which should be opening in June, and also for all our missionary bases, and especially our Juba Agricultural Project and building the modern university.
Erastus, the Tent Department in charge, who was leading in prayers on this Wednesday, encouraged us by reading for us Psalms 121. He said that only God will give us the desires of our hearts, and so we need to look up to Him, and not on the mountains.
Dear Friend, that is my prayer for you, that God would bring to pass the desires of your heart as you look up to Him and trust Him…and only Him, to do so.
Precious blessings!
Erastus, the Tent Department in charge, who was leading in prayers on this Wednesday, encouraged us by reading for us Psalms 121. He said that only God will give us the desires of our hearts, and so we need to look up to Him, and not on the mountains.
Dear Friend, that is my prayer for you, that God would bring to pass the desires of your heart as you look up to Him and trust Him…and only Him, to do so.
Precious blessings!
Tent Fabrication in Process
The tent department has continued to make the metal structures for holding up the tents. This is quite some dangerous work, welding and cutting up metal. But they do it gladly, and they have been keeping at it all along, and they want to see the work completed so that the big tent can be ready for its September booking.
Smiling Children...
On Tuesday, 19th May 2009, I accompanied Mary, our Operation Hope department in charge, and we went to Donyo Sabuk, a village in the Eastern Province. Here, we visited 18 orphans, giving them shoes, school uniform, blankets, lamps, “home clothes,” and mattresses, according to the need of each one.
I must confess that it was a very heart-touching and inspiring experience for me, seeing the joy on the faces of those primary school and nursery (grade school and kindergarten) children as we visited them in their schools and homes. They expressed sheer delight and joy, and it seemed to me as though the hugs they received were life-giving. God does love them…and so do we.
We thank God for our dear partners who continually support towards these children. May God increasingly bless you and fill your homes with love.
I must confess that it was a very heart-touching and inspiring experience for me, seeing the joy on the faces of those primary school and nursery (grade school and kindergarten) children as we visited them in their schools and homes. They expressed sheer delight and joy, and it seemed to me as though the hugs they received were life-giving. God does love them…and so do we.
We thank God for our dear partners who continually support towards these children. May God increasingly bless you and fill your homes with love.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Juba, the land of wonders!
INITIATED TO ACCIDENTS BY WITCHCRAFT
Recently, I, Reverend Stephen Mutune visited Juba. I found some major meetings concluding on a very rainy Monday. Someone invited me to his house to pray for him, and to my surprise, he had organized many people to be there. It ended up being a crusade, and we (together with other ministers who had been at the meeting,) prayed for many people.
We prayed for one lady who had been experiencing multiple accidents in her home. She recounted a couple of them to us. Her son had fallen with a vehicle and broken his leg and ribs, and been on bed-rest for four months. Her daughter had on a fresh plaster on her leg which had broken just that week. The lady herself had almost been killed in a road accident when a car hit her on the back. On another occasion, she narrated, “my daughter had been making my hair, and the needle that she was using accidentally went into her eye – now she is blind in one eye.” We prayed for and cleansed her home against the spirit of accidents and for divine protection for her family.
A TREE REACTED BY EVIL POWERS
As we prayed, some people tended to go towards a certain tree within the compound. The tree started reacting and sending out bees to all the people who were praying. The bees were not stinging the on-lookers; they were stinging only the people who were praying. The lady said that there had never been bees in that tree, and also told us that she had observed that whenever a mad person would come to that village, he would come and sit by that tree. She hadn’t understood it before, but now it seemed clear. We rebuked the bees and they went.
SATANIC TREE
Another lady that we prayed with told us that she had bought a piece of land but had always felt restless about it. There had been a huge tree in the compound which she decided to have brought down so that she could build. To her surprise, the tree stood tall as ever the following morning after it had been brought down. She got really scared, and has never tried to cut it again or build. She believed that such things could only be handled by prayer. So we prayed. I reckon that traditional religion is bad. Her pastors had been coming, and in robes offering prayers and sprinkling water, but nothing had changed. We advised her to cut the tree, believe it won’t grow again, and when she decided to cut the tree to call the preachers with whom we had been praying.
ADBUDCTED BY THE LRA
The Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army usually abducts people in Sudan. The men rape the abducted women and force them to marry soldiers in the bush. When someone is abducted in that community, the person usually does not return because the abductors torture and kill that person. Robert’s relative had been abducted, but she did come back, albeit confused and demon possessed with no coordination with which to tell how she escaped. After we prayed for her, she was able to tell us that she came back through the forest. It is as if God blinded the abductors, because they usually kill anyone who tries to escape, and they did not see her as she escaped! That’s a miracle! Continuous prayers had been held on her behalf for protection and eventual return. The family reunion brought great joy and a number of people got saved.
LAND
ACMI received land from Kuda community, and 80 acre piece of land for the vision of Agriculture, education Institutions and a modern university. The clan elders also said that if we utilized that piece of land well, they could give us more land.
TEACHERS AND NURSES NEEDED
People are returning to Sudan from Kenya and Uganda in large numbers. The city’s population is growing rapidly. This creates a growing need for teachers, and nurses. Well-wishers are also welcome to partner with ACMI in the Agriculture Project, as well as building the educational institutions among them a modern university. For details, please email us at acm@missionsafrica.org.
Let us stay in prayer for Juba.
Blessings,
Rev. Stephen Mutune.
Recently, I, Reverend Stephen Mutune visited Juba. I found some major meetings concluding on a very rainy Monday. Someone invited me to his house to pray for him, and to my surprise, he had organized many people to be there. It ended up being a crusade, and we (together with other ministers who had been at the meeting,) prayed for many people.
We prayed for one lady who had been experiencing multiple accidents in her home. She recounted a couple of them to us. Her son had fallen with a vehicle and broken his leg and ribs, and been on bed-rest for four months. Her daughter had on a fresh plaster on her leg which had broken just that week. The lady herself had almost been killed in a road accident when a car hit her on the back. On another occasion, she narrated, “my daughter had been making my hair, and the needle that she was using accidentally went into her eye – now she is blind in one eye.” We prayed for and cleansed her home against the spirit of accidents and for divine protection for her family.
A TREE REACTED BY EVIL POWERS
As we prayed, some people tended to go towards a certain tree within the compound. The tree started reacting and sending out bees to all the people who were praying. The bees were not stinging the on-lookers; they were stinging only the people who were praying. The lady said that there had never been bees in that tree, and also told us that she had observed that whenever a mad person would come to that village, he would come and sit by that tree. She hadn’t understood it before, but now it seemed clear. We rebuked the bees and they went.
SATANIC TREE
Another lady that we prayed with told us that she had bought a piece of land but had always felt restless about it. There had been a huge tree in the compound which she decided to have brought down so that she could build. To her surprise, the tree stood tall as ever the following morning after it had been brought down. She got really scared, and has never tried to cut it again or build. She believed that such things could only be handled by prayer. So we prayed. I reckon that traditional religion is bad. Her pastors had been coming, and in robes offering prayers and sprinkling water, but nothing had changed. We advised her to cut the tree, believe it won’t grow again, and when she decided to cut the tree to call the preachers with whom we had been praying.
ADBUDCTED BY THE LRA
The Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army usually abducts people in Sudan. The men rape the abducted women and force them to marry soldiers in the bush. When someone is abducted in that community, the person usually does not return because the abductors torture and kill that person. Robert’s relative had been abducted, but she did come back, albeit confused and demon possessed with no coordination with which to tell how she escaped. After we prayed for her, she was able to tell us that she came back through the forest. It is as if God blinded the abductors, because they usually kill anyone who tries to escape, and they did not see her as she escaped! That’s a miracle! Continuous prayers had been held on her behalf for protection and eventual return. The family reunion brought great joy and a number of people got saved.
LAND
ACMI received land from Kuda community, and 80 acre piece of land for the vision of Agriculture, education Institutions and a modern university. The clan elders also said that if we utilized that piece of land well, they could give us more land.
TEACHERS AND NURSES NEEDED
People are returning to Sudan from Kenya and Uganda in large numbers. The city’s population is growing rapidly. This creates a growing need for teachers, and nurses. Well-wishers are also welcome to partner with ACMI in the Agriculture Project, as well as building the educational institutions among them a modern university. For details, please email us at acm@missionsafrica.org.
Let us stay in prayer for Juba.
Blessings,
Rev. Stephen Mutune.
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