I arrived in Mombasa on Sunday 26^th, September 2021, I can tell you it was difficult to handle the hugs I received from young men and women gathering in Amani Acres Madafu Retreat Center where our ministry is based.

After every hug, the following question was “when is your wedding? LOL!!!

 This youth group gather in Amani Acres every Sunday from 9:00AM to 5:00PM, where they do Wisdom Discovery (a Bible Study on the book of Proverbs), they also receive different help in their academics (free tuition), and they do talent show and development, and receive guidance and canceling through one on one interaction.

I am thrilled by how God is changing their lives through these programs. Through these programs, we have built connections with their families, and in some families we already have weekly Discovery Bible Study.

We have another group of 10Students from families that we disciple who are studying in Ukambani (491Km from Mombasa) who were in a short holiday of two week (01-11^th September). I have had a chance to visit them and spent one week together in Ukumbani where our colleague Mary opened her house to host them for that short break, since bringing them to coast and take them back would have costed their parents.

Within this one week, we studied the word of God together, pray together and had fun.

Osman and Fatuma are the ones who went to school when they were still resistive to the Gospel. I was very humbled by listening to Osman’s struggle of his new identity in Christ. It was my privilege to give him some wisdom on how one can disclose to his family and friends his new found faith. Fatuma also was the one who was leading worship songs during our evening devotion.

With all this, I have learned and understood Zachariah 4:10 “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand (NLT).” The work that God himself has started in Coast through us faces many challenges but it is unstoppable.

Pray with us that God increase our strength and wisdom to accomplish the work he intends to do in the young men and women that are in our hands.

Pray for the families that we are engaging to receive the Gospel and believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour not just as a beloved prophet.

Keep me in prayers as I continue the arrangements to relocate my Ministry from Mombasa to Tanzania/Tanga in the next year. I believe that having got a gift of a Tanzanian fiancee was an answered prayer that we prayed for Tanga town

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