Sunday, August 1st
On Sunday we went to International Pentecostal Holiness Church in the Satellite area which is under Pastor Tobias. The plan was to do the Sunday service including teaching to the youth through VBS and then having an outreach to the community.
When we arrived at the church there was a Sunday school which happened before the main service. Pastor Tobias asked us to teach the three Sunday school classes including adults, young adults, and children. Trenton went ahead and taught the adult class focusing his sermon on family and family values through Christ. The children’s class was taken over by our VBS presentation and craft time which the children seemed to love. Now what to do with the young adults was a good question, but both Trenton and Mike knew what to do and I was assigned that class.
I can definitely say that I was out of my comfort zone especially with literally 5 minutes to decide what to talk about. But the Lord is faithful and never gives us challenges that we can’t overcome. I decided to talk about the story of David and Goliath and about the challenges we face which look unbeatable. However, with the help of God anything is possible and we are all able to overcome the “Goliaths” in our lives. We started by introducing ourselves and I told them that I was 26 and from the United States. I also let them know that it was my first time to Kenya and it was such a blessing to know all of the people I had met. After the youth got done with their introductions, the local young adults introduced themselves. The first woman said that she was 26, single, and search haha. Though she was joking, I definitely have to say it caught me off guard but we all started to laugh and had a great time. After that my sharing went pretty well for what little if any prep time I had and I felt like I was able to relate with the young adults there. After I was finished we has some extra time and Heather decided to come up and share a little about keeping our eyes on Jesus. Over all it went really well and I loved sharing with the Kenyan people.
Once the Bible studies were over we all headed into the main church service and started to worship the Lord through songs. It was nice because they sang many of the English songs that we commonly sing at our church. It was an experience to see how they had personalized the songs to almost have a Kenyan style to them. My favorite part of worship was having the words to a Kenyan worship song and being able to sing along with them in their own language. Praise the Lord!!! After they finished with their worship, our worship team got up and we did a few songs. About half way through Matt got up to share. He did such an amazing job and I can see the close relationship he has with the Lord. I truly admire what he has and how God works through him. Once we had finished worship Trenton gave a great message. One of these times we will have to video his message so all can hear what a great job he does… though I know he doesn’t like videos of them haha.
After the service we had lunch at the church which was so good. It was a mixture of rice, beans, and lamb. Once lunch was over we were planning on doing the outreach to the community. However, it had started to rain and no one showed up for the outreach. The rain was nothing compared to Seattle weather and was barely drizzling, but it was enough to scare people off since the slums great rather muddy when it rains.
Before we decided to leave, many of our team members decided to play soccer with the locals from the church. It was a lot of fun to watch and cheer both teams on. That is what our Sunday looked like and praise the Lord we got to be there with Pastor Tobias.
John
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