Dear ITEM Partner, I am now in the Nairobi airport lounge waiting for my flight to Amsterdam that leaves at 11:50pm (1:50pm PDT). I hope to land in Portland about 11:25am Tuesday. This is more of an addendum to my time in Mombasa. Mombasa is a tourist town, although I didn’t really see the touristy […]
Dear Friends and Family, My trip finished with an encouraging meeting with Pastor Stephen Anyenda of Nyali Baptist Church in Mombasa. Pastor Stephen is the moderator for the Southern Baptist churches in Kenya. He said the number of Southern Baptist churches are between 1500-2000. We have had two seminars at Ridgeways Baptist in Nairobi and
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Hello Everyone, Today, Saturday, has been a travel day. I moved from Nairobi to Mombasa. Everything has been smooth today and I am set up in a very nice room. Mombasa is a vacation spot on the Kenyan coast. But what I saw surprised me a bit. Steven Mzungu is with me. Steven organized the
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Dear ITEM Partner, Friday has been a day to sort through things, take care of final Nairobi financial details, prepare for my weekend in Mombasa and start planning for the trip home, which begins Monday, 7AM Pacific time in the US. With no meetings today, I thought I’d use today’s post to share some of
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Dear ITEM Prayer Partners, The numbers we expected this week never showed up but those who came seemed highly motivated at the seminar to join the ITEM team to spread this training around Kenya and to see the church’s spiritual dept increase through the serious, systematic teaching of the Word and plans have already started
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Dear Friends and Family, Today was a different day. We spent a lot of time interacting with the pastors in attendance. And some of the topics of discussion, which were actually outside the normal curriculum, ended up being some of the most instructive times today. One thing Nathan said today that I’ve heard him say
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Dear ITEM Partner, The first day of the Nairobi seminar is complete. We are doing the exact seminar here that we did in Lagos last week. Assisting me this week is Dr. Nathan Chiroma, ITEM special assistant. As you remember, he is the one who was a student of mine all the way back in
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Hi Everyone, It’s been a (mostly) relaxed weekend. Saturday was a pretty stress free travel day. Joel left, Friday, and it took him 90 minutes to get to the airport. I left for the same airport about the same time Saturday (6:45am) and it took me less than 30. That is the difference between Friday
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Dear Friends and Family, I had two potentially strategic meetings today, Friday. One was with our seminar coordinator about some potential doctrinal differences that could pose challenges as we move forward. The other was with the founder and Communications Director of West Africa Theological Seminary. I went to possibly discuss the possibility of a partnership,
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Dear ITEM Partners, The Lagos seminar has ended. It was a fun day and a good day. After excitement on Tuesday, followed by questions and concerns on Wednesday, God provided clarity, I believe, today. But the real fun was a belated 70th birthday celebration! TODAY’S LECTURE LINEUP Joel started the day with a lecture on
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