June 2024
Dear Friends,
In June, we had the joy of meeting via Zoom with Millicent Awour and Prisca Nthenya, who have decided to become fulltime missionaries with Child Evangelism Fellowship in Kenya. We believe so strongly in the effectiveness of CEF’s ministry in evangelizing and discipling children, that we are paying for these dear ladies, along with two others, to attend the Leadership Training Institute’s 11-week course. This training at the CEF headquarters in Nairobi will qualify them to serve as teachers and trainers with CEF.
This month, we are featuring Millicent. She is a graduate teacher, who lives in Western Kenya with her husband, Collins, and daughter, Ivanna. Millicent teaches Sunday School and Collins is on the Praise and Worship Team in their local church. After attending the CEF Evangelizing Children and Discipling Children training sessions we sponsored last year, Millicent started a Good News Club which has 42 children attending regularly; 30 of these children have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ. Raised by her sickly mother, who struggled to provide for her family after her husband’s death, Millicent was forced to drop out of high school for lack of funds. The generosity of an acquaintance, and later her principal, enabled her to continue her studies. When she considered God’s goodness in providing her with the gift of an education, she gave her life to Jesus at a Christian Challenge when she was 15. She has been growing in faith and serving Him ever since. We are delighted to be able to fund her training and to plant a fulltime CEF missionary in the Western Region of Kenya.
Our Kenyan Team visited several charity schools in June where they shared the message of God’s love and His desire for all to come to Him through a relationship with His Son, Jesus Christ. The Amani Primary School serves 72 young children. Having no sponsors, the school is a single dark mud classroom, with only a few tables and chairs, so the children regularly sit on the floor. Yet, they are bright, happy children, who received the gifts the team gave them with joy. Golfton’s picture shows real creativity.
St. Charles’ Primary School, which started in 2007 in the Sinoko Village, has around 700 children. It is overcrowded (one classroom has 90 children) and badly underfunded. Its Head Teacher, Mr. Benard, contacted our Kenyan Team repeatedly asking for any help we could give them. He, along with the children, were overjoyed when we visited in June and gave them Scripture cards, Days for Girls kits, Dress a Girl sundresses, along with other fun and useful things. We also gave them 2 cases of Bibles (80), which are being kept in the library. The students can check them out for their Christian education classes and personal Bible study. The children especially love the crayons and coloring sheets (printed by our team) because the school cannot afford such luxuries.
In addition to leading a thriving Good News Club, Victor Mulati, dedicates each of our building projects and visits churches to deliver a message or teach adult Sunday Schools. In June, he shared the Gospel with the children and teachers at Great Hope Academy as he dedicated the water and latrine projects we recently completed there. He was encouraged that the young children have a prayer group. They shared their excitement with him that the Lord answered their prayers for water and new latrines.
July will be a busy month for us in Kenya. Caitlin Terry, with Hydromissions International, will be visiting a second time to inspect the water and latrine projects that Hydromissions helps fund. After her first trip, she gave Immaculate and Victor a glowing report on how well the projects were constructed. In addition to hosting Caitlin, the team will be finishing several building projects, making facility visits, and recruiting for the 20 teens who will go to Nairobi in December for CEF Christian Youth in Action training.
We are grateful to each of you who make our work possible by your prayers, donating items, helping, and providing financial support!! We are incredibly blessed to be able to serve the Lord through this ministry.
Blessings,
Kathy Carlin, Director Serving in Jesus Name
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