Our Second Stop - Kenya 2019

Acts 1:8

"But you shall receive power when the Holy
spirit comes upon you; and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and is all Judea and Smmaria, and to the end of the earth."

Bible school at Mike & Pat's house in Meru~

After spending about a week in Kitali we will go back to Nairobi.  Our second stop of the trip will be the Meru District. Meru is in the mountains where Mike and Pat started their ministry about 15-years ago. The climate is like Colorado.  Many people think Kenya is hot but it's not.  I wear a jacket in the morning and evening because it is cool, not hot.

Pat, Mike & Linus

Mike and Pat started by rescuing kids on the street.  I'm not sure how many they have rescued over the years but they have many success stories. There are always at least 15-20 teens running around the compound.  Mike and Pat raise these kids to be ministers for the Gospel.  Many of them attend the bible schools they have started. All have the opportunity to get an education under Pat's leadership.

Mike & Pat on the long, bumpy road to Pastor Stanley & Mary's house~

A few like Stanley, the Central District Director, begin teaching in the schools. His brother Dennis, who will be our guide and interpreter, began teaching at fifteen.  He is now the assistant director of Mike and Pat's ministry.  It really is a family affair in Kenya, Mike and Pat unofficially adopt these kids and make they their own.

I love the Meru District.  It is the small beginning of a great ministry in Kenya. I like Pat's saying; "Just common ordinary people doing extra ordinary things for God". All of the directors of the district have come from the bible school in Meru. The ministry headquarters used to be the bible school.  Now, there is also an apartment where we stay.

The school in Meru has so much potential for leadership development.  Both with church planting and future bible schools. The vision of The Heart of God Ministries, is to go to the rural communities and plant schools in churches which already exist. The more leaders we can develop, the more schools we can plant in the churches in Kenya.

Linus, Pastor Stanley & his wife Mary~

Stanley and Mary are pastors of a life giving church in the district.  They are also district Director's.  Mary is a fantastic teacher of the word and Stanley was not only one of the first kids raised up in the ministry.  He came out of one of the first schools Mike & Pat started & had been preaching the gospel since.  I met Stanley on our first trip in 2008, when we helped plant the second school for the ministry.

Pastor Steven's Bible College in Isolio

 I have met so many promising graduates!  When they get a hold of the message, they become the messengers God intended them to be.  As with a box of chocolates, you never know what is going to come out of the central District.  I'm really excited about being with Mike and Pat for our week in the Central District.  It is truly is the Heart of God.