Kenya: How in one city 8,672 people received Christ
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Topic: Kenya: How in one city 8,672 people received Christ
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Subject: Kenya: How in one city 8,672 people received Christ
Date Posted: 07/05/2016 at 1:07pm
Kenya: How in one city 8,672 people received
Christ
Christians in Eldoret, Kenya, have seen a large harvest in their
city following an evangelism outreach led by partner ministry African Enterprise. The mission with the theme ‘It is time’
mobilized the Eldoret churches to stand up and take responsibility for their
city.
Over 1500 people attended the commissioning service led by the
pastors of Eldoret. From there, hundreds of mission volunteers descended on the
center of Eldoret to clean the gutters and the rubbish heaps in a symbolic and
physical act of cleansing. People passing by were amazed; why would all these
strangers suddenly start cleaning things that no one wants to
clean?
'Why are you cleaning the dirtiest places in the
city?' he asked
“A man stopped to ask us what we were
doing,” said one volunteer. “He could see that we were cleaning the dirtiest
places, places that no one else would dare to touch. I told him it was because I
once was dirty like all this rubbish, but when God came into my life he made me
clean and we want to share that with others. He decided to accept Christ right
there on the sidewalk!”
This mission is the largest in recent AE history,
with nearly 200 churches and 1400 mission volunteers involved. The city was
strategically divided into five zones - North, South, East, West and Central -
so that the Christians could effectively reach each portion of the city. As the
mission kicked off across the five zones, reports of salvations started flooding
in. On the first day in the central zone alone, 700 people accepted Christ.
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Teams were sent to nearly every school in every
zone to run programs for students. AE’s stratified evangelistic approach means
that people are reached wherever they are, whether in prison, at the hospitals,
at the market or in the slums. Every zone was reached and thousands of doors
were knocked on with the message of the Gospel.
'The
prostitutes accepted Christ that same evening.'
Even in the
evenings the mission work did not stop. One of the local teams went into the
pubs and brothels to preach the Gospel and were shown that God still works in
surprising and unexpected ways. One evening, the police conducted a raid on
prostitutes. Two of the women fled, looking for somewhere to hide and found
themselves on the doorstep of some of the mission volunteers. The volunteers
welcomed the prostitutes, gave them a meal and shared the Gospel with them. The
women accepted Christ that evening and stayed in their home until
morning.
“One morning during door to door evangelism, a man saw us coming
and began running to us,” said Joseph, another volunteer. “He knelt down with
tears in his eyes and said, ‘I want to receive salvation.’ We didn’t even preach
to him! Another woman was about to go to the hospital to try sell her kidney
because she had nothing to eat. As she prayed with us to accept Christ she
became so excited she burst from her house declaring to everyone that was
around, ‘I have been saved today!’ She will no longer try to sell her kidney as
she knows that God will provide for her every need.”
The mission
culminated at the stadium in Eldoret for one final huge rally. Although it was
raining, a chorus of voices rose from all around the stadium singing praise to
God. During the 10 day mission 8,672 people accepted Christ!
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These three women found salvation in
the citywide Eldoret mission in Kenya. They share how much their lives have
changed since then.
(Click on the image to start the video)
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