Kenyan Church Development, Evangelism & The Florida Plant

  

Missionary Church planters have the unique opportunity to create an awesome history for the glory of God through the birth and development of Churches unlike any other group of people.   This week has been another truly historic week for Terry and I as we follows God path for our ministry and lives.   As we are toiling and tilling new ground here in the USA, Pastor Peter and Pastor Shadrach have continued the work that Terry and I started in the village we affectionately call M-3 or Mawe Tatu and the fishing village called Misory.   As you can see from the pictures, they were able to install the posts and trusses for the new sanctuary at Landmark Baptist Church of Mawe Tatu.

Over the last six months the Church family has been making and baking bricks for their new permanent sanctuary.   It is very important for us to be reminded that each church we partner with has a significant investment into these projects and I can tell you that their investment not only included the labor intensive process to make the brick but also sacrificial giving to buy wood and items to fire them.  When you look at it relative to a people who make an average income of around $40.00 per month, it is significant.   In any case, our hearts are blessed to see another new sanctuary #14 rising from the ground to become a meeting place for God’s precious people.    In addition to construction, our Kenyan Brothers returned to the fishing village of Misory which is located at Lake Victoria for follow up and evangelism.   These follow up visits are so important to confirm the souls that were saved as well as educate those new converts.   This provides us with the opportunity to find a God called man to start a Bible Study in His home.   This is exactly the method the Apostles used and the pattern we have followed over the last seven years.    God has provided one such man name Meshach whom we led to Christ in January. 

Meshach, Pastor Shadrach (in blue) And Family

He has started a bible study in His home and we don’t know if it will develop into another New Testament Church but we do know if converts are not followed up with they will fall by the wayside.   They also saw eight more people make professions of faith in Christ at Misory.

Back on the American mission field, Terry and I have been praying and planning another Church plant in the village of Brooksville, Florida.  This tribe is a very strange tribe but this is the home our three children and our seven grandchildren and will be the seventeenth Church Plant we have been involved in.  With Terry being providentially hindered through the health issues she has experience since the day we arrived in Kenya in 2008, we have been forced to re-evaluate our lives and ministry and ask God as Paul did, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do”?   We have been blown away by what God has done with us and thru us in Kenya and Uganda since the inception of our work there but the entire time we have looked back across the ocean at the spiritual decline of our great country with heavy hearts.   We do not believe that God is done with America and we would love to lead a new and fresh Church planting movement again.   Through much prayer, God has confirmed that this is His perfect will for our lives and we are committed to doing His will, no matter the cost.   To that end, we had our first unorganized meeting with thirteen members of our family as well as thirteen friends, acquaintances and brethren who have come to us while we have been home on medical leave and expressed an interest in doing what we have done in East Africa in Church planting.

Please pray for us as we move forward with Kenyan/Ugandan Church development while planting a scriptural New Testament Church in Brooksville, Florida.
We fully understand that not everyone will share our vision and burden but please understand that we need your prayers and support now more than ever as we continue to press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus.
I will also continue to travel back and forth to Kenya/Uganda to encourage our Churches and Pastors there as time and finances allow.
Thank you for your expressed love and support and feel free to email me or call me with any questions concerning the history of Church planting God is allowing us to be a part of .
Our email is the same: missionaryfernandez@gmail.com
                                   and my stateside number is (352)-277-1753. 

God Bless You,

Bro. Chuck & Sis. Terry Fernandez
Kenya/Uganda/Florida Plant