As I write this weekly journal entry it is hard to believe that the New Year 2010 is here and that Terry and I have completed our first year of mission work here in Kenya. So before I forget, let me wish everyone who reads this a Happy & Blessed New Year! With our return to the USA planned in just 11 days we are trying to accomplished as much as possible before we leave. Attendance was down a little for our weekly Bible Study here in Eldoret due to the fact that many have traveled to their home villages to spend Christmas and New Years with their family. However, we had two good meetings that resulted in another young man, named Kennedy, getting saved by God’s grace. This young man visited last week and had no idea what it meant to receive Christ as Lord and Savior or to be born again. After the meeting I spent time with him explaining the gospel step by step then sent him home with a Bible and a gospel tract. I asked him to study God’s Word for himself and then ask God what he needed to do. He came back this week and told those in attendance that he made a decision to receive Christ and follow the Lord’s teachings. Praise the Lord!
Also, one of our first time visitors named Sammy asked us to pray for his boss to allow him to attend these meetings. The only reason he was able to meet with us this week was because his boss was out of town. We united in praying that God would soften his boss’s heart to allow this sharp young man the opportunity to study his Bible and fellowship with us. Yesterday, Terry and I traveled to Western Kenya to build pews for the Church plant at Namarmabi. Three weeks ago they were able to purchase a plot, last week they were provided with a tent and I could not leave the country knowing that these precious folks were either standing or sitting in the dirt the entire service. With that said we purchased enough lumber to build seven pews.
It rained all day but thanks to the tent we set up we were able to build the pews so God’s people would have something to sit on. We enjoyed a great time of fellowship with the three Pastors who came to help build as well as Missionary John Wanyonyi from Sudan who was visiting his family in Western. As you look at the pictures be thankful for the padded high back pews God has provided for you at your Church but also keep in mind it was the best we could give them with the limited finances we have to work with. Today we traveled back to Western to attend Church with Pastor Peter and the Landmark Baptist of Ndivisi. God has truly knitted our souls together with this Pastor and His Church. While we will miss these dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ during our break it was comforting to know that
we are only going to be gone for short period of time. During the service our hearts were truly touched when they presented Terry with homemade cards and two necklaces for our daughter Carla who is graduating as a Surgical Nurse in Three weeks. The people we have worked with over the last year are some of the most wonderful Christian folks we have ever met. They truly love the Lord and others with a Love that I can hardly explain. We praise God for his plan to unite us with such Godly people to carry out the Great Commission. Before we departed for Eldoret we had the opportunity to visit Terry’s Translator Mary who gave birth to a baby girl on New Year’s Eve.
It was a foregone conclusion that her last born would be named after Terry which is the fourth child named Terry or Teresa this year.
Terry and Mary have teamed up over the last year to share God’s love through his Son Jesus Christ in hundreds of homes, even when Mary was 9 months pregnant. They have developed a bond through a kindred spirit with a burden to reach the Lost. This connection while very rare in this day and age it is one of the strongest bonds because they experience one the most powerful moments in an individual’s life, that being when a person believes by faith on the Lord Jesus Christ. There is nothing I know of short of the band of brothers in combat that produces that kind of unity. We covet your daily prayers and we also want to take this opportunity to give a special thanks to all those who have partnered with us in prayer and finances over the last year. God Bless you all!
Chuck & Terry Fernandez
Kenya, East Africa
As I write this weekly journal entry it is hard to believe that the New Year 2010 is here and that Terry and I have completed our first year of mission work here in Kenya. So before I forget, let me wish everyone who reads this a Happy & Blessed New Year! With our return to the USA planned in just 11 days we are trying to accomplished as much as possible before we leave. Attendance was down a little for our weekly Bible Study here in Eldoret due to the fact that many have traveled to their home villages to spend Christmas and New Years with their family. However, we had two good meetings that resulted in another young man, named Kennedy, getting saved by God’s grace. This young man visited last week and had no idea what it meant to receive Christ as Lord and Savior or to be born again. After the meeting I spent time with him explaining the gospel step by step then sent him home with a Bible and a gospel tract. I asked him to study God’s Word for himself and then ask God what he needed to do. He came back this week and told those in attendance that he made a decision to receive Christ and follow the Lord’s teachings. Praise the Lord!
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