The Shop, Making Fishers of Men & Old Friends

Long Muddy Day.....

Much of this week (3 days) has been spent with the Land Rover in the shop. Brakes, fuel lines, locks and a hole in the intake were all on the list of needed repairs in what has become a weekly pilgrimage to the repair shop. There are many times that I will make the needed repairs myself but this week I believe my time was better spent tending to ministry needs rather than being greased up under the hood of the truck. Besides, the men that work on the Rover are part of my weekly Eldoret Bible fellowship and are very good mechanics. Parts for this English built truck can be hard to get and rather expensive but considering the pounding the truck takes on Kenyan roads, trails and paths, even at nearly twenty years old the Land Rover has been pretty dependable. The men that attend our weekly Eldoret Bible study are really growing in the Lord.

It was pretty awesome to see these men have special prayer over the young man named Kennedy who has surrendered to the ministry and has traveled this week to a fishing village near Lake Victoria to lead and train a group of new believers there. Please pray for him as he follows God’s leading to carry the gospel to his tribe. When we got the Rover out of the shop we traveled back to Mt. Elgon for evangelism in a village called Namarambi. God was really watching over us on this trip as there was a tanker hauling gasoline that rolled over in front of us blocking the road. The driver was unhurt but thousands of gallons of fuel were pouring onto the road and into the ditches where locals were trying to scoop it up with everything from plastic bags to milk cartoons. We decided to make haste and get away from the tanker as fast as possible due to the fact that over one hundred and fifty people were killed last year when a tanker rolled over and ignited killing all those within the immediate area. It was the first time I have ever driven through a river of gasoline to get away from danger. God answered our prayers and gave us traveling mercy once again. 

Coming alongside the new Churches for evangelism continues to be a high priority of our ministry.

I think the old Preacher, William Sanster said it best when he said,

“On his way to preach the gospel the most modest man may whisper to himself, 'Nothing more important will happen in this town this week than the work I am about to do.' ”

God is not willing that any should perish but I often wonder if we have the same kind of will. While you cannot put a price on the value of a soul we are increasingly seeing the bigger picture of our ministry and that is training the people to do evangelism. There were over thirty of our brethren that came out for evangelism. You know that God is really moving in the hearts of His people when you can get thirty Christians to get out and share the love of God through the gospel.

Part of the Team

 

In heaven they say: "Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God forever and ever! Amen!"   Terry led a team of four women that had a great day in the village.

One More Soul

 

These women have never had another woman to personally teach them how to live the Christian life and serve the Lord. They continually tell me how much they love her and what a difference she is making in their lives. My personal ministry is blessed and compounded tenfold because God has given me a help met that is able to mentor and teach the ladies and children.

Celina Believes

 

I led a team of seven who listened and watched intently as we taught them how to become fishers of men. Great Christians over the years have invested in our lives and taught us how to become fishers of men and now we are simply committing to faithful men the things that we have been taught, who shall be able to teach others. Many professed Christ and also made commitments to follow Jesus in scriptural baptism next week. One of the members of our evangelism team was a young Turkana Pastor named Steven Lobolia Echom who was visiting Western Kenya.

 Steven Lobolia & Pastor Peter

We met Steven in 2006 during our survey trip. His heart for the Lord and the lost made an immediate impact on us. God is using him to do a great work in an area near Lake Turkana and it was a real pleasure to spend some quality time with him while serving the Lord together again. Thank you for your continued prayers as we feel them and see them being answered on a daily basis.

In His Service,

Chuck & Terry Fernandez

Kenya, East Africa

Phil. 4:13

Journal Blog: missionarieschuckterryfernandez.blogspot.com