Mt. Elgon
Ribbon Cutting
Mountain climbing for some folks
is a recreational sport unless you live on a mountain or you are a Missionary to
Mt. Elgon, then it become a necessity to reach the people God has put on your
heart. What is supposed to be the dry season on Mt. Elgon is
still the rainy season as it seems that El Niño is having lasting effects on
this region.
The trip up the mountain is nothing
short of breathtaking when you are slipping and sliding at extreme angles but
God has blessed with a strong truck and new mud tires that plow through mud like
a farmer plowing a field.
Once we arrived at the village of
Cheptabrubru the trekking by foot gets treacherous because your shoes get caked
with sticky mud with the first few steps, then is all downhill from there if you
know what I mean. The purpose of our climb this week was to dedicate the newly
completed sanctuary of the Landmark Baptist Church of Cheptabrubru to the Lord
for His honor and glory.
Pastor Alex and the members
of the LBC Cheptabrubru are some incredibly faithful folks as they have taken
the leadership role in reaching Mt. Elgon for Christ.
Pastor Alex & Missionary
Pastor Alex and Family
This young
church is a little over three years old and has already sent out three preachers
to the neighboring villages of Cheptandan, Chemta and Cheptkurukuru where three
more Churches have been planted as well as recently starting a new outreach at
the base of Mt. Elgon at a village called Chemondi.
Pastor Alex and these folks really
believe 'enlarging the place of their tent' and reaching Mt. Elgon for
Christ.
Isa 54:2 "Enlarge the place of thy
tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not,
lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes".
They are now in
the process of surveying the Uganda side of Mt. Elgon so please keep them in
your prayers.
Members of the neighboring Churches walked many
kilometers in muddy conditions to attend this very powerful service.
While Terry and I are recognized as their Missionaries, it blesses our
hearts to see all the praise, all the honor and all the glory given to God for
blessing them with the new sanctuary.
And while the sanctuary is
not an engineering marvel it is something very beautiful to these folks and I
believe in the eyes of the Lord.
We dedicated the sanctuary to
God as a place of Prayer, Praise, Preaching, Promise and a place where the name
of Jesus is lifted above all other names. New Sanctuary
Full House
Church Vote
Praise, Worship and Prayers of God's Precious People
Prayers of Blessings
In
closing, I want to highlight an event that took place in our work this week
without my presence, planning or prompting.
The work at Soysambu
which is a second generation outreach of the Church at Mawe Tatu Nzoia was
organized into a New Testament Church this week as Pastor Shadrach, Pastor Peter
and Pastor Japheth came together to lead this special service. Church Organization
Soysambu Baptism
Terry & Pastor's Wives
Over the last eleven months we have invested a considerable amount of
teaching into the lives of these precious folks and they have demonstrated that
they have matured into a doctrinally sound group of believers who have
covenanted together to keep the commands of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This step of growth and maturity is an answer to our heart’s prayer in
that God would help us plant New Testament Churches that would reproduce
Churches of like faith & practice without us for generations to
come.
We believe that is God’s will and that is God’s
plan.
Thank you for allowing us to share this great work that God
is doing in our lives and the lives of others here in Kenya and
Uganda.
God Bless,
Bro. Chuck & Sis. Terry Fernandez
Kenya
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