Teaching & Students
Where did the
week go?
I am sure that many of you traveling this journey of faith together
with us could echo those same sentiments.
In any case, the Word
of God reaffirms what we already know in our hearts with regard to the brevity
of life.
James_4:14 "Whereas ye know not
what shall be on the morrow.
For what
is your life?
It is even a vapour, that
appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. "
This week
we managed to install purlins atop the new sanctuary at Landmark Baptist Church
of Soysambu.
Pastor Japheth and wife, Nancy
Truss Work Crew
Pastor Japheth’s testimony could
best be described as a man running from God.
He had exposure to
religion through Catholicism while traveling Kenya building bridges and
buildings. He was a professed Catholic of forty years but did not
attend mass and was known as the village drunkard.
During our
first evangelistic crusades into His village in 2009 he would spot us coming
from afar and literally run out the back door of His home. It
would take two more visits to His house in order to catch him and it would be
during one of those visits he would stop running from God and accepted Christ as
His personal Lord and Savior.
He then followed
Jesus in scriptural baptism and became a faithful member at the Landmark Baptist
Church of Mawe Tatu where he would serve under Pastor Shadrach and ultimately
surrender to God’s call on His life.
Pastor Japheth is somewhere
in his early sixties but is one of the best students we have seen God call to
preach in our work. He speaks six or seven languages but most
importantly he is a great Bible student and Teacher.
Pastor Japheth
is also a man that brings a diverse background in construction and is the one we
depend on for a significant part of our construction planning. He
and wife, Nancy, are working diligently to reach the people of Soysambu with the
good news of the gospel and make solid disciples of their converts.
Please pray for them as we labor together.
Sometime during construction, Terry injured her leg by pulling a muscle
and has been in much pain this week.
What we do has become such
common place that there are times when I believe we, or maybe I should say, “I”,
take the hazards of it all too lightly. Our working
conditions are often on steep, rocky terrain and injuries like this one brings
one back to the reality that this work is tough and not for sissies or maybe I
should say, not for old people.
Good thing we are young and only
have four grandchildren with one on the way. LOL.
In addition to
the injury, Terry suffered from intestinal issues but yet somehow manage the
fortitude to travel up Mt.Elgon for Sunday service. Mt. Elgon
We enjoyed a full day of worship with our
Mountain Maasi brethren at the Landmark Baptist Church of Kipsigon.
Each time we visit these mountain churches our hearts and minds are drawn
back to our initial visits in 2009 after tribal clashes that left over twelve
hundred dead in this area of Mt. Elgon.
Terry & Mama
It is dry
season now on Mt. Elgon, at least until next month, but that did not make the
trip up the steep rocky trail of a road any easier.
This trip
afforded us the opportunity to visit with seven of the thirteen Pastors in our
work, all at one time. Pastors
We made so many
evangelistic journeys up the mountain during those early years that our truck
became known as the “Mt. Elgon Express”.
The Spirit was sweet
during the worship service but possibly the most moving moment came at the end
of the service when the entire Church family prayed over a mentally ill
man.
Thank you for your love, prayers
and support .
In His
Service,
Bro. Chuck
& Sis. Terry Fernandez
Mt. Elgon, Kenya
Mt. Elgon, Kenya
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