Missionaries Fernandez

Brother Don Preaching....

The Group from Texas has come and has gone, please pray for their safe return as they are in the process of flying back to the USA as I write this post.   With so much taking place over the last ten days I am afraid that I need to record more of journal log instead of first person narrative entry which is my usual style.   So here we go.

The week began traveling back from the Kerio Valley only to return to Eldoret to do laundry and repack for the coming week of activity.  

This is the less glamorous part of mission work but none the less important. Our first stop would take us to the base of Mt. Elgon and the Landmark Baptist Church of Mayanja where we help the church family start the process of building the brick walls. 

The Church has patiently and persistently formed and baked bricks over the last two years and finally arrived at the stage where they were ready to move forward.  Our Texas building team did an excellent job of teaching our Kenyan brethren the techniques and methods we use in American. 

Pastor Jamie....

Kevin Dockins

Nick Wheeler

Bubba Bricks

Building 

Bigger Hammer

Missionary Digging

Kevin Dockins

Kevin Dockins

 Resetting Posts

Finished Stage One

Ladder

Measuring

Loading Trusses

The next day was the beginning of our two day Pastors seminar which afforded our visiting Pastors Don Moore & Jamie Hogan to teach twenty of the men of God we have been working with during the last six years.   Bro. Don taught our men on what it means to be a man after God’s own heart, security of the believer and justification while Bro. Jamie taught on stewardship and training up a Timothy.   While I love teaching and investing in the lives of our men, it was good for them to be taught by other men of like faith and doctrine in order to give them another perspective. 

We were also privileged to be joined by Bro. John Wyonyi & Bro. Steven Labolia who are both Kenyan Nationals and are currently serving as Missionaries to Southern Sudan.   They did an excellent job of teaching on missions. 

While the Pastors where teaching at the seminar, the rest of the Texas group help me organize and collect building materials to be taken to Lake Victoria for the start of two new sanctuaries

Seminar

Immediately following the seminar we traveled to Lake Victoria for three days to start the building process at the Landmark Baptist Church of Wichlum and the Landmark Baptist Church at Got.   This is when things got interesting and we all could sense the spiritual temperature being ramped up on the battle field. 

There are very distinct times in ministry that you are able to discern how real and intense the battle for the souls of lost men is and you must persevere through very intense satanic attacks for the glory of God.

Some might call it “Murphy’s Law”, but for those of us doing God’s work this week, we knew exactly where the problems were coming from. 

My mind was drawn back to Nehemiah as he had to fight off the attacks of Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian while rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.  I have a vivid mental image of Nehemiah with a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other while fighting off the attacks of the enemy.

The Bible uses words like: buffets, tempts & hinders to describe the attacks of Satan on God’s people.    During the four years we have been working at Lake Victoria I have never experienced such difficulties, problems and frustrations as we had to endure this week.

With all that said, the Bible also says,

  1Co. 15:57  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

 We overcame flat tires, stormy weather and building material issues to complete the first stage of construction at both Churches.

 In addition to building we were able to do get some house to house evangelism done in Wichlum where we saw three people make professions of faith.

 I thank God for sending our brothers in arms from Texas whom have been a huge blessing to this Missionary and our brethren here in Kenya. 

They have maintained a solid Christian testimony before the saints here in Kenya and they have truly lived up to their Texas reputation of being hard working and God fearing.

Thank you for taking time to allow us to share this trail of faith that we are traveling on together.

To God be glory, great things he hath done!

Bro. Chuck  & Sis. Terry Fernandez
Kenya
Phil. 4:13