Trip to Kisii

The weekend of Sept. 17.-20.
Our team visited the Kisii area in western Kenya, 375 km from Nairobi.
We traveled about 5 hours by the public transportation, which was an experience in itself. During the trip we were entertained by a bus preacher who used the opportunity to collect money from some passengers, by a health product salesman, and very loud African music (the earplugs were useful). We passed through the Maasailand, very dry desert like area, since there has been a severe drought in parts of Kenya for a long time. But the more we traveled towards west, the greener the landscape became. The Kisiiland is an area with mountains, little rivers passing through the valleys between them, and everywhere there are maize fields, tea plantations, banana and avocado trees and other green vegetation.

Pastor Moses Kenyanya
received us in Kisii town. He has got to know the GGWO ministry for a short time, and met P. Schibelli, P. Kisaame, P. Haatanen etc. and visited the Uganda church in Kampala conference. Under him there are several small village churches, whose pastors desire to be trained by Greater Grace ministry. God willing, they will start a Bible School this fall there by video classes. These little churches have originally Baptist background, now they call themselves Greater Grace churches.

We visited 3 of the churches and 2 little village day schools, maintained by the believers there, during the weekend. Often the church building is used as a school during the week and for the services on Sundays. Our hearts were deeply touched by the song performances of the kids and the sincere work of the teachers in very simple circumstances without textbooks and almost no salary. P. David encouraged the staff to go on in their precious call
and Hanna taught them a Bible class using her picture materials.


We told them that in our country it is almost not allowed to teach the Bible in most of the schools, so they are lucky to receive that every day.







One of the churches were we visited was located in an interesting place. After we had taken the taxi and been driving a long way the road started to look quite impossible, stony and muddy but the African driver didn't care and managed to continue. However the road was worse and worse and it went uphill all the time. Finally we came to place, in which he admitted that we should get off and continue by foot. So we did and ended up walking maybe two more hours, going all the time uphill and the path was getting narrower, in the middle of fields and rocky slopes. We were companied by cows, chickens, and goats, who move there freely. Every now and then we passed
by local people. They either greeted us with a smile or stared at us embarrassed or afraid. Some of the younger children had never seen a white person and ran away being scared. Later we heard from some people that they believed that our skin is so thin that if you touch it, the blood will come out easily. Finally we reached the top of the mountain, where the church was. Tired but happy. We felt like eagles seeing the breathtaking view.


In the churches we had great services with a lot of singing or dancing and p. David preached Finished Work messages which were received with much appreciation and joy and we visitors
were invited time after time to come again. All the time they were asking us if the Bible classes (videos) will start for sure. After the services we had fellowship with the people. Their life circle is very small, and they have no idea of life in other countries, no electricity, running water, but what we had common with them was the love for God, his Word, and for His people. They sent greetings to the Finnish churches especially! They showed us great hospitality: we were invited
after the services to eat together a simple meal in their houses (mud huts that often had just the door as a source of light). Little note concerning the way of transportation in these places: One time we returned to Kisii town in a small car with 14 people in it.










Please pray for these people: P. Moses and his family, his brother P. David & family (below), p. Shem, p. Laurence, p. Samuel, p. Benson and others.