June 16, 2024 Father's Day, Worship, Outreach Event

On the way to church this morning, we spoke about "Sweetnenss'.  Each day we received some tangible item that was representative of our color, today since we spoke about sweetness, we received watermelon candy.  Our verses for this day were Psalms 119:103, 19:9-11, 55:14.

Today we attended the FEM Family Church, this church has an attendance around 3,000 members with an overflow tent for more people.  What an amazing service,  very international feel, it was heaven like.  The guest pastor that day was Hans Moller from the Netherlands, he is an architech by trade and designed the buildings for this church, there is a long standing relationship here.  It was wonderful having multiple nationalities together worshiping one God under one roof.  The service was in both English and Kswahili and one takeaway from the service is that "Kenya is the springboard for revival".  The scriptures referenced were Nehemiah 1:3 and we spoke about the rebuilding process.  what people could not do in 72 years, Nehamiah was able to accomplish in 52 years.   Hans spoke about how God is rebuilding you as referenced in Isaiah 60:1, 18.

The Lord is building walls in your life and those walls ar praise of Salvation.

Rebuilding to Host the presence of God.

John 14:20

This season is to work on self and character.  God is rebuilding wells to dwell amongst us.

God is good

With God nothing is impossible

The root structure of a tree is similar to the fruit structure of the tree.  Be planted - roots have to go into the dark, resistence work and it is dirty.  They keep pushing the roots - NO MATTER WHAT ADVERSITY.  They do not give up.  YOU should not give up.

Everyone is significant.  Everyone matters

After this service we had a quick snack, provided by the church - completely unexpected.  We had packed lunches to eat on the bus on the way to the next outreach event, but honestly, it wasn't even eaten.  

This outreach I think was one of my favorites, if that is even possible.  They are all different and yet the same.  Just like the lessons that are given to the children at the outreach events.

When the children are invited to an outreach event, they have NO idea there is a shoebox, they think they are coming for The Greatest Gift presentation of the gospel.    The shoebox gift is simply a tool for the local pastors to bring children and families in to hear about the Greatest Gift. After this presentation they find out about the shoebox gift.  

This outreach event was on the outskirts of the Massai borders.  A beautiful young lady came and recited for about ten minutes about Africa, I'm waiting on the video from a team member.  She was beautiful.

This group of children were the most filled with gratitude and love from any of the other groups.  The children could not tell us thank you enough for the gifts they received.