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Nairobi: A truckload of flour
Written by Peter Youngren on March 18, 2009March 18, 2009
I’m in my room now recuperating from the morning sessions and getting ready for the evening at our Pastors’ Gospel Revolution Seminar in Nairobi. We have delegates from every district in Kenya, as well as Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. Scott McIntyre from Celebration Bible College and Mary Felde from Oslo Christian Center are sharing in the teaching with me. When I say “recuperating” I don’t want you to think I’m sick. I inherited open pores genetically from my mom and grandfather, which means I perspire very easily; it really “pores” from me. When I preach in hot climates I get myself near dehydration after every session. So to recuperate is to fill up on H2O and get my electrolytes back; we have a lot do yet today.
On the opening day of any seminar the focus is on helping the pastors discover the New Covenant of God’s grace and who Jesus is in them. So many have tried every revival and breakthrough technique, and are discouraged. When we reveal Jesus in His fullness they experience great freedom. I don’t even talk about reaching their nation for Christ until I see the pastors really enjoying Jesus on a personal level. I’m sure it works the same way for you. We have to first taste and see how good Jesus is.
Every Gospel outreach is full of surprises and today has been no exception. When we landed, the local newspapers were filled with reports of a disastrous famine in the northeastern part of the country. I took the initiative of purchasing several tons of flour in 2 kilo bags, filling a whole truck and sending it to those worst hit. This was completely outside our budget, but I felt we were to do this. Well the media heard of it and met me at the conference center before I started to teach. Then, while I was teaching, a delegation arrived from the members of parliament representing the famine area. They wanted to thank World Impact Ministries for our help, so here we had another press-conference with a lot of media present. I’m sure our loaded-down truck with food will be in every newspaper tomorrow, together with the message about the cross of Jesus, which I gave to the media. I take every opportunity to share God’s love through Jesus (Thanks partners!).
One of the journalists asked me if I could help the country with the problem of tribalism, which has led to Christians killing other Christians of a different tribe. I explained how the cross of Jesus tore down every wall of separation between people groups. Of course for the cross to take its effect we have to preach it, and that is what we are stirring the pastors to do.
Megen Thurber, our tv producer, just sent me a message, while I have been writing this blog. A muslim priest was in the seminar this morning and got saved. He is now telling the pastors, “I want to preach Jesus like I heard so beautiful today”. Megen said she interviewed him and it’s really fantastic. Well, I will find out more. It’s just mid-afternoon in Nairobi, and a lot can happen yet today. Thanks for your prayers and support. -Peter
Babu Ninan
~ Ontario
Dear loving Pastor,
Thank you for the blog. We are praying for you. Tonight at the mid-week prayer service we will be as a congregation praying for you.
Thank God for your vision & initiative. May Jesus Christ be glorified.
Sincerely,
BN.
Bonnie Brent
~ Ontario
Bless you all !!!!!!!!!!
Teresa Jones
~ home
Praise the Lord! How great thou art!
sandra rothwell
~ st. catharines, ont.
Bless you Pastor Peter and may the Lord use you in a MIGHTY way. Praying for you.
M Poulsen
~ Ontario
Peter thankyou for the Blogs they keep us up to date and keep us praying for you and team there. It can’t be easy travelling all the time and changing time zones however God has you on a mission and He will see it through and you through. God blessed you and your family and God’s work.
M. Poulsen
Sumbul Bashir
~ Karachi, Pakistan
Good Day Brother Peter! Praise the Lord for He has filled your heart with His Love and Compassion for His people. That’s really a work of God’s Great Power being revealed in such a grief sticken area where you are preaching. Thanks to God for lifting you up with such testimonies and a lot more than what you expect is to come your way by HIs power.
Be Blessed Brother.
I am praying fo ryou.
Carina jensen
~ Kungsängen, Sweden
Wonderful to be able to “follow you” on your trips! It reminds me to pray for you and gives me a better about WHAT to pray for! You’re on the right track - absolutely! Pastors need to understand and experience God’s love and grace and THEN pass it on! “There’s gonna be a revival in the land”! Excited to hear more about the newly saved muslim priest! God bless you!
Sharon
Thanks for taking the gospel to my continent of origin. Jesus’ love truly is amazing and He is the answer to every need. Thanks for revealing Him so much more to us!
timdec
~ Toronto, Ontario
Peter you are a good man!
Pamela
~ London, ON
The timing of the friendship festival coinciding with this famine provided an opportunity to give tangible assistance to a desperate and starving people. This expression of love will surely soften the hearts of the people in the whole nation of Kenya and prepare many to receive the gospel of the grace and love of Jesus Christ. God’s timing is always perfect. He is using this ministry to bring people from death to life physically and spiritually.
Grace penuel
~ denmark
I know that God is using you. i have read your book on healing, and have read so many others before.the revelation in your book is very different and such a blessing. I am a believer, originally from Kenya but now living in Denmark.
Shalom.
pastor judy auma
~ Kisumu Kenya
i praise GOD so much for you peter am blessed so so much with your ministriy .we welcome you back we were set free from bad prophecies this is true.
I love to here God is NOT ANGRY WITH KISUMU KENYA that is much healing for the church of Christ
Ewans
Resources like the one you mentioned here will be very useful to me! I will post a link to this page on my blog. I am sure my visitors will find that very useful..
Regards,
Attiq
~ Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
May Allah Bless All
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PTOL
~ Ontario
Well well, looks like a bit of an about-face - this is good. In a previous blog Peter said “...what’s the point of giving someone a bowl of rice or education, roof over their head and a good family life without their souls being saved?” I propose the point of meeting a physical need is that people will ‘see’ that you actually care about them. Would we have ‘seen’ that God loved us without a physical expression of that love (ie: Jesus Christ in the flesh being who He was and doing what He did for us)? No - if it was just words spoken or text written, it would have meant little or nothing. Without a physical expression of love, love doesn’t truly exist.
Even Jesus fed food to the masses who were following Him to hear his words - IMO, if we have the means, we should too.