It is great joy to see the gospel spreading to more people. People getting to understand the true picture of the bible. The bible materials you left is a great boost to the spreading of the gospel in this community. Most people in this community don’t know how to read and write and only a quarter of the Christian population owns bibles. This means that Pastors have a great task to make people understand the word of God. But also this poses a great challenge; most preachers and teachers lack efficient teaching materials. We thank God for these few teaching materials from Willow Creek Church. It is what is making the whole difference.
God enabled us to attend two sermons in different churches and one thing in common was that all the pastors were using teaching materials from willow creek church. We worshiped and praised together. There was a mighty moving of the Lord in these sermons.
I had hard time choosing in which church to go because almost every pastor that attended the teachings last Sunday wanted us to fellowship in their respective churches. Most Pastors were eager to share with their congregations using the bible teaching materials that they received. We decided to visit two churches today and those are Ituti and Shitsitwi Cornerstone Ministries. As you are aware this is a ministry that has more than 40 branches in this locality.
The main speaker at Shitsitwi was Mr. Raphael Indoshi, a bible college student and a member of cornerstone. We reached there at around 9:00am. Mr. Raphael had an initial plan of visiting all of the 40 plus churches to teach the people the word of God. When he received the teaching materials, He decided that he will be using them in most of his meetings. God is empowering these teachings and this is a blessing. He only taught section one and a general overview of the material and it took Him long. I think these materials are deeper and we pray that God will open the understanding of His people so that they may understand His purpose to them. We praised the Lord together and left for Ituti.
Rev. Stanley Ingoka of Ituti Cornerstone also taught section one and a general overview. We arrived there in the course of the teachings. What interested the people was the cards. Those cards I think made the congregation livelier and it made them to understand better, especially the pictures. This pastor is really a gifted teacher of the word. He taught this material fluently in Luhya, the community language. We also had much to learn through these teachings. This is the best way to make people understand the bible. Most pastors have found these materials to be interesting and very effective in teaching the word. They Plan to ensure that the teachings reaches to more people and we praise the Lord for this.
Pastors requested us to pass their thanks to you and Willow Creek Church. They greatly appreciate these bible materials. Pastor Ingoka advised the congregation to take the teaching seriously and teach them to their families. We pray that God is opening ways for these pastors to get more materials and use them to change the world to Christ.
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