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Lots of good news:
1. I finally got the letter of authorisation from the city council to do my research and went straight to the school I had identified and the headmaster granted my every request. So, I’m doing the fieldwork there in 2 weeks time
2. The other private school have also granted me permission and I’m starting the research there tomorrow.
3. God has used me to heal 6 more people this week
4. I waded through water over ankle-deep for 30mins to get to bible college on Thursday and made it alive!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
I am doing well and still loving life out here (despite the rains). I have completed the analysis of the data I collected from the research in one primary school in Kibera, but have reached a lull, because I still haven’t got permission to do research in the other two schools. One in particular is proving very frustrating, because it’s a city council school so the Head-master wanted a letter of authorisation from them first. I’ve now been to the city council 6 times and still don’t have the letter! The bureaucracy is ridiculous. I am one step further though (managed to get a letter of authorisation from the Director of Quality Assurance and Standards at the Ministry or Education today), so I’m praying this week I’ll have everything I need to proceed with the fieldwork. They’re just very sensitive about what data is elicited and for what purposes it will be used, especially when it’s being published outside of the country. If they read what the students at the school in Kibera said they definitely wouldn’t let me do the research! Young people are honest and blunt so I have wonderful quotes like ‘the government don’t care about us’, ‘the Minister of Education just eats the money’ etc.
KA is amazing. I’m loving each course more than the previous one. In the last few weeks we’ve learn about Citizenship in the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of darkness, Kingdoms at war, the ministry of angels, the Path of Righteousness and are now doing Kingdom Technology. The latter is brilliant, because it teaches us that nothing is magic, but simply technology. It’s about knowing, understanding and applying the principles of God to bring about blessings for yourself and others e.g. healing, prosperity, deliverance, peace.
The evangelism I do in Kibera is growing from strength to strength. Every week a dozen or so people accept Jesus into their lives and eagerly start the lesson booklets we give them. We’ve now given out lots of bibles too (which they only get once they’ve completed the 20 lessons). By God’s grace I’ve also been used to heal many people and from diverse sicknesses and diseases, like malaria, pneumonia, fever, flu and stomach pains. I’m still not completely healed from IBS myself, but I have no doubts God is healing me, because I’ve witnessed time and again that it’s God’s will to heal everyone.
The New Adventure Church is so exciting. They keep coming back week after week and are so hungry to learn more and grow in their faith. There are so many wonderful testimonies, like one lady who was experiencing problems in her marriage, but now says her home is peaceful, a carpenter has had lots of clients after we prayed for his business to do better, one guy has stopped smoking and drinking, another has stopped sleeping around, one was healed of pneumonia...
Last week one young man, Ibrahim proudly announced his wife had safely delivered a baby girl and that he had named it Sarah after me! I went to his home to visit the mother and baby. She was 4 days old and sooo adorable. Ibrahim has a very emotional story. His father is a drug dealer, so he literally grew up smoking weed and is still struggling to get over the addiction. In the post-election violence in Dec ’07 his father’s property in Kibera was forcibly taken away by the rival tribe and all their belongings were taken. His father went upcountry, but Ibrahim and his wife were left in Kibera with absolutely nothing. He sells old goods found in dustbins and has gradually managed to get a few basic items and a room to live in. They had a little son who died last year of ‘sickness’ and so are over-the-moon with their baby daughter. He’s so determined to change his life though - to be a perfect husband father, be free from drugs, get an honest and respectable job etc. He told me he wants to be so different that his friends don’t even recognise him and then he can tell them about Jesus. I almost can’t believe it’s the same guy who 2 months ago I was told by someone to be wary of, because he’s the ‘son of the devil’!
KA is amazing. I’m loving each course more than the previous one. In the last few weeks we’ve learn about Citizenship in the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of darkness, Kingdoms at war, the ministry of angels, the Path of Righteousness and are now doing Kingdom Technology. The latter is brilliant, because it teaches us that nothing is magic, but simply technology. It’s about knowing, understanding and applying the principles of God to bring about blessings for yourself and others e.g. healing, prosperity, deliverance, peace.
The evangelism I do in Kibera is growing from strength to strength. Every week a dozen or so people accept Jesus into their lives and eagerly start the lesson booklets we give them. We’ve now given out lots of bibles too (which they only get once they’ve completed the 20 lessons). By God’s grace I’ve also been used to heal many people and from diverse sicknesses and diseases, like malaria, pneumonia, fever, flu and stomach pains. I’m still not completely healed from IBS myself, but I have no doubts God is healing me, because I’ve witnessed time and again that it’s God’s will to heal everyone.
The New Adventure Church is so exciting. They keep coming back week after week and are so hungry to learn more and grow in their faith. There are so many wonderful testimonies, like one lady who was experiencing problems in her marriage, but now says her home is peaceful, a carpenter has had lots of clients after we prayed for his business to do better, one guy has stopped smoking and drinking, another has stopped sleeping around, one was healed of pneumonia...
Last week one young man, Ibrahim proudly announced his wife had safely delivered a baby girl and that he had named it Sarah after me! I went to his home to visit the mother and baby. She was 4 days old and sooo adorable. Ibrahim has a very emotional story. His father is a drug dealer, so he literally grew up smoking weed and is still struggling to get over the addiction. In the post-election violence in Dec ’07 his father’s property in Kibera was forcibly taken away by the rival tribe and all their belongings were taken. His father went upcountry, but Ibrahim and his wife were left in Kibera with absolutely nothing. He sells old goods found in dustbins and has gradually managed to get a few basic items and a room to live in. They had a little son who died last year of ‘sickness’ and so are over-the-moon with their baby daughter. He’s so determined to change his life though - to be a perfect husband father, be free from drugs, get an honest and respectable job etc. He told me he wants to be so different that his friends don’t even recognise him and then he can tell them about Jesus. I almost can’t believe it’s the same guy who 2 months ago I was told by someone to be wary of, because he’s the ‘son of the devil’!
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