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SHE WAS ABSORBED IN
READING – SO MUCH SO
THAT SHE BUMPED INTO HER
FRIENDS STILL WAITING
IN LINE!

in the Lord and looked for Him at work. My team were
very eager to share the Gospel: so eager that at the debrief
and prayer meeting at the end of the afternoon, they
gave rather overenthusiastic numbers of the people they
said had been saved. But we did pray with and encourage
many. One man who stays in my heart was an out-of-work
builder named Moses (pictured on page 7). He was not
ready to give his life to the Lord there and then, but he
happily engaged in conversation about spiritual concerns
and considered the matter carefully. Leaving him with the
Gospel HOPE magazine we prayed for all his needs.
Some of us had the opportunity to go into local primary
schools. There was quite a contrast between the big
government-funded school, whose resources were really
limited, and the smaller, church affiliated and fee-paying
school; but in both places, the children were joyful to
hear the Good News of Jesus and to receive their own
Spark Magazine. We were also encouraged to see the faith
of the teachers who trust the Lord and teach the children
accordingly (main image).
That afternoon we returned to street evangelism in Juja,
again with a team of Kenyan volunteers who did most
of the talking. These were areas where, although some
people could converse in English (Kizungu as they call
reading it before even getting back to her seat – so much it), many preferred Swahili and I needed an interpreter.
so that she bumped into her friends still waiting in line! I was still rather taken aback at how quickly people
were ready to move on from conversation to giving
On the Sunday we headed out of the city to an area their lives to the Lord. This was not what it feels like in
called Juja. Here, we joined in an African church service the UK! It was another hot day and all the walking we
and afterwards, we set out in teams for street evangelism. were doing was very tiring. We found one man, Henry,
This was in partnership with members of several local sitting and sheltering from the sun under the awning
churches, who had received training from the in-country outside a church: that was a great opening for a fruitful
ShareWord Global workers. conversation.
Each evening, the international team met together
for feedback and prayer. These were encouraging
and strengthening times. Some groups reported very
powerful testimonies of spiritual encounters, and
visible answers to prayer for healing, and many uplifting
encounters. One of the group told of a young woman who
had said to him that she was not a sinner! She knew this…
because she had been born again the day before (when
others of our group had been working in that area), and
so God forgives her. What a clear understanding
and faith!
For the second half of the week, we focussed on street
evangelism in Nairobi and its slum areas. On Thursday,
half of the group were in Kawangware, in the streets
There were so many volunteers for training and around the church where we had been on Saturday. Here
involvement in evangelism that we divided into teams of we met many more people in a short space of time. We
one westerner each with three or four Kenyans – rather spoke with Silas, who told us that he had learned Jesus
than two and two as I had been expecting. This meant that died for our sins but he didn't grasp that this made a
I had no opportunity to observe the experienced team difference. After a suitable discussion he gave his life to
members at work before diving in myself, but we trusted Christ. We spoke to two Muslim men who were unwilling

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