Hello Neka,
I salute you in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, how are you, family and ministry? Hope all is well. I,
family and ministry and doing good so far and much happy to hear from
you.
We are in my village not in Timbwani.
Its like 55-60km north - west from Mombasa island. Joseph is based in
the south coast of Mombasa, he has his own curio shop outside in-front
of a beach hotel. We communicate mostly on Facebook and he seems to
busy guy traveling to Nairobi most often, as I write he is in
Nairobi.
It was back before year 2000 when Neka
and his Tongan team came to (Timbwani) Mombasa south, it was great to
have them because they could come on the beach where I use to work as
a beach boy and share the goodness of Christ in their lives. At first
I was wondering what type of team it was because they use to come
with rugby ball, guitar and they share about Christ. By then I had
not heard of YWAM and how its missionaries work. So day after day
they kept on sharing the love of Christ, I could not miss their
teachings, though I was a Ganja smoker, cigaret, tried a bit of
heroin, drinking alcohol having sex with holiday makers etc. They
were planting a seed in my life of salvation and deliverance and
introduced to me about YWAM not knowing that by year 2001 I would
join them in YWAM for my DTS in Eldoret Kenya. I happened to meet one
of the Tongan brothers who was still staffing. It was really a
miracle for me because I never expected God to be so good to me and
deliver me from all addictions.
The Tongan team commitment to Christ
and the brotherly love really inspired me, the way they could come
and present a song by playing the guitar or sometime they come and we
play rugby with them on the beach. It was fun and made me to like
being part of such a life style. Telling us their testimonies how
they use to be before they met Christ ( one said back in Tonga they
could go and steal pork and slaughter it and eat the meet and burn
the bones, they would smoke and drink alcohol etc. ) and now they
are change. It was really touching and amazing.
Henry and Mirka.
After my DTS I went back to Timbwani
and I pastor-ed a church for 3 years and I went to Uganda and did my
School of Biblical Studies. I staffed few SBS schools in Uganda and I
did also Titus Project in Arusha Tanzania and staffed Titus Project
in YWAM Muizenberg South Africa. My aim is to have a degree from YWAM
in Biblical Studies. I met my wife when I was staffing SBS in Uganda,
she is from Poland and we a blessed with 1 beautiful daughter.
After marrying we moved to south west part of Uganda for 2 years and
we were volunteer missionaries overseeing few local ministries and
doing bible teaching. I am glad that my wife heard my bible teachings
and developed the interest of doing bible school and now she has
applied to do it in YWAM Uganda.
At the moment we have just come to my
village and we are still visiting churches, schools, health centers
and seeing where people get water for drinking. We have noticed
the need of clean water, school and bible translation and printing it
to local language. Please find attachment of photos of what is
happening in the village at the moment.
May God bless you as you my brother Phil.4:19
