Freedom in Africa
We look forward to big things happening as the truth goes out to Africa. God has shown us that the name “Kenya” has Hebrew roots and has a prophetic meaning, that the light and truth of Yah or Yahweh will go out to all Africa from Kenya in the last days. The potential is great. Already God has opened doors for government sponsorship of four fishponds our people have built in Rongo, Kenya. This project by our sister foundation, the Malachi 4 Foundation for Family Unity, will help feed the population of this city. Other churches in various parts of Kenya and Uganda have come into fellowship with us since our official visit to Kenya in the spring of 2009. We hope to return and feed the many who are hungry for the truth they find on our web sites. Pastors Robert Scott and Hugh Potter are pictured below on their Africa trip preparing to pray for a young Kenyan for healing.
Update March 14, 2011
2010 – Our sister foundation of Malachi 4 in Kenya developed ten fishponds in Rongo, Kenya. This project, praised by government leaders, will help feed the local people and create employment for them. This aquaculture project is working exceedingly well.
2011 – We are seeking to raise funds for:
1. A chicken ranch in the area of Embu, Kenya, two hours by vehicle north of Nairobi. The estimated cost is $4000.
2. At the request of the Minister of State for Public Affairs, Hon. Dalmas Otieno Anyango, a girls’ school administered by Freedom Church of God, a seniors’ home and health center in the Rongo/Kisii area, the estimated cost of which is $70,000.
3. Buying a truck for fish and food distribution to surrounded areas near Rongo, at an estimated cost of $35,000.
Our goal is, at the official invitation of the government, to assist in the building of the nation by educating the minds of young people, helping people with food and learning to help themselves, as well as stimulating the lives of the elderly with interaction between young and old.
2010 Africa Ministry Voyage -- A Great Success!
Our journey to Kenya from November 14- December 3 was eminently successful. Pastor Hugh Potter, Evangelist and Radio Personality Charley West, and myself, Pastor Robert Scott, stayed with supporters near Nairobi. The big news was that the Minister of State had visited our ten fishponds established by Malachi 4 Foundation. The foundation is our outreach arm in Africa. Jesus said we were to be the light of the world, so we decided to bless the people of Rongo (6 hours to the west of Nairobi by vehicle) with fish to feed the hungry. Our light did shine, all the way to the number 3 man in the Kenyan government. Local citizens had a ceremony in honor of the establishment of the ponds, and the minister traveled to taste the fish and celebrate with those in his constituency. An excellent video was produced, with many comments praising God for this initiative.
The minister summoned us along with our lawyer, Clement Ochieng, deacon Nyadiga Orina, and one of our pastors and bodyguard of the minister when in Rongo, Peter Otula Osodo to meet with him in Nairobi. We were first on his busy agenda on the Monday morning before we left, and we spent about an hour and a half with him. Pastor Hugh, CEO of Africa4U, presented plans to bring solar power to Kenya. The well-informed minister discussed some of the obstacles that needed to be overcome. He also suggested the possibility of the foundation and Africa4U helping with a seniors’ home combined with a girls’ school that would use solar power in the Rongo area.
We explained to the minister that we believed Kenya had a destiny – to be a blessing to all of Africa. He agreed. He also agreed to write letters that would help Africa4U attract donors. Africa4U helped finance this ministry voyage. Because of budget considerations, we were only able to travel to minister to pastors and churches in the Embu and Rongo (Kisii) areas for just over three days rather than the week we had hoped. Pastor Hugh spent much time seeking investors for the company, and Charley West made contacts with radio stations and sought preliminary advice for establishing a radio station in Nairobi to broadcast the kind of truth we disseminate on freedomtruthseekers.com.
The results far exceeded the time spent. While some Kenyans have taken advantage of the “musungu” (the white man) by conning and scamming, many Kenyans are truly hungry for the truth we bring. We found the spirit of repentance touching some who had taken advantage, and we found many more members and pastors of Freedom Church of God – Kenya, as we are known there, being officially registered as a church and as a foundation.
We presented to the pastors (some 25 in Embu, several hours voyage north of Nairobi, and about the same number in the Rongo, Kisii, and Lake Victoria areas) the book, Why Doesn’t God Heal Me? The book contains important revelation about our identity in Jesus and many useful prayers and teachings that the pastors will be able to teach to the churches under their charge.
Pastors in the Rongo area had planned several open-air crusades a week after our departure, hoping we would be able to stay and preach at those events. Instead, we gave them materials, including the book, Bible Code Broken! – The Truth about the Christian Sabbath to teach from at these well-attended crusades. After the Sabbath sermon in Rongo, at which Pastor Kefa Moseti (who drove over 4 hours to see us, leaving at 5 AM) also preached, we heard an outpouring of thanks and testimony from pastors, men and women alike. They announced how they had faithfully adhered to the Word of God we taught almost 2 years ago on our first journey to Kenya, and explained how the churches of Freedom Church of God had grown.
The 25 pastors in Embu received the Word with joy, clapping their hands in praise with only voices (and for a bit with a drum I also joined in playing). They marveled that a “musungu” would dance more than the Africans. Satan tried to stop the meeting, but it went ahead anyway. We had to deal with some personal problems of pastors and wives, but we saw dramatic answers to our prayers and the spirit of repentance and forgiveness reigning. Rejection and betrayal have made unity a challenge in the Kenyan churches, but we see unity growing by God’s grace.
We encouraged the pastors to look to Jesus, Yesu, not the “musungu” or white man for provision. And we learned the phrase “Mungu aku bariki” (God bless you). As I was learning the new phrase for “Glory to God” (Amani qua Mungu), I made a slip of the tongue that brought laughter when I said, “Amani qua musungu,” or “Glory to the white man!” It sounded almost like the other, but it was the opposite of what I wanted to say, and they knew it, and laughed heartily.
We presented the book on the Sabbath to our lawyer, who is a Seventh-day Adventist. He lent the book to his pastor, who promptly preached from it to his
congregation on the Sabbath we were in Rongo. God’s Word does not come back void!
One of the biggest bookstores in Nairobi accepted and paid for five copies of Peace or Rejection – You Choose.
We laid hands on many sick for healing, including 5 ladies attacked with AIDS. They were greatly encouraged to trust Jesus for their healing when they heard of Charley West’s dramatic healing. He was attacked Friday night in Rongo with the severe pains of malaria after being so tired on arrival Thursday night that he neglected to put up the mosquito net for sleeping. Under great duress and enduring pain he had never experienced before, he persevered in thanks to Jesus for his healing, when all of a sudden, the pain and fever ceased. He spent the night praising God for his dramatic healing and for the Father’s love for him.
Our Father Love truly blessed this visit to Kenya. While we had our challenges, He had His hand on the voyage. We realized that our numbers in Kenya greatly exceed our numbers in the churches in Edmonton, Washington state, and South Carolina. We were blessed by the hunger for truth in Kenya, and by the unabashed love for Jesus many expressed, a refreshing change from our politically correct and too-often nonchalant Christian world in North America. We have much to learn from the Africans.