Saving the Lost while They can Still Be Found!

Posted on 11. May, 2010 by admin in orphans

Today’s blog post is written by our friend Pastor Mike from Friends of Jesus Ministries in Kenya. In 1990 Pastor Mike gave his life to the Lord after hearing a preacher at a gospel crusade share Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”

His heart is to reach out to the orphans and vulnerable children in the village God has called him to: Mukuyu village in Kenya.

Here is the message he wanted to share with us!

ACTS 1:8
” But you will receive  power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witness to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

As we stood along the bank of the river of which we  had gone to baptize the the new convert, I kept asking the direction of the flow of the river. Some said it is from this side while others argued the other direction.

We had just traveled to the remote areas of the village for our missions. The land was flat for it was near to the shore of Lake Victoria which is the largest Lake in Africa. There were no roads to the village, no clean water, no electricity, and it forced us to walk long distance. The climate was hot and the sun shining direct on us, the soil was clay and some areas were muddy and bushy.

The people in the village were so welcoming and ready to listen to the gospel, no matter how poor they looked. Some children had no clothes and were bare footed which we also noticed to some of the women who were around listening the word of God. I saw some going to fetch water in the river carrying  the bucket on their heads, other girls fetching firewood from the bush, and some boys taking their cattle to drink water on the same river. We were to wait for the cattle to finish drinking the water so that we could also use this water for the baptism of the new converts.

Before, I feared the snakes  in that area for the place we were to use for baptism  was “bushy”. We were to exchange our clothes and use the proper clothes for baptizing. The right place was to go to the bush as a private place for putting on the other clothes. I was to take a step of faith, hoping for good; not for worse, as I remembered  Mark 16: 15 – 18. “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not  believe will be condemned .’ And these signs will follow those who believe: i my name they will cast out demons, they speak with the new tongues, they will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them, they lay hands on the sick and they will recover”

I got encourage  from these verses.

In the end we had a good number of new converts who accepted Jesus Christ in their lives. We never feared baptizing the new converts in the river for we remembered what happened to the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8: 35 – 38 “Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this scripture, preached Jesus to him. Now as they went down the road they came to some water. And the eunuch said, ” See here is water, what hinders me from being baptized.Then Philip said, ” If you believe with all your heart you may. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.”

We had to baptize the new converts no matter how the place looked like, what was important was to receive Jesus and be baptized. This was a great joy to us as we saw brothers and sisters giving their lives to Jesus. It was a remarkable moment in my life and ministry for the people were hungry for the word of God and the all heartedly received it. AMEN.

There are many challenges in rural missions but I like them for I remember in Philippians 2: 6 – 8  Jesus humbled Himself regardless of His position as being equal to God  and died a shameful death because of us. Think about that!!

As we went for our missions, we had to walk long distances without water and food, but we thank God for the positive result we achieved.

My fellow Christians, pray for our missions here in Africa for reaching unreached. Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 6: 19 – 21. “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures  on earth  where  moths nor rust destroys and where thieves  break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth  nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is there your heart will be also.”

As a matter of fact, where have you invested your treasure? Have you ever thought  of investing in the kingdom f God where your heart will be?  Think about your life!

~Pastor Mike

Please take time to pray for Pastor Mike and Friends of Jesus Ministries today. Pray that God would meet their every need and that many would come to know the Lord as their Savior through the working of the Holy Spirit through Pastor Mike and his team.  If you would like to visit his site, click here.

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