For the first time in almost two years, Empower African Program Director Pastor Frank Tweheyo was recently able to travel to Kenya. He was warmly welcomed to St. Paul’s University—which you can read about here. He also returned to visit Teen Challenge—a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in Nairobi. (Learn more about previous visits and our work there by reading this post.)
Here is part two of Frank’s Kenya report:
I had a great reception at Teen Challenge. The students and teachers gathered as soon as I arrived, and we spent very good time together. The students were a new group that we’ve not met before, but I happily reconnected with the staff. I spoke for about 50 minutes to all of them, outlining what New Man, New Woman, New Life is about, and also sharing my personal testimony to be able to connect with them heart-to-heart.
After that I met with the new Director, Rev. Dr. Emily Obwaka, along with a few staff members from both the Nairobi and Nakuru campuses. As a result of our conversation, Teen Challenge invited us to teach at their upcoming annual spiritual emphasis week.
We will facilitate New Man, New Woman, New Life training there for students from all three campuses (Nakuru, Nairobi and Kiambu) this March 3-5.
We’re honored to be invited to lead this week of spiritual impact for the students at Teen Challenge. I believe their invitation is an expression of great appreciation for what Empower means to them and how impacting the message is. Of course, we will plan for it. We will need many facilitators because we will divide into two or three classes. I believe that this offer is a show of trust in Empower and the message of transformation and redemption that we give.
In the afternoon, Bishop Phineas and Esther Mwiti invited me for dinner. It was such an honor to be invited to their home for dinner and also to see their church.
Bishop Mwiti is the General Overseer of Christ the King Tabernacle in Nairobi and other satellite churches. His wife, Dr. Esther Kathure Mwiti, is a lecturer The Technical University of Kenya in Nairobi, and several other universities. She is also an associate pastor with her husband. They also run marriage clinics and the message of Empower really appealed to them. Together, they have very good plans for Empower and the message. They told me they plan to introduce us to other groups of pastors and fellowships.
They have already started with a group of 12 members of their church who are studying the NMNWNL material and they intend to do more. They also are interested to facilitate with Empower teams in Nairobi whenever called upon.
We are looking forward to facilitating the spiritual emphasis week in March, and would appreciate your prayers for that event!