Outreach Ministries
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Presbyterian Church of East Africa
Kenya is recognized as the home of some of Africa’s most beautiful and best preserved game reserves. Yet, the human suffering in Kenya is not as well known. With the world’s fastest growing population (4.5 percent annually), Kenya is struggling under poverty, authoritarian political rule, and massive urbanization.
In the midst of these difficulties, Global Ministries partners minister to both body and soul. The National Council of Churches of Kenya is the world’s largest council of churches, providing grass-roots development projects throughout the country. Global Ministries also relates to two partner organizations that deal with problems throughout Africa that have headquarters in Kenya: the All Africa Conference of Churches, Africa’s regional ecumenical body; and the Project for Christian Muslim Relations in Africa, which specializes in promoting good understanding between adherents of Africa’s two mission-implanted faiths.
Global Ministries’ primary church partner in Kenya is the Presbyterian Church of East Africa. The denomination is of Scottish roots, and is over 100 years old. The Presbyterian Church of East Africa is one of the largest, oldest, and most important churches in Kenya. It maintains a network of the best health facilities and educational institutions in the country. Its 1.5 million members are gathered in local congregations nation-wide and are typically composed of members from Kenya’s middle class. The churches are known as being quite dynamic in worship and service.
Global Ministries supports both the medical work of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, as well as its educational work, notably the Girls School in Chogoria and the Rubati Teachers College. Global Ministries missionary Phyllis Byrd teaches at a pastoral institute that trains ministers for the denomination.
The Global Ministries Africa Office indicates that greatest financial need for the work in Kenya is to support the work of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa. Global Ministries welcomes general gifts for this purpose. One specific need that is priority for the denomination currently is the following, something that seems very basic to Christians in the U.S. but which the church considers vital for its growth:
Area Need: Evangelization
Gift Range: $200 and above
Most clergy in Africa are unable to afford the purchase and upkeep of a vehicle. Yet each pastor or evangelist might serve several preaching points or small churches. Urgent requests come for bicycles for pastors in Kenya, in order for them to reach their churches more quickly than they do on foot. Each pastor of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa in Kenya attends six rural congregations or preaching points on average.
Each gift of $200 will provide a bicycle for a pastor serving in rural Kenya.
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317-713-2555
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