Several BR-KC churches and members have on-going mission work around the globe. This is truly our Mission Statement in action…”We envision a network of healthy Baptist churches partnering together to transform lives and communities through the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ at home, in North America, and around the world”. This month, we are focusing on Africa.
Pastor Scott Flippin & Norfleet Baptist Church
Norfleet Baptist Church partnering with Ebenezer Christian Fellowship adopted the Ariaal Rendille people of north central Kenya. We have gone into the villages in quite an expansive area and told Bible stories to the people beginning with the Creation to Church story. That story is in essence the entire story of the Bible using Adam and Eve, Abraham, Isaiah, and Jesus. It takes about eight minutes to tell. We have seen an unbelievable response to the Gospel. Two years ago we also took on the responsibility to assist our Kenyan sponsors in training a group of Kenyan pastors who live on the edge of the north central Kenyan desert. This year we will
4 years ago there were no worshipers in this area. Today there is a church, a school and about 70 people worshiping.
deliver our third training session to the pastors and establish a small theological library with gently used seminary textbooks and commentaries. Pastor Carl Alexander from Ebenezer has another group of pastors he is training in the city of Nakuru, Kenya.
Between Norfleet and Ebenezer, a new church building was funded and built by our Kenyan sponsors in the desert. That church building is being used as a regional training center for pastors, and we hope to provide training there next year. It is also being used as a school for the shepherds’ children in the local village. These are children who have very little opportunity for education of any sort other than tending the goats, camels, and donkeys, as well as protecting the flocks from wild animals.
Three years ago there was no worship in our unreached and unengaged people group. Today they are no longer unengaged, and worship is happening in at least five different groups, two of which are individually larger than Norfleet.
Stay tuned for more posts from our series on BRKC churches working in Africa!
