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Global Prayer Safari Touches Kenya

May 4, 2016
Praying in Kenya

Praying in Kenya

Christian Reformed World Missions

Earlier this year, a team of Christian Reformed World Missions volunteers and missionaries were led by local church leaders and pastors on the Global Prayer Safari in Kenya. CRWM’s Joyce Suh, a missionary in Cambodia, was one of the participants and shared her highlights.

“All we’re gonna do is pray,” Mwaya Wa Kitavi, CRWM’s regional leader for eastern/southern Africa, reminded the team again and again as it went out into the markets, schools, hospitals, government offices, and police stations of Nairobi, Kenya and surrounding counties.

The driving concept of the Global Prayer Safari is to pray “on site with insight.” Rather than trying to bring the people to the church, the idea is to “bring the church to the people.”

Meeting people where they were in the places they lived and worked, the team visibly demonstrated that God is active everywhere in every field of endeavor and every area of life.

It was very clear during the event that God had opened doors that could not easily be opened by human power alone.

That was evident not only in access to the President’s building, governor’s offices and police stations, but also in how the Lord opened the way for prayer with individuals.

Sue, a Kenyan who works in media, saw the team’s Global Prayer Safari shirts and invited team members to pray for her and with her. She wanted people in her field to come to Christ and for Christian influence in the media industry.

The makeup of the team was no accident.

Members were of different races and ethnicities, male and female, old and young, pastors and laypeople.

They celebrated what each brought to the group and, even though most did not know the others before convening in Nairobi, prayer brought a unity that participants could not have imagined in such a short time.

The team faced a number of challenges. Yet each person experienced that “when we are weak, then God is strong.”

Kenyan pastor, Stephen Mutunga, shared how he had sometimes been frustrated with his church members in his rural church. But, as he visited a hospital for the mentally ill, he came away deeply chastened with a renewed sense of gratitude.

Rev. Darryl Redmond left New Jersey with sore throat and problems with his voice. He is a musician and worship leader and, typically, his voice is one of his strengths. This seemed to be very pointed spiritual oppression.

Yet when called on to give a message, team members recognized divine anointing and supernatural sustaining of his voice.

Most of the time those on the prayer safari did  not see immediate answers to their prayers. In fact, they said they may or may not ever hear what happened as a result of the mission.

But as Mwya Kitavi said, “All we had to do was pray.”

Next year’s Global Prayer Safari will take place in Uganda. If you are interested in learning more, visit crwm.org/Safari.