Dear Friends,

You've been praying — and many of you have given — to help the African Renewal Pastors' Conference come to pass. And God has provided! Praise the Lord. The conference is history, attended by fully 800 pastors and leaders from East Africa — Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, and Rwanda.

I've prepared a number of videos that help tell the story.

• Interview with Bishop Chriss Barasa Lusweti, Eldoret, Kenya about evangelism and church planting in western Kenya.
• Lessons from Nairobi Pentecostal Church (23 October 2011).
• Photos from the mission trip to Kenya

A major project that has resulted from the conference is the preparation of a two-disc video set of my teachings to the pastors. You can see each of these teachings on YouTube from the following webpage:

Baraka ya Kutoa / The Blessing of Giving. Funzo la Uwanafunzi kuhusu Kutoa / Discipleship Lessons in Tithing and Giving (a series of 7 teachings in Swahili and English). http://www.jesuswalk.com/kutoa/

As I shared with you earlier, our missionaries did a good job teaching Africans to know Jesus, but they didn't do such a good job teaching them to tithe. Perhaps they felt they were too poor to give. But the result is that most pastors in western Kenya don't have any support from their churches — and may not even be tithing themselves. God put on my heart to prepare a series of teachings for this conference, listed below. The teaching is in both English and Swahili. You can view each of these videos online at http://www.jesuswalk.com/kutoa/

1. Too Poor to Give (40:49).
2. Stewardship, Ministry, and the Tithe (44:55)
3. The Blessings of Tithing (Malachi 3, 43:48)
4. The Blessings of Sowing Generously (2 Corinthians 9:6-15, 43:27)
5. A Critique of the Prosperity Message (42:18)
6. Financial Integrity for Pastors (35:00)
7. God is Your Source (4:01)

For those of you who prayed and gave toward this conference, thank you! Please continue to pray that God might put the teachings we brought deep into the hearts of pastors and their churches, that God's work in Africa may increase.

Yours in Christ's service,
Dr. Ralph F. Wilson
Director, Joyful Heart Renewal Ministries
Pastor, First Baptist Church of Nevada City, CA

Other Videos from Eldoret, Kenya

• Reconciliation Conference, Eldoret, Kenya, Sept 24-27, 2008
• Jamii Nursery School, Langas Estate, Eldoret, Kenya
• African Renewal Pastors Conference, Eldoret, Kenya, Sept 26-30, 2007

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