DEAR Apostle Paul and partners

Greetings from Kenya in Jesus name. I have been visiting your web page and i have been blessed and encouraged to seek your partnership. Iam the pastor and director of vision builders ministries that has church planting and outreach in Kenya and Sudan. I am willing to partnership with your ministry to help our brothers and sisters in Kenya and Sudan.I will be glad to hear from you. Here is our monthly newsletter and our recent visit to Sudan.

Dear Partner /Friends,

Calvary greetings to you:  May the grace and peace from our Father be multiplied unto you in the Lord Jesus.  Amen.
Your partnership and prayers in the missions has been of great source of encouragement to me.  I am therefore happy to share with you what the Lord did during our mission trip to Sudan as from 18-28th , Feb 05.

SUDAN:  A NATION TO REACH FOR CHRIST.

The last command of Jesus Christ to His disciples is “go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature…… “ MK. 16:15.  This same command is equally  expressed in Matt.  28:19.  From here we are compelled to reach the lost with good news of Jesus.

We left Kitale on 18th ,Feb ’05 with a team of 10 pastors and 2 evangelists from different ministries in Kitale area.  We had to stop at Kakuma refugee camp which is the largest in East Africa  represented by 12 nations that are affected by wars in Africa.  We had six hours meeting and witnessing to refugees and also prayed with them for the deliverance  from various
bondages. 

After this we moved to Lokichogio which is the last town in the northern Kenya that borders Sudan. The chartered flight came on time and all of us boarded. There was a lot of tension and great fear among us because of many dangerous areas that we were flying over in Sudan.  The flight took two and a half hours to get to PokTap.  We landed safely to the anxious
awaiting of many people in this village of 30,000 people.  The sun was so hot and the heat was intense and we started feeling as if we were being roasted.

Our first hand  show of Sudan and its people moved nearly all of us in tears.  We saw a lot of sufferings and hopelessness among  the people.  There is a free flow of dangerous weapons like guns and landmines: lack of water and food, clothings, just to mention a few.  It was a life changing experience on seeing the children who are naked and exposed to terrific health
conditions.  The people are barely surviving under hard life.  They have no quality of life as we know it and no hope for the future.

Our trip to Sudan was one of the specific ministry focuses for this year.  The Lord has been speaking to us as a ministry so strongly about reaching out to this nation devastated by wars for over two decades.

CLEARANCES BY THE ADMINISTRATION LEADERS.

In the evening, our team had a candid talk with the administration leaders who are in charge of that PokTap area, Duk county which is administered through chief commandants and the security of the  SPLA (Sudan People Liberation Army) in the South.

The two leaders we met welcomed us and told us a brief history about their country and also told us about the great needs and challenges that they are facing there as they strive to live in peace.

EVANGELISM IN VILLAGES.

We started the day by going through various villages at PokTap:  We visited nine villages in three days. Also we visited the villages of Jalong where we met children begging for water and food.  The average family spends more than 25% of their day carrying water.  Women with 20 litre containers on their heads and a bucket in each hand, it is smelly, dirty and
contaminated: Disease spreading water not fit for human consumption. The situation will break your heart as it pulled us closer to missions which is the heart beat of God.

We did evangelism hut to hut and about 250 families and people gave their lives to Jesus for the first time.  We left this place with a great burden and prayers for God to raise labourers into this ready field.  We did a lot of evangelism in other areas like Athep, Pawai, Loorbar and Wennyoor.  We witnessed the grace of Jesus, we prayed for the sickly children, administered deliverance and held counselling with SPLA soldiers as we brought hope and joy to them.

CHILDREN SCHOOL.

Part of this mission we visited the school that has been started by our team last year and went into the classroom which is a small hut thatched with grass. Here there so many children who are malnourished with various health problems.  Some are naked without clothing; most of them are orphans because their fathers died in war or are at the frontline fighting
for  the war.  We distributed to them some books and Christian supplies.

MEDICAL CAMP.

We also had a medical clinic for a day and one of the team members. Pastor George was a nurse so he helped in treating and supplying medicine.  Many cases were noticed including the broken limbs as a result of war and landmines, many were also suffering from various kinds of diseases like diarrhoea, typhoid, malaria, etc.

PASTORS AND CHRISTIAN LEADERS.

Pastor Elijah held a two day seminar with some of the Anglican church pastors in the area.  This is the only church organisation, affiliated to Episcopal Church. There are no spiritual and Pentecostal churches there. Many people are only known by their Christian names but do not have personal relationship with Jesus nor do they understand the spiritual gifts.

Pastor Elijah and the team discipled them, instructed and encouraged them in their calling.  He prayed together with them and encouraged them to study God’s word always.  We surveyed the immediate villages that are in need of church  planting , schools and boreholes.  Also there is a great need of bibles especially in Dinga language.

OUR VISION FOR SUDAN.

1. To encourage and bring many of the unreached people in Sudan to Christ, this leading to the spiritual, emotional and physical transformation. Imparting biblical values into society leading to peace and resulting  in church sending missionaries throughout Sudan.

2. Raising up holistic approach to various hindrances towards the gospel  and establishing of schools, medical clinics, provisions of food and wells as a gateway to bring the love of God to various communities and tribes in the Sudan.  Also to construct houses for the poor people.

3. We need to give material support to children and pastors by providing, bicycles, motorbikes, etc.

4. Raise up a prayers network from all churches and ministries for breakthrough in Sudan.

YOUR PART AND CHALLENGES.

We are still in need of your prayers and involvement: the vision is great, people are precious and the fields are white unto harvest.  Good well waters to be drilled in Sudan, churches to be planted and constructed, training of Pastors and missionaries and support for them.  Children to be supported and cared for and food and clothing for the families: Schools to be started.

Your prayers, support and going will hasten the fulfilment of the great commission.


PRAYER POINTS

1. Islam wars and poverty is the biggest hindrance to the spread of the Gospel in Sudan.  Pray that God would raise up labourers who can face the challenges of Sudan: Islam, diseases, famine, wars and Aids.

2. Pray for the end of religious/ethnic civil war in Sudan which has displaced millions in Southern Sudan and resulted in deaths through genocide and famine. Pray for a stop of the southward spread of Islam in East Africa and frustrate the effort of Sudanese Government to champion Islam in area.

3. Vision Builders Ministries has a strategic plan of raising up local missionaries from Kenya and send them to Sudan to plant churches and help them in discipleship.  Ask the lord to release those who have a heart for this.  Also pray for provision of $500 every month towards Sudan outreach in our ministry.

4. Pray for God to raise-up partners and supporters for ever increasing work of the ministry here in Moisbridge and the neighbouring nations. We need financial support for the expansions of our building; 5 bundles of roofing sheets, a generator and support for children; this will be about $1500.

5. Intercede for vision of supporting either a pastor/evangelist or a child in Sudan. Our ministry will be Planting house churches in Sudan and building a church facility among them.  It costs about $2000 to have a small mud building grass thatched. Thank you for standing in the gap for VBM Ministry. This is the time to ask the Lord for the nations to possess them
for the Lord through our intercessions and missionary thrust to those in the unreached places and people, Psalms 2:8–12 you are led to pray, support and going. We will be glad to hear from you. Keep us in your prayers.


God’s blessings to you


PASTOR ELIJAH M. WAFULA
VISION BUILDERS MINISTRIES
P.O BOX 3078
KITALE 30200 KENYA
Email:  vbmin2000@yahoo.com