sharenet fall 2011

Fall 2011 Sharing the Gospel and our very lives

Buildingon theSolid RockA note fromDr. Sammy Murimi

In the ShareNet issue of 2010, we gladly reported that 98 churches had been planted by the Share International (SI) STORM teams and SI-supported missionaries and pastors between 1997 and 2010 – including our very first church plant among the Toposa people of Southern Sudan. By July 2011, the number of churches had multiplied to 133, with a recorded total of 18,506 sincere conversions to Christ! In addition, since SI started partnering with Messiah Gospel Ministry in India in 2004, 15 churches have been established among the Dalits in the Andhra Pradesh Province and an estimated total of 1,500 people have committed their lives to Christ, despite prevalent persecution! These churches continue to be nurtured in the Word of God each week by trained pastors and missionaries for whom you provide support each month.

You have played a significant role before the Lord in this remarkable growth by helping us plant nearly 150 churches in 14 years; an average of 10 churches each year! I cannot thank you enough for all your prayers and support over the years. Truly “the LORD has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes” (Ps. 118:23)!

A note fromDr. Sammy Murimi

I invite you now to move with us to the next critical phase. As new believers answer the call to actively share the Good News and make disciples in remote villages, my concern is how to maintain the momentum while ensuring real and personal spiritual growth among the church leaders themselves. Our mutual responsibility is to ensure that “everyone who hears” the words of Jesus “puts them into practice.” That is the test of true spiritual growth.

Practicing the words of Jesus must first begin with, and then be upheld by the church leaders. Indeed, unless leaders are well grounded spiritually in the immovable foundation of “The Rock” – the very “words” of Jesus – the churches they plant will be shallow spiritual images built on shifting “sand” (Matt. 7:24-27). This mission would be an empty church-planting movement, not a well-watered, Word-rooted Church growth reality. It would be a church whose individual members bear the characteristics that Christ describes as those who “hear the word of the kingdom and do not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in their hearts”; or one “who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while… When tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.” (Matt. 13:18-22). Such a church would easily fall victim to the “sleight of men” with “cunning craftiness” (Eph. 4:14), and to those who “follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons… hypocritical liars” (1 Tim. 4:1, 2). Such a church is bound to fall with a “great crash” when the winds of false doctrine beat against her. SI must prevent these dangers among the people-groups where this ministry has been commissioned to serve.

SI must ensure that the missionaries, pastors, and evangelists we send out to unreached people-groups (we have now identified 14 such tribes that surround Turkanaland in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Uganda) do not spread false doctrine, leading the growing flock of Jesus Christ astray. We must continually and regularly gather the growing number of indigenous Church leaders together to impart upon them “sound doctrine” (Titus 2:1), the “doctrine of Christ” (2 Jn. 9) that they are called to propagate. We must begin to do so now. That’s our next urgent phase.

With 133 churches in Turkanaland and Southern Sudan alone, those who have been appointed to church leadership positions has reached 665 – that is an average of at least 5 leaders per church! The need is urgent, to heed the Apostle Paul’s charge to his protégé Timothy – “to be a workman approved by God” (2 Tim. 2:14-26) if the churches that SI continues to plant in Turkanaland and beyond are to withstand the imminent winds of false doctrine. The need to build a permanent facility in Lodwar now - a facility that will accommodate and teach/train the existing and potential church leaders from across Turkanaland and the neighboring tribes - could not be greater and more urgent.

Here is where you come in. I appeal for your help in raising the first $500,000 (of the $2M needed to complete the facility) needed by December 2011 in order to start construction of Phase One of the SEND Center in Lodwar by January 2012. The local labor force in Lodwar is unlimited and God has already called Taylor and Leigh Ann Kilpatrick from Ruston, Louisiana to oversee the construction of the Center. They have raised 75% of their family support already and are ready to move to Lodwar as soon as $500,000 for the SEND Center construction is raised. Please read more information about the SEND Center itself on page 11.

I ask you to consider, pray, and generously make a financial commitment towards Phase One of this important project. I am confident that in a few years, you and I will affirm that the “seed” imparted among the indigenous Church leaders at the SEND Center has also fallen on “good ground” in the remote villages; that the Word has been heard and understood, and that it is indeed bearing fruit and producing a crop - “some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty” (Matt. 13:8)!

May you experience with us the same delight of “sharing the Gospel and our very lives” as together we build a beacon of light in Turkanaland. Come alongside us and help us build the SEND center now. Kindly provide your support in the attached return envelope.

Sammy Murimi / Director

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SITE, headed up by John Nakara and Stanley Alem Lokwawi, is the ministry of SI responsible for surveying and mapping the spread of the Gospel in Turkanaland and its neighboring tribes. SITE makes the very first contact with the unreached village’s witch doctor and leaders to seek permission for outreach. SITE then plans and holds evangelistic events and outreaches in the village and recommends an SI- trained missionary to be commissioned there to plant a church. SITE also helps growing churches and pastors plan further outreach among their neighboring villages and tribes.

Between January to August this year, SITE screened the Jesus Film in 8 villages, held 3 seminars for church leaders on outreach and evangelism, organized one large open air evangelistic event (“crusade”), and hosted 3 prayer outreach events. A total of 520 Turkana people gave their lives to Christ through these events.

Pastor James Lourien of Lodwar said, “If we could have five evangelism oriented ministries like SITE in Turkanaland, all the Turkana people could be reached with the Gospel within a very short time. The problem we have in Turkanaland is that every evangelistic ministry wants to promote its own church or funding agency. Only SITE does outreach through any Evangelical denomination or church in Turkanaland. SITE’s outreach promotes only the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

During one SITE event, a deaf child was brought to the meeting by his mother. Believers laid their hands on the child and prayed for healing. His mother says, “This child has had hearing problems for a long time. We have taken him to the hospital several times, but there was no cure. In the end he lost his hearing completely. Today I have seen God’s healing power. Today I have joy. I had enrolled him in a school for the deaf, but now I will withdraw him and take him to a regular school.”

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Church Growth

Supporting a local indigenous missionary has many benefits:

• There is no language barrier

• For the cost of supporting the average western missionary, we can support about 30 indigenous missionary families with enough for them to be a blessing in the churches they work in.

• The indigenous people adapt easily and find the environment friendly as it is. They sleep on the ground anywhere they go and need no boarding or other such luxuries.

• Most of all, the Turkana people identify with the missionary families because they look like their own sons and daughters. They see one of their own people coming to share the Gospel.

The Church in Turkanaland is growing! Not only is the number of churches growing (133 to date) and the number of believers growing (18,506 recorded decisions for Christ to date), but spiritual growth is beginning to take root as well! Weekly discipleship meetings are taking place in all the churches, despite migration due to drought and famine affecting numbers in some villages. Many churches are growing in the love of God’s Word so much so that they are sharing the love of Christ with their neighboring villages, planting churches and serving.

This year alone, SI held revival meetings and conferences in partnership with the pastors and missionaries in their respective churches. Some of the topics covered included spiritual leadership, the roles of church leaders, the role of women in the church, the essentials of a Christian marriage, the role of youth in the church, changes in adolescence among youth, Christian doctrine, what God detests most, humility, giving, and uplifting others.

Dalmas Esekon gives a powerful outlook on reaching all of Turkanaland in 5 years Our vision is to multiply ourselves through the missionaries we have trained in order to reach all of Turkanaland. We encourage each mother church that SI has planted to identify a village nearby that has no church and plant a church there. When they plant a church they also send one of their own evangelists to the new village and the mother church supports this evangelist. At that point, the SI Church Growth Program (SICGP) team comes and encourage this missionary through discipleship, training

and by providing tools for ministry.

We have a target goal of reaching all of Turkanaland in 5 years, and we believe this can be achieved with the 76 indigenous missionaries we have already trained.. We believe our people will have heard the Gospel and we will have given them the opportunity to make decisions based on the message they have heard. Many people are in need of training, and we are excited about the SEND Center that will be built for this purpose.

We have sent out 26 indigenous missionaries to date and are trusting God for even more as support is received. Churches and believers can get involved by adopting a village, giving and praying.


SICGP, which is headed by Dalmas Esekon and Peter Adir, is responsible for communicating with SITE to identify villages where the Gospel has been presented and received. A SI-trained missionary is then sent to plant a church and continue to share the Gospel and make disciples in these villages.

SICGP is responsible for making sure that churches are not just growing in number (number of members and church plants), but spiritually as well. SICGP works with pastors and missionaries to plan revival meetings, baptisms, training seminars for ministry, and discipleship.


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“After participating in the STORM trip I feel compelled more than ever to study and memorize Scripture. I was very convicted when I was having a conversation with someone of my lack of ability to recall Scripture. The fact that I have the Bible at my fingertips daily, in my language, leaves room for no excuses. ” - Beth Foster


“The idea of praying constantly throughout my day was really impressed upon me during this year’s

STORM trip. When we were in the villages the only tool available to me was prayer. It made me realize

how often in my everyday life I rely completely on myself and not on Christ. I also realized how

ESSENTIAL indigenous missionaries are!” - Elizabeth Turpin

“During STORM, I realized the importance of hiding Scripture in my heart and the importance of constant prayer, not just during times of need. It was a huge wake up call to see the desire that the African men and women had for the Word of God.” - Brian Foster

“The STORM team went down to pray for rain for the Turkana region by the river banks of the Turkwel River in Lodwar on July 13th. Just 10 days later, after months of drought God answered our prayers and sent rain! I have learned on this journey of faith to never give up or stop calling on God.” - Lois Mwangi


Every summer Share International hosts a Short Term Outreach and Relief Mission (STORM) trip. This year’s STORM team was made up of 19 Americans and 12 Africans who followed God’s call to go from July 7th through the 15th to use their gifts to be the hands and feet of Christ to the Turkana people.

1. The team led a recorded total of 956 people to faith in Christ as their personal Savior. The harvest is truly ripe!

2. The medical team (including one internist, an ophthalmologist, and a dentist) treated 1,444 people with various illnesses in five remote villages.

3. The livestock team (including one vet) vaccinated 3,249 heads of livestock in 6 remote villages.

4. The team distributed foodstuffs to 5,175 starving adults and children in 6 villages.

5. A total of 75 believers who had completed the SI Discipleship Program were baptized in Lake Turkana.

6. The team ministered to the multiple spiritual needs of hundreds of men, women, and children in the five remote villages through the teaching of the Bible.

7. The team held Bible teaching seminars for a total of 180 indigenous missionaries, pastors, and teachers at the SI make-shift facility in Lodwar on the second day of the team’s time in Turkanaland.

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” I cannot express the joy of having sponsored a single mother and her three children now for 8 years and being able to meet the family during STORM, in Lodwar! We have written back and forth now for these 8 years and I SAW Elim, 16, Ruth, 12, Shepherd, 8, and their wonderful mother, Mercy! I took all my letters with me with pictures sent through the years, and Mercy and I sat and laughed and cried rereading them.” –Judy Roberts


It was such a blessing to be part of the STORM trip this year. I was on the Men’s teaching team and my wife Leigh Ann was in the Children’s team. We were able to see how Share’s ministry works from all angles and to learn more about the Turkana people. God is doing a mighty work through Share and we were privileged to be part of it during STORM.

As we prepare to move our family to Lodwar, God allowed us to experience it together as a couple for the first time. We were NOT discouraged about our soon-to-be home. The Turkana staff welcomed us with open arms and we cannot wait to get back to Lodwar and begin the construction of the SEND Center.

Sammy and I remained behind in Nairobi for an extra week after the team returned home. During that week we met with the architect that God provided for the Center. We collaborated about the plans and building methods we will use during the construction. At this time the architect is making the finishing touches to the plans. Sammy and I are in the process of raising funds for the Center. Currently, we have $20,000 raised. My family will be living and working Ruston, LA until $500,000 is received, at which time we will move to Lodwar. The current budget for the Center is $2 million and we are trusting in the Lord for every penny needed to complete the Center.

My biggest take away from the STORM trip was the great need for the SEND Center. The Center will allow Share to reach more people groups in the surrounding areas that need the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and will also enable Share to better disciple the people they have reached. The Turkana people out in the remote villages are new to the faith and most are illiterate. The Center will send out more trained indigenous pastors and missionaries that are equipped to disciple these beautiful people in the faith. Through ministries like Children of the Kingdom (COK) and the SI

Adult Literacy (SIAL) program, Share has been educating the Turkana people they have reached. I cannot imagine what a change this will bring to the Turkana culture as more become educated and are able to read the Bible for themselves.

My wife and I are very excited about what God is going to do through this Center and we are ready for this project to get underway. Please pray for us as we make this transition and move our family. Also pray for God’s provision not only for my family but for the SEND Center as well.

Some people have raised the question “Why don’t we use all that money to support more pastors and missionaries instead of constructing the Center?”. Share has now sent their first missionary into Southern Sudan and have plans to reach parts of Uganda, Ethiopia, and Somalia within the next five years. The SEND Center will act as a teaching, training and sending post for the indigenous pastors and missionaries that Share International supports and sends out. A sustainable base is necessary for that to happen in that very needy African region.

It will be a self-supporting facility as we will let rooms to other agencies or mission teams that come through Lodwar, with all the proceeds applied to the cause of the SEND Center - training, sending, and supporting more indigenous missionaries and pastors in the years to come. The pastors and missionaries I had a chance to speak to are very excited about the Center because of the training and encouragement they will receive through it. And when they come from the remote villages for training, they won’t have to worry about where they are going to lay their heads.

SEND CenterTaylor Kilpatrick / SEND Center Coordinator

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The SI Adult Literacy (SIAL) program employs 9 full time teachers in 9 churches to teach reading and writing to adolescents and adults who did not have the opportunity to go to school. With the extremely high rate of illiteracy in the Turkana area, knowing how to read or write not only brings about change and enlightenment to the whole village, but most of all creates stronger churches and more mature believers because they can read and understand God’s Word throughout the week and wherever they go.

Currently 403 men and 291 women have enrolled in literacy classes through SIAL. Some students walk long distances to attend classes. One pastor tells us of students who walk from another village 5km (3.1 miles) each day to study and learn to read the Bible in their own language. This pastor tells us that students from the class are now writing praise and worship songs and leading Bible studies and discipleship classes. One has even become a pastor and was sent to plant a church in a neighboring village.

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A Brighter Future In pastoral communities where there are no schools or where children must take their livestock to pasture and water, they have no opportunity for education. The young boys travel with other boys and men, herding to support themselves and their families. Because they will never learn to read and write, it will be hard for them, even if they accept Christ to grow and mature in their faith.

A solar powered audio device containing the Bible and other Bible-based teachings and sermons spoken in a native language can be listened to in the desert while watching over livestock. It may be shared by many boys traveling together.

The audio Bible in the Turkana language has already been recorded and these devices are simple to make, load and maintain even in harsh climates. We know of one supplier already and are in the process of evaluating the most cost efficient means of getting these devices to the Turkana churches to be passed out in villages.

If you wish to give the gift of God’s Word in Turkana language to those who do not have the opportunity for literacy education please contact us through the International Headquarters address on the back page.

Selina, a 19 year old newlywed who met her husband in a SIAL class says: “Before it was difficult for a lady like me, wearing traditional clothing to stand in the church or teach. Now through my studies I am confident and read the Word in church and can explain the Bible to others.”



In August, I got an email with pictures of some dresses that were given to some girls in the Children of the Kingdom (COK) program. These were made by a woman named Ruth Stringfield from Christ Community Church in Franklin, TN and were sent with the STORM team with much love from her heart and hands to these girls.

When I saw this picture (right), I was overjoyed as I saw the vibrant colors on these beautiful girls. One girl named Micah in the front row is in a pink shirt and a fun tie dye skirt. These were items that my daughter Anna had given to be shared with the children. The reason that I am sharing this is that it impressed me that this encapsulates the core of this ministry. Share International is small enough that we are able to have these personal connections. Anna can send one of her beloved skirts over, a friend from church can give a labor of love, and we know these gifts will land in the hands of those whom we love.

This ministry opens doors for us to share our lives and the gospel with one another and to make a difference. Even though this town is over 8000 miles away, this picture made our world seem so much smaller and made these girls seem like next door neighbors.

I know these are challenging times for many of us financially, but I invite you to consider sponsoring a child through our sponsorship program. Our outreach extends to over 250 children in the following programs: a K-12 program, a college program, a foster/adoption program, and a street children’s program. Great things can be accomplished when many join together. If you are unable to join us in this particular effort financially, we are deeply grateful for partnership in prayer for the children we hold dear to our hearts in India and in Kenya.

Children of the KingdomEmily Huff / CoK US Coordinator

The COK Program pairs needy children up with sponsors to receive education, exposure to the Gospel and discipleship as well as a relationship with their sponsor though written letters and photographs. Currently 250 children are sponsored through COK; 25 in the college program (community colleges and universities), 75 in high schools, and 100 children in primary school. COK also has a foster/adoption ministry, which currently includes 50 children who have been placed with Christian families locally and are supported by a $15 a month gift to offset the cost of food, education and medical bills. These gifts come from sponsors like you.

The New Hope Children’s Program (NHCP) is the newest program within COK. Begun this year, the program identifies orphan children living on the streets who are heading down a path of destruction, smoking, and taking other harmful substances. So far, 15 children, given a second chance, have accepted Christ and are now in boarding schools and singing in their churches.

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The Share International Women and Children Program (SIWCP) is involved in strengthening Turkana homes and families by reaching out to Turkana women and their children in the areas of discipleship, hygiene, child rearing, Christian marriage, Bible study and more.

In August, SIWCP along with a local church hosted a regional conference in Lodwar which was attended by over 50 women leaders from surrounding villages. It was a lively conference which included praise and worship, prayer, teaching and a Q & A time.

Many women came forward and poured out their hearts to the Lord on behalf of their unsaved husbands. Women experienced encouragement, bonding, exhortation and the presence of the Holy Spirit. During an open Q & A time, may women got the chance to express the challenges they and others in their churches are facing. They received wise counsel and Biblical instruction in matters related to the roles of women in the Church, Christian marriage, practicing the Word and setting a godly example for unsaved spouses and children.

The event was paid for by local churches and through gifts from the attendees.

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Livestock Program UpdateThe SI Livestock Program (SILP) uses pastors and churches to identify the most needy among poor families in Turkanaland. Individuals then donate $100 which buys 1 male and 3 female goats which are given to the family in need to start their herd and give them a step up out of poverty. When the herd of the recipient family reaches 10 female goats, they are expected to donate 3 females back to the program to be donated, together with a male goat, to another family in dire need.

Drought and famine this year in the Turkana region resulted in decreased numbers in herd reproduction. Some families even lost livestock due to dehydration and lack of pasture. But we met one woman who received goats from John Karrick and his church in Iowa. She was overjoyed with what a blessing this gift of love has been to her family. She said, “I am a widow and mother of five children. I am very thankful to those who gave these goats to us. May God bless them!”

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Women andChildren’s Ministry The SI Health Program (SIHP) serves the Turkana people through

its free clinic in Lodwar, and, even more importantly, through its weekly mobile clinics to outlying villages that never receive any type of medical care. Since January, the program has been able to treat 12,967 patients, and has seen 227 put their faith in Christ.

Famine has been prevalent in Turkanaland. During one of the mobile clinics in the villages north of Lodwar, the SIHP Clinical Officer - Derrick Lowoto – and his staff encountered a ten-year old child that had gone without food for four days. Her parents had migrated with their livestock toward Ethiopia and left her behind with her grandmother who did not have the means to feed her. The girl was not in a position to support herself. Upon the mobile unit’s arrival to the village for the clinic, staff found the girl’s grandmother giving her water. When they inquired whether or not the girl was sick, the grandmother cried , telling them the girl had gone hungry for four days.

Immediately, the staff took food from the vehicles that was meant for the patients. After just half an hour of eating, the young girl was able to sit and even walk. The staff gave her more food to last her five days. They also encouraged the pastor to include the girl in his own household’s daily meals until her parents return back during the rainy season.

Water was delivered to 12 villages (approximately 3,000 people) between January and August. Some villages received water twice a week and others three times depending on the requests and availability of rain water. Approximately 3,000 people benefited from these monthly/weekly water delivery services. Some of the villages are not SI-targeted villages, but their elders came to the SI office to request for water.

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In 2011, a new class of 20 Dalit women enrolled in the program. They begin their classes with prayer and are encouraged with the Word of God daily. Thank you for your prayers and support of these women in the Dailt community.

Missionary Pastors Missionary pastors are extremely important in sharing Christ and establishing churches in the Hindu-dominated Dalit community. The missionaries and pastors that work with the SI Messiah Gospel Ministry (SIGMGM) are diligent servants of the Gospel. They visit and pray for the bereaved and depressed; they share their testimonies, present the Gospel and encourage believers to follow the Word of God. These missionary pastors are serving in extremely poor areas. Their churches are unable to support them with enough income to provide for the basic needs of their families. Through sponsorships, Share has been able to support three missionary pastors to date in India.

Pastor Chinni has been serving the Lord in Yellamalli village. He is reaching people in the Davaramadugu forest area as well as people in Katranpelli village.

Pastor Daniel is planning to establish a church in Mallumpudi. Meanwhile he is reaching people in the Lanchirevu area in Kovvur town as well as people in the Namavaram slum area.

Pastor Shekar is working in Yellugubanda village and moving out to reach people in the surrounding villages.

These missionary pastors are struggling as they travel from one village to another. Reaching villages in the outlying forest areas has proven difficult. They are praying for motorcycles to ease transportation.

Children of the Kingdom In India, poor children are unable to get an education because of lack of tuition. Child labor still exists in India, and many poor children work to help support their families. Through your support, Children of the Kingdom in India is successfully supporting 13 children and additional foster support for 11 children and providing a way for them to go to school and build a brighter future.

Raj Kumar is a young child who was on the verge of becoming a daily wage worker. Pramilia is an orphan child whose mother and father have died due to violence and disease. Through the COK program these children are now attending school. Praise God!

The Messiah Gospel Ministry is Share International’s outreach to the Dalits, a socially disadvantaged and poor people group in India. The ministry shares Christ and seeks to alleviate poverty through sponsoring Dalit pastors, a sewing training program for women and extending the COK ministry to include Dalit children.

Sewing Program Update Since the inception of the sewing program in 2005, over 70 women have benefited from the skills taught in the program. These very poor Dalit women have been able to gain employment or run their own businesses, which provides sustainable income and hope for their families.


During this year’s STORM trip, we were blessed to have Dr. Dan Kihika from Nairobi, Kenya working with us. Dr. Kihika is a scientist in soils and the environment. He spent time with a group of men in one of the SI churches in the village of Nadapal who are interested in learning to farm as a way to produce a more sustainable and nourishing food supply for their village along the banks of the Turkwel River.

We also visited an existing farm that belongs to a man, Mariko, who was led to Christ by Dr. Sammy Murimi during a church planting trip in 2003. Mariko showed us his farm where he is growing bananas, papayas, corn, and other crops. Dr. Kihika spent time showing Mariko how to better plot out his plants and how to fertilize them in order to produce more crops. They even planted seeds that had started to germinate by the time we left! Mariko is allowing SI to use his farm to teach other Turkana men and women about agriculture and how it is possible to grow food in Turkanaland!

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International Headquarters Dr. Sammy Murimi, Director 207 N. Service Rd. East Ruston, LA 71270 Phone: (318) 513-2535 [email protected]

Turkana Mission Office Attn. John L. Nakara P.O. Box 84 Lodwar, Kenya Phone: 011-254-54-21289 [email protected]

Children of the Kingdom Coordinator Emily Huff 207 N. Service Rd. East Ruston, LA 71270 Phone: (318) 497-0311 [email protected]

Nairobi Office Lois Mwangi P.O. Box 24872 Code 00502 Karen Nairobi. Kenya Phone: + 254-722279665 [email protected]

India Office The Messiah Gospel Ministry Attn. Ratnakar Thota Gadalamma Nagar, Door No. 88-3-2/1 P.O. Box 95, Rajahmundry East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh South India. Pin 533103

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