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Nairobi News Church and Christian College in Nairobi, Kenya Berkeley and Charlotte Hackett [email protected], [email protected]
March, 2012 Dear Friends, Several of you have asked our opinion about the KONY 2012 video. Although we have not viewed it, we have read many articles, blogs and comments about it. Even more informative, we have lived for many decades in the “neighborhood” of the internecine killing machine that inevitably turned on itself, the Lord’s Resistance Army, and its vicious leader Joseph Kony. Mammon, Mars and Moloch – the unredeemed things of the universe; violence and mayhem; false religions and false gods – will be with us until the end of the age. Question: How should we as people under grace respond to evil? Answer: We should do battle with it until our dying breath. To popularize Kony may or may not ensure his capture…I’m thinking of Idi Amin who died old and full of years in the safety of Saudi Arabia. By the way, according to The Guardian, a British newspaper, the chief financial backer of Kony and the LRA is the Islamic government of Northern Sudan (Khartoum). In another Guardian article, March 14, 2012, Lira, northern Uganda, the epicenter of child abduction – the Kony 2012 video screening met with anger and ended abruptly amid jeers and scuffles. “People were asking: Why give such criminals celebrity status? Why not prioritize addressing the plight of the victims whose sufferings are visible?” Dear friends, isn’t it a relief to know that our job is not to save the world, but to evangelize it? The great activity of evangelism which began in the Book of Acts is on‐going and new chapters are being written every day. The good news has always been accompanied by good works: hospitals and orphanages, schools and education, job training and food production, “miracles” of compassion and caring which validate the glorious gospel: Christ redeems sinful men. Love and prayers, Charlotte and Berkeley
KCITI director, Lydia Wanjiku and NCCE elder and IPCM instructor, Duncan Irungu, pace off the acres donated for the establishment of a dry‐land model farm as part of the preacher training school curriculum.
Mark Barker, a veterinary surgeon and farmer from my hometown in Alabama and his wife, Patsy, are the co‐founders of Bread of Life Bread for Life. Mark is making a great contribution by helping us to develop the land and to instruct the preaching students in dry‐land farming techniques. Mark and others making cement fence posts.
Dr. Mark Barker accompanied by an IPCM student rolling out the barbed wire to mark the dry land farm’s boundary.
IPCM students setting the first fence post on the donated land for the dry‐land farming center. The techniques the students will learn about conserving water and enriching the soil to improve their own farms and help them be self‐ supporting; as well it will be a great evangelistic tool for community outreach, especially in famine areas.
The Institute of Practical Christian Ministry students with their new reference study Bibles. Here are some words of wisdom from Bro. Duncan Irungu, an IPCM instructor (front row, 4th from left). In explaining to the preachers the benefits of learning new farming techniques, he said, “If you give a man a fish he can eat for a day, but if you give him a hook….he can eat if he wants to.”
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