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After the ACMI family celebrations, I went and stayed home
for three days before proceeding to the desert. My family
is doing okay. God has really blessed us with peace as a
family and I really love my wife because she encourages
me so. And my kids are also special, they sing to me when
I am down. I really thank God for my family.
As I was getting ready to go back into
the desert, I went to see the D.C to help me with some relief
food for my fellow villagers who are dying of hunger. The
famine has pushed them to such amounts of despondency that
they are even selling their kids for survival.
I went
to the villages with food and began preaching. One of the
new villages to launch into is Kerio Ngimurea where I have
about 4,000 people. Two diviners who have been based there
got saved and are now continuing with God’s word.
They were talking to people about the love
I have for them and how I am helping them. I am nurturing
them so that they may not go back to the worldly things.
I want them to be prophets and prophetess of God.
Since then I took one of my pastor’s
wife who was pregnant and I did my work and it wasn’t
successful. I was then connected to a missionary friend
who is working at the same place but a bit far from where
I have planted a church. Some guys helped me bring the lady
to the hospital where she was operated on. So she is still
in hospital and waiting to deliver in July.
What I am currently on is training and
nurturing pastors. There are 43 of them in the surrounding
areas deep in the desert. The forty three are different
from the forty that I am training in Lokori desert. I do
not train them in a school or some establishment of the
sort. I have to go to the specific areas they are based
at.
The drought is still a major limiting factor
in this mission because people are now moving farther and
farther away in search of green pastures. People are starving
to death in the central and southern part of Turkana. And
so are the animals. It’s my wish that we unite in
prayers so that God may hear the cry of his people and send
some rain.
My target this year is to go and visit
all diviners in Turkana district. Whatever it takes, I’ll
be there. I am also targeting Sudan with the strategy of
reaching out to the 12tribes that speak the same language
as the Turkana’s. We have Jie, Masenuko, Topasa, Marilee
and others placed at the border of Uganda and Kenya, Sudan
and Kenya, Ethiopia and Kenya. Those are my areas of operation.
And now because I have a ‘pik or
pikipiki’ (motorcycle), Oh! My goodness. I will be…‘Flying’
all over. It will make my work easier. God blessed Benson
with a motocycle after hearing the story of how he walks
for many miles and many days without water. He has lost
some of his fellow workers this way. »»»
The diviners do not really understand the
salvation of God because they have lived like that for long.
The first time I came to the village they thought that maybe
I am one of those who are cowed by them. Many have really
tried to come to the village but end up running away because
of their powers. But the Lord had given me strategies on
how to reach them. I had spent a lot of time in prayer and
I knew what the Spirit of God spoke to me and what strategies
to use. So the first time I went there I simply greeted
them and when they heard that this is a man that God has
brought to the village… they couldn’t come rushing
to me because according to them they said that they had
seen many people accompanying me (maybe angels). I think
their spirits were seeing something unique and I thank God
because they feared me because I have Jesus. Through their
confessions they began talking to people. In Turkana they
would say, “Greater is a man, who is concerned when
you are about to die. This is a friend.” That’s
what they said about me.
Those kinds of confessions helped draw
more souls to Jesus. In the same village I have 1,390 members.
I have a big church “bigger than any other bishop
in the world”. So that is what we are doing right
now and we really thank God. I know it is because of your
prayers. I know there are many people who are spending their
time praying for me and it is these prayers that have done
all this. I have nothing with which to glorify myself. It
is all about Jesus. It is Jesus I want glorified. He is
the real desert boy; I am just a cover, a human being called
Benson but a desert boy too.
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