No More Treks For Desert Boy

Benson is the happiest desert boy in the whole universe after he received a brand new Yamaha 70cc motor cycle. This was delivered to him by ISOM and Church Planting students on their way to Kakuma for internship. He will now either forget or miss his long treks in the desert on his church planting missions. Soon after planting his forty-third church, Benson was still willing to trek further but his feet were sore.

Just at the time when he desperately needed a way out, contemplating getting a camel, the Ron Weaver family visited to survey the water situation in Northern Kenya in a bid to purchase a drilling rig for ACMI. On their way to Kakuma they stopped at Lodwar to meet the famous desert boy. “My highlight was in spending some time with Benson and learning how he survives and how far he walks even without water. God has really continued to provide for him and guide him. He has been shot at the chest and has gone through all sorts of things, even having fellow workers die on him because of lack of water. We want to see how we can supply him with a motor cycle. That would help ease his task because then he would do more over a shorter period of time.” Ron Weaver expressed.

Benson received his motor bike on Monday, 3rd April 2006 in Lodwar Town, “the whole town witnessed me receiving the Motor bike. Am so glad to have a pikipiki,” Benson confesses. He says he has ridden it around town.

Early April, Benson returned to Lodwar from a Sudan mission where 7,000 people gathered to listen to the gospel. 2,000 people gave their lives to Jesus, “I’m a desert priest,” he owns. Before his return home, Benson appointed a person to be in charge of the newly saved Christians and will start a church with them.

His next mission he says is to a village a days walk away to start a church for he discovered that the people there do not have the gospel yet.

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