GCW Church Mobilization | Event Held at Anglican Church Embu Diocese
GCW Church Mobilization | Event Held at Anglican Church Embu Diocese
by Minister Isaiah Kimani, GO! Kenya Director
EMBU (KENYA)
June 10, 2022
On the 8th of this month (June), we had an auspicious God-honoring GCW event at the Anglican St. Paul Cathedral Embu.
I am happy to report that the event was a tremendous success. 198 Christian ministers registered for the event, excluding the facilitators and workshop helpers. Twenty-Seven (27) children from St. Monica Special School for the Mentally Challenged and Jomo Kenyatta Home for children with physical disabilities were also present.
GCW Facilitator Team
From this great harvest of workshop attendees, One-hundred and thirty-four (134) accepted the commissioning as ministers to serve orphans and vulnerable children. The Diocesan Bishop, Rt. Rev. Muriithi, commissioned the ministers and urged them to go out and minister to the orphans as the Lord leads them.
It was an honor to have the Diocesan Bishop present throughout the day. The facilitators did a commendable job in their presentations. Gauging from their sentiments and remarks after the workshop, it was clear that this GCW happened at just the right time in this community. For many years, the Diocese championed the needs of the orphans in the region, but over time, they had slowed down in their activities. It was indeed a God-sent initiative to revive the ministry of the orphans in Embu Diocese.
We look forward to hearing moving stories and testimonies of what the Lord will be doing in the coming days and months as ministers step out in obedience to love and serve orphans and vulnerable children in the Embu community.
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Church Mobilization is our newest initiative launched in February 2022. We are currently working with local area churches to co-host Great Commandment Workshops where we bring together multiple subject matter experts to discuss the why and how to serve the poor generally, and orphan children specifically. We will track the impact of children served through this effort to justify continued investment; however, we have no plans to be funding the care of children through this initiative. We have held eight Great Commandment Workshop events since our launch in February 2022:
Beyond the financial commitment of the workshops, this effort is to be indigenous, self-propagating, and self-supporting. Our objective is to engage local churches to expand our GO! network, mobilize the church body to serve orphaned children, and to advance the Kingdom through demonstrating the Gospel to others. Through these workshops we are:
Minister Isaiah Githinji Kimani is currently the Director designate for the Global Orphan Relief’s Church Mobilization Initiative in Kenya. He coordinates and leads Great Commandment Workshops throughout Kenya. Like minded churches are enlisted to co-host these events under the Global Orphan Relief nonprofit organization based in Colorado, USA. He is leading in championing the rights, interests, and well-being of orphan children by deploying the local Church to be more focused on serving orphaned children in their communities.
Isaiah is a graduate of Nations University-USA with a Master of Theological Studies degree and Christian Leaders College with a Bachelor of Divinity Degree.
He is active in the Church and his community. He currently serves as a volunteer Dean of Students and a Global Minister for the Christian Leaders Alliance based in the US. Isaiah is an ordained minister of the Word with Christian Leaders Alliance and a member of Parklands Baptist Church Westlands in Nairobi. He also serves as a Director in the Kenya National Congress of Pentecostal Churches (KNCPC). Isaiah is the husband to Ruth Sheen and a father to Gracious.
Global Orphan Relief (GO) has been serving orphaned children since 2005. We have accomplished this work through local partners in each country that provides oversight and distribution of care. As of May, we serve 2,479 orphan children in DR Congo, Kenya, Pakistan, South Sudan, and Zambia within our Home-based Care, Scholarship, Nutrition, and Church Mobilization Initiatives.
You may send support or other correspondence to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Circle, Parker, CO 80134 or you may give also give electronically at Church Mobilization or give on this website at the upper righthand corner under ‘Donate’ and select Church Mobilization | Great Commandment Workshop under the Fund designation.
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Global Orphan Relief (GO!) is a Christian relief agency serving vulnerable children and is a recognized U.S. public charity, tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3). All donations to GO!, or any charitable contribution processed through Network For Good Donor Advised Fund, are tax deductible to the extent of the law. If you prefer, you may provide gifts of support by sending via mail to the address above.