CM/GCW Kenya | Church Mobilization Initiative | Kenya

Great Commandment Workshop Church Mobilization Event Held at Anglican Church Embu Diocese in June 2022. This event was attended by 198 ministry leaders and 134 of these leaders were commissioned as GO! Ambassadors.

What: This mission project is the continued roll-out of Church Mobilization (CM) effort in Kenya that launched February 2022.

Where: Church Mobilization events referred to as Great Commandment Workshops have been held in Nairobi, Central Kenya, Western Kenya, and Mombasa.

When: Continued rollout in 2024

How: Through your funding support and in partnership with GO! Kenya team.

We are targeting ministry leaders that will receive the mandate in scripture to serve orphan children. We have commissioned 2,106 GO! Ambassadors at 13 Great Commandment Workshops held in Kenya in since our launch in 2022. This GO! Ambassador Network has served as many as 10,395 orphan children.

You may send support for this Mission Project to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Circle, Parker, CO 80134 or you may give also give electronically at Church Mobilization Initiative or give on this website at the upper righthand corner under ‘Donate’ and select Education Initiative under the Fund designation.

Background

The impetus for this initiative goes back to an experience in Zambia in 2006. Based on our initial visit to Zambia we shared our vision to serve orphan children with a message of hope. Later that year, Kitwe Central Church established an orphanage that provided a family for six orphan girls who had been living on the street. This was not something that was directly suggested by our team.

We believed this to be a beautiful picture of how the Father wants to care for his children through the local church. As we deployed mission teams over the years, we continued to encourage the local church to serve children in their communities.

We developed the concept of the Great Commandment Workshop to formalize the process of deploying the church body in 2018. We were delayed in our launch of this initiative based on the COVID pandemic, though concept collaboration continued with church leaders around the world during this time.

Great Commandment Workshop (GCW)

GCW’s are one-day discussions to better examine the why and how of serving others -specifically orphan children.

The objective is to act as a catalyst during these meetings to empower the Church body to serve others as Christ commanded. At the conclusion of these one-day events, there is a call-to-action for those in attendance for those being called to serve orphan children and who will act as GO! Ambassadors in their communities.

This Church Mobilization effort is indigenous, self-propagating, and self-supporting, with the movement being coordinated by local leadership.

Geography

Ten Great Commandment Workshops held in 2022 in the Nairobi, Meru, Embu, Voi, & Mombasa.

Kenya is twice the size of Nevada with a population of 55.9 million people.

85% of the population consider themselves Christian, with the next biggest religious group being Muslim at 11%.

We have held our meetings in urban areas and across a variety of church denominations.

We will continue to increase our footprint in Kenya throughout 2023 using this base as a jumping-off point for future country launches.

What we have also experienced at our nine workshops thus far, is a willingness for leaders to travel to attend these meetings as they are hungry for this type of teaching within the church.

We are encouraged by how the newly christened GO! Ambassadors have responded by serving the impoverished in their communities.

Project Costs & Approach

Much of the investment in this mission project is based on the number of workshops held, and not necessarily based on the number of children served, however, our GO! Ambassador Network grows with these events.

For both types of meeting that we facilitate, food is purchased for attendees and there are other related costs such as travel and speaker fees. Our Great Commandment Workshops are bigger meetings where we have averaged 189 attendees per meeting. The Summit meeting is smaller and includes only active GO! Ambassadors who attended a GCW in the past.

Our plan for 2024 in Kenya, involve costs of $32,538 that includes support for our team and costs associated with five meetings to further develop our GO! Ambassador there that will impact even more children.

Please prayerfully consider how you might support this mission project.