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Pure As Gold Ministries- Busia, Kenya

Our Vision:

To train, equip and send leaders who will proclaim God's truth to the nations.

Our Mission:

  • We will operate Africa Bible Colleges in order to ground leaders in God's truth.
  • We develop programs that will train locals in life skills.
  • We help meet physical needs of food, clothing and shelter primarily through the local churches.

Our Passion:

2 Tim 2:2 "You have often heard me teach. Now I want you to tell these same things to followers who can be trusted to tell others."
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View Photos of our trip to Busia, Kenya from June 2006.

Contact us at:

Ministry@PureAsGold.com

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At Pure As Gold Ministries, we want a Spirit, Soul and Body approach.
  • The Spirit- Establish and conduct the Bible School in Busia, Kenya.
  • The Soul- is to train local Kenyans in life skills, such as professions, i.e. carpentry, masonry, etc., and handling finances, starting a simple business, etc.
  • The Body- Meet physical needs, food, clothing, shelter. This will primarily be accomplished through local churches by utilizing resources provided from churches outside of Kenya.

We at Pure As Gold Ministries are determined to be a people of vision, and infusing vision into others.

We are about Kingdom building not Empire building.

Pure As Gold Ministries is a network partner in Faith Ministries International Network (FMIN).

Welcome

God has told the church to "Go and make disciples of all nations...teaching them." (Matt 28:19-20).


Sabastian is on the far right. This is his wife, Ruth's church. Pure As Gold has helped pay for the property.

This is the church's primary mandate and why I believe we Christians are still here on earth. God loves people and does not want one of them to perish. He has given us everything we need to "Go". It is not something he will make us do though. We have a choice.

Acts 1:8 says we shall be his witnesses locally, regionally and globally. But how can everyone "Go"? We can go by financing others. We can go by praying daily for those who physically go to other nations. We can even go by going on a short-term mission trip.

What an exciting Co (meaning with God)-Mission (meaning what we are to do). We are all able to go, whether by physically going, by going via prayer and financial support.

We at Pure As Gold Ministries are called to physically"Go", but we need everyone's help to do it. We are the body of Christ, and each one of us has a different part to play in the Great Commission. We are called to help fulfill the church's mission globally.

Our first project will be in a small rural area of Africa called Busia, Kenya. We are called to establish a network of "Training the Trainers."

Would you consider being a part? Individually, we will never fulfill the purpose of the Church. But together, as the Body of Christ, we can. We ask for your help to begin this project. You can read more about the how, when, where, who and why on this website, but we cannot do it without you.

Please consider being a part of discipling the nations. Already, there are over 450 Africans (not just Kenyans- many are from Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar, Rwanda and other African countries) who desperately need and want training in the Good News that God loves them and that God wants them to "Go" to a dying and hurting world.

It's only together as one body made up of many different parts that we will fulfill the great commission of loving a hurting and dying world.

This is where we are heading to: Busia, Kenya, Africa.

Kenya Map

Fast Facts About Kenya:

Population: 36,913,721
Population growth rate: 2.799%
Age structure:

0-14 years: 42.1%
15-64 years: 55.2%
65 years and over: 2.6%

Life expectancy at birth:

total population: 55.31 years
male: 55.24 years
female: 55.37 years

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 6.7%
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 1.2 million

Ethnic groups:

Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1%

Religions:

Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, Muslim 10%, indigenous beliefs 10%, other 2%
note: a large majority of Kenyans are Christian, but estimates for the percentage of the population that adheres to Islam or indigenous beliefs vary widely

Languages:

English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages

Literacy (age 15 and over can read and write):

total population: 85.1%

Elevation extremes:

lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mount Kenya 5,199 m

Natural resources:

limestone, soda ash, salt, gemstones, fluorspar, zinc, diatomite, gypsum, wildlife, hydropower

What's Next?

We have been waiting and praying for our church to get into a position in order to support us. We don't just want financial support, but we believe that God has been calling us to go out under the authority of our church, Church For All Nations, and not under a traditional missions orginization.

So, we have been waiting and praying for several years. We have been meeting with our pastor as well, but it has only been in the last 8 months that we have been seeing things shift and move.

This month (June 09), we were apart of some very strategic meetings with our pastor and the senior church leadership and Dr. Jerry Williamson, the president of Calvary International.

Dr. Jerry has 28 years of missions experience and God has really laid upon his heart to help churches start a missions program. The great thing is that Calvary has many training systems in place that they are making available for churchs to use, without having to be "Calvary Missionaries."

Our pastor, Pastor Mark Cowhart, has put us on the "fast track", as our churches missions program isn't up and running yet. So, we have some training dates. Our first training is about 2 weeks in Jacksonville, FL, beginning in mid-September (2009).

The next one is for about 10 weeks, beginning January 2010. It will be in Guatemala.

Please pray with us that all goes according to God's will, and that all of the details for these life changing events work out and that the finances needed come in on time.

Thank you for your continued prayer

Photo Log of Glenn's Kenya trip 2007

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Our Plans:

Our family is believing to move to Busia, Kenya after our training. We are going to rural areas starting in Busia, where the people are largely forgotten. Busia District would be similar to a US county. There is about 268,000 people there. They have no Bible School.

The Evangelist has gone to Africa. Many Africans have heard of Rhinehart Bonke, or T.L. Osborne and their massive crusades in the 1980's and 90's.

However, the Teacher has not gone, except in some of the larger cities. The Africans in the rural areas have been left to starve spiritually. There are many churches and pastors that are struggling to feed God's people, but the pastors have little to no training. It is like a huge tidal wave that sweeps in and wipes out the old broken down buildings (in a good way), but then flows back out and leaves a mess, because there is no one to rebuild. Hosea 4:6a says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."

We believe that God has given us a 3 part answer in order to meet the district of Busia's needs, at all levels. We want to see the hearts of the people and leaders turned towards God, and so see nations changed.

We are ultimately believing for the whole of the African continent changed. That may seem lofty or too far fetched, but without a vision, we are like a boat on the ocean without a map and rudder. Proverbs 29:18a says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish."

Please pray for us. Pray for our team. Pray for the harvest. Not everyone can "Go", but everyone can help through pray and giving.
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