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Healing & salvation in Kenya

Adrian Holloway on September 15, 2017 with 0 Comments

I’ve just come back from a wonderful week in Kenya where I was invited to serve the newly-planted One Tribe Church. One Tribe started when Mbonisi (a full time doctor, currently taking exams to qualify as an orthopaedic surgeon) & Tashinga Malaba moved from Bulawayo in Zimbabwe to Nairobi, where they teamed up with Kelvin & Belinda Massingham and Sean & Tesni Anderson. A really great team, who were all so kind to me. On the opening morning, I spoke from Romans 8 to between 200 and 300 people at St Paul’s University, where I returned in the evening for the “Choma Fest.” We saw some goats in the morning (as the local professional football team, The Leopards were getting back on their coach after training) which were slaughtered in the evening (see photos – this is what a Choma Fest is, a sort of BBQ) where I spoke to around 100 people outdoors. Three men responded for salvation. And then on the following day I was doing some training all day with church leadership, before what turned out to be the highest ever Sunday attendance at One Tribe, which was 113 adults and 69 children. There were two healings when I prayed for the sick. One lady said that a stomach pain that she’d had permanently for 5 years had gone. Another healing I got reported by text message from Mbonisi, and there were 2 salvation responses. Then on Monday we went to the enormous Kenyatta University (named after the current President’s father, who led Kenya into independence in 1963) where after some fantastic outreach work led by the dynamic Kerby McKinnell and irrepressible Taylor Dietmeier, about 60 people came into a hall where I preached on the thief on the cross and 4 people responded for salvation. This was brilliant work from a church plant that is employing two superb pioneers in Kerby & Taylor. On the final morning, I was treated to a dawn drive through Nairobi National Park, where I saw all the wild animals. We were almost the only people there, so it felt really special. Huge thanks to One Tribe and in particular to the incredibly hard-working and gracious Mbonisi & Tashinga who hosted me superbly well. It was great to be taking steps forward in Africa with Advance, a group of churches led by Stephen Van Rhyn and PJ Smyth, amongst others.

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Adrian is married to Julia. They have four daughters. He is based at Everyday Church in Wimbledon, and has written two books, "The Shock of Your Life" and "Aftershock," which tackles the strongest objections to Christianity in the form of a novel.