Rev. Isaac Kibuthu graduated in 2001 with an MA in Missions. Isaac, can you tell us what you are doing now?
I have been the Senior Pastor of NPC Karen since 2006. After completing my studies in NEGST, I was fully employed by the NPC’s Christ is the Answer Ministries.

I first came to NEGST in 1999 and took an MA in Missions. I had started pastoring at NPC Parklands even before coming to  NEGST. As I shared the word of God, I felt the urge to go to school and learn more about being an effective servant of God in spreading his word. I was one of the founders of NPC Parklands, working there on a volunteer base. I became the senior pastor there in 2001.

What are the Challenges that you have encountered in your work?
NPC Parklands has a unique mission to reach out specifically to the Asian (Gujarati and Hindu) community, without excluding Read the full story »

Mr. Mateso Akou first came to NEGST in September 1986. He took a Masters of Divinity in theological studies in 1989. From 1989 to 1991 he took a Masters in Theology, which was a combination of Biblical Studies and Theology. He was also the NEGST alumni chair from 2002 to 2004.

Mateso Akou, after graduating from NEGST, what have you been doing since then?
After NEGST,  I joined the Diguna Missions in Ongata Rongai. I served in Diguna for more than fifteen years, leaving there in June 2002. I was an evangelist in Diguna, responsible for the training and equipping of staff. Other than that, I was the personnel director.

I left Diguna to go and pastor in a francophone church in Nairobi two years. Currently, I am a part time lecturer at NEGST, where Read the full story »

Kabucungu Hand-jinga, you graduated in 2005 with a master’s in Bible translation from NEGST. What have you been doing since then?
I’ve been the head of the Bible translation department at Shalom University in Bunia since July 2008. The department currently has 12 students, and there are about 500 in the university as a whole. Before that, I was the project leader of the Tembo Bible translation and literacy project, based in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Those are big tasks. Did you feel that your courses at NEGST equipped you adequately for your current position?
All that I do now as head of the Bible translation department is based on what I learned and saw put into practice at NEGST. NEGST provided the foundation for Read the full story »

Silas Kakui graduated in 2008, with an MDiv in Missions. Silas, can you tell us what you are doing now?
Currently I work with Kids Alive Kenya, a project of Kids Alive International. I am based at the Karundas Center in Nyeri North where I am the General Manager of the project. Kids Alive is a Christian organization that was founded in 1916 and works in fifteen countries in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Pacific Rim and Asia. We reflect the love of Christ by rescuing suffering children-in-crisis, nurturing them with quality holistic care and introducing them to the transforming power of Jesus Christ so they are enabled to instill hope in others.

Apart from my day to day management work (managing the home, clinic and school), I also coordinate the spiritual programs for the 33 members of staff working under me, the 74 children in our residential care and the over 120 in Read the full story »

Dr. Sei Buor graduated from the NEGST MDiv program in 1991 and went on to complete a degree at Western Theological Seminary as well as a doctorate in educational leadership from Loyola. NEGST has served as a pattern for much of what he is accomplishing at the newly-opened Liberian International Christian College (LICC). Dr. Buor states, “Education changed my life. Getting an education has allowed me to live a life I would never have experienced had I remained a farmer in my village. . . . I have had the chance to touch the lives of so many people.”

Dr. Sei Buor has coordinated all efforts of financial support, building, hiring staff and faculty, and setting the structure and direction of LICC from his office near Read the full story »

Oliver Lowoton, you graduated from NEGST with a master’s in missions, Islamic Studies, in 2008. What have you been doing since then?
I am involved in the relocation of Somali refugees from the Dadaab refugee camp to Kakuma refugee camp. I am a convoy team leader, who sees to it that there is a smooth transition of the refugees from one camp to another. My passion for this ministry started in 2003.

The first 311 refugees arrived in Kakuma on 15 August after a three day journey by road. Another convoy of 13 buses with 520 refugees left Dadaab for Kakuma last week.

U.N. refugee spokesman, Andrej Mahecic, told the press last week, “The relocation of the refugees from Dadaab to Kakuma is part of a multi- phase plan to alleviate the chronic overcrowding in the Dadaab refugee camps, which currently host more than three times the population they were initially designed to accommodate. In total, nearly 13,000 refugees will be Read the full story »

NEGST alumni, Naphtaly and Nereah Mattah, founded and built Gethsemane Garden Christian Centre (GGCC), a school on an island in Lake Victoria that is home to the impoverished Suba people, including hundreds of AIDS orphans.

Naphtaly earned his MA in Bible Translation Studies from NEGST in 2002, and went on to become project leader of a Bible Translation and Literacy project among the Suba people since 1991. Nereah holds a master’s degree in Christian education from NEGST and is the headmistress of the Centre.

According to Naphtaly, Mfangano island was one of the places worst hit by HIV-AIDS in Kenya. The students at GGCC are among the poorest of the poor from Mfangano and the surrounding islands. Up to 65% Read the full story »

Matthew, you graduated from NEGST with a Master’s in missions in 2007. What have you been doing since then?

I serve as the resident pastor of the Evangelical Free Church of Monrovia located in the predominantly Muslim community of Kende, outside of Monrovia. The town of 1,000 is populated mostly by youths and children.

Today many of the youths, women and children attend our church. We give God the glory! My desire and passion is to see the church empower and equip people to reach the unreached and unchurched with the gospel of Christ. My focus is Muslims in West Africa, beginning with my country—Liberia.

Wow! Your ministry sounds attractive. Can you give us some specifics?

I lead a six-member team of our church in a ministry to homeless and Read the full story »

Phidel, can you tell us when you first felt the call to serve children?
After secondary school, I volunteered as a teacher and counselor in a nonprofit school called Riruta Free Methodist Academy, mainly serving children from the nearby slums. The children often came to school scantily dressed and with empty stomachs, making their concentration in class difficult. It was terrible. I spent time listening to their stories, counseling them, and praying with them. I was so delighted to see these young boys and girls give their lives to Christ and devote themselves to their school work. But at the back of my mind I always wondered if Read the full story »

Neddy Mundia Nanjowe is director of the Kenya Free Methodist Modular Bible School and is director of the widows ministries of the Free Methodist Church of Kenya. Formerly a youth worker in the Free Methodist Church, Karen, Neddy graduated with an MDiv in Christian education from NEGST in 2008.

The NEGST Letter offers you an exclusive interview with her.

NL: You have been entrusted with so many responsibilities in church and in the Modular Bible School. How has your training at NEGST affected your work?

Neddy: My training at NEGST has taught me to Read the full story »