Lawrence, you graduated from NEGST in 2006, with an MDiv in missions, after receiving your BA in economics. That’s a powerful combination. Can you tell us what you’ve been doing since you finished your MDiv?

I am the national ministry coordinator of Samaritan’s Purse, Kenya. Our ministry involves spiritual formation of staff, church and para church relations, holistic ministry, children’s ministry, evangelism and discipleship. I would appreciate the prayers of the NEGST community as I consider more training in holistic ministry and working even deeper with the church.

Who influenced your coming to NEGST?

I was influenced by pastor Philip Kitoto and Mrs. Rosemary Mutheu Mwanza. Both of them told me Read the full story »

Dr. Peter Okaalet, a Ugandan physician, is Senior Director for Health and HIV/AIDS Policy at MAP International, a member of MAP’s Global Council. He holds Masters Degrees in both Divinity and Theology from NEGST and a degree in Medicine from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

He serves on the international faculty at Haggai Institute, a Christian international leadership and evangelism training organization, with centres in Singapore and Maui, Hawaii.

He served as a medical officer with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO). Dr. Okaalet offers 17 years of experience in reproductive health, specializing in the advocacy, policy formulation, research design and implementation of HIV/AIDS programs.

In February 2002, Dr. Okaalet was asked to travel to Washington, D.C., to testify Read the full story »

Reuben Sitati is a NEGST graduate with a vision for training leaders and grooming more effective pastors, especially the ones in the rural areas of Africa. He trains and teaches pastors the Bible and theology and ministry skills. Few of these pastors will ever get much formal training.

But Reuben goes a step further. He’s convinced pastors must also be entrepreneurs and know how to sustain themselves when they serve desperately poor congregations. He teaches agricultural and business skills to pastors, demonstrating how to make a living selling chickens and how to enhance the growth of crops using chicken droppings. Reuben sustained himself in this way when he was a NEGST student, as well as now at his home in Western Kenya.

Reuben’s message is a tough sell at times. Many pastors think Read the full story »

Jackson Mwaura is now a pastor in the slums of Nairobi. He studied urban ministry at NEGST almost a decade ago. But he doesn’t just have a church in the slums. He has recruited and trained a network of men and women to also minister in the slums.

One man, a former prison inmate, now has a ministry in the Nairobi jails. A woman has started a ministry to children in the slums, many of whom are not in school and are neglected. Another man has determined to be active politically and to represent the slum community to the government, and to do it with integrity and submission to God.

Jackson even started a Bible school of sorts to teach almost 20-25 of these lay ministers Bible and theology and ministry skills. This group of disciples meets every Sunday for prayer and instruction before they spread out into the slum to serve.

It’s hard to imagine any of us going into a slum to develop such an effective ministry. It takes a local and it needs to be indigenous, emerging from within the culture led by people who know and understand how that culture works.

Pastor Aquinas Anogoli is a NEGST alumni serving as the recruitment assistant for the Jitokeze initiative, a volunteer-driven campaign to increase interest in AIU. Aquinas attended NEGST from 2005 to 2008, earning an MDiv in biblical studies.

Tell us more about your ministry work.
Presently, I am a church-planting pastor with Shalem Christian Church, a ministry that I started in 2008. The church is located at Dagoretti Corner and is growing from about 18 members. Shalem Christian Church is under the umbrella of Shalem Ministries, whose mission is to reach the whole of society, not just the spiritual realm. For now, we are dealing with winning people to Christ and discipling them to maturity. We also minister to a school for the less privileged. Read the full story »

Prosper Nongnide graduated from NEGST in 2009, with an MDiv in translation studies. His wife Catherine graduated the same year with a diploma in Christian ministries.

Catherine and Prosper now work for SIL in Bible translation in Togo and Benin. The goal is to make the word of God available in the Idaasha language, Prosper’s mother tongue, which is spoken in central Benin Republic.  Prosper is the project leader. Catherine is in charge of project administration.

Currently the Nongnides are doing community mobilization to sell this vision to the Idaasha, with the view that they will own it. They met the key local, ecclesiastic leaders and the king of the area, who are very happy Read the full story »

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 »