MINISTRY BRIEFINGS

July 10th, 2020

During Covid-19 Ministry Report

Kenyan Church Reopens

In presidential address on 6th July, 2020, the Kenyan head of state stated that the phased reopening of places of worship will see only 100 congregants allowed into sanctuaries.
“In line with the guidelines issued by the inter-Faith Council, only a maximum of one hundred (100) participants will be allowed at each worship ceremony and not more than one hour. Sunday schools shall remain suspended until further notice, and in-person worship shall not include congregants under the age of thirteen (13) years or above the age of 58 years or persons with underlying conditions,” he said when he lifted the cessation of movement for Nairobi, Mombasa and Mandera which had been in effect for the past three months.
Kenyan president said that the Inter-Religious Faith Council had recommended vulnerable persons, minors below the age of 13 be exempted from the services. In the last four months VMK has reached the local partner church leaders and believers digitally, most notably through our Facebook account, organizing zoom meetings, making calls, sending mails and sometimes convening some mini-meetings to help reach and hear from the church leaders

download reports herehttp://visionministrieskenya.org/wp-content/uploads/MARCH-AND-APRIL-VMK-REPORTS-2020.pdf

http://visionministrieskenya.org/wp-content/uploads/VMK-JUNE-REPORT.docx

http://visionministrieskenya.org/wp-content/uploads/VMK-JULY-MINISTRY-REPORT-2020.pdf

Due to COVID-19, our ability to host local and international conferences has been temporarily halted.
The last four months we have used this time to creatively reach the local partner church leaders and believers digitally, most notably through our Facebook account, trying zoom meetings, making calls and sometimes hosting small group of leaders just to encourage them.
These are ways we are continuing to minister during these difficult times.
Through the help of Vision Ministry Canada, we have been able to reach vulnerable believers with food-package gifts.
Kenya faces one of the challenging years when it comes to food security. According to our understanding, food security is achieved when all people at all times have sufficient access to food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic knocked on its door, the country faced a devastating desert locust invasion. This added constraints posed by excessive rainfall experienced from October 2019.
Two-third of food poor persons is found in rural areas and Kenyan slums as per the research by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
The coronavirus outbreak adds to the challenge because markets have been closed and delivery of food has been disrupted. People have lost jobs, some are battling with unpaid leaves and the implementation of curfews and lockdowns in the country has made life more difficult.
Regarding the partner churches, our regional chairpersons regularly give reports to the national office of how the churches in their regions are doing. We often advice pastors and church leaders on various ways to try implement to help reach the believers during this trying period.

HOPE/VMK BIBLE SCHOOL

November 26th, 2019

TEACH WELL, PREACH WELL & LEAD WELL

Vision ministry Kenya in partnership with Hope Bible College has been thinking over the years on the best way to come up with a training that will empower the local church leaders affiliated with Vision Ministry Kenya organization.

During the corona pandemic when all the churches in Kenya were closed, most of VMK affiliated churches resolved to home church programs and from the reports we received from the church senior leaders, we realized that during those meetings, most of the home-church leaders were unable to preach and even handle believers. There were problems with biblical interpretations and teaching plans. This motivated our desire to implement the bible training school idea as soon as possible. If we can recall, in the cause of early last year (2019), a meeting was held in Nairobi to draft a curriculum that would be used to help train and equip our pastors and leaders to preach well, teach well and lead well. That is the curriculum that the college will adopt in implementing the studies.

Hope Bible College

Vision: Transforming Christian leaders for the task of the post-modern Africa towards spiritual, social and economic realization.

Needs to address:

The multiplication of untrained gospel preachers
The ignorance towards transformational church leadership in Africa
The struggle for economic independence for both the church and her workers

Class Orientation Meeting

Orientation meeting was held on 8^th, August, 2020 at Grace Bible Chapel.

It was agreed that the first class be officially started on 3^rd running through 4^th and 5^th of September and because of the pandemic, this training will be done in smaller groups of 5- 15 leaders.

Facility to be used: Shelter of Hope Academy facility. These include the hostels, classrooms and cafeteria

Chapel to be used: Grace Bible Chapel, Homa-Bay.

Class facilitators/Tutors;

As we begin the introductory class in September, we will use the listed two facilitators, however as the class grow and things become normal we will involve other trainers whom we listed in our bible college proposal document.

1. Pastor Matthias Dickens – A degree holder in Theology, Harvesters Bible College. Matthias is a partner of VMK Kenya and a senior church planter in Western Kenya.

2. Bro.Ishmael Ochieng’ – Director VMK and a senior leadership trainer

Class Program

The certificate class will be running for a period of six months. For all the local leaders, the certificate class is a basic level that all of the leaders will have to undergo regardless of their academic qualification. When one is through with the certificate class they will be advised to proceed to the next level if need be for them.

Why Train Our Leaders?

Most of our partner pastors have little or no biblical training hence not fully equipped for effective handling of believers in their local churches.

Training Mission;

Equip leaders for ministry
Improve leaders’ shepherding skill and experience
Help leaders in planting more churches and more become salt and light in the community
Introduce leaders to computer literacy that will make them effective during these changing times

EVANGELISTIC OUTREACH

Vision Ministries Kenya in partnership with Shelter Of Hope organization organized a one week(12th-17th,NOV,2019) Evangelistic Outreach and a medical camp.The main activities were;

Medical outreach
prayer and counselling
Sharing the Gospel on one on one approach
Ministering to Children
Training pastors
Open Air Crusade

LEADERSHIP TRAINING

September 18th, 2019

Small Groups Training

With the Covid-19 challenges, the ministry has resolved to Small groups trainings in order to comply with the government protocols.

KAJIADO TRAINING

It is always thrilling moment when director Ishmael train leaders.Training is very key to leaders.It ensure they become more professional in how they manage the church and their congregation.On 14th,Sep,2019, director Ishmael was privileged to train leaders in Maa land, VMK Kajiado chapter.He had trainings in two places.One at ALKESUMET and another at MAILE 46, Magadi town.

AUGUST REGIONAL CONFERENCES 2019

June 21st, 2019

It’s been a great season of sitting at the Lord’s feet, hearing His words, seeking His face and preparing for the missions field. This is the good and needful part Mary chose, over Martha, of which the Lord didn’t take from her, and wouldn’t take from you if you too go down this path. You ARE before you DO. We bless the Lord for favor and grace in May conferences.It was incredible moment in Nairobi and Kajiado.

We are yet again working to ensure the August Conferences in Nyanza and Western are A success.Would you mind keeping us in prayers?

V.M.K May Regional Conferences 2019

April 8th, 2019

V.M.K Regional Conferences 2019 are here with us.(NAIROBI:16TH-18TH/MAY/2019,KAJIADO:23rd-25TH/MAY/2019)

The specific objectives of the conferences are;

To enable leaders from within a region encourage one another
To strengthen networking and fellowship within regions
To raise awareness of the spiritual challenges of current trends and cultural development
To encourage younger leaders
To encounter God together as a people
To appreciate each leader’s gift and style of leadership

News

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2022 Reports

Happy New Year! We hope that you had a great Christmas season celebrating Jesus with your family and
friends.

2021 Reports

2021 was a year that our ministry had been eagerly waiting for. The months of October and November are when we held five consecutive conferences and the anniversary. See the attached reports from the regions.

STEADILY GROWING VMK CHAPTERS

MINISTRY BRIEFINGS

During Covid-19 Ministry Report

Kenyan Church Reopens

HOPE/VMK BIBLE SCHOOL

TEACH WELL, PREACH WELL & LEAD WELL

EVANGELISTIC OUTREACH

LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Small Groups Training

KAJIADO TRAINING

‘Miracle Of Growth’

AUGUST REGIONAL CONFERENCES 2019

V.M.K May Regional Conferences 2019

Easter Conference

MINISTRY REPORTS

News

TOT REGIONAL REPORTS 2023

2022 Reports

Happy New Year! We hope that you had a great Christmas season celebrating Jesus with your family andfriends.

2021 Reports

2021 was a year that our ministry had been eagerly waiting for. The months of October and November are when we held five consecutive conferences and the anniversary. See the attached reports from the regions.

During Covid-19 Ministry Report

Kenyan Church Reopens

TEACH WELL, PREACH WELL & LEAD WELL

EVANGELISTIC OUTREACH

Small Groups Training

KAJIADO TRAINING

Happy New Year! We hope that you had a great Christmas season celebrating Jesus with your family and
friends.