AUSAA KENYA

Coordinator’s Report
Date: 14th January 2025
Site: Site 1 (Muili)
Mission Period: 22nd December 2024 – 5th January 2025

1. Summary

Site 1 comprised 49 missionaries of varying age groups and levels of mission experience. Our daily routine included morning and evening devotions, door-to-door ministry, and open-air evangelistic sessions. Overall, the mission was well-coordinated, and we thank God for His guidance throughout. The missionaries displayed commendable behavior and cooperation, which made site coordination smooth. The weather was favorable for the whole 2-week period and we are convinced that it was the Lord’s doing. However, a few challenges related to time management and discipline arose, which were effectively addressed with the help of other officials.

2. Achievements

1. Area Coverage: We achieved total coverage of the assigned area, sharing the Gospel message widely.
2. Baptism: A total of 32 individuals gave their lives to Christ through baptism.
3. Sabbath School: A new Sabbath school was established, and the first Sabbath worship was held on 11th January with good attendance reported.
4. Medical Outreach: Two free medical camp sessions were successfully conducted, which received fair attendance from the local community.

3. Challenges

1. Language Barrier:
   • During the initial days, communication with the local community posed a challenge. This was managed by collaborating with local churches, which provided their youth as translators for our door-to-door activities.
2. Security Concerns:
   • Rumors of a potential attack due to the nature of the teachings (e.g., topics on the Sabbath and the Papacy) instigated fear among missionaries. However, by God’s protection, no such incidents occurred.
3. Water Supply Issues:
   • Inadequate water supply delayed meal preparations, sometimes affecting the schedule. Despite this, we persevered through God’s grace.
4. Missionary Preparedness:
   • Many first-time missionaries did not have sufficient knowledge concerning appropriate behavior, dress code for mission work, and even fundamental beliefs. This resulted in instances of inappropriate dressing, speech, and music. As much as they were addressed on-site, it highlighted the need for in-reach sessions for missionaries to ensure they understand the importance of some of these issues even beyond the mission environment.
5. Fatigue and Motivation:
   • Toward the end of the mission, most missionaries showed signs of sluggishness. Nevertheless, with God’s mercies, we successfully completed the mission.

4. Recommendations

1. In-reach Sessions:
   • Allocate time during the mission for in-reach activities, such as teaching fundamental beliefs, appropriate conduct, and modest dressing. This could be incorporated into the time allocated for choir practices or morning/evening devotions. This will ensure that as we go out to reach others we are also impacted within
2. Follow-up Plan:
   • Develop a comprehensive follow-up approach to nurture new believers and engage key interest groups. Particular attention should be given to homes where individuals expressed interest in baptism but did not follow through.
3. Prayer Support:
   • Continue to pray for those who were baptized, the newly established Sabbath school, and the community at large.

5. Appreciation and Conclusion

The mission at Muili was a success, resulting in spiritual revival for both the local community and the missionaries. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to God for His guidance and strength throughout this mission.

We also appreciate the mission organizers and leadership for entrusting us with this responsibility and providing steadfast support. We firmly believe this was the Lord’s work, and He accomplished His purpose in Muili. We trust that the seeds planted during this mission will be nurtured by His hand to yield abundant fruits. Amen!

Report Prepared By:
Madeline Albright – Site Coordinator
Godfrey Namwamba – Assistant Site Coordinator

ELDER’S AND INTEREST CORDINATOR’S REPORT

MICHIMIKURU MISSION, SITE 1 (MUILI)

Introduction

The following is a summarized but detailed account of the activities that took place at the Michimikuru mission, Muili, site 1. This report succeeds a 2-week evangelistic campaign that begun on the 22^nd of December 2024 and culminated on the 4^th of January with a bountiful harvest and even more yet to be realized. For the work that was done in Muili, the seed sown and the harvest reaped, may God’s name be praised.

Accomplishments

a. Discipleship

 By Gods grace, we were able to conduct Bible studies with the people of Muili, responding to God’s call to make disciples of all men, teaching them and baptizing them in the name of the Father, son and Holy ghost. Staying true to the injunction, the word was spread via the various avenues rolled out for the same i.e. via door to door visitations and open-air campaigns.

b. Community Outreach

In our quest to make disciples of God we had a chance to interact with the residents of Muili on a personal level, making friends of Gods children, and in a number of instances got to know their needs (physical, social, academic, financial) which helped us tailor our approach in presenting Christ to them i.e. by first ministering to their needs first. By God’s grace we were able to meet some of their needs which opened the way for the gospel to be received.

c. Baptism

We also shared in the joy of witnessing the fruits of the moving of the Holy spirit in the hearts of men, convincing men of sin, pointing them to their savior. A total of 32 individuals publicly declared that they are dead to sin and alive in Jesus by partaking in the ordinance of baptism and their details are as follows:

Those who gave themselves for baptism but were not baptized and need follow up include the following:

Note: The entries supplied with * mark represents entries where the candidate did not know the details, and those supplied with – show details that were not taken

Assessment on Key Site programs

a. Door to door

The door to door activities kicked off on a high note on Monday, with the missionaries moving from house to house preaching the word. The reception was relatively good and God guided His children as they shared the word. 

Challenges:

1. Language barrier. This was however overcome partially when locals joined the missionaries in their door to door missions
2. Lethargy as we approached the final days of the mission
3. Wrong identification of ourselves as Jehovah’s witnesses 

The following is a summary of those encountered during door to door that need follow up.

b. Open air sessions

We had originally 4 sessions i.e. Family life, bible study, sermon and prophecy, however the site leadership saw it best to add health based on the need for health education identified in the area. The Lord worked mightily through our open-air speakers to reach his children from wherever they could get the soundwaves.

Challenges:

1. Threats from the local churches to bring the meetings to a halt. But who can fight against the Lord’s anointed?
2. Underperformance of the missionaries in talking to the people at the open-air market.
3. Chaos from children exploding tiny explosives and disrupting the prophecy programme during Christmas and after new year celebrations.
4. The prayers at the open-air site though satisfactory, were inconsistent and more could be done.

c. Youth programs

The youth programs were run well, with the leaders diversifying the topics at hand, from the word, to sexual health etc. We also incorporated co-curricular activities as a way of getting closer to the youth I.e. we introduced a football match that had good results. Again, we had a section of very bright youth from the church of God who required special attention due to their peculiar views on the word. These were handled by the available elders and the watumishi together with other members.

Challenges:

1. We did not find an effective way to reach the ladies.
2. Fluctuating attendance of the youth in the classes. 

d. Children's classes

The children were handled well by their teachers (despite the fact that they were elected on the departure day and were new to the job) being taught a range of topics from creation to the law etc. It was effective in that the children had materials they could go back with at home as evidence of their learning, a tool that is very effective for arousing interest in the parents. Also, the presence of a male figure in a seemingly female dominated docket in the church, we believe, brought a good image to the locals, that even men have a role to play in the salvation of their children.

Challenges

1. The actual children’s teacher did not show up for mission
2. An influx of missionaries at the children’s docket when they were not needed

e. Baptismal Classes

They begun on the 2^nd week on Monday with 1 student, the numbers increasing progressively as we drew to a close of the mission. Topics learned included the basics of salvation and baptism.

Challenges:

1. An inconsistent attendance of the class by the candidates
2. Not all the baptismal candidates showed up for baptism
3. Bibles, steps to Christ, njia salama and nyimbo za Christo were insufficient for the 32 baptismal candidates. The following need the literature mentioned

1. Abigael Mwende – Kiswahili Bible

2. Juliet Kawira – English Bible and Nyimbo za Kristo

3. Winfred Kerito – English Bible

4. Dorris Wanjiru – Kiswahili Bible

5. Irene Nyasaka – English Bible, Steps to Christ/When God said Remember

6. Saida Nyabonyi - English Bible, Steps to Christ/When God said Remember

7. Yvonne Moraa - English Bible, Steps to Christ/When God said Remember

Other challenges – Indiscipline cases of a site member, which was addressed.

Recommendations

1. In the planning, let surplus money be allocated for literature to be given to baptismal candidates.
2. As we focus on outreach, let us have programmes during prayer and fasting for inreach and feeding our members and also equipping them to tackle hard questions.
3. Come up with strategies to reach youth ladies.

Report written and compiled by:

Mark Onyango – Interest Cordinator

Bruce Njeru – Elder in charge

Report as at 5/01/2025

I declare that the meal allocated to our site was enough and testimonies have it from the missionaries that it served the best interest according to the diet purposed for better health.

Tithes were collected and handed over to the local church 

Recommendations 

1.There should be enough preferences for breakfast to avoid repeating meals during morning hours.

2.We should prefer attamark for Chapo instead of blending it with powdered natural wheat to save on cooking oil.

REGARDS

Ombogo Ojing 

Muili deacon

Morning devotion

• Every Morning from 5.20am to 6.00 am - The missionaries showed up each morning for the devotion. There was no major challenge in the turn ups. We managed to have a brief sharing and prayer sessions each Morning (individual prayers and group prayers). 
• We had the prayer band meeting each morning from 4am to 5am. This also went well.

Open air prayers

• I organized the missionaries in prayer groups, purposely praying for the sessions. This also went well. However, one major challenge was getting the missionaries to diligently pray without being followed up on. The second challenge was getting missionaries at the open air. Generally, the ones around would do a great job praying for the sessions.

Evening devotions

• We had a brief sharing and prayers after the open air sessions just before supper. 

Prayer and fasting Wednesdays 

• We had worship sessions, prayer and testimonies. What did not go so well on the first Wednesday was that less time was spent on prayer. We spent majority of the time on the sharing and songs. 

Generally, the prayer and devotions went well with very minimal challenges. 

What could be done next time:

We could incorporate inreach sessions for missionaries- from conversations I had with a few members, it was quite clear that a percentage of the missionaries don't quite come to minister but to sort of escape some ‘difficulties' or things they are battling with. 

As much as the focus is on winning people at our various sites, we should also consider winning missionaries who are struggling in one way or the other.

The Music Department Report (Muili-Site1)

The music department is grateful to the AUSAA leadership for the opportunity granted and consideration for ministry in song through the just ended missionary effort.

We are happy to report multiple successes during the 2024-2025 AUSAA Mission at Muili. We are grateful that we were able to present two items; "Sauti Yangu Bado Ina Nguvu" and "Piga Panda (NzK161)" during the Sabbath Services on 28/12/2024 and 04/01/2025 respectively.

We were also able to have congregational music coordinated by our choristry department throughout at the market centre in between presentations. We are also grateful for the Public Address team which ensured that there was an item of music played to invite locals to the meetings as well as during transition into different sessions of presentations.

We, however, faced a few challenges in the service. It was fairly difficult to make presentations during the week as missionaries were occupied in other assignments and commendably continued in the visitations during the presentations. We also had a challenge in aligning the music practice in order to prepare music items that related to the topic of study for the day. The attendance for music practice was largely underwhelming as a majority of the missionaries appeared to carry on with personal grooming during the allocated time for choir practice. There was also a challenge in carrying out proper practice due to the limited time of 30minutes. The congregational music was faced by the challenges of constant breaking public adress system as well as difficulty in assembling choristers for the daily services besides having the sight of relatively nonchalant missionaries in the congregation. It was also difficult to have decided selection list/genre of music that was acceptable, informative and in tune with the progressive music reforms.

It is important to note that it would be prudent in future to have synced and timely coordination between the speakers with the music department on the order of choir practice items for public presentation. The choir practice sessions can be allocated an extra 15minutes where possible with defined timings to allow for uniformity within the camp. We, in advance, should prepare playlists in future that first align with the presentations for each day/program both for the missionaries' choir and for the interlude recorded presentations in a flash disk to be played by the P.A. team in order to reduce the friction that may arise during those sessions over the acceptable items to be played. The missionaries should also be encouraged to be as cheerful and stay in tune with the messages of the songs, especially at the site in order to encourage the locals to join in the music.

Be blessed.

MERU MISSION EXPENSE 

SITE 1      [MWILI]

RECEIVED 5,000

MONDAY

Bought 15 group books@15   -225

Transaction cost    -7

 Poshomill   

Maize -100 (20kgs)

Wheat –160(20kgs)

Millet -220(14kgs)

Total -480

Transaction cost-7

SHOPPINGS FOR MTUMISHI

Soap   -80

Toothpaste    -70

Black kiwi   -70

Tissues   -60

TOTAL   -280

Transaction cost    -7

Balance  -3994

TUESDAY

Kales -660

Transaction cost   -13

Kales   -340

Transaction cost    -7

Balance -2974

WEDNESDAY 

Firewood  -450

Transaction cost  -7

Kales+ spinach  -380

Transaction cost  -7

Poshomill maize   -100(20kgs)

 Balance  -2030

FRIDAY

Batteries  -40

Balance  -1990

SATURDAY 

Kales  -400

Transaction cost -7

Broom -50

Balance -1533

SUNDAY

Poshomill  -100(20kgs)

Balance -1433

MONDAY

Oil  -280

*Received 3000

Kales  -400

Transaction cost  -7

Adapter cable for receiver  -300

Transaction cost -7

Poshomill  -100(20kgs)

Balance -3339

TUESDAY 

Spices -210

 Transaction cost -5

Kales  -400

Transaction cost  -7

Green peas -200

Transaction cost-7

Balance  -2510

WEDNESDAY 

Batteries -140

 Transaction cost  -7

Poshomill(wheat)  -170(16kgs)

 Transaction cost -7

Balance  -2186

THURSDAY 

Poshomill -150(26kgs)

 Transaction cost  -7

Salt  -40

Balance  -1989

FRIDAY

Batteries  -140

Transaction  -7

Fare  back home -1500

Transaction cost -23

Sugar  -140

Transaction cost  -7

Balance  -172

SATURDAY 

Batteries  -70

Rope  -200

Transaction cost  -7

Balance   -(-105)

MISSION EXPERIENCE 

Thou the devil is working to prevent the gospel being spread God has forever been with his children

ARCHIVEMENT 

Despite the challenges the message reached the targeted  audience 

CHALLENGES 

1. Long range speaker breaking down 
2. Cables for coded mics was faulty
3. Some of the rechargeable batteries was not working 
4. Despite Horn speeakers beng repaired it still not working 

RECOMMENDATION 

1. Each site should have back up generator incase of black out
2. System from local churches should be checked by one of our own
3. All Rechargeable batteries should be checked if they are working 
4. Coded mics should checked if the working perfectly