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Hapi Wanje Testimony
What if legacy isn’t built on platforms but around a living room, one simple yes at a time?
Hapi joins us from coastal Kenya with a story that begins under a leaking thatch roof and grows into a multi-generational testimony of faith, courage, and practical love. His father left a secure government job in 1957 after translating for a Southern Baptist missionary—and that one act of obedience reshaped an entire family line. Hapi unpacks the moment he moved from being busy in church to truly knowing Jesus, the home rhythms of daily devotion that formed his sons, and a cancer diagnosis that turned into a bold, measurable miracle after his son prayed in faith: PSA 14+ to 0.01.
From there we step into A Cord of Three, the movement Happy and Elizabeth are building with their family. Anchored in Ecclesiastes 4:12, the vision braids three strands—youth, families, and churches—held together by sustainable farming at Wateule Farm. Hear how cows and goats became scholarships, how a young man named Kenga went from almost missing university to graduating and giving back, how stable housing restores dignity to single-mother households, and why brick-and-mortar church spaces matter along Kenya’s coast. It’s practical, hope-filled work: education access, family support, church infrastructure, and regenerative agriculture funding it all.
We also explore partnership through One Child and how technology now connects sponsors directly with kids. The through-line is simple and stubborn: it pays to serve God. When families pray together—and let their children lead—faith gets handed down, not just talked about. If you’re longing for a reminder that everyday obedience can lift a community, this story will find you.
If this moved you, tap follow, share it with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review to help more people find the show. Want to help build the next chapter of A Cord of Three? Message us on Facebook or Instagram (@SpeakLifeAZ) and we’ll connect you with the team. Your yes might be the one that changes someone’s future.
All right, everybody. Welcome back to the Speak Life A Z podcast. Testimony of Jesus and everyday people. I'm your host, Eddie, and always with me is my son Rowdy.
SPEAKER_01:Jesus! What's up, dude? Man, bro. This is gonna be great. This is gonna be a fun one. How are you, dude? Good, man. How was your uh double trying to play with our stuff? Come on, man. We literally had to fight to get this one to go. Come on.
SPEAKER_03:I'm excited. My day was good, buddy. Yeah. Worked on an old super bird, so it was pretty fun.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that Plymouth Superbird, one of eleven, is sick, dude.
SPEAKER_03:Expensive car, dude.
SPEAKER_01:Come on, buddy. I uh set up my defensive driving school for the red light that I ran. I paid uh my Mesa and Flagstaff court fines and went and got a haircut, dude. Nice, man. Productive day, buddy.
SPEAKER_03:We already knew you couldn't drive. Now everybody else knows you can't drive.
SPEAKER_01:Love it. I talk about it in my testimony, dude. My mom says I tend to bump into things. Let's get to it, man. Who's bringing with us, brother? Dude, we got brother Happy. How are you? Happy once. I am doing great.
SPEAKER_03:Come on, buddy.
SPEAKER_02:So much it's great to be with you here.
SPEAKER_03:Happy, we appreciate you coming on, brother, on such short notice. Um and God made it made it very clear to us that when we get the opportunity to sit down with one of his sons and daughters to to honor them, um He's been showing us over the last few months that time is a commodity that we don't it's not resourceable. We can't have more of it. There's only so much time that we get in a day and in our lifetime. Of course, somebody to share their time with us. We know that it's priceless, it has no value that we can actually put to it. And so we're just we're so honored and just so grateful that um on your short trip here to America that you would take a little bit of your time to sit down with us and share your story, brother. So we honor you and we we thank you for your time, sir. It's really a pleasure.
SPEAKER_02:The honor is also mine that you could even ask me to come and be a part of this. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_01:Um for for me, Happy. Um, I I've seen you a couple of times. We we've met um the the Wanjay family for for me when I got here to LifeLink, man. Um, I don't know why, but your your brother David, we just we really connected. Um even even though he is a Lakers fan, go sons! Um, it's just a way that we could just give each other heck, man. Just kind of some brotherly love, dude. But um I really, really love the wangies, man. They right now they have this uh singles life group going that they started this semester for the single uh that are here at LifeLink, man. And so um, of course I'm in that. Amen. But uh I just I I really enjoy just uh spending time with your brother, man. And um, he's a he's he's a blessed man, bro, and he's got a beautiful family. And it's it's it's been really cool these past few years watching his girls grow. Yeah, and there was a Sunday a few months back, man, where Esther was leading worship, Dave was on the keys, uh, his daughter was playing, and then the other one was singing. I was like, wow, they're all up there, his whole family. It was just a beautiful I I think I even took a picture and sent it to him.
SPEAKER_03:There was literally a time, brother, when because your your brother does a lot for the church. Yeah, he does. If he's not mixing music, he's playing keyboard and he's doing all these different things. Where I asked him, Do you ever get to sit and actually like just enjoy service with your wife and your kids? He's like, Not not that much, you know what I mean. And so when that Sunday came, that they were all up on stage, they may not have been sitting and enjoying a service, but they were together in a service, serving the Lord. And I I I wound up to Esther, and I'm like, Look, look, look, look, look, look, look. You know what I mean? And to for for us to see that, yeah, have been around your family for a while to see your brother be blessed in that manner. Um it was it was a moment.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it was cool. For me, I would say that's a huge witness when you share that about David and his family. Yeah, wow, that's huge. We're humbled. It's about what the Lord, what the Lord has done.
SPEAKER_01:That's right.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, yeah, but we're excited to get to know you a little bit, man. Thank you, thank you. I I if you're as any as wonderful as he is, man, you you're probably a blessed man as well, brother. So we're excited to get to know you a little bit. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, um be alive is just a blessed man.
SPEAKER_02:Come on out, buddy.
SPEAKER_01:Uh so happy um talking with you, man. Um, basically, when when God gave this to us, uh, let me just pray real quick. Yeah, please. Um, I got these nerves in my head. Jesus, take the anxiety and the nerves away from me, God. It's anticipation, brother. It's anticipation. It's like, what are we gonna hear, Jesus? Oh, wow. Um, God, I just thank you so much for what you're getting ready to do. Thank you, Lord. You knew today was coming. You knew, God, that tonight was gonna happen. Yes. Um, so I thank you, Jesus, for everybody who's gonna watch this, everybody who's gonna listen to this, God. I pray you put your anointing on it, Jesus. Um, I thank you for uh just your son happy, God, and his life. Thank you. Um, I thank you for the victory that he walks in and the life that he has, God. Um, I thank you for just what you're gonna do. Um, the people that are encouraged, God. Um, so we just thank you that uh even people in Africa, even people in Asia are gonna hear this, God. People are gonna know, oh man, there is a living God. Um so Jesus, I pray you just use this for your glory like only you can in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Um, so so happy when God gave this to us. It was uh 2020, COVID. Um, it seemed like a lot of people started podcasts during COVID, man. Uh, we we honestly didn't really do what God told us to do in the beginning. Um, we made it our own. Isn't that a lot like what we what we humans do? God tells us to do something. We're like, okay, we'll do this. Uh we started setting up in my bedroom and making uh we put a studio up with a banner and we're preaching messages, and God's like, that's not what I told you to do, man. Um the Speak Life A Z podcast, it's the testimony of Jesus and everyday people. I guess it does not matter if it's like yourself and what you do, my dad out in cars and working on them, or myself here at the church, man. We've all we're all everyday people. We've all got a story. And when we meet Jesus, uh the the living God, man, he gives us a testimony. And and and the things in our life that was maybe a mess or a test for us, they become our message, they become our testimony. So it's so cool too that God actually gave me and my dad this opportunity to host this platform because God, you know, you have our yes, and use this for whatever you're gonna do. Um but so basically, this is what we want from you today, my friend. Um, we just want to know who happy is. Yes, we want to know where you were born, what life was like growing up, um, what your home life was like, uh, what your relationship with your brothers and sisters, your mom and dad was like, and what you were like as a kid, how was school, sports, your hobbies? Um was church in the home? Was church? Was God was God in the home? What what did what did your relationship with with God look like back then? Um, but I think the most important thing we want to get today from you is your personal encounter with Jesus. Yes, because the way that God drew dad to him and it's a it's totally personal. Yeah, it does it just the way that my dad needed to see Jesus. It just happened to be in a prison cell. For me, mine I met Jesus in a drug rehab and teen challenge in Phoenix.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So we want to know where Jesus met Happy. Yeah, wow, and what that experience was like, what that encounter was like. Some people have a moment, other people it they have a process, they have a process or they have these different life moments that they go through. Yeah, where it and no, the faith isn't my parents no more, the faith is now yours.
SPEAKER_02:That's true.
SPEAKER_01:Um, so we just want to get that, and then uh, you know, anybody that meets Jesus in the Bible, if you if you read your Bibles, um we don't want to be those MBRCs, non-Bible reading Christians. Um, anybody that meets Jesus in the Bible, man, they that things change. Transformation. They yeah, their lives change. So we want to know um what what life was like after your encounter with God. Yeah, um, how your life changed, man, what what what things started to look like. Yeah, and then at the end, um what we really want to get from you is what you're hoping for in the future. Yeah, um, I know you're talking uh you're uh you've got a ministry, yeah, and there's so so there's some things that that are in you that maybe haven't manifested yet into the physical that we're believing that you sharing and talking about it, and through the people watching and their prayer, and all of us coming into it, we're gonna pray, we're gonna come into agreement, and God's gonna do what he does, man, in his timing. Yeah, um, but so yeah, that's that's really Jesus. So what so what was it like growing up happy, man?
SPEAKER_02:Wow. So I was born in a little village back in Kenya, and uh of course my grandfather never knew the Lord Jesus Christ. He was a polygamous man and uh of course polygamist yeah, multiple wives, multiple wives, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Is that uh sorry, but is that something that's fairly common in Kenya?
SPEAKER_02:It is fairly common, of course. Uh definitely uh changing, but it it it was fairly common then. Okay. So that's the kind of uh background that my father was raised in. And uh so at that particular time as a young man, my father uh found himself struggling, find himself found himself at a crossroad because the Methodist church I think knew him to be an excellent young man, and they were trying to woo him to Christ. But then the Muslims also saw him as a young man that yes could be wooed to the faith, uh Islam faith. So he was at a crossroad, so you can imagine where where I would be today. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:I don't think he'd be here if he joined. There you go, there you go.
SPEAKER_02:So uh by God's grace, by God's grace, in about 1957, you guys were not there. No, uh, a missionary came to Kenya from the Southern Baptist Church. And this missionary didn't know the language. And when he landed in the town, the coastal town called Mombasa, he asked around, hey, I am looking for somebody who can translate for me. He was led to a gentleman called Maurice Wanje, that was my father. Wow, so he started uh basically being uh a translator interpreter for him. Yeah, and he didn't know the Lord, yeah, but he would translate very well. Come on, but that was a door that God was opening for him to come to a relationship with Jesus Christ, and my father became his first convert. Really? And I tell you, from that time on, uh, the story changes. Story changes. So I was born uh in that family. My father had already accepted Christ and had decided I'm going to leave this village where I was born and I am going to relocate to another small village called Malindi. So all our lives, all my life, I was basically raised in Malindi. My father started churches, many churches in that region. How many brothers and sisters do you have? I have uh five brothers, three sisters, one is late. Yeah. Yeah. Where are you in there? Are you the oldest? I am number four. I am number four. Nice.
SPEAKER_01:So I I have to ask, is is David younger than you or older? David is the last born in our family. Oh, really? You gotta respect your elders, bud. Anybody, anybody who's watching this, um, we have on the audio pod. David did wasn't he he didn't get in when we were doing our videos. He was one of our first 50. Um, but he's on audio. You can go and locate that through uh Spotify or Apple Podcast, David Wanji testimony. You'll get his side of the story. But right now we're getting yours, brother.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, thank you. So I was born in that family, but you know, you know, when my father decided that I am going to follow Jesus, you know, the song that said, I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, no turning back. Yeah. So when he decided to follow Jesus, it meant that he leaves his good employment in a government office. Really? That meant difficult times are coming. Would you say that your dad had a radical transformation? I would say so. Of course, I wasn't there. I would say so because again, being born in that family that did not know who Jesus was, they're polygamous and definitely uh traditional religion, uh, who's included there? I mean, if you're sick.
SPEAKER_01:What is that? What is the truth?
SPEAKER_02:If you are sick, you don't have to go to the hospital, you go to a witch doctor, you know. Oh, and uh they do whatever they do.
SPEAKER_01:The medicine doctors are so definitely so quit Christianity is so when you're talking villages, you're talking like tribal villages?
SPEAKER_02:Yes, tribal village, a tribal village, because yes, I am from a certain tribe. Yes, I am from a certain tribe.
SPEAKER_01:So when you say this, I'm literally picturing like TP huts and grass skirts and animals running wild.
SPEAKER_02:Maybe in his dad's times, but I think I don't think you can see those kind of scarts. Yes, some few, uh but my father definitely wore trousers, and I never met my grandma. My my grandfather, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sure he wore probably I don't know, but my grandmother was when you guys were born, yes, you guys were wearing normal clothes, jeans and shirts.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, we were well, don't talk about jeans and t-shirts. Okay, definitely the traditional garb. Oh, yeah, we didn't wear the traditional garb, but we were I was born in a home that had a lot of wants. When were you born? What year? I was born in 1961. Nice. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So for she ain't that old, man.
SPEAKER_03:You're still young.
SPEAKER_01:Come on, baby. So you you said that in 1957, the the the missionary came, and that's when Pastor Morris Wanjai started interpreting for him. Yes. How long after the the did he started that did he convert to Christianity?
SPEAKER_02:I don't know the dates, but it must have been the same same year, 1957. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yes. Okay, all right. Okay.
SPEAKER_02:So you came four years after. I came four years after because in the records they will say he was one of the first converts in 1957. Wow. So basically, uh, this missionary whose name is James Hampton, he said, okay, if he's going to interpret for me, let him interpret for me from the spirit field. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Wow.
SPEAKER_03:I could see how your father not knowing Christ, but yet translating the God, interpreting the gospel how he's listening to the words that he's saying has to speak them. You can only imagine how that would invoke the spirit within your dad. You're talking. And how that would be like he he he's light. You know, there's power when you're speaking. You know, he was feeling things. Yes, he was feeling the spirit of God moving in him as he was sharing these. I can imagine. I got chills right now as you're talking, bro. So do I. That's gotta be amazing.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, yeah. So I was born in that family, uh, in a pastor's home, basically. And uh when I talk about now born in a family that you have so many wants, you know, yeah, you don't have this, you don't have this, you don't have this. Definitely we lived in a very, very, very humble home that was made out of mud, and the roof was attached, grass. Wow. And there were times you were under that roof, but you're getting wet because it was raining. Wow. And there are many times that I know, yes, we didn't have food. There are many times, yes, we didn't have enough clothing, there are times we didn't have food, so all those things, you know, and uh of course I knew that my father left a very good government job to answer the call to say yes to the Lord. And many times I struggled as a small boy because I had that story, and I said who told you that? Well, of course, my father you would narrate his story that I was working in this government government office.
SPEAKER_01:Now I'm doing this, son, and I can't give you things I would like to give you.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, and for me, I would uh agonize. Yeah, who in his right man mind would leave a job that would take care of his family and follow Jesus? Yeah you know, I struggle with that, and I would say, why doesn't he go back to that job, a proper job? Yeah you know, so that's why I grew up, and of course, being a pastor's kid, well, going to church was like you didn't have a choice, no choice, no choice, yeah, and uh of course learning the things of God, I mean, was an environment that I could not escape. Yeah, and uh going and participating in church activities, oh that was just like uh second. It was a given. Yeah, it was a given. It's just what we do, it is yeah, that's what we do.
SPEAKER_01:So it it was it was your father Morris, your mama, and then all the kids. Yes. Was there was because I don't know how Kenya is. It were there other family that would go to church too that your father witnessed to and brought into the faith, or were they all uh the traditional religion?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, my father brought quite a number of people into the faith. And when he moved from the village that he was born and raised, he also carried some some of his nieces and nephews with him because he had only one brother. Yeah and in 1961 or 1960, he passed away. So he had this huge burden of yes, you have your own children, but you have your brother's children that you need to take care of, you need to educate them, you need to give them a skill so that they can make it in life. Yeah, so it was so huge, so huge. Then in the middle of that, he had to relocate and go to Arusha, Tanzania for Bible school. Oh, wow. So you can imagine that transition. You have this family that, yes, you have younger children with you. That meant he took some of us to Arusha, Tanzania, and he left our first two children. I mean, his first two children the oldest ones, the oldest ones, they stayed. It is not that they were much older, I'm not even probably uh older teenage. Okay. He left them back home. Wow with family or with family, with family, but you know that is a struggle, that is a challenge. And I'm sure if you were to talk to my if you were to talk to my less sister or talk to my my our elder brother who is now the pastor of the church that my father started back home.
SPEAKER_01:Come on, we're gonna talk about that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so I was raised in that family, going to church, participated in church. My father loved music, he introduced us to music. Wow. So basically, singing in church was second nature. Uh, he used to have a guitar whenever he left it. One of us was grabbing it, and we were so small we could not hold it up. We just put it on the ground and the back of that guitar. Broke. But that was uh a stepe of, I mean, that was uh part of the journey of introducing us to ministry and leadership.
SPEAKER_03:Would you say as a kid you enjoyed doing that, or was it something that you would just had to do? Well, I enjoyed doing it.
SPEAKER_02:I enjoyed doing it. I enjoyed doing it, but there's some times you were caught off guard because you'd find yourself in this conference, and maybe it is a Baptist gathering together, and you're out there climbing a mango tree, and your father, as the leader, you hear, okay, I am calling my children, we are going to sing a song.
SPEAKER_01:You're playing out.
SPEAKER_02:You're supposed to be in the front row. So you can imagine all those. I mean, you uh there's several times you're caught off guard. You know, okay. I guess he was teaching us be prepared in season and out of season. Come on. Amen. Yeah, so I started getting bees in the church, really. I started getting bees in the church. I taught Sunday school, I led the youth, I led the choir. Oh, wow. I did all those things. Who who was leading the church?
SPEAKER_03:Your dad?
SPEAKER_02:Yes, my father was the pastor of the church then. So when he went to the Bible school, he was already leading the church? Well, he had started the church, but then went uh to Bible school and somebody else was left to lead it. Oh yeah, so that's the environment I grew up in. Uh basically participating so busy, so busy, so busy. How big a church? Oh, of course, maybe 200 members at that particular time. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Was that big for then? Sorry? Was that considered a big church?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean, fairly. I mean, uh, probably other churches were slightly more. It depends on which church. If you go to the Catholic Church, definitely m much, much more. If you go to the uh Episcopalian church, definitely many, many more, you see. But these ones, uh the Baptists, maybe the the Assemblies of God were fairly new at that time and coming up. Uh the Pentecostal African Fellowship were coming up and they had fewer members. Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:All right. I I forgot what I was gonna say. My bad.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so you know, growing up in busy, what do you mean by getting busy? Doing things of the Lord. Doing things of the Lord, correct, Rowdy. I was doing things of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01:So as you're talking about this, I'm literally picturing a few of the families that attend here at LifeLink that just happened to be from Africa. Okay. And I'm picturing how young the kids are and the families, and how the mother and the father serve in the house of God, and how these kids have probably watched their mother and father grow serving in the house as they've grown up, and just the same way that you did with your mother and father and your brothers and sisters. And I'm like, man, that I thank God that I I don't have a girlfriend or kids and haven't stepped into that season of my life yet because of this. Yeah, what we're talking about right now, and how important it is to literally raise your kids from such a young age in the house of God. Because if you don't start it when they're young, it's really hard when they're older to get them in and to get them serving and to get them to be a part of because they've got so many other things going on. But if you do it when they're kids, it just becomes something that we all do together.
SPEAKER_02:Man, yeah. So I tell you, when we talk about being busy, I started leading the the church, I mean the choir. As a little boy, really, that was before high school. Yeah, and uh one Sunday uh my dad was preaching and he made an altar call. When he made an altar call, my elder brother, who is now my pastor in Nairobi, Kenya, stood up and walked forward. Oh and I said, Okay, I better do something too. So I walked up, went forward, and of course, for me, I was just following my elder brother. Yeah, so I am sure of course my brother knew what he was doing. He was 12 years old, yeah, yeah, and he knew what he was doing. That was his time that he gave his life for Christ to Christ. For me, I just stood up, I thought just following. That is not the time I gave my life to Christ. So I continued being busy, busy, busy, busy. I remember one Sunday uh now my dad was not the pastor of that church, had moved on to start other churches, and the elders of the churches or the church uh looked at me and they know oh, this young man is so busy, he's teaching Sunday school, he's with the choir, and they were having a baptismal service and hey, come, come, come, young man, you need to be baptized. So I got there, got wet. How old were you? Oh, probably maybe 13, 14 thereabouts, you know. Okay, so I got wet, and of course, I in our countries it was common that when you get baptized, you get a Bible name and you add to your name. So that name was given. So I felt, ah, I'm okay now. Yeah, I'm saved, baptized. I am busy in the church. Yeah, I have a Bible name.
SPEAKER_01:What else do I need? Right. What is what was your Bible name they gave you? The other name is called Stephen. Oh, wow, wow. I had a lady one time call me Stephen. Oh wow. Yeah, and then there was another older lady, she called me, she said John. Oh wow. I was like, yeah, okay, amen.
SPEAKER_02:So being busy continued. So I graduated from I moved on to high school to now Mombasa City. And uh my uncle was the pastor of that church there. Yeah, and I continued being busy. How was school for you? School. School was great. Are you good at it? I was good, I was fairly good. I didn't do well in exams, but I was fairly good. Okay, yes, exams um many times failed me. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So in high school, I got busy again. That's part of their routine. Yeah. But one Sunday evening, one of the deacons was preaching there. His name was is now called Bishop Daniel. And he was preaching, he was an elder in the church, and of course, he went to the book of Ezekiel, you know, and he preached a message and he preached that message that I remember very well the soul that sinneth shall die. And I was sitting there and I was struggling, struggling in my heart. Oh no, do I need to do this? My father is already a believer, and my mother is already a believer. If Christ came today, they would probably say, Hey, hey, that's my son. Open the gate for him to enter in. But that message was clear: the soul that sins shall die. And every one of us will carry our own cross. My father will not carry my cross, my mother will not carry my cross. I will present myself before the Lord. And I struggle because that day, that night, I was leading the worship. Wow. And I even led the song, the invitation song, and that is a hymn that you know it very well. Would you be free from the burden of sin? There is power in the blood, power in the blood. And I was struggling, leading that song, but knowing that I need my burden of the sin to meet the power in the blood.
SPEAKER_01:Was there it was so I have to ask because you're 14, 15, 16? Yes. Are you living you're Not living a life of sin. You're not you're not out doing drugs and drinking and hurting people or sleeping with women or gambling or stealing or lying. You're not. Yes. You weren't you were busy in the things of God. That is true. You were, but even as a young man, you knew in you that there were those that there's that sin.
SPEAKER_02:It's that the vacuum. Man, that calls for God to fill it up. Wow. Wow. And after the service, I reached out to Deacon, the elder Daniel, and I said, Hey, hey, that message was for me. I need to give my life to Christ. So of course you stay behind to talk to the elder so that he can lead you. And I did that. I did that. Oh wow. The freedom, freedom, freedom. I remember walking out of the service, and this dear sister friend then asked, So what are you doing? Why are you doing? Why are you staying back? I said I was giving my life to Christ. You mean you are not?
SPEAKER_01:I am now signed, sealed, and delivered. That's good. That is such a testimony, thank you. Because I can't. How many people are in the church? Yeah. How many people are serving God? Oh wow. And still in they know they know that they're just not right. And it's time to just come home to Jesus. That's exactly what it is. It's just a come come come back home. God's He's wide open and saying, Come home, son or daughter.
SPEAKER_02:Coming home, coming home, nevermore to Rome. So, you know, that statement you made, Rowdy, that just reminds me of the many times now I encounter young people and I ask them, okay, do you have a relationship with Jesus Christ? They will tell me, okay, well, I do this, I do this, I do this, and I tell them, I did those things. But those those things did not satisfy, did not satisfy, and did not ensure and assure that I have eternity with Jesus. And there are many. I said, Let's pray. I have many just on the dart road, say, just kneel here, let's pray. Yes, open your heart for to and receive Jesus Christ. You all those things.
SPEAKER_01:Would do that with your with the people in Kenya, just as you see. Yeah. Oh my god. So you're an evangelist.
SPEAKER_02:Well, are you just I think all of us have been given that. Come on. You know, yeah, we have been given the spirit of God, and when He is when He is in us and He reveals the darkness in somebody else's life, shine the light. Shine the light.
SPEAKER_03:Shine the light. I love how you really think what you I want to stay in this moment for a second because I think you're gonna help somebody with this. Yeah. Because we tend to think sometimes that works. I'm doing good. I'm doing all these things for you, Lord. You know what I mean? And he's like, That's not what I want. But but you haven't surrendered. No. You know what I mean? And for you, someone who seems to have grown up in church, who knew the Lord, you know what I mean? Who knew the Lord knew about him? Knew about you know, knew of him, yeah, and were busy doing things for him, yes, but never really had the moment of saying, My God. My God. Yes, sir. You know what I mean? And I think there's pastors' kids who are gonna listen, people who raised up in church like that, yeah, who have had that experience of just being busy for God, but never really saying, My God. And never took that opportunity to we talk about it all the time that people grow up in church, it's sometimes it's their father's faith. Yeah, it's their mother's faith. It's just what they do, and it's just what we do, but we never take the moment to say, My God. You know what I mean?
unknown:I hear you.
SPEAKER_01:As as you were talking, and you you said you knew about the things of the Lord, that what was all I heard was that verse, depart from me, for I never knew you. Yes. That's really that's really it.
SPEAKER_03:How many people are staying busy and are gonna are gonna are gonna come to Jesus on the other side and be like, My Lord, my Lord, and he's gonna be like, I never knew you. Yeah, and they're gonna be like, but didn't I do all these things in your name? And God help us. You know what I mean? Jesus.
SPEAKER_02:I hear you, and I mean, of course, I will talk about what my wife and I and the children, the ministry that has God has called us to. And we have some college students, and one foundational pillar that we want to ensure it is grounded. Do you have a relationship with that? Yeah, come on, and uh few in our group that have said, hey, what are you doing is good, but you need to say Jesus is my yeah, my Jesus, yeah, yeah. Come on, man.
SPEAKER_01:So where are we, man? You're in high school, you're living in sharing that. Yeah, I really appreciate that.
SPEAKER_02:I think that helped a lot of people.
SPEAKER_01:You're you're in Mombasa?
SPEAKER_02:Yes, in Mombasa, yes. Going to college? No, no, high school, and of course, one of the questions you asked me sports and all that. I loved sports. Oh, I played soccer, I played field hockey, and I have a field hockey. I have a scar right here. In Africa, there's no ice. It's called field hockey.
SPEAKER_01:Like uh like uh mice. It's the little sticks.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, the little sticks and the ball, and the ball like uh the size of a crop? Like no, no, the size of a uh baseball that it's as hard as the baseball.
SPEAKER_03:So it's a stick, and at the end it has this little hook. It's a small little hook like a hockey stick, but it's very small, and you run around and you smack the ball. Oh wow just like you would in hockey, it's called field hockey.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah. Okay. So I played that, I played soccer, I played uh, of course. So you got a little roughness in your buddy. Oh yeah, yeah. Played softball and yeah. I bless the Lord for those opportunities. The hockey hockey stick at you? No, no, no, no. We were here preparing to practice, and you know, people just hit the ball here and there. Yeah and somebody whacked the ball and it came right in. Split you split you open. Split me open.
SPEAKER_03:I've never seen a field hockey ball. Are they are they really hard?
SPEAKER_02:They're hard, really hard. They're hard, just like a softball, or maybe a little bit harder. Yes. So I got a few stitches. Thank God my eye was spared. Amen.
SPEAKER_01:Come on, amen.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so it just makes you handsome, buddy. Women love a good scar. It looks like a tribal mark.
SPEAKER_02:They cut me open. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So wow, you know. Okay. Did you ever go to college? Sorry? Did you ever go to college? Yes, and I was about to introduce this statement. It's one time I shared even in in uh in uh the department that I'm a part of in the organized organization that I work for, and I titled that message It Pays to Serve God. Yeah, it pays to serve God. Amen. And uh now the question you're asking me, did I did I go to college? Yeah, go back to wh where I started. We came from a family that lacked for you to dream that you'll go to college, that was a pipe dream. Yeah, so my elder brother, who's my pastor, uh led the way, and God opened the door for him to go to college in Arkansas and then to seminary uh in Fort Worth. Here in America, here in America through the church, the Methodist, not the Methodist, but now you know that speaks to also part of the things that I will talk about, you know with all the things that faced us, God was preparing a path, the connections that God was bringing to the plate for my dad in ministry, connected with this pastor in the US, and this particular pastor, he's late, and his dear wife is late, but they were our foster parents in Arkansas, and uh they were pastors of uh Forest Highlands Baptist Church. Wow, and then together with the missionary who led my dad to Christ, James Hampton. James Hampton. So this kind of fit a jigsaw paws on and opened the door for us to come to college in the US.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, and uh wow, so your dad, your dad was doing everything he was doing, and then he all of a sudden he has this family and these kids, yes, and he reaches out to the the man who was interpreting the relationships, the the church that you that you said here in America, and it's like can I possibly get my kids over there so they can get everybody? Did he ever come over here?
SPEAKER_02:Yes, he traveled. He traveled to the US several times. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, he did, he did. Of course, the pastor. So he they they knew each other, they knew each other. They okay, yeah. And uh the connection came through again, this missionary. Wow, yeah. Again, it pays to serve God, it pays to serve God, it pays to serve God. And I remember one time to talking to this young man in another country, and he made a huge statement, and again, it's just similar to that. And when you get busy with the things of God, he will get busy at your things. Yeah, come on, man. Yeah, come on. So that's what God did for my dad, and today that's what he's doing for me, my siblings. He's doing that.
SPEAKER_03:Was there ever a time that Jesus you said you there was a time when you were younger when your dad first started serving the Lord that there was this lack? Yes. Did there ever come a time that you noticed wait a minute, we're not lacking anything. Everything's taking I mean, we're not living abundantly, but we're also not struggling either. Was there ever a time that you recognized that?
SPEAKER_01:Where you guys weren't where you had food and you had clothes and you had the necessities.
SPEAKER_02:I think that moment came for me after college. Really? After college, yeah, because now I was employed and I could step in and fill that gap, even for my father and my mother. Okay, we need to improve where they're living. Okay, we need to provide for this, we need to take care of their medical bills, you know. Did you graduate? Where did you go to college? I went to college. I started with uh uh junior college that was called Williams College, then went to Washita, then to Southwestern. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:When you when you graduated and you said you got employed, did you stay here in America or did you go back to Kenya?
SPEAKER_02:I went back to Kenya. I think I made a commitment that I wrote down even before I left Kenya. Really? I still have that small book. Really? I wrote in that small book, I think in the early 80s. Said, okay, happy you've gotten this opportunity. Just know that there are people back home who need you. Wow.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Because those people back home didn't have this opportunity that you did.
SPEAKER_03:I didn't. Yeah. What made what do you what do you think made you know that? Well, I think because a lot of times we when someone has an opportunity like that, they're like, I'm out. I'm out. That is true. I'm I'm I'm gonna go live a better life.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and the temptation was great to do that. Uh the great, I mean, the temptation was great to do that. Your brother tried to go do that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and when I playing piano, piano, we love you, buddy.
SPEAKER_01:He came back around.
SPEAKER_02:And of course, when you go back home, uh when you're telling those from Kenya that you know in the US I'm going back home, it's like, what are you going to do? Wow, really?
SPEAKER_03:But I think God so there are some that have taken that route and just said, I'm out. Of course, of course.
SPEAKER_02:And of course, God, you know, you read the book of uh Jeremiah and he's talking to Jeremiah, I knew you even when you're in your mother's womb. And I called you by name. And that calling does not leave. You can leave it, but it won't leave you. Amen. So I think that's what uh definitely caused me to say, hey, early in my life, let me write this down. Why? The spirit of the Lord was saying I have called you. Wow. Because when I think about what I'm doing now, yeah, yeah. Come on, man.
SPEAKER_01:Did you go to college for G like for seminary or theology or the Bible? Or did you go to like a normal work?
SPEAKER_02:One of the things, and thank you for bringing that up. After seeing, you know, you look at the life back home. Yes, you have given your life to Christ, but you still look back home and you're saying your father is a pastor. Oh, you even ask my elder brother, who is my pastor, he will tell you, none of us wanted to serve to be in any ministry. Yeah, we said that's the last thing we want to do.
SPEAKER_03:So for him, was that because you saw your dad struggling? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, not him struggling, but we all struggled. So my my brother actually came to college and he started, he started uh accounting classes, and he tried, he tried, and he finally gave up. God kept pulling up that's still what I called you for. So thank you, Lord. Did biology you know, did biology finished his degree, went back home, and God still pursued him. Said, fine, you're a teacher, but that's not what I called you to do. For me, I did uh communications. Oh, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, so once I finished college, I went back and worked in a in an institution, a media institution owned by uh by denomination.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. When I when I went to college, that's what I was majoring. I was majoring in communications, and I was minoring in mathematical statistics. Oh, wow. I wanted to work for ESPN and be a sports broadcaster. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:He does it at home now.
SPEAKER_01:I got the big up big up for you.
SPEAKER_03:For me. I like to listen to the people that are getting paid for it.
SPEAKER_01:I like to call into the sports shows now. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, yes, yes. God is good. Yes, all the time he is. So, what were you doing as a communication at the network?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you we had a a radio, a radio, uh, I mean a studio. Yeah. A studio that was basically recording music. Oh, really? Different Christian groups would come and record music. We would produce radio programs we didn't have. At that particular time, there was only one radio station in Kenya owned by the government. Really? So whatever production you had, you took it in reels to the government uh broadcasting station and they would air it. So we would uh prepare those programs, uh devotionals. We have we would have a moment where we have Sunday services, we'll get one of our pastors to come and preach, and it would be aired. On the Kenyan radio station? Yes, yes, yes. And also there was another radio station that was called Far Eastern Broadcasting Station that basically had a wider coverage. Okay. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Yeah. That's so cool.
SPEAKER_01:So, how old are you at this point? Like 20, 21, 22?
SPEAKER_02:Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I am 28, 29. So you're older, okay. I am older. Okay. About to get married.
SPEAKER_01:Up to up to this point, we we hadn't heard about any girlfriends or the you're really focused. I'm really focused. Yeah, and they're there. You had you had a drive. Uh because sometimes girls, pretty things can distract us and pull us off course, man. Yes, yes. Um, so up to this point, you're pretty, you kind of know what you're doing and where you're going.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and uh, as you talk about a girlfriend, I remember one time, yes, I had this girlfriend in the US, and this girlfriend came about because of a similar program like this. Yeah, my brother and I were being recorded at uh Southwestern, and uh somehow she got to see this and was so inspired. And we connected, I visited her, visited her, we became good friends, and of course, the moment of going back to Kenya was the one that broke us up. Yeah, yes, yeah, she did she didn't know she didn't want to go to Kenya.
SPEAKER_01:How how close are you and your older brother? The uh a year apart. Oh, so you guys were you guys did you guys fight a lot or were you very close? We were we didn't fight a lot.
SPEAKER_02:We didn't fight, yeah, very close, yes. Nice, okay. I've supported each other quite a bit. Yes, he has supported me because when I was coming to the US, I didn't know where I'm going. He had he was here. So basically he was hey, take this rod, don't take that one. And of course, even in the ministry when he was beginning this ministry called Regius Baptist Church, yeah. He had just a handful of people, and some of them was happy and his other siblings.
SPEAKER_03:Let me ask you a question because you said your dad was an interpreter, so he knew English and whatever the other language was. Did you guys grow up learning English?
SPEAKER_02:Well, you learn English because you're going to school, and that's the language of instruction in school.
SPEAKER_03:Even in Kenya?
SPEAKER_02:Yes, yes, yes, yes. All the all the subjects you take are going to be taught in English, except the subject that is called Swahili, which is the official language of Kenya. Do you speak Swahili? Yes.
SPEAKER_03:Nice, yes.
SPEAKER_02:Can you take Jumbo? Jesus loves you. Yesu anakupenda. That just sounds beautiful. Yeah. Amen.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. He does. We have a young lady here named Sim Sim. Yeah, she speaks like five languages, dude. Oh, I know Sim Sim. Yeah, do you? Oh, wonderful.
SPEAKER_02:I worked with her auntie in Kenya at the same place that I was talking about. Another wonderful person, man.
SPEAKER_03:She's so so kind-hearted, and just she's the best, man. Wow. Yeah. Excellent testimony.
SPEAKER_01:So I I feel like I have to share this with you real quick. Go ahead. There is this lady here. Her name is Fresha. And she had just gotten here. I don't know the whole story, but she's literally, it's early in the morning one time. She had a hard morning. She's sitting at a bus stop. This guy goes in the parking lot. In the parking lot, tell the story.
SPEAKER_03:So I see this, I go out to Parker car, and I'm getting out of the car, and I see this lady, and she looks lost. The only way I can explain it. She had just a look of confusion on her face. And I go to walk away, and I feel sense God say go make sure she's okay. So I walk over and I'm like, ma'am, are you good? And she's like, Oh yeah, I'm just I'm waiting for somebody here, you know what I mean? And we start having this conversation. I tell her about Lifelink Church. And she says she's from Kenya. And I'm like, oh man, there's people from our church from Kenya. She's like, there's Wanji. She's like, I know the Wangies. Oh, wow. And I'm like, oh wow, you know what I mean? So I'm like, man, yeah, I go to Lifelink Church and all this other stuff, right? She int she introduced and gets them. Yeah, so I I go back in and never think nothing of it again, right? And I all sudden one day she's like She's here. You know what I'm saying? And it was like months later. She was going to another church out in in uh Santan Valley where she lives, and just wasn't feeling right, you know what I mean? And she just remembered that conversation that we had and thought she'd come here, you know what I mean? And so the pastors were asking her, How'd you get here? And she's all there was just, and I had this big old beard. That looked scary. There was just scary hairy man. That's what she's talking about. Scary hairy man. Tattoos and a big old beard. And she's all yeah, it was so cool. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But she's she she was literally at your brother's church in in Kenya. Wow. And now she's here in America at your other brother's church. God must be a good thing.
SPEAKER_02:God is amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so tell us about how your wife. Tell us how you met your wife.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, her name is Elizabeth. And uh looked you up on Facebook. She's very beautiful, man. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, you're a lucky man. Thank you. I am, I am, I am. So we have uh good friends, very good friends who work with crew campus crusade for Christ. And uh at that time they were working in Kenya, and uh Peter, now a very dear friend, went to college with my wife. So my wife knew Peter, and they were getting married, and Peter was getting married to Elizabeth. Elizabeth is like a sister to me because she is also a pastor's kid. And her dad also went to study at the seminary that my father studied in Arusha, Tanzania. Our home was like here, and their home was like just right above us. So we grew up together in those early days. Yeah, yeah. So of course, uh now because I didn't know Peter, I got to know Peter through my wife, and of course, Elizabeth I knew. So normally when you're having a wedding back home, you establish a committee who will help you run this, plan this and plan that. So I was in that committee, and uh, of course, uh Peter became a good friend. I gotta ask you a question. Hold on.
SPEAKER_03:Are weddings back where you're from? Are they a big deal? They're a big deal. Because you said there's a committee. Yes. That must be a big deal.
SPEAKER_02:A planning committee. Yeah, big deal. Yeah, a planning committee. Wow. Yeah, because that me com that's you gotta put together the food.
SPEAKER_01:You gotta be bring the family from all over.
SPEAKER_03:There's a I gotta I gotta I gotta dig into this a little more. Here in America, weddings are more Yeah, amen. Let's just get to a court and sign the paper and then we're officially I want to say traditional, they really don't uh unfortunately in America a lot of weddings don't have significant meaning. Yeah. Do you would you say that where you come from there's it's there's meaning to it that it has this this covenant feel like it we see in the Bible, or is it kind of like that?
SPEAKER_02:Fairly, of course, uh things are changing, but fairly, yeah, yes. All right, yeah, yeah. So we're in this committee and uh we are organizing for the wedding.
SPEAKER_01:Who who's getting married?
SPEAKER_02:Peter Peter and Elizabeth. Oh wow, yes, they're getting married. Pay attention, dude.
SPEAKER_01:So I that's what I thought was happening, but I wanted to make sure. Because I'm like, he is married to Elizabeth, right? Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_02:So Elizabeth as a sister, of course, will just joke with me, bring these girls. Hey, my brother, hey, what do you think about this? Yeah, of course. Now, not pointing to now my Elizabeth, who's my wife. Yeah, but then I spotted this lady who was part of the committee, very busy, and I pulled Peter aside and say, Hey, tell me about that lady. I said, Oh, that is a super wonderful lady. I went to college with her. She comes from a certain area uh not from where not where I come from. So now we begin that journey. I think the next week I showed up at her office because I knew she did travel. I pretended that I was organizing a trip or something. I had to make myself uh known. So here we are today. Even my trip to the US, she's the one who organized the trip the ticket. She still does that same line of work? That's the kind of work she's done she's doing for close to 40 years.
SPEAKER_01:Oh man, wow. When we when we come to Kenya, we're gonna get a hold of you for the ticket. Yeah, do that, do that.
SPEAKER_02:She does a good job, not just because she's my wife, but she is an excellent, excellent um travel lady. To do it that long, you gotta be, man. Yeah, man.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah. Would you say that she's your better half? Oh best. Oh amen, bro. You're trying to get me in trouble. What if you said something different? Of course. Of course she's the better half. A lot of a lot of men say that about their wives, man. That they make them better.
SPEAKER_02:The right woman always makes a man better. That is true, that is true. And she has done that, amen. And uh, with her, we have two young men. Oh, you guys been married? We've been married since 1992. Come on, buddy. Man, going on what 30 33 years. Wow. Yes, yes. I love that. Yeah, yeah. Where'd you guys get married at? Ah, in Nairobi. Yeah, yeah, in Nairobi. Did you have a big wedding? Yeah, we did. We had a big wedding.
SPEAKER_01:A planning committee?
SPEAKER_02:Yes. You do, you do. Oh, it's because now you look at okay, I am from the coast of Kenya. Uh, the people from the coast want to come for this wedding. People from the coast love weddings. And then my wife is from another community about an hour and a half from Nairobi. Yeah, they also need to come for the wedding. So, yes, quite a number of people came. Wow, that's beautiful. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Do you have weddings at the church or where do you guys have weddings at?
SPEAKER_02:We had it, we had a wedding at the church, yes. Now, these days you'll find that people are also going out to uh on the beach or yeah. Those things are happening.
SPEAKER_01:Venue weddings, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Was she was she a Christian woman when you met her? Oh, yes, yeah, she was. She was. All right. Active in the church and all that?
SPEAKER_02:Very active, very active, teaching Sunday school, and of course, she continued doing that when she came to our church, Regio's Baptist. I love that. Yeah, yeah. That's so good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So, what did you do after you guys got married? You guys what old are you? 30? Are you still working at communications?
SPEAKER_02:Still working at communications, or yeah, still working at communications, still working with. She's doing travel. She's doing travel, still employed. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So you're making good money.
SPEAKER_02:Uh I can't say good money, but we we definitely have something more than others. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Better than if you had were a pastor and in ministry, you know, it's sometimes it's hard. It's it depends where it's hard, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Where you're at, yes.
SPEAKER_01:It can be very hard. So if you're you're you're doing good and you're married, and you started to have a family, build a family together. Yeah. And so you're able to provide a good life.
SPEAKER_02:That is true.
SPEAKER_01:Are you living in a house? We are living in a car.
SPEAKER_02:You have a car, we have an apartment. We don't have a car, but where my wife is employed, she's given a car. Oh, wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It pays to serve God. Are you guys still so you're still attending your brother's church? Oh, yes. You're still teaching choir and helping with I am not there.
SPEAKER_02:I'm not teaching choir, but uh, we serve in other ministries of the church. Okay. Yes, my son is in the worship ministry. My son is is in the development ministry of the infrastructure uh church infrastructure development. How many children you got? Happy? Two boys. Two boys? Yeah, two young men. Let me say that. Uh yeah. How old are they? Yeah, one was born in '93, one ninety-five. Okay. Yeah. All right. 30 something. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
SPEAKER_01:They got married in 92 and the kids started coming. Yes. Are they married?
SPEAKER_02:Not yet. Not yet. Yes. Come on. Come on, Lord. Yeah, I was talking to somebody, I think from LifeLink, and uh, I think it was Sheree. And she said, you know, God is still crafting those young ladies, and He is still crafting these young men. Amen. At the right time. Amen. There will be that connection. Come on, man. So that's our prayer.
SPEAKER_03:I think for your family, the way, yeah, God's got something special for those young boys. Yes, he's a good idea. Because I I see just I already see generations of just followers and of Christ and just mighty mighty movers in God's hands that that these young boys are gonna have some fine, fine wives who are gonna be mighty women of God as well.
SPEAKER_01:Just crazy, man, how you go from your granddad in the traditional religion, yes, and the way the family, how how things were way back then, yeah, to Morris. Yes. And Pastor James Hampton coming over. Yes. Hey, you I need you to interpret for me. Yes. And God showing up in one man's life. Yes. And then through that man and his family, now there's multiple sons. And now their sons are happy. Having sons that are in the ministry and in the faith. Yeah. And I just love how God does that. Have all your siblings served the Lord?
SPEAKER_02:They're serving the Lord, and all my siblings are giving their lives to Christ. All my nieces and nephews have given their lives to Christ.
SPEAKER_01:I love how all the all the kids are like, no, no, we're not doing ministry. We don't want nothing to do with it. That's true. We're going to work a good, we're going to live. But God will do what he does, and they're like, all right, fine. Well, you're just going to stay in the ministry and you'll work and provide, but I'm going to bless.
SPEAKER_03:That's true. One man's yes. One man's yes to the Lord has literally led to Oh, a hundreds. How many? I'm just talking about your family, just your family line. Not the church family, just his bloodline. The wands. One man's yes has turned into over a hundred.
SPEAKER_02:Yes. Probably in your family line. Yeah. Let me just count here. The firstborn, Arthur, is a the pastor of the church that our dad started in Malindi. Yeah. And what's the what's the name of that? It's called Malindi Fellowship Baptist Church. Okay. And then the second born, of course, is Late. Okay. The thirdborn is Elijah, who is our pastor, my pastor. Oh, okay. I am the fourth born, serving God not as a pastor, but somewhere.
SPEAKER_01:In the house of God.
SPEAKER_02:In the house of God, but of course, a calling that God has given to my wife and I and the kids, which I'll talk about. Then the fifth born, who is uh called James, has a ministry called Grace Around the World. Wow. Then the sixth born is uh Sarah, serves in the church that uh she's at, and then the seventh born all in Kenya. All in Kenya. The seventh born is uh Esther married to a pastor. Wow. Uh and then the last one is David and you married to Esther. No.
SPEAKER_01:I wonder how that was for him.
SPEAKER_03:So you have six living siblings? Seven. Seven living siblings. And if they all have an average of two kids, that's 14. So there's probably a good 20, 30 bloodline from your dad's yes, yeah, who are all serving the Lord now. True. Because of that one man's yes. That is so phenomenal, dude. Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. That's what I think. That gives me hope. Yeah. Yes. That gives me hope. Oh. In my line, happy? Previously. Yeah. Previously. I don't know of it. My dad wasn't a churchgoer. I don't think his dad was a churchgoer. Yeah. So in my line, I'm the first to say yes to the Lord. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And really stay faithful to it. Yeah, stay faithful to it.
SPEAKER_03:So now I get to sit here and think, man, 50 years from now, that there may be this, like the wangies that have this genealogy of just followers of Jesus behind me, bro. And my legacy.
SPEAKER_01:His yes. And then I'm coming alongside, and we're serving God in the house. My brother and sister eventually come in. The kids that I have, this is what we do. This is how we live.
SPEAKER_03:I pray that in 50 years, happy that someone from my family will get to sit down in an opportunity like this and talk about one man's yes. One man's yes. One man's yes. Yes. Wow, dad. That's so powerful. Man, God do it. God do it. God do it. Because here's that's all I see when you're talking is I see, I just see your dad and his yes, and how that just had this trickle effect in his in his family, bro. Yeah. And I don't see that stopping anytime soon. I don't. I don't. The anointing on this family line is just so it's drenched, it's soaked in anointing, yeah, that I don't see it departing anytime soon. We could come back 50 years from now and talk to another Wanji, and it's still gonna be this line of just following behind your dad, bro.
SPEAKER_02:Very possible because my firstborn son has said yes to the Lord. Come on, man. I mean, uh son to my firstborn uh brother has said yes to the Lord to full-time ministry. Wow. So you already see that. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Legacy carriers, man.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yes, oh yes.
SPEAKER_03:Do you feel that? Do you know that?
SPEAKER_02:Can you Oh yes, I feel it, and that's why I repeat that statement, you know. And I'm saying, it pays to serve the Lord.
SPEAKER_03:When we talked on Sunday, sitting at church, we talked on Sunday, and you brought that up just about your dad and how just that you know what I mean? And I I think that's so beautiful that you guys when you guys were sitting outside at the table.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah. God told him because he saw we were working, you saw us. Yeah, we're we were busy in the things of the Lord, and he saw you over there. Yeah, I saw you over there. God told him, go sit down next to that man and talk to him. Yeah, and I'm busy, and I see, I see, oh, now there's two, and I felt got go and sit, yeah, not knowing I had no idea that this was gonna happen. Who knew? I had no idea either.
SPEAKER_03:He didn't. I'm just he did. You need to know that I am moved by the way you speak of your father. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, when the honor, it's yeah, you can hear it, you can feel it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Happy I don't I don't have that with my father. I don't. And I I try to I try to speak well of him. Yeah I try. And um so to hear just the way that you hold your father with this reverence of honor, knowing that his yes has led to what you have now, yeah, it's just it's beautiful, bro. Oh, thank you. It really is. Thank you. And it's such thank you.
SPEAKER_01:God there's a lot of sons out there that have a lot of hurt from their fathers. Oh, yes. There's a lot of men out there that have a hard time parenting uh kids, man, and with love in the way that God would.
SPEAKER_03:But it goes to show you that raising them in church, come on, raising them in the ways. In the word, come on, yeah, and not just being goers. Yep. Because it seems to me like your dad was at home.
SPEAKER_01:You guys were getting Jesus. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02:We would have devotions before we go to sleep early in the morning. We were in the house, we would huddle up in their room. Wow, that was standard. See, that's see that's those prayers, and sometimes you would hear my dad praying, my mother praying, and lifting our names. Those prayers have echoed us to today. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we have a problem here in America where we go to church on Sundays and then we live like hell through the week. Sunday church is just a box we check. Oh, Jesus.
SPEAKER_03:I went to church today.
SPEAKER_01:God.
SPEAKER_03:Help us, God. And we're making sure that our church kids are getting to church on Sunday.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:We'll even make sure they're getting to Wednesday night youth groups and all these different things, you know what I mean? But Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
SPEAKER_01:What do those days look like in the home?
SPEAKER_03:There's no there's no praying together, there's no devotionals, there's no let's read our Bibles, there's no hearing mom and dad in the bedroom warring, warring in the spirit, you know what I mean? Where are you guys? Uh thank God for that foundation.
SPEAKER_02:Because in my house That's what it was. I mean, in my house now, I mean Oh now, yeah. Monday, yeah, we know Monday. We know it's Telly who's doing the devotions. Tuesday is Telly. Wednesday is my wife, Elizabeth. Thursday, she's the one. Friday is uh sorrow, and uh Saturday is sorrow, Sunday is me.
SPEAKER_01:So you guys have days assigned for the devotions.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, each one of us needs to lead.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, brother.
SPEAKER_02:So here so here's what I see.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, just like chores are assigned, you assign the spirits anointing that is soaking your family line is because of the dedication.
SPEAKER_03:And not just at church, but in the home. Yeah. And I hope the people that are listening who are coming to church but not having church at home are seeing how different it can be. Oh, yes. That if they want their grandkids and their great grandkids that they don't have yet to be in this anointing, that they need to you're talking. Yeah, they need to step it up. You're talking. You can't have one foot in the world and one foot in in heaven and expect your your bloodline to be anointed and expect your bloodline to have this generational followers of Jesus. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02:You're making me look for something in my phone. Come on. Don't know where I'm allowed, but go on.
SPEAKER_03:Go around. But no, I see I I want people to see, I'm seeing that for myself, that the only difference between your genealogy of this bloodline of anointing is the fact that you guys are having devotional with your children. You guys are praying with your children, you guys are allowing your children to lead devotionals, you guys are encouraging them to take part in it and and lead in it.
SPEAKER_02:And uh, of course, I shared this uh I it was something that I found somewhere with these young people that uh of course I will talk about to that group that that ministry that God has given to us. And I sent them this and uh it's a quote You can delegate a lot of things in this world, but the one thing that you cannot delegate is your devotional time with God. It has to be yours. Yes, wow, you have to step in.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, wow, you have to step in. That's so good. Man, I'm really God is He's really changing me right now, happy, in my life and in my recovery. And it's crazy, man. How personal he is, but uh one of the things right now, because I'm a doer. Uh dad calls me a Martha sometimes, and there's a lot of there it takes Marthas to get things done, man. Martha's, but the Marthas even need to learn to turn things off and be Marys. That's true, and just sit. Um, the way that I've started my day the past couple of days is just waking up the first thing, and I it's not a Bible, it's not turning on a set list, it's not doing it's sitting on my couch with no distractions, no TV, no phone. Jesus, just come. Amen. Jesus, just come right now and just come and sit with me. Yes, I just want to just spend time in your presence, God. Oh Lord in the past few days, happy, he has come and he has sat with me, and I know that he's there because I literally feel this peace. Oh wow, just come and just rest. And I know as soon as I I can I'm like, oh Jesus, you are here. And it's it's I did this years ago in Team Challenge. I read, I read about this, I read this book called Two Chairs. Yeah, and literally what I would do is I would wake up at 5 30 in the morning in team challenge and I'd go into the chapel before anybody else was awake. And I would set up a chair over by the altar, and I'd set up another chair right in front of the altar, a couple feet away from me. And I would just ask instead, but it wasn't Jesus, it was Holy Spirit.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Say, Holy Spirit, just come. Just come and sit in this chair with me. Some mornings it would happen quick, other mornings I would have to just wait a little bit longer. But every single time that I was intentional and made room for God to come, he would.
unknown:Amen.
SPEAKER_01:And you could feel sometimes. I swear I could hear sitting in that chapel in teen, I would hear like a and I would know, oh man, he's like God is here, and it would just do this. I don't know why it's taken 10 years to bring me back to this place where now I'm at a place in my walk with him where it's like I just thank God it's come back. Yeah, yeah, Jesus just come and sit. Because that's really what it is. That's how that's how we get to know him, yeah, and that's how he gets to know us. It's just spending time in his presence, talking with him. That is true, man. Wow, Jesus.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you, Jesus. Yeah, he's here now. Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_03:It's a sweet presence.
SPEAKER_01:It really is. Jesus. Man. Or two or more.
unknown:I got it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Thank you, God. Yeah, man. So your wife, Elizabeth, was in the planning community committee for Peter and Elizabeth. Yes. Okay. See, that's what was messing with me. I was like, wait a sec. When is this story gonna flip where Elizabeth is? But it was a different Elizabeth. That's why you guys get married in the 90s, 92, that's coming. Um 93, 95, a couple of kids start coming. Yeah, she's been doing travel, you're in communications. Yes. Um, how is life because a lot of times uh marriage people get married, they become one, the kids start to come, work, responsibilities, the cares of life. Yeah. Now you gotta provide. Oh, yeah. Um, how was your guy's marriage earlier earlier in was were there some struggles? Was it hard?
SPEAKER_02:Was yeah, I mean, there there were challenges, definitely. Yeah. Because we come from different communities, number one. She speaks a different tribal language, I speak a different tribal language. Okay. She has a different upbringing, I had a different upbringing. I was raised in a family where dad would just bring people at home. Uh, some of them were cousins, some of them were distant relatives, some of them were not even relatives, and we live together. Yeah, okay. So all of a sudden you're married and you're saying, Hey, uh, dear, uh we need to support this young man. He's going to college here, you know, and it's like, hey, wow, we're just newly married, you know. Yeah. So those kind of things. Wow. You get married and you know, all right, from where you come from, you've been supporting your siblings because they're still in college in high school. Yeah. So you get your salary and have to say, okay, we need to support so and so, we need to support so and so. Yeah, that doesn't it doesn't come very easy, you know. Uh of course, she came from a different church, a Pentecostal church to a Baptist church, and of course, all those that were like, well, can we go back?
SPEAKER_01:So she she got a uh certain fire. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah. I I personally grew up in a Baptist church. And growing up in church, man, I I remember stories of God the Father in in the Bible. I remember stories of Jesus and and the cross and what he did for us. And I remember them teaching about Holy Spirit and that I had him and I was sealed with him. That's how I knew that I was saved, but I really don't remember an emphasis on Holy Spirit. And it wasn't until I got saved in Team Challenge. And then I went into California over at Living Word, and Living Word is very Pentecostal and Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues, and men are at the altar an hour before church, lined up on their knees in their church clothes, praying. And there's just something about really pressing in. Yeah, that is true. Um but just the intentionality with really pressing in to the Holy Spirit. Yeah, that's what has to be key. That's that's number one, is walking with learning to discern the Holy Spirit's voice.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yes. Well, what did Jesus say? It's good that I go.
SPEAKER_01:It's good that I go, so I'm a sense the comforter, the helper, the helper who leads you into all truth. It's all about Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah. Man, I love the Holy Spirit. He's beautiful, ain't he? I just pray sometimes and just say, Holy Spirit, I love you, Holy Spirit. Yeah, I need you, Holy Spirit, come.
SPEAKER_03:Sometimes he gets treated like a third will. Oh, no. You know what I mean? Yeah, sadly. Sadly. I have conversations with people, and I'm like, you really need to really work on your relationship with the Holy Spirit. Yeah. You got Jesus down pretty good. You know what I mean? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But that's probably a relationship with the Holy Spirit a little bit. So without him, what can we do? That's how we move in power and authority. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. Yeah. Yeah, so that's my story.
SPEAKER_03:So you so you get married, you're working at the thing, you're what so when you start working, do you do take on less roles at church, or how does that work?
SPEAKER_02:We continued. Yeah. Yeah, we continue with the same roles that I uh I had. My wife came in and joined in and found a place of service for her, and we just continued.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Yeah. When did you guys start your own thing? Uh or you're part of something now, so obviously you left your communication thing.
SPEAKER_01:No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, you still do communications?
SPEAKER_01:Uh yeah, what so we've got your your personal encounter, I think, was that baptismal.
SPEAKER_03:No, it was when he went to the when he went to the deacon when he was singing. Okay, okay. Got convicted. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:My soul in the sin. Yeah. Okay. With oh the uh David, yeah. Daniel. Yeah, Daniel. Daniel, yeah. Daniel. Okay. And so you've had a couple of different moments with God where He showed himself to you. Yes. Is there any other moments that you specifically remember or want to highlight while we're in this space that God just showed up and showed off, man, that you have to testify about what God can do?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. I will talk about two. One is a journey that I have traveled, and the other one is the ministry that God has birthed through us. When I was here last year, the first thing I did when I got into David and Esther's home, I told them, Hey guys, before we do anything, I need to tell you something. So we did that. I sat down and I told them just a few months back I was diagnosed, diag diagonized with post-rate cancer. So that was the message. With what? Yeah. So that was needed to bring them up to speed with. So I had just is that why you were you came? No, I had come for a meeting, but that that meeting uh through the organization that I work for, which is called One Child, okay, provided me the opportunity to come and tell them face to face because we struggled. We're going to call them and tell them, but then the God God provided that opportunity. So when I came, I told them. So it was a difficult season for all of us. It was a difficult difficult season. I remember when uh we first knew about it. My wife and I were saying, Oh wow, how do we even tell the boys? But we must. How did you discover that? Well, I had a health check that normally every year do that. Good. And I went, and of course, that's not the reason that I actually went to see this doctor. I had a doctor's appointment that was something totally different. But I had my report with me. So after he finished whatever he needed to do, I said, Oh, by the way, I have this report. Can you look at it? So he looked at it and I said, Wow, your PSA is very high, 14 point something. And a person of my age should be at the highest four. Yeah. So he said, Wow, this is very high. I need to introduce you to a doctor friend of mine who is a urologist. Uh he's a good doctor. So he gave me the number, he called him, sent me there, and of course, this doctor now started all these tests. Oh, you know, it could be, could be, could be. Yeah. And eventually it was the cancer of the post rate. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Did you was it early detection? Because I I hear so much that early detection is key for prostate cancer and for so men can live. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Was yours detected early or at 14, and when the average should be four, that was not early detection. Wow. It was God's grace and mercy. Come on. Yes. Yeah. That found me. Wow. Because I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't like a feeling anything. Oh, so you didn't feel different. You weren't you weren't like struggling or fatigue or tiredness. So it was like, you know, the enemy was just kind of prowling, you know, waiting to prown. Yeah. And the Lord said, no. Come on, man.
SPEAKER_01:So I I a few years back, I had went in, I had a hernia and I had some other issues going on, man. And I they stuck me in the tube and I got the thing done. And man, they called me like a week later. Hey, we need you to come into the doctor. You got something on your heart. I was like, I'm gonna die. That's immediately where my mind went, you know what I mean? Because it's like I don't feel no different. I'm still able to do the stuff that I but I got this thing on my heart. But it's like you were saying, man, the enemy will use stuff like that to just attack our minds. With you're gonna die. Like, no, I'm not. God still got a lot of life left in me, man. True, true, true, true. But that's okay.
SPEAKER_02:So you you are yeah, so I mean, it was a very difficult time, very difficult time because again, back when I called my brother, my pastor, and of course we called him and his wife to our home and told him this is what this family is going through. Yeah, he said, Where is it from? Yeah, but when we finally told our boys, of course, my wife told my firstborn son now. He's a great man of God. And he told she told she told him that pray for your dad. And he prayed. Come on. I would say he prayed a huge prayer that later on I was even say, God, I am praying for this prayer that you will do it. Wow, because this young man needs to be encouraged by you answering this prayer.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, you know, he was praying a prayer of faith, believing for a healing for his father.
SPEAKER_02:And in fact, my wife asked him, Oh, by the way, do you need anointing all? He said, No, no, no, I got mine.
SPEAKER_01:You go, what's his name?
SPEAKER_02:Telly. Telly. Yes. So he prayed, and then later on he said, Dad, as far as I'm concerned, I mean, from where I sit, you're healed.
unknown:Wow.
SPEAKER_02:From where I sit, you're healed. Wow. Now it's you now to exercise that muscle of faith. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:You know how old is your son at this point? Well, he's in his third, because this is a year ago. Oh, yeah. 29?
SPEAKER_02:He's 30, 31 there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I love this.
SPEAKER_02:Wow. Yeah. So he prayed, he believed, and uh, he walked with me. He walked me, you know. Yeah. You can walk with a doctor and you get the medical care, but you can walk with a son who says, Dad, this is what I believe about you. Wow. Listen to this and read this. Do this. Oh my God. Yeah. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Actual practical things for you to use your muscle of faith to start to believe that God, I am healed. Wow. So how did what happened?
SPEAKER_02:Wow. August 2nd, we called the family together to Nairobi. Those from the coast, all our brothers, my sisters, my nieces and nephews all traveled to Nairobi. The reason we decided we needed to tell God thank you. It was a thanksgiving. It was a celebration. It was a moment just to actually encourage somebody else. For me, it was huge. I said, God, I can't remember when you gathered this family together, but you have brought all of them together except David, Esther, and their kids. I said, God, you are telling us something. So it was a moment of celebration, of thanksgiving, of praying for this family of the happy, of praying for this family of the wonders. Oh my God. And just saying God, we dedicate these people, these two servants to you. Wow. It was a huge moment. Wow. That we yearned for it to come. Oh, we had said, let's do this. Oh, a month will go, a month will go. And said, no, no, no, we got to do this. It's going to cost money, but we're going to do this. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:So when did you this happen in August? Yes. When did he say that he got the doctor that told him about the levels? And well, that was a month April.
SPEAKER_02:And when I came to the US in September, I visited my brother in uh Dallas. And of course, I shared the same with me, with them. And of course, I was saying, you know, my son just prayed for me. I am healed. And I am scheduled to go through radiotherapy when I go back home. Oh, wow. And I was saying, okay, God, if you have if you have healed me, I don't need radiation. Why should I go through that? Come on, buddy. So we did some tests in Dallas. Wow. And of course, the guy said, eh, go back and go through the medication. So we went back, had a daily radiation from October all the way to December. When I went for my first review with my doctor to see if the radiation and medication worked. Where are we? That was in January. That level of PSA had gone to 0.01. Oh my God. 0.01. Wow. Oh my God. And uh subsequent reviews, it has not gone above that. In some, it even the instruments could not read that level.
SPEAKER_00:My God. That is my God. That is my God.
SPEAKER_02:That is my God. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:That's why. That's why you have this. Because you have this thankfulness of life happy. Yeah. You're gonna make I can feel it. I can hear it. I cannot thank him. I cannot thank him enough.
SPEAKER_02:You living living life. It was a journey to also draw me to him. Draw me closer to him. Oh, I am not at the same place. I was from in your faith. Yes. In your mind. Oh.
SPEAKER_03:I am bold and courageous. I have to know what that did for your son.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, God. You will have to call him, bring him here, and put him through this.
SPEAKER_03:Your prayer was God answer this.
SPEAKER_02:Jordan help people to my son. Yes. And of course, oh wow, the power, you know, the power of community again. I had family, brothers, and sisters praying for me. I had a brother. I had a brother. I have a brother-in-law. Now the my sister Esther is married to Samuel, who is a pastor. He said, We are going to pray. We are going to, I mean, he told me, yeah, uh, loud and clear. Just know we are going to pray you out of this. Yeah. God did it. God did it. Dude.
unknown:Man.
SPEAKER_03:In a moment, you could have asked God for anything.
SPEAKER_01:Come on, buddy. He could have been selfish. He could have been selfish. And worried about you.
SPEAKER_03:And said, God. But no, you said, for him. Yes. Show yourself faithful to him. You didn't say show yourself faithful to me. You said show yourself faithful to my son on his faith. Yes. So it wouldn't occur to him. Holy crap, dude.
SPEAKER_02:And I remember one of our pastors making the Simpson prayer. Making the Simpson prayer. Lord Jesus, answer the prayer of this young of yours. May his faith be bolstered because of our doing this good.
SPEAKER_01:Not Lord he'll happy so he can live a longer life and do no. Lord he'll answer his prayer. Yes. So that he can have stronger faith and belief in you.
SPEAKER_02:I tell you right now. God happy. Amen. We will tell Telly, pray for this one. Wow. I will talk, I will talk about young people.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, you'll tell if if you encounter somebody now that's sick or needs a healing, you'll tell your son, Telly, pray for this one.
SPEAKER_02:Even on that day, on August 2nd, uh one of my cousins stepped up and said, Hey, by the way, yeah, we are in this fellowship. I want you guys to pray for my mom. She's sick. And you know what my pastor, my brother did say, Telly, Telly, come here. Pray for this dear lady. Wow. And uh the next day, uh, our dear cousin Sophie said, Yeah, my mom is better. Wow. Oh my god. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, there's a healing anointing on your sons.
SPEAKER_02:You know what we have, and it's one of those last the second thing I'll talk about. We journey with students that we support through life in college. And we have said every time they come through our home in Nairobi, that place in our sitting room is an altar. We say, Kneel down here, young man. We need to pray for you. Any deliverance that needs to be made, any strongholds that need to be broken. And in that ministry we have said, Telly, yes, I am this in that ministry. And uh your brother, when it comes to graphics and all those things that need to be done, creative, creative space.
SPEAKER_01:That's it, that's his amen.
SPEAKER_02:But now we want somebody who will be a spiritual. Let's call him a spiritual director. And let's say telly you be that. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Man, I don't know. I don't know what to say about that, bro. That they're yeah. What a selfless prayer, bro. For a man to not even ask, yeah, not for a longer life and the healing.
SPEAKER_01:Just answer my son's prayer so his faith will be stirred. Yeah, of course, definitely. Because of the ministry.
SPEAKER_02:People don't pray like that, hell. No, it's different, buddy. Of course, I cry to the Lord and say, Yeah, of course. Yeah, you know, this ministry that we have. Yeah, Lord, I need to leave for that so that we can walk with these young people. Yeah, you know, I still pray.
SPEAKER_03:I'm gonna be brutally honest with you. Happy? Yeah, I don't think I've ever asked God to answer that person's prayer so their faith will grow. Yeah, that's different, bro. That's a different kind of prayer there, man.
SPEAKER_01:That's not yeah, it's a different kind of faith.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that's special, bro. I hope you know that, Happy. Amen. That's a special, that's a special, yeah, that's a special heart when someone can step outside of themselves and say, God, yeah, for this one here. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. We pray for healing in people's bodies. We pray for people to be delivered, we pray for all these different things, but to say, answer his prayer so his faith can be so there's there's like 16 different characteristics of the Holy Spirit, and one of them is the gift of faith.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Happy it rests on you have it. Amen.
SPEAKER_02:You walk in. Amen. Amen. So that transitions me now to the second part. Yeah. I've talked about what God has done. Yeah. Now, let me talk about this ministry. Is that okay? Of course, yeah, wherever you want to go, my man. A few years ago, and it's that seed that again comes from a place, it comes from a journey. Yeah, I told you I came from a place where there are times I didn't have we didn't have money. Yeah, my father could not pay my tuition. Yeah, that is a space that I have I know. I have come to a uh I know I've come from a space where the house that we're living in was in bad shape. I know uh coming from the space where my mom had to go and do work in a farm to get some money to buy a pencil to feed us, and there are days that there was no food. I've come from the space where my father started churches, but there were no buildings under a tree, a building that looks like it will fall anytime. So today God has put that back on my heart and my wife and my kids, and we are saying, We need to we have stepped into that space, and this ministry is called Accord of Three. Wow. Accord of three, a chord of three. Ecclesiastes, baby. Ecclesiastes 4 12. Come on. Accord of three strands is not quickly broken.
SPEAKER_01:That's what God showed us with this podcast because we've literally we thought about having more people, yeah, and God said, No, that's not what I told you to do. Wow, it's a three-chord strand with you and your dad in one person sharing their testimony.
SPEAKER_02:I tell you different interpretations. For us, a code of three now looks at these three strands. One strand is that young person who comes from a very difficult background. And let me put a name because this is a young person that I I know, I have worked with. His name is Kenga. Four years ago, Kenga had finished high school. Okay. And I had known him a few years back because he was in the organization that I work in. Kenga. One child. One child. One child. Yes. Kenga did very well. And sometime back, I had gone into that community and I said, hey, I will reward the best boy and the best girl in the eighth grade examination. And uh it happened that Kenga was the best student. My wife and I gifted him with a cow. And Pauline with a cow? Yes. I love you guys. Yes. Pauline was the second best. We gifted her with a goat. And why? Why these animals? Because these animals will have babies. Wow. Those babies will become a flock. You can begin with a goat. Tomorrow you have five goats. You can graduate from goats to a cow.
unknown:Wow.
SPEAKER_02:And that gives you a resource, gives you an economic power. Now you can say, okay, I have five goats. I am struggling. I don't have this and this in school. Sell one goat. Wow. The same with Kenga. That cow definitely had other babies, cows, and used that resource as a seed to help him go to school. But anyway, Kenga finishes high school. Uh no, finishes uh high school. And I call him like uh a Monday. I'm saying, hey, uh, when are you reporting? I'm supposed to report on a Thursday. And are you going? Saying no. And this is a young man who has called an A- in his exam. Wow. Excellent student. Oh, yeah. And he says, I really don't know whether I'm going to go to college.
unknown:Wow.
SPEAKER_02:In fact, even as you're talking to me, my parents are not home. They have gone to a funeral, and I know I don't think they have any plans. So I talked to my wife. We began thinking, what can we do? What is it? What is it that we can do? Because this is a resource, a huge resource that we don't want it wasted. Yeah. So quickly. Wow, you immobilize ourselves, our own resource friends. This young man was in college the following week. Come on. Two weeks ago, this young man was in our house. Of course, we have worked with him there. Paid tuition and all that, mentored him. He was in our house two weeks ago and saying, I just want to come and I want to do two things. I want to say thank you, and I also want you to pray because I have gotten a job. And as I want, as I come to say thank you, I know what a code of three has done. And in my little resource that I will be getting, happy here is a seed. I want to be able to do that. So a code of three is uh is a ministry, and our mission is that a code of three is committed to being a trust transformative instrument of God's love, impacting lives and communities in the coast of Kenya by empowering the youth through college education, strengthening families with sustainable housing and care, uplifting churches with infrastructure support for effective worship, and restoring the land through innovative farming practices that promote environmental stewardship, clean water access, and food security. So there are four things here that are very, very, very foundational. We are talking about empowering young people. I was at that space where, yes, my father couldn't have money to take me to college. Somebody stepped in. We are saying we have the opportunity to step in. Then we're saying strengthening families. We struggled, we struggled, and we're saying, hey, Peter's, I mean Kenga's family, yes, at one time his dad was sick. We had to step in and help. And we're saying church infrastructure. I've talked about the churches that my dad started, you know. And of course, one thing that I didn't mention, you know, my father being an a tent maker. Really? Your dad was a tent maker? Meaning that he wasn't paid a salary to be a pastor. Yeah. Yeah. He was a tent maker. So what he needed to do was to make sure he has planted corn in his farm to make sure that now corn is a is basically a major staple crop. I mean, is a I mean, our staple food is called Ugali and it's made from corn. So he made sure that, okay, if I farm and I have corn, then at least I've answered one of the questions about providing food for the family. So now for us, when we talk about sustainable farming, we're saying this farming will help somebody put food on their table, but will also help regenerate uh this uh environment that God has given to us. But we are saying this farming as we produce products, it could be corn, it could be, it could be honey, it could be chicken, it could be sheep. When we sell that, we bring money and we can say, okay, let 40% go and educate these students, let 20% go and help families, let 20% go and help the church infrastructure, let 20% do the administrative work. So our vision is a code of three envisions youth in the coastal region of Kenya equipped to lead with purposes, with purpose, families empowered to thrive in secure homes, churches flourishing as beacons of hope, and God's creation restored through sustainable farming that ensures clean water, food security, and ecological balance for generations to come. So we have four pillars. Four pillars in a code of three. Pillar number one is education, and this pillar focuses on empowering youth, providing access to higher education. And when we talk about education for young people, I can relate to this very well, and I've told you so. I once was there. My father struggled to educate my siblings and I. Many times we were sent home because we missed this, we lacked that, we lacked that. When I joined high school, by the way, I didn't even have a pair of shoes. Really? No. And it was a requirement. So one of my teachers, missionary teachers, gave me a pair of shoes. It was a bigger size bigger, two sizes bigger than me. So that's an area of education. It's one of those pillars. Then the other pillar that we have is family. So a code of three strengthens families by providing stable housing and essential care. When we say stable family, uh I mean uh uh stable housing, oh, there was one time my wife and I walked to this home and this family ran by a single mom, nine kids that lived in this shop. Yeah, and the Lord put us in our hearts that we need to change this story. We were able to get resources through our own, through friends, and we put up uh a house for her. Wow, yeah, because when we look at them, they are made in the image of heart, amen. And we need the dignity to be restored, to be restored. Yeah, so again, the other pillar that we have is church infrastructure. And again, I say this pillar is devoted to improve the physical structures of churches, ensuring they are safe, functional, and a reflection of God's glory. And I've told you my story. I'll show you some slides here. This is a church, yeah, and I've gone to this church and I've said, God, use me, use me. This story needs to change. Wow. I come from the coast of Kenya. We have a large population of Muslims. Oh, and when you go, every five kilometers you see a mosque. Oh, that mosque, I have never seen a mosque that is not made of brick. Wow, I have not seen a mock mosque that is made of dirt. I have not. Wow. I have not. Wow. So I am saying, no, no, no, no, no. We gotta make the churches stronger. We have to change that image also. Yeah, buddy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So let me ask you this. I don't mean to interrupt you. That's okay. Wait, so and people in where you're from, when they see the mosque, nice buildings made with bricks, and they see the churches, and from what you're saying, some of them are mud and stuff like that. Yeah, do they see opportunity at a mosque and like like this place is well off, there may be opportunity here, and they see a black mud building, and they're like, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02:It's a shame. It's a shame because many times you will hear people saying, Oh, but the Muslims have more money than we do. Yeah, you know, yeah, but we belong to the God who is the creator of the heavens and the earth, yeah, who say silver and gold belongs to me. Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah. The cattle of on a thousand hills belong to me. Yeah. So you just need to ask him for a packet of silver, one cattle, yeah, you know, to take care of some of these churches.
SPEAKER_03:But do you think seeing those buildings sway people more?
SPEAKER_02:Well, one of the things that I will notice is like say, like saying, like so, say somebody in your village who's not a believer.
SPEAKER_03:Uh-huh. And God, they feel the sense of God drawing them, and they see this mosque that has brick, and they see this Christian church that's made out of mud. Do they you know what I mean? Are they more drawn because of the brick, or you know what I mean? Or are they or is the the God of truth really drawing them to where they need to be?
SPEAKER_02:I would say the God of truth will draw them to himself. Yeah. But I think the temptation. Yeah. The temptation and first impression, but also the challenges, the econom the economical challenges people go through. Yeah. Because you will find today, yes, yeah, the Christians do relief. You'll find the Muslim doing relief. They do, and they will gather people and even the Mormons. Oh, there's a lot of one.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, when I talk about Do they help the communities like you guys do?
SPEAKER_02:The Muslims? The Muslims? They are, yeah. They'll provide bore hold water and all that. They will provide relief food. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And of course, yeah, but I'm I'm I'm hearing a lot of stories about what's going on over in Africa with Muslims and how they're killing Christians. They're going into these Christian schools and and shooting them. There's there's deaths. It's crazy what's going on right now over there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:When you talk about Africa, that's large. When I talk about Kenya, that's different. Oh. Okay. But yes, you go to some other places that is happening. Oh, wow. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_03:Where is where is Kenya located in Africa? Where's that at?
SPEAKER_02:It's located on the East African coast.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. All right. Yes. So you're not up by the Middle East.
SPEAKER_02:No, we're not up, but uh our our neighbors on the north is Ethiopia. All right. And then uh another neighbor on the northeastern side is Somali. Oh. We have Uganda. Okay. We have Tanzania as part of our borders. But when you look at the East African coast, Kenya and Tanzania, the East African coast was uh uh historically uh owned by Arabs, you know, Arab traders came in to get slaves and all that. So that's how the spread of Islam came in. All right, and it's growing because again, if now you're able to meet the economic needs of people, they're gonna want to be involved. Yeah, you know, one of the things, one of the the Mormons have mastered that. Yeah, yeah. So we have this farm, we have this farm that we are developing, and at this farm, we want it to be a model farm, yeah, a model farm where people learn sustainable methods of farming. That's great. People come and actually see, wow, I can feel the presence of God in this place where we restore the environment. Come people come and say, Wow, and where we are going to be able to even to have a rest uh uh a place where people can come and just rest. Oh, I love that. People can come here and just uh be rejuvenated, a place where people can come and pray, people can come and get restored. So that is a farm that we are creating. We are planting trees, we are planting crops. Yes, we have challenges here and there right now. I'll tell you. Yes. Elephants come and walk through our fence. Really? Yeah, life to come and keep.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, so we how do you how do you acquire land in in Kenya?
SPEAKER_02:You buy it from the locals who are selling, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so right now, everybody who's coming in through this, they're literally staying with you. Coming where? Into into the students that you want to help, yeah. Do you have a prayer home or a facility?
SPEAKER_02:Or one day shall come at and of course this farm, this farm is called Wateule Farm, which means the chosen farm. Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01:And uh, you know, when I So let me ask you, if if somebody that's watching or they're listening and they want to sow a seed and be be a blessing to this ministry, how can they do that?
SPEAKER_02:Uh I will leave you the contact of how they can do that because there is a 501c3 that has just gone through. Okay. We are working on the details. Okay, and David is a member of the board and Esther. Okay, so they would be able to be directed through you to David and they can make a contribution. Is there a website? A website is being developed as I speak right now, so it's a work in progress. And it will be made available, and definitely the best contacts Esther and David will be able to do that.
SPEAKER_03:Well, make sure we get that information so when we put this up, we can add that into the excellent.
SPEAKER_01:You can you can reach out to uh speak life az through Facebook or Instagram. Uh reach out, leave us a message, and I will for sure connect you with David and Esther so that you can be a blessing to uh a court of three.
SPEAKER_02:And thank you, thank you so, so very much. So very much. I'm telling you, Ian, uh, the things that God is doing through a court of three are amazing. Amazing.
SPEAKER_01:We're gonna go and experience it, dude. I totally see I see it. We're coming in the future, friends. We are calm, please come. We gotta come with our equipment so we can record telly. Come on, brother. Yes, we're we're literally happy. We're literally believing for a studio one day for Speaker Like Daisy, where we don't have to set up and tear down and it's all um we're we're believing for this thing to be in front of a live audience. Yeah, we're we're believing for people to reach out to us across the world. Hey man, we're in the Philippines. Can you come and we want to share a testimony? Yeah, we'll be there next week, man. Hey, can you come to Kenya? I'll be there next month, man.
SPEAKER_03:So I want to I want to hear about the organization you work for now a little bit. One child?
SPEAKER_02:Let me just connect the two. Let me connect the two. So at this farm that we call Watewleng, again, when I went to buy the farm, I had no plans to begin a church there. So a few months later, I go, and this pastor friend has started a church. And I tell him, Pastor Joseph, now you carry this baby because this is not why I came here. Yeah. Well, lo and behold, a year's later, my wife and I have bought a piece of land for the church to be built. Come on. Lo and behold, next to the farm, our farmhouse, yeah, our farmhouse is being one of the rooms is used as the church. Come on. And of course, the they have grown. So they now are meeting under a tree. And of course, I say, this tree, this is where the church actually started. So I said, let's put a shed here. This shed will help us gather together when people come to visit. So now they are meeting under that shed. Come on. But we have a piece of land, and a dear friend, brother of mine, a pastor in Colorado Spring, and his wife came and actually prayed over this piece of land. And God has brought a number of children. God has brought a number of children to the community and we are embracing them. So last week I was telling my colleagues, I was doing uh I was sharing some updates because we had a meeting in the DR and I shared a clip of the farm and these kids, and I told them, you see this? One day we'll start. We call them Hope Centers where we sponsor children there. And of course, the way now my organization works, one child, is that hey, there is that place called Watehule Farm, and there is a church, let's call it Wateule Church. If we can find a church in the US that says missions to children is core for us because that is how we raise the next generation. That church will help us begin a hope center at Wateule. And you can imagine the kind of generation we will be raising. So that's the organization that I work for. It's a sponsorship organization, and right now we are saying we need to move away from the letters children used to write. You wait for months to hear from your child and you don't know what's happening there. We are actually using technology. We have an app that is called Bridgley.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, so the people, so the people who adopt and sponsor the kids will actually be able to have a contact or a communication with them and see them. It won't be just, oh my God, I love this. Happy. You're right. This is so personal. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:You'll be able to see, hey, this is happy. I am your child. I like to eat rice. I uh I like to play soccer, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I want to be a teacher. Are materials expensive in in Kenya? What kind of materials? Building materials. Well, fairly expensive. I mean, moderately. I mean, it just depends where you get them from. Yeah. You may get like I am from the coast. If you want a coral stone to use to build, and you're building around Malindi, well, it's available around there. If you're going to build in Water, you don't want to be two hours away, well, it becomes a bit more expensive. You're going to pay more money. Transportation.
SPEAKER_03:Do you guys have like so like bricks we have here? Do you guys have bricks like that?
SPEAKER_02:We make we make the bricks. The bricks that are made, the bricks that are carved from a stone that are a rock that God just made. You just and you just go and carve a what about wood? Is wood expensive? Wood is a bit expensive because we don't have as many trees. We don't have as many trees as you have here. Yeah. So, and of course, building with wood would be a disastrous decision because yeah, we use stoves, we use charcoal, we use firewood to cook. All right.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Wow. Yeah. Wow. So that is about a code of three, and through that, I have shared about the organization that I work for that really has drawn my passion for these young people, the children, uh, so much. I love that. So much, so much, so much, so much. Because I know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Through them. Where do we talk about at the very beginning of this? How God will use the tests in your life to come into your testimony or the mess that you've gone through to be your mess. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:We tell people all the time, especially people that we do testimonies with, that whatever you've been through, expect God to take you back and help somebody else get through it. Yeah. You know what I mean? And it seems like that's exactly what you're doing.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that's that's what we're going. I mean, that's what we are doing. You know, you carry this burden, you suffered through it, but God is now, you suffered through it, but God now says, carry this burden. Yeah. For that young lady called Pauline, and sure she goes through college, for that young lady called Zaitouni who uh accepted Christ even from uh a Muslim background, you know. So my wife and I definitely uh praying that the Lord will bring destiny helpers so that we can continue supporting these, educating these young students and helping these churches with their infrastructure, helping these families build a suite. Homes definitely farm, farm, farm. You're making a difference.
SPEAKER_01:You're making a difference, man.
SPEAKER_03:I love that Jesus. Your heart is stayed where your home is.
SPEAKER_02:Amen. I love that. Amen. That's a powerful statement. My heart is stayed where my home is. Yeah. Now, what's your revelation in that statement?
SPEAKER_01:They always say that home is where the heart is. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:His heart never left home. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Wow. I love that. Yeah. So I think I think you know, you I think you have had people, you know, you can get a lemon. Yeah. And you can complain, oh, it's so sour. You know. Yeah. But you can make lemonade. Yeah. So it tastes so good. Yes. So those experiences of going without a home that was wanting. Yeah. Uh school that we like this. Church that like this. Well that's we're making lemonade now.
SPEAKER_03:I love that you're literally like you want to make such a difference. Yes. You know what I mean? That a lot of people that were in your situation who had an opportunity to leave, like, I'm gone. And you said, no, I'm going to stay here and I'm going to make this better. Oh, yes. You know what I mean? And that, bro, is is beautiful to see. Thank you. Because a lot of people just can't wait to leave. They just want to get out and go. You know, you're like, no, we're going to stay here and we're going to make this better. Oh, yes. We're going to do everything we can. God, we're going to do everything we can, God. Make this better.
SPEAKER_02:You know what I mean? And I believe you will, brother. And I'm glad that you said you're coming. When you come, I'll take you to a teule. And you will say, Yeah. What is this bush? What are you saying about this bush? By that bush. I remember a few months back, a mission team from our church visited that farm. Yeah. Because there is that church. So it was an opportunity for them to do missions. The minister. Oh, yeah. And definitely their visit made a significant difference. But I remember this lady who is a member of the mission team pulling me aside. I said, Happy, this is what Teule farm. You know what I see? I see a city. I see a city. Come on. I am not seeing a city made of bricks and stone, but I'm seeing a city where people here will come and be ministered to. This will come up. This will come up. This will come up. She said, I'm coming back here again. Come on.
SPEAKER_03:My prayer is, brother, that when I get to come see you, it's because we're coming to build. Yeah, buddy. Amen.
SPEAKER_02:Come on, dad. Amen.
SPEAKER_03:I'm serious, bro.
SPEAKER_02:Come, come, come, come. That church at Wateula, you will come and build. Come on. Yes.
unknown:Man.
SPEAKER_01:We're bringing the men's home with us as workers. Amen. Jesus. Amen.
SPEAKER_03:So you've laid out for us your ministry that you're doing. Yes. And you shared a little bit about what you're believing God for. Your vision.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Um. Is there anything else on your heart that you're believing God for, brother, that our listeners can join our faith with yours, and we can join our faith with yours, and we can watch God move in that area?
SPEAKER_02:Well, I think I would be repeating, but again, for me. You uh your statement of 50 years from now is a huge statement. Uh uh two Sundays I was already out of Kenya and I went online and watched the service, and I saw a minus called Pendo who has moved to Nairobi. And yeah, you can move to Nairobi and decide you will just sit back and just be ministered to. But I saw Pendo right there at the front in the worship team. The following Thursday, my wife sent me another clip, said, Oh, Pendo was there leading again, and she did an excellent job. And I told my wife, oh, this is so powerful. We need to encourage this legacy. We need to speak hope. We need to we just tell, we just need to tell them this is the way to go. So if there is one thing that I would say over and over again, be it my nieces and nephews, be it the Peters, be it the Paulines who are in a code of three, that they will be able to stand. And they will have a seed, a legacy that will look back and say, hey, just like Kenga said, if it was not for a code of three, they picked me four years back. Look at where I am today. Come on. So we want that legacy, those temple testimonies. If it wasn't for so-and-so, holding my hand and walking with me, if it wasn't so-and-so, even using WhatsApp to share the word of God, bringing us together. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I can use, I can you can call me on WhatsApp when you're over there with the kids and I can minister to the kids. I will do that.
SPEAKER_02:Oh my god, yes, one of these days. We will do it. We will do it. Jesus, we will do it. And that statement that you're making, we had a meeting this morning. Uh, it was David, Esther, and of course, another friend of ours who was a missionary kid in Kenya, lives in Kentucky. But we want a team to support a code of three. Yeah. So we're talking, how do we? And uh her name is Dawn asked me, so how do you mentor? How do you mentor these young people? And even as they grow, how will you continue? I said, Yeah, you can become a mentor. And she said, you know, coming from far away, maybe I will not be such a great mentor. But then I said, Yeah, you know, those who have graduated from this program can mentor the other students that come in. But then we took it further and said, We normally have online meetings with these students, and they said, Yes, we want to participate in those. So that's where you come in. That's right, brother. That's where you come in. Wow, we you will be wow, you will be informed. Wow, yeah. Hey, we're having a Zoom meeting today. My God, come in, encourage these young people, speak, speak live, speak live. Hallelujah. Yeah, Jesus. Speak live.
SPEAKER_01:So this is a little different, yeah. But while you were just finishing up, yeah, um, before we pray and we kind of close out, you gotta get your phone ready. Remember, I don't have this. I I heard God tell me make space so that you can sing a song. Whatever song is in your heart, I just want you to bless us, our listeners, the people who are watching. If you could just sing maybe your favorite hymn, something that God just, just whatever the Lord puts on your heart, just to bless us, please. Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_02:When we gathered together on August 2nd for the Thanksgiving, in fact, I told those who gathered there, and this testimony will have lots of songs. I asked that those people go through a journey and they have scriptures here and there. For me it was songs. Songs, and uh, we sang them. Tea so sweet to trust in Jesus just to take him at his word, just to rest upon his promise, just to know the safe. Jesus Jesus how I trust you how process, precious Jesus of grace to trust you.
SPEAKER_01:Man, that was holy, buddy. You gotta pray for your friend, bud. Make sure to pray for the farm, pray for the churches, yeah. Pray for the pray for the kids, pray for the resources, court of three, one child. Yeah, yes. Make sure to pray for Elizabeth, because behind every great man is a great woman of God. Amen.
unknown:Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you for this, Happy. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you, God. Man, all I hear is what a God, what a God, what a God. Look what God has done. He's not done either. You know, Lord, I I sit at this table. I never know what to expect, God. Never know what your sons and daughters are gonna say or their life, how their life has gone, Lord. Thank you, God. But I'm always touched, I'm always moved, God. By the love that you just pour on us, Lord. So, Father, I just thank you for having me. It always seems like those who are raised in the simplest way have the greatest joy. Have the greatest understanding of who you really are, God. So I thank you for my brother's faith, God. I thank you for the ropes that leaked. I thank you for the times there was no food, God. Yes. Because in those times, God was just 100% reliant upon you to provide a simple need, God. And as my brother steps into this new season, God, that same faith is there. Just believe in God that you are gonna provide for the next need. And you picked a winner, God. You really did. You picked a man whose heart is pure, he's faithful. Whose faith can move mountains, God. Oh Jesus, you know. So I thank you for three chord, God. A quarter three. Thank you for a chord of three, God. Thank you for what you're gonna do there, Lord. He even said it himself, you are a God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills. Vineyards you didn't plant, and mansions you didn't build, Lord. So it's nothing for you to provide the needs for your children, God. So Lord, I thank you that every child that they encounter will have what they need, God. Lord, I thank you for property for more farms, more land. Yep. Lord, I thank you for the materials to build more. Resources, the churches.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you. Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01:Man, I see this huge building, multiple stories, bro, with different levels. Jesus, Jesus. Jesus.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, for grace to trust you, mom. Oh Jesus.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, you're gonna need a lot of laborers. Uh huh. Oh, God. God will bring them. Yeah, you it's his work.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. It's gonna be a lighthouse, God. Amen. A hope house. Yep. People are gonna see that you are the God of supplies. Yes. Yahweh. That their needs, God, are gonna be met through this ministry, God. Amen. Yeah, but do it. Not through the mosques, not through the Muslim churches, God, but through this ministry, God. Thank you, Lord. They will see each person that comes to this ministry, God, walks away different. They walk away with their needs met, both physically and spiritually, God. Amen. But there's a different joy than the ones that leave this one, God. So I thank you for it, Lord. Lord, I thank you that as Happy goes out and he shares that you move on people's hearts, God. The way that you're moving on ours right now. Yes. That they just don't hear stories, but they hear his heart. Holy Spirit, do it. The way that his heart never left Kenya, God. The way that his heart is still at his home. And the way that he wants to go and make a difference. He didn't leave God to greener pastors. He didn't leave to brighter things, God. He said, I'm staying here and I'm building. Building an altar to you, God. Oh yes. So people will know that this is an altar for my God. Oh yes. Who took us from a place of leaky roots and no food to a place of abundance, God. Thank you. So Lord, I pray right now for his children, God. Thank you for those boys, God. Thank you. Lord, I thank you for sons of thunder.
SPEAKER_02:Man. Thank Jesus. One is called Telly. Telly, Lord. And the other one is called Saro. Saro. Saro and Telly. Bless these young men, God.
SPEAKER_03:Teamwork, God. Unity.
unknown:Thank you.
SPEAKER_03:Man. These men are going to carry this legacy, God. These men are going to carry this generational night with them everywhere they go, God. Amen. Amen.
SPEAKER_01:Amen. They're going to see the fruit produced in the life. In the name of Jesus. Yep. Thank you, God. They're going to want it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_03:Lord, I thank you for this bloodline that started with his dad. Thank you for Morris, God. That one man jest after generation after generation. Lord, I thank you that there's going to come a time and there will be God when this family line is going to be speaking up with authority, dignity, and power. Amen. Up by their own mouth so they can boast, God. Those in the community, God, who are going to say this family. This family, God has made a difference in this area, God. This family.
SPEAKER_02:Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
SPEAKER_03:I thank you for it, Lord. Man. Wow. The same way that he speaks of his father, the community is going to speak of this family, God.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you. With dignity, with respect. Thank you. Honor. Thank you. Honor and glory.
SPEAKER_02:I receive that in the name of Jesus. Do it, Lord.
SPEAKER_03:So I thank you, Lord. Thank you for Elizabeth. Yes. Thank you for the mighty woman of God.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you for her prayers, God.
SPEAKER_03:Man.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yes. She prays. She does. She prays. She does. Keep praying, sis. God hears every prayer.
SPEAKER_03:So, Lord, we just thank you. We pray that Jesus pour out your blessings upon our brother Happy God. We just pray for restoration of this time, God. Thank you for sparing his life. Amen. And stirring the faith of his son, God. Thank you, thank you. We just pray a blessing over Kenya right now, God.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03:Lord, we thank you for government leaders who are going to become Christians, God. Kenya will be saved. Government leaders who are going to be born again. Thank you, Jesus. Blood-bot believers, God. Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, God.
SPEAKER_03:Holy Spirit. Revival. Who are going to take the remote country, God? Crusades, God. Pour it back into the community. Jesus. So, Lord, I thank you that as you're raising up these Christians, you're raising up these Christians to be government officials, God. To take their place within the government, God.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_03:That Kenya will no longer be known as a Muslim country, but it'll be known as a Christian country, a powerful Christian country, God. It's not just for Kenya.
SPEAKER_02:Tell me, my brother. Tell me, my brother. Tell me my brother.
SPEAKER_03:That each person from whatever country they're in that buys in will start one right there where they're at, God. Because there are people in their community that they need to do the same things with, God. Thank you, Lord. So I thank you for a worldwide ministry, Lord. Thank you for the kids. Thank you for there are children in every community, God, who are lacking.
unknown:Yes.
SPEAKER_03:So I thank you for hearts to be just like happy. And I'm going to stay here and I'm going to make this better. I'm going to stay here and I'm going to make this better.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you, God.
SPEAKER_03:So I thank you for what you're going to do, God. I can't wait to see what you do, God. Jesus. Because I believe, God. My faith says that you are a mighty God. Oh, yes. And you will do more above or beyond what Happy can dream or imagine, God. With a simple yes in his heart. And here I am, Lord. Send me.
SPEAKER_02:You give the vision and you carry it, Lord Jesus. I don't have to carry it.
SPEAKER_03:Do it, God. Do it, God. Do it, God. And we'll give you glory and honor for it, Lord. Yes. We'll be humble enough to say, This was my God. Oh, yes. This was my God who moved. This was my God who provided. Yes. This is my God who heals. This is my God who supplies all my needs according to his riches and glory.
unknown:Amen.
SPEAKER_03:Do it for your son, just like he did it for his God. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. Amen.
SPEAKER_01:Man. Happy, can you do us a favor, man? Can you pray for Speak Life in the podcast and pray for me and Dad?
SPEAKER_02:Yes, I'll do that. Please, thank you. I can speak in speaking any language. Amen. Anything you want, but I just can't translate Swahili. That's all right. The spirit will speak to our spirit, bro. That's all it means. God in heaven. Thank you, Lord. I speak life to speak life. Holy Spirit, I just pray for this duo, Father and Son. Lord, you put this burden in their hearts. Burden cease to cease to burn because Yeah. The devil comes in, steals something away, plants a seed or doubt. Takes away the seed of faith. And Father, how we scatter and say, Ah, what was I doing that was not God? I pray, I pray, I pray, I pray in the name of Jesus. Speak life. Even when we think about the word, speak life. How Lord. How much people need to be spoken about life. People are broken. People are wounded. People are depressed. People are, oh God. Jesus. Thank you, Lord.
unknown:Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you, God. Grow, grow, grow, grow this ministry, Lord. Grow this ministry. Provide for all that is needed. Yes, Rowdy says, we want to have a studio one day. Lord, make it happen. Make it happen, oh God. And Father, yes. Those resources again, even as he prayed for a code of three. Yes, silver and gold belongs to you. Lord, just give it to them because this is not something they woke up and say, Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it. No. It is a burning, burning vision that you planted in their lives, and God, I pray. Right.
unknown:Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_02:Lord, do it. Those moments when they feel discouraged, encourage them. Those those moments they feel like, oh, this is too dark, this space mean. I cannot see anything. Holy Spirit, reveal yourself, O God. Manifest yourself. Rain down, rain down, rain down. Mungu tu kuzwe. Jinalakoli himi di we milele na milele kosababu. Wewe ni mungu na ye ishi. Na hakuna mungu kama wewe una yo tenda. Wewe pekeyake undiwe unaweza kuya tenda. Nina wainua ha wapenda mikononi mwako. Wa linde wa hifadi mwenizimuungu. Wainu e na jamizao na watoto wao. I know my brother said here. I am looking at fifty years down the road. Do it. Do it. It is not so that we can brag, it is so that there will be a witness. So that people will say, Ah, there came a time where Joseph passed away and another leader didn't know a God, the Almighty Savior. No, when we say 50 years down the road, we are saying that because we want the banner of Christ to be lifted up from generation to generation, that your name will be declared wewenimung. Amen.
SPEAKER_01:Amen. Thank you so much, Abby. Man, if you're watching on Facebook Live, uh do us a favor, man, subscribe to the channel. Um, we're gonna be working on the audio. Um, if you're on YouTube, man, please uh like the channel, subscribe, do it, follow, hit the little bell, you'll get all the future notifications um for all of our upcoming episodes that are gonna be released. Um, maybe you yourself got a uh really good testimony. You know somebody that does, and uh you would like to come on and share with us. Um, all you got to do is reach out through Speak Life A Z, all one word, Facebook, Instagram. Uh leave us a message, man. I'll connect with you and we'll get you on the schedule. Um maybe God's blessed you and you're able to sow a seed, a resource um into Speak Life. Um you can support the show. Again, you can reach out through Facebook or Instagram, and I'll get you the uh the Cash Apps, the Venmos, the Zels, all that stuff. Um, but if you could, man, please comment. Uh, even just one word on whatever platform you're listening to, just type Jesus. Um, any comments, man, they help uh with the algorithms and all that stuff. Um, but until next time, we're gonna continue to speak life, AZ. God bless you. Jesus.