 God’s Grace for All NationsYear Began: 2008God’s Grace for All Nations (GGFAN) was founded by Kenyan pastor, Rev. Simon Thuo Mwaura with a mission to make the gospel more accessible to Kenya’s 22 unreached and least-reached tribes (3.0 million people). GGFAN’s strategy is to work cross-culturally and incarnationally among all tribes to identify and to equip indigenous leadership in each tribe to plant reproducing Christian congregations, not just build buildings. Because GGFAN is limited in its resources, it prioritizes cooperating with other ministries and NGO’s to meet the physical and spiritual needs of each tribe where it is focused. Currently, GGFAN is focusing on the tribes of the Samburu, Turkana, Borana, Gabbra, Rendille, and Ariaal Rendille.
GGFAN’s strategy to meet physical needs of villagers along with sharing the gospel is accomplished by sharing corn and beans in areas hardest hit by the famine of 2009. GGFAN also provides clean drinking water to villages that have no access to sanitary water through its collaboration with Water Missions International and Faith Ventures Foundation. In February 2009, this collaboration resulted in clean water being made available to the village of Morinjoi (Samburu tribe). A new church has been planted to offer “Living Water” to the 10,000 people who walk from as far as 10 miles to obtain the clean drinking water. The success of this project has caused chiefs from other villages to invite GGFAN into their communities.
As part of GGFAN’s strategy to work incarnationally within diverse cultures, it has partnered with T4 Global and North Point Community Church to provide 400 MP3 audio devices deployed in 40 Samburu villages to teach health, hygiene, animal husbandry, Bible stories, and share the gospel message. This is done through songs, poems, and narrations in the indigenous language and concepts of the people, whose oral-based culture has precluded their needing to learn to read or write. Significant impact has been documented on the amount of data retained and passed orally to other members of the same village, especially to those who are in remote locations while tending the herds of the clan. This method is allowing a rapid spread of the gospel to those who previously had little or no access to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
To support the ministry of God's Grace For All Nations, please make a donation to Project #854.
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