By faith

By faith Abraham obeyed when he called to go out. Hebrew 11: 8 Is God calling you to do something difficult? perhaps to take missions trip to help people in need? Or to witness to someone throwing her life away with bad decisions? Or to show kindness and love in a relationship that needs encouragement. If you aren`t sure you can do it ask God to help you. Then, trusting your loving heavenly Father, dive toward that goal. Could be the best play of your life. WE who love Jesus are walking by faith, Not seeing one step that`s a head, Not doubting one moment what our lot may be, But looking to Jesus instead. Take moment in your life and think what you have done to the lord, the way King Hezekiah did when he was told to put his house in order. God added him 15 more years. please view our web site http://friendsofjesusministries.blogspot.com/ God bless you. Pastor Mike

FRIENDS OF JESUS MINISTRIES: A wounded Marriage

FRIENDS OF JESUS MINISTRIES: A wounded MarriageMaggie Clark Johnson commented on Cornelius Bollier's photo: "Pastor Mike.. On the Radio this morning it was about a couple that had marriage problems and yes this was a christian station.. The woman said that she drove her husband away by being to demanding.. So she finally let GO.. GOD had to take over and work with the man how he the Lord knows his heart.. which he spoke (the man) saying it was fear.. He worked on the woman too.. She spoke of Galatians and when I got to work.. I opened my bible to find out what he the Lord wanted me to read.. it was then.. he answered my OWN prayer.. am I CRAZY?? He states in the scritpure the word Crazy.. and to follow with FAITH which is GOD"S SIGNED LAW.. this was before the 10 Commandments were even written.. it's GOD PROMISE TO ALL.. FOLLOW FAITH!! 1st and foremost though.. Except Jesus Christ into your heart.. That was the sign above ALL to show the world GOD"S LOVE!! It was JESUS FAITH that he followed his FATHER"S LAW.. and we are ALL SAVED because of this.. "

A wounded Marriage

Do you really get time to spend with your family? How many times do you do it per month? Most of marriage break because of couple not having time for communication and solving their differences. Have you ever remembered how you met your spouse before engagement and then later marriage? How many times did you communicate? Do you remember the time you were receiving your calls? Did you complain about it? How was her appearance? Did she or he looks ugly? Did some force you to marry her? Did you like her character or behaviour? Why did you accept him or her if you knew his or her character were not good? Now it is more than some months and you have started complaining about your spouse. I don`t know whether you saw that character in her before you said "Yes I do" Remember God hate divorce! Some people make wrong choices by rushing into marriage. It is my prayer for anyone desiring to marry to take time in prayers and good time before he marry. Before you start to complain about your spouse behaviour, please communicate with her and solve your issues. It is not wise the third part to know your problems before you settling the issues. Divorce is not the answer for your marriage. Some healing of your marriage can come just by you Communicating and remembering how you met the first and how you Pastor Mike http://friendsofjesusministries.blogspot.com/

Have you tried Jesus

Why are you crying?" what is the problem?. It is my husband''.said the woman. What has happened to your husband? I asked her as she continued crying. ''He says he does not want to see me in his life and I should go back to my family. He wants to marry another wife. Stop crying, my sister, you are not alone for God cares about your life. Lets try Jesus in this your marriage. For God says that He will never forsake you but always be with you. I will pray for you and see how we can reach your husband and talk. Most of marriages break because of no lack dialog. The moment you don`t talk in your family when there is an issue and see how you can solve it. This is a good time for the devil to destroy your happy and lovely family. In most cases you find that husband has not time with the wife all the same the wife does not have time to share with the husband even children. How do you solve issues in your marriage? how long does it take just to sit down and talk. Do you forgive your spouse in case there is a problem? Do you really love him or her?. Why do you want to marry another woman or man? Do you think by marrying another person will solve your problem?. This is impossible my friend. This is not the right way of solving your problems in marriage. You need to talk and solve the issues. God bless you. Pastor Mike

It took a hand of God to cousel them

Pastor Mike with his wife Matroba as they reconcile a couple. It took a hand of God in this matter!!. God bless this family as they live a happy and loving marriage.

Is this Love?

Pastor Mike Igunza July 1 at 6:12pm

"This was a very horrible night". as I remembered. We had just finished eating our dinar in our one bedroom house we had rented with my family. ." Help me..... help me, help me...!!. What is it? What is it? what is the matter?. Just as jumped from my bed running toward the scene to see what was happening to the poor woman. The husband was seriously beating . You will tell me mmmm you will tell me. I just wondered what the man was demanding to hear from his wife. mmmmm you tell me mmm you will tell me as he continued beating her..Stop! stop! I requested the man to stop fighting. That day the wife never slept at her place but went to her relatives. She stayed there for one week. Many people went to her demanding her to divorce her husband. I and my wife continued praying for this beloved family for a week so that God may intervene in their marriage. God revealed to us to plan a day for conciliation and that was on a Saturday. We went to a silent place just four of us. That was I plus my wife and the couple. It was not easy to bring this people together for the wife never wanted to see her husband. She had already carried all her belongings to her home. This was just a hand of God and His mercies. As they came together. The interview began, I requested my wife to pray. Jane, what was the problem?. She beat me.... I don`t want this man! I will never forgive him I am going to our home!" Joseph did you beat Jane? I asked Joseph. Yes,... ask her wife I did so. It took us three hours for this couple to come together again. The husband gave his life to Jesus. Pastor Mike

The Condition and Effects of Faith

The Condition and Effects of Faith

"Everything is possible for him who believes"( Mark 9:23) When we place our faith in God, the possibilities open to us are unlimited. Faith is the key that unlocks the resources of heaven for us. Jesus said, " If you have faith... nothing will be impossible for you" ( Matt. 17:20 ) However, faith can not be separated from the will of God. John qualifies this point to us. This is the confidence we have in approaching God., that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears " ( 1 John 5 : 14 ) here John states a condition for asking and receiving. Some promises in the Bible are conditional, that is, they require an appropriate response in us if we are to receive the things He has promised. We must remain in Christ and His word must remain in us, ( John 15:7) We must be obedient ( 1 peter 1:14) and We must live by Spirit ( Galatians 5:16) God bless you. Pastor Mike

AMAZING GRACE

I had just taken our Friends of Jesus Ministries Annual returns to the Government as require by the law of the State. The process took a lot of time for we had many many being served in the office. As you remember this was also one of our days of the Conference we are having here in Kenya. The CCM East Africa Leadership Summit held here in Nairobi Kenya. After going through of what I was doing. I went to the bus stop to aboard a bus of which never showed up on time. I lost a hope of attending and decided to go back home. I went to the other bus stop to look for our bus. "Pastor! pastor!" a man followed me by running where I was. I was shocked and afraid of what might have happened. Oh my God!. " I need your prayers" said the man. "Man have courage your faith has made you through" I told him. I will pray for you! What is this that you want God to do for you? I asked him. I have been struggling and struggling with my life and I have reached to appoint of losing hope in life. "I need a job!!" He said. A crowd of people kept looking at me for it was at the center of the city when everyone was there busy with their things. I prayed to God to give me courage as I prayed for the man. I told him to have faith in Jesus Christ and trust in Him for He is the answer for all what we need. God bless you Pastor Mike http://friendsofjesusministries.blogspot.com/

OUT OF NOTHING TO SOMETHING

Surely God is faithful!! These were narrated by Anna as she recall how God helped her to educate her three children who were in High School. She is a widow with three children and a member of our Friends of Jesus Church "You can`t trust a person but God" said Anna . Anna live in Kibera one of the heavily populated slums in Kenya and the largest in Africa. Most people who live in this slum are poor and unemployed. Those working earn a salary less than a dollar a day, just as what Anna earn as a housemaid, this has made their lives to be hard and only looking up as they recall how God rescued the Israelites by sending Moses to deliver them from the hand of Pharaoh. "I know one day God will hear our cry'' this is what you can hear from this slum people murmuring . The live in the slum will only depend on one forgetting his or her needs and only focusing his eyes on things above the sky like manna that I sraelites ate . Sometimes there is no food, education, medical, clothes, shelter and hope. What do you do? As a church in the slum what we could do was to pray, pray and pray. God to do something to help these children to be in school. Some one had promised to help these children to get back to school, but it was invain. He never showed up but disappeared. Knowing that it was not his budden to help. How many times have we seen such kind of people? But can God forget us or run a way from us? We were so happy because people gave whatever small they had to educate these children. Two of them have finished their High school and performed so well. We are trusting God to provide fees for their colleges. One is still in school and we trust God to continue touching people to help. I know it is hard just someone to give but through the grace of our Lord God we trust God will help. What man can not do God do!! God bless you. Anna

BAPTISM IN A RURAL RIVER

RURAL MISSIONS

RURAL MISSIONS

RURAL MISSIONS ACTS 1:8 " But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witness to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth." As we stood along the bank of the river of which had gone to baptise the the new convert, I kept asking the direction of the flow of the river. Some said it is from this side while others argued the other direction. We had just travel to the remote areas of the village for our missions. The land was flat for it was near to the shore of Lake Victoria which is the largest Lake in Africa. There are no roads to the village, no clean water, no electricity, It sometimes forced us to walk long distance. The climate was hot and the sun shining direct on us, the soil was clay and some area muddy and bushy. The people in the village were so welcoming and ready to listen to the gospel, no matter how poor they looked like.Some children had no clothes and bear footed which was also noticed to some of the women who were around listening the word of God. I saw some going to fetch water in the river carrying the bucket on their heads, other girls fetching firewood from the bush, and some boys taking their cattle to drink water on the same river. We were to wait for the cattle to finish drinking the water so that we could also use for the baptism for the new converts. Before, I feared the snakes in that area for the place were to use for baptism was bushy. We were to exchange our clothes and use the proper one for baptising. The right place was to go to the bush as a private place for putting the other clothes. I was to take a step of faith, hoping for good but not for worse, as I remembered in Mark 16: 15 - 18. " Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptised will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned . ' And these signs will follow those who believe: I my name they will cast out demons, they speak with the new tongues, they will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them, they lay hands on the sick and they will recover" I got encourage from these verses. We had a good number of the new convert who accepted Jesus Christ in their lives. WE never feared baptising the new converts in the river for we remembered what happened to the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8: 35 - 38 " Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this scripture, preached Jesus to him. Now as they went down the road they came to some water. And the eunuch said, " See here is water, what hinders me from being baptised. Then Philip said, " If you believe with all your heart you may. And he answered and said. " I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God . We had to baptise the new converts no matter how the place looked like, what was important was to receive Jesus and be baptised. This was a great joy to us as we saw brothers and sisters giving their lives to Jesus. It was a remarkable moment in my life and ministry for the people were hungry of the word of God and the all heartedly received it. AMEN. There many challenges in rural missions but I like them for I remember in Philippians 2: 6 - 8 Jesus humbled Himself no matter of His position as being equal to God and died a shameful death Jesus because of us. Think about that!! AS we went for our missions, we had to walk long distance without water and food. But we thank God for the positive result we achieved. My fellow Christians, pray for our missions here in Africa for reaching unreached. Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 6: 19 - 21. " Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moths nor rust destroys and where thieves break in and steal. - But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. " For where your treasure is there your heart will be also. As a matter of fact, where have you invested your treasurer? Have you ever thought of investing in the kingdom f God where your heart will be? Think about your life! Pastor Mike

LIFE IN THE VILLAGE

FRIENDS OF JESUS MINISTRIES Friends of of Jesus Ministries was started in the year 2005 by Pastor Mike here in Kenya. I got save in the year 1990 from the crusade as I heard the message from the preacher Roman 3:23. The lord God called me in the ministry I was still a teacher. I am married to a wife by the name Matroba and we have four children. Two boys and two girls who are all in school. I thank God for that. LIVE IN THE VILLAGE Mukuyu village is one of the villages found in Migori District, Nyanza province Kenya where we have the Shiners Children`s Center for education. The center was started in the year 2008 by Pastor Mike. Most people living in this region are poor and live below a dollar a day. It is a region without industries where people can be employed and earn a living. The people depend on small scale farming using traditional way of farming. They can not afford to buy fertilize for their crops. The most crop grown here is maize, cassava and beans for food. The cash crop grown here is sugar and Tobacco which is not enough to to support a family because of poor market and a lot of frustration farmers get from the factories which far a way from the farmers. Some areas has no proper roads where farmers can transport their crops. The area has no medical services near to them, it takes one to walk 10KM to reach to a hospital. Many women have lost their lives when delivering or giving birth because they can not afford to go to a hospital and also it is very far from them. Last year we rescued a women who had a growth in her womb by taking her to a hospital in one of the cities in the Country. We thank God as we see her playing very joyful with her baby. This women was in this state for more than seven years, and according to the Doctor it indicated that she could not servive in giving birth. We have taken two of her children in our school and their getting their education there plus food. One of another problem in the village is because of the malaria, which has killed many children below the age of 5 years and also adult. This is caused by a lot of the mosquitoes in the region and also there is no clean water for the people to drink, cholera out break is another disease which has killed many people. Mukuyu village has not been lacy from this dreaded disease the HIV / Aids which has killed many families living behind orphans and vulnerable children. One of the major cause of this disease is wife inheritance and poverty. Wife inheritance is caused by a belief which says that, ''the person who died, his sickness might have been caused by witchcrafts'' And for that reason many children don`t go school simply because there is no one to care for them. No one to buy uniform for them, books, shoes, and to provide food. Shiners Children Center is a center which cater for this orphans and vulnerable children in the area. Activities we do. - Give education, Nursery school - Provide feeding - Spiritual nurturing - Give medical - Provide shelter for the orphans - do HIV/ Aids awareness and hygiene to the community. VILLAGE PHOTOS Photo I. Photo number one indicate the life in the village where Shiners Children are situated about four of the these children are orphans. THe above house I have given to the children to sleep there as a home for them. Photo 2. In photo 2. there you can see our school with the children in photo 'A' taking porridge during the break and the below one children learning how to read and write. Photo 3 In photo three you can see the live in the village . Most people can not afford to educate their children and even give them a good shelter. They have lost their hope in live. They need our help even from well wishers and live a happy life. The women carry a baby is the one whom we rescued her from death as she wanted to deliver. She has a handsome girl by the name Jenae as she recalls what God did to her by saving her life from death. Photo 4 Photo 4 shows Felisters and her family of seven. Her husband is jobless, they live just by the grace of of God. Our center has taken two of her children for education. It has been a problem especially when raining which affect the young one from the down pour. Who knows, about what might in future? God have mercy! I think that is enough for to day. May God bless you. Pastor Mike

MAKING A CHOISE

HOW DO YOU MAKE CHOSE IN YOUR LIFE? LUKE 23: 39 - 43 If you were to stand between crossroad which direction would you choose to go? LUKE 23 : 39 - 43 One of the criminals on the cross began to shout insult at Jesus. "Aren`t you the Christ? Then save yourself and us" But the other criminal stopped him and said "You should fear God! You are getting the same punishment he is. We are punished justly, getting what we deserve for what we did. But this man has done nothing wrong Then he said " Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom. Jesus said to him " I tell you the truth, to day you will be with me in paradise" - There are times when God send thunder to stir us. Times when God send blessing to us , but time when God send nothing but silence as He honour us with freedom to choose where we will spend eternity. In some areas of life we don`t have choose. Like your gender, your children, the race, tribe, whether tall or short. This belongs to God Himself. - Sometimes our lack of choose anger us so much . You complain why you were born in a poor family, why you were born in Europe, Africa,or America. When God gave Adam and Eve a free choose or will, did they chose eternity or death? You complain God having made you the way you are. The color of your hair, your structure, your nose, your mouth,or eyes. How about God choosing to give you eternal life through His Only begottern Son. Is it not fair? Think about the thief on the cross the one who did not repent. Though we know little about him. But what we know was that he made bad mistakes in his life. He chose the wrong crowd, the wrong morals, the wrong behaviour. He never recognized that he had a saviour. How many times do we fail to recognize Jesus in our lives? - But would you consider his life a waste? Is he spending eternity reaping the fruit of all the bad choises he made? You have made some bad choises in life, haven`t you? You have chosen the wrong friends, maybe the wrong carer, even the wrong spouse, and a wrong decision. You will say I wish I knew i would have choise eternal life! How could two brothers be born of the same mother, grow up together or the same home, one choose life and the other chose death? Why did the two men one chose to mock Jesus and the other chose to pray for him? And when he prayed, Jesus loved him and save him. This happens to us as we live here on the earth. Brother! choose Jesus Christ as Lord and saviour. Would you take time and prayed Jesus Christ to come into your life? As we remember what He did for us on the cross. Take time and think about your life, what choises have you made in life. Is it for eternal or death. The choise is yours!!! Pastor Mike

MAKING A CHOISE

TESTIMONIIES

EVANGELISM IN THE SLUMS

This was one of the most important event which was done by our churches in Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is one of the populated slums in Africa.This brings us to a point of asking ourselves about many question that we need to answer ourselves. How can we reach our people for Christ if we can not go to them. But how can we go to them if we are not send?. Brothers and Sisters, this is the right time we need to go and preach to unreached as commanded by Jesus Christ Himself.`` ....Go ye and make disciples.. Is there any time you have taken just to minister the word of God to your friend who is dying in sin without Jesus?. How do you use your resources that God has given to you?. How many widows have you just helped,orphans and vulnerable children. How do you spend your money? How have you been committed just in your time spreading the Gospel of Christ. It is believed that in North Africa we had many Christian Churches before the spread of Islam. But due to ignorance of some of the early churches with their love of their money and riches many African Christian had to turn into Muslim. This is very sad. All Christian need to wake up and stop this matter of saying every time we shall pray, we shall pray and not doing something. Remember the Bible says `faith without action is dead. How can your brother be without food and you keep on saying we shall pray brother? Christians must wake up and use their resources to reach the world with the word of God. Instead of saying we shall pray.Our praying should be with doing something!!! Our mission has organized reaching to the slums and rural villages with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We do this by doing door to door, mass procession, and crusades. Please join us in spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ in Africa and other parts of the world. You can do this by writing to us if you want us to include you in our team of this year programs. Please don`t hasted to miss this chance, we need you in our mission. God bless you. Pastor Mike

RISE AND SHINE CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION

This was a very happy moment for the children from our Homes and Sunday school who celebrated Christmas the year 2009.Children attended the part very early in the morning on 19th Dec 2009. especially the sunday school who carried their children on their back as they sang coming to church. Memory verse were recited with Christ carols. As they came, they founded things well arranged, music and concert being played by the older youth, Pastor MIke waiting for them with a happy smiling. ``Welome children`` God loves and cares you!! and He has a wonderful plan for you! We thank so much for those people who supported us in this occasion making the function succeed. Rise and Shine Children center has children over twenty in number who are orphans and vulnerable here in Kenya. It is base here in Nairobi and in rural village in Migori District Nyanza Province. The center offers shelter for the orphans and vulnerable children. We have also a school for baby class Nursery and Pre Unity. We intend to have a big school in future for all children as we get those people who will be ready to support us. God bless you Pastor Mike