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19 April 2008
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19 April 2008
READY, STEADY
On 21 March 2008, Edwine Omaya, who leads the Campus Ministry in Nairobi, got a resounding “yes” from his co-leader, Nellie Macharia, when he asked her to be his special friend (girlfriend).
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19 April 2008
WHAT A BEGINNING - From Nairobi’s East Ministries
The East region of the Nairobi church ended the year 2007 with a bang by holding a strategic planning event for 2008. Among the important resolutions adopted in the document was the need for the church to get help in understanding the pivotal role of leadership at Bible Talk level. The roles, functions and expectations were comprehensively articulated giving way to the need to revitalize the status and honour due to this level of leadership.
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11 April 2008
RAYOLAS RELOCATE
Rayola and Georgeanne Osanya-Nyynéque, long-time members of the Nairobi church, plan to relocate soon to USA from Kenya.
Baptized in September 1989, Georgeanne abandoned her long-held dream to acquire a PhD in 1992 in order to enter the full-time ministry.
Rayola was a member of the team that planted the Nairobi church.
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9 March 2008
FRIENDS IN NEED
Money from American Disciples Assisted Kenyan Victims of Violence

Disciples from across America and South Africa responded to the gory violence that shook Kenya in December, January and February and the desperate needs it created among the disciples.
They supplemented the donations that had been made by Kenyan disciples and sent almost $16,000 that has been used to acquire relief food, buy school uniforms and help disciples re-start their small-scale businesses in 5 Kenyan towns.
Kenya and is helping disciples in 5 towns. These disciples in America and South Africa have truly been friends in need.
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22 January 2008
BLOOD DONATION TO HEAL A NATION
Nairobi Disciples Donate Blood To Assist Victims Of Violence
The town of Eldoret has been one of the worst hit by violence that continues to rear its ugly head around Kenya even as thousands already affected by an outpouring of killing, revenge and bloodletting nurse emotional, psychological and physical wounds.
In response to this, members of the Nairobi church turned out in good numbers to donate blood on Sunday 20 January. HOPE worldwide Kenya, together with the National Blood Transfusion Service, provided the blood collection service. Frida explains, "The blood collected today will be flown to Eldoret."
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22 January 2008
FACING DESTRUCTION, ESCAPING DEATH
Disciples Among Victims Of Post-Election Violence In Kenya
 Following the announcement of official results of the presidential election in Kenya last month, the country has descended into bloodletting that has seen over 600 people killed, thousands injured. Over 300, 000 people have been displaced as their homes, farms and property have been looted, taken over or torched. One of the worst hit areas has been the town and environs of Eldoret, where there is a church of 160 disciples. The disciples have not been spared in this sad, sadistic and sorry series of events. Here are a few accounts.
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12 January 2008
PRAYERS FOR PEACE
First Service of 2008 Amid Bloody Violence in Nairobi
Sunday 6 January 2008 was the first time in 2 weeks that disciples in Nairobi were able to gather together for worship service. Earlier, many were away for Christmas holidays and then the country was rocked by bloody and gory violence in the wake of announcement of the result of the presidential election. The violence gained ferocity as it quickly turned into ethnic war.
And so Sunday 6 January was a day to pray for peace.
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12 January 2008
FORCED TO FLEE
Escaping Violence in Eldoret
 Daniel and Maureen Kung’u are a married couple in the church in Eldoret in Kenya, 356 kms from the capital city, Nairobi. On the 8th of January they fled Eldoret to seek the safe haven of Nairobi.
In upheaval that has followed the announcement of results from the presidential election on 30 December 2007, sections of Eldoret have been up in flames. Particular ethnic communities have been at war against each other. Houses and businesses have been burned, families have been forced into exile and people have been injured and killed. One morning in an Eldoret neighborhood, residents woke up to the sight of heads on sticks, the decapitated torsos having been dumped elsewhere.
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