Hello and good evening everyone. My name is Baraka and together with family we pastor the church in Kisumu Kenya. We are always grateful to God for using IMOCE to bless the people of this slum community by partnering and supporting us in building the church. May God continue blessing all of you.
I will share on what we have been up to in the past week in ministry and in church too.

I would like to say a huge thank you to IMOCE for enabling us to reach out to even more people through our church feeding program. Through IMOCE, 50 more individuals have been added into the number of those who receive food daily from the project. We are now able to feed about 120 people in total.
We are thankful because through this support and project more people have been influenced by the church in many ways. This has also been an avenue through which we can share the Gospel Jesus to people around. We are sure that despite the challenges these people go through, on the least we know they will not go to bed hungry. Children, adults, mane and women, grandfather and grandmothers have been reached through this project. We are happy and may God bless all who partner with us in this noble course.

In the last few days; the rains have returned again in this part of the country. Some of the people who worship with us and live around the church have equally been affected by floods. During this period, I get an opportunity to visit and check how our people are doing in these areas so as to pray with them and ensure that they are safe. Most of them have their houses filled with water and sometimes there is only much we can do. Because of the water there is frequent spread of disease and bad environmental hygiene. We trust Hod for the lives of these people and also desire that lasting solutions will be found to this perennial problem.

I also got an opportunity to visit our people who live in the slums around the church. To encourage them to; pray with them and bless them too. It is amazing to always meet happy faces and joyful hearts despite the tough and hard situations that surround them and where they stay. God is great and we continue praying for people to live in faith and in hope in Christ.

A couple of our people also consulted with me over spiritual and life matters over this week. I had an opportunity to counsel, encourage and pray for them. One of the people I had a conversation with gave a testimony of the breakthroughs he had after our initial meeting with him during which we prayed about his situation. God is great! Most of the people around us go through various issues of life and most of the times they need counseling; spiritual uplifting and prayer.
God is still working and giving deliverance.

We have had amazing and spirit filled services over the Easter holidays to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ and to reflect on what he did for us on the cross.
We continue in faith to speak and preach God’s word with boldness and teach about the gospel of Christ and the promise of eternal life in Christ Jesus.
God is continuing to build his church and we have witnessed the transformation that the church has brought into the lives of the people in the community from children to grandparents. Our ministries have been avenues of blessing to the different groups of people that they serve. God is really Good to us.

Once again I say thank you to IMOCE and all the people who Hod is using to bless us, build the church and support the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus in different ways. May God show his favor over you and may you be blessed as you continue blessing others.