For those of you who live in the Tri-Cities area of East Tennessee, be sure to tune in to WCYB television tonight, Thursday, March 27th, at 6 p.m.  AGM will be featured on the program, Faith Focus with Jim Conrad.  The program will tell about AGM and the project to send the container to Kenya.

During the recent political unrest in Kenya Africa, we were faced with the loss of two pastors’ lives as well as several church members who were also killed, many churches vandalized, equipment and supplies stolen or destroyed, homes destroyed, etc. Even though agreements have now been made among the governmental leaders, the country is left in shock and many people in great need.

One of our Bishops there had a school for 300 homeless children. It was so damaged that it left the Bishop with nothing to start over with, plus all of the equipment and teaching materials were stolen.

Another one of our Pastors was caring for 60 elderly people that have AIDS. Their facilities were destroyed, leaving everyone homeless and sleeping on the ground.

AGM has tried to help in every way we know how. Our current effort is to send a 40 foot container loaded with medical supplies, teaching materials, blankets, clothing, equipment for schools and children, first aid items, and much more to help these people begin again. Just to send the container costs $8,000.

As you can see, much is needed, whether it’s through direct monetary gifts or items to fill the container. We urge everyone who can to get involved and help at whatever level they can.

There were 50 new Pastors licensed and/or ordained into the Ministry. Many of these had been in training for up to two years. We ordained 10 to be Bishops.

We’re not sure how many received salvation, but there were several, and many miracles of healing were noted. We water baptized 27 in the river. We dedicated the Medical Center and the Children’s Center that we helped to build last year. We dedicated the new church that we’re in the process of building. $3,400 is needed at this time for the sheets of tin for the roof. This church started July 1, 2007. There were 627 members in attendance when we dedicated it on Sunday, December 2, 2007.

We held a Leadership Conference in Eldoret with great results. We did a Bishop/Pastor Luncheon and a Bishop/Pastor Breakfast for just leaders that was tremendous. We were blessed to do the Commencement Service for a Bible School that was graduating their two-year students to go into teaching or pastoral work. We met with key Bishops on an individual basis. A member of Parliament and key government leaders came and met with us for over four hours.

We had a special time of meeting with key Board Members of the Kenya Center for World Evangelism. A special time of signing of partnership documents was held with many Bishops and Pastors in attendance as Agape Global Missions and the Kenya Center for World Evangelism entered into partnership together. KCWE will be the training arm for leaders and ministries for AGM, while AGM will continue to be a church planting organization, and mentoring Ministry for Bishops and Pastors.

We met with the top leaders from the Fig Ministries Organization that represents Arch Bishop Brown here in the USA.

With all of this, we still took the time to work with key Bishops to develop a strategy for reaching their areas for the Kingdom, and to begin pulling together an agenda for evangelism, church planting, ministerial training for leaders, and development of plans to reach children and orphans in key areas of the country.

This is just a short overview of some of the things that were started and/or accomplished on this mission trip.