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Spirit of Elijah Ministries.....

 ......is proud to be able to be in fellowship and partnership with
 'Light Hosanna Ministries' in Kenya.

This is a dynamic and young fellowship led by a remarkable young man living in an area strongly influenced by the Mormon Church. They have many needs (see below) but great faith.....


Light Hosanna Ministries



If you wish to help Light Hosanna in any way please contact us.

To donate to their physical needs use the button below,
 and state that the contribution is for Kenya.

Many thanks.
 
And remember...........

 

"It is always the right time to do the right thing"

Martin Luther King Jr


 



2008 wish List: A cow that fits our climate will cost Kshs 30,000 (£255) there are more expensive ones but they cannot fit our climate where we stay. We need TWO to give the orphans a glass of milk a day.

 

Status:
 
04/11/08: Update on situation:
 
With money donated by yourseves and Spirit of Elijah Ministries, Mark has possession of a cow, and goat (Pictures to the right ->).
 
What can I say but Thank You for all your help so far.
 
Total sent so far: £450
 
We plan to send some more funds soon, as their lives are quickly transformed by what we would consider small amounts of money.
 
Once again I thank all of you who have given - may the Lord bless you and be your supply in all things.
 
John Wilson
 
01/04/09: Update on situation
 
Further gift of £300 sent to help with food and general needs in this time of financial difficulty. See Mark's response below

 

 

 


 

My Testimony by Mark Okenda

Let me share with you my testimony. It is indeed a very long testimony but allow me to share it with you briefly. Before I was delivered to the truth I used to be a MORMON WORSHIPER where I stayed for 2 years and I was used to the Mormon books and literature where we used to worship the prophecy of a man known as Joseph Smith.

This is where I started thinking that, "how can America be heaven and it is not mentioned in the Bible but only in the book of Mormon", which is written by people claiming to be Christians but in the real sense are blinded by the god of this world and need salvation. When I felt a lot of burden in my heart about America being heaven, I decided to go out to find Biblical truth; I had to visit a pastor friend of mine who lived a very long distance a way from my home. When I reached there I had to ask him a lot of questions and when he realized I was in the church of the Mormon, he looked very sad He told me that it is a satanic sects and anybody who fellowships with that sect unless he repents and come to the true God, then there is no way for him a part from going to hell. This friend of mine led me through some Biblical truths about the real creator of heaven and earth, the one and only God and after much discussion he told me to repent and come to the real faith of the Bible. I did it immediately in his house where he burnt the Book of the Mormon with which I went with in his home. He then warned me that if I go back to that church after confessing to Jesus Christ, great bad things could follow me in my life. He then gave me a small New Testament Bible and told me to go back and tell this truth to other people who were perishing in this sect without hope and knowledge.

I reached home with a
 completely a new heart and a desire to tell the truth to other people. I started in my own home area with the New Testament Bible with the news that salvation is only found in the name of Jesus the son of the living God. Because the Mormon Church gives people a lot of money so that they join them my mission was not easy, but I was determined to preach the truth. I went unto much fervent prayers for the salvation of the souls and in the second week I did the same knocking door after door denouncing Mormonism. Blessed be the Lord who hears prayers, the word went forth in power and in spirit and it started impacting the lives of some people.

In the second week, the Lord delivered seven people in a week. The third week came and I did the same thing, and in this third week I saw a miracle -  fifteen people were delivered from the Mormon sect. Since the number of saved people came big I had to invite them to my home and we started a house fellowship (right now we are having 118) for fifty eight people who have been delivered. Right now, because the number of people is increasing we meet every Sunday under trees to praise and worship God. Please share with us this need so that the Lord may provide a roof for the delivered sheep who were lost but found. Another need brethren - surprisingly we share only one New Testament Bible, because many of the Christians we have were in the church of Mormon and given the Book of Mormon which is not a Bible. Please if you can pray with us kindly and graciously send us some bibles this will be of a wonderful help to us.

Our young ministry is located at Gucha District in Kenya. We are standing on the promises and we know he is faithful, and true.  Pray for the DESTITUTE and ORPHAN children in our congregation. Thank you for your prayers which I believe will bear much fruit, and the devil will be ashamed.

Brother Mark Orwell Okenda and Damaris
 
 
 
 
In more 'prosperous' times.

 

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This is the substance of a communication with our friends about their current situation.

 

October 2008

 

Dear servants of  God  John and Janette,

 

Greetings and thank you so much for your very wonderful and inspiring letter. We are happy to be brought back to you once again and we have learnt that our heavenly Father has a plan and programme for us and the ministries He has called and ordained us to serve.

 

Yes indeed i am the very Pastor of Light Hosanna  Church in  Ogembo, Gucha kenya. It was a surprise too to receive your letter a blessing to hear from you.

 

We are an independent ministry with a total of  (at the moment) 200 members  and we are divided into two congregations, one is Light and the other other one is Hosanna together  they are Light Hosanna Church. I am the Pastor of the church, i am married to Sister Damaris Moraa and the Lord has blessed us with two children a boy and a girl, Tossell and Vane  4 and 6 years respectively. My wife helps me wonderfully with the ministry and the orphans whom we are taking care of. The situation we are in right now is that spiritually the Lord is indeed moving and blessing the work because we are seeing souls saved, the sick healed, the heart broken being given hope and the church is multiplying as we keep our Evangelism and outreach efforts.

 

Physically we are struggling with the inflation in our country, because our economy was adversely affected following the post elections violence which gripped our country last year where more than 5,000 people lost their lives, 300,000 families were displaced, food farms and stores were destroyed, churches were torched and, about 1,500 people were burnt alive in churches. Women and young girls were assaulted sexually, property was looted, and since then there has been much hunger in Kenya because the farmers on whom the country depended for food were either displaced or killed in the violence. Prices of food have been going up each day and as i am writing to you most families are starving especially the widows, the orphans, and the less fortunate in community.

 

A tin of corn now costs Kshs 100 up from Kshs 35, a tin of rice costs Kshs 150 up from kshs 80, a kilo of sugar costs Kshs 120 up from kshs 60, a tin of beans costs Kshs 200 up from Kshs 100, a tin of cokking oil costs kshs 186 up from Kshs 105. The prices of fuel and Kerosene have also gone up terribly and most people walk by foot to their various places of work or some have removed their vehicles from the roads because they can no longer afford fuel. The situation with the orphans here and the widows with us is indeed hopeless, there is much hunger and with a lot of money you only buy a handful of stuff.

 

Our needs right now are indeed pressing and demanding. First and foremost we need food for the orphans here, the widows whose husbands were killed in elections clashes and were left without anything and even widowers whose wives were killed and were left homeless. We need a home for the orphans for the one we have is temporal and not up to standard for people to stay in; we need Bibles for the church both in English and in our own Dialect{ EKEGUSII} for the brethren who do not read or understand English; we need a farm to hire where we can be growing our own food because buying is very expensive; we need at least two cows for the children to get milk.

 

Yes we know that we are the body of Christ, sons and daughters of the same Father and we need each other to edify each other and to care and pray for each other.

 

May the Lord do unto you the same way you have prayed for us and may He guard you and guide in you as you serve Him. may He grant all the desires of your hearts so that you may be a blessing to His body. The good work He has started among us he will not leave it. May you too be kept from any schemes of the evil one.

 

We bless you and we hope to hear from you. May all His best be yours.

 

Hope to hear from you soon.

 

In His love and Grace,

 

Pastor Mark.

 

 

 


 

November 2008

 

Greetings  Precious brother in the Lord  Wilson and the family of faith,
 
 May the Spirit of our living and wonderful Lord fill you throughout 2008 and beyond, producing peace that passes human understanding, greater love for God and man, zeal to accomplish His will, and abundant happiness deep within you!

 
May the Lord, the only true God, the Eternal One who is the source of existence, reality and life, bless you, doing good things for you, bringing good things into your live and the life of those you love; may He keep, protect, guard and watch over you!

May the Lord, the One who was, who is and who is to come, make His face shine on you like the face of the sun shines on the Earth, bringing warmth and heat and light, making life grow and flourish, making sight possible; may He be gracious to you, gracing you with His unmerited favor, doing lots of good things to you and for you that you don't deserve!

May the Lord, the everlasting Creator of all things, lift up His face on you with recognition and with approval, like a good and generous man lifts up his face when he sees a beloved family member, or a dear friend that he is pleased with, and wants to do something nice for them; and may He give you  peace, restoring wholeness to you, adding well-being and integrity to your life, and supplying you with everything that you need for life and godliness in this world and eternal life in the World-To-Come!
 
Brother we do not know how we shall thank you enough for what our compassionate and loving God has done through you, we know for sure that you have your own needs but you have put them aside and attended to ours, we shed tears of joy, praise and thanks giving to the Lord brother when we received your loving, cheerful, willing gracious gift , we never believed our eyes when we read the words, that the wonderful gift had been wired, we thought it was just the normal e-mail but opening inside it was more than we thought and imagined, it was more than nobody would say, it was a brotherly gift, our hearts were really overjoyed and our souls indeed overwhelmed. Please on behalf of my family and the christian fraternity here we send you our WHOLE HEATED THANKS AND APPRECIATIONS and wish you all the best and plead with the Lord to enlarge you curtains, multiply your resources and that your Morsel may not cease with OIL. You have wonderfully prevented birds from building nests on our heads brother, you have gone unexpected miles for us, we bless you. You have have not sent money dear brother, you have sacrificially, cheerfully, willingly poured out your heart and sent it to us, we receive it in the name of the Lord, thank you beloved brother, we shall see something on table tonight and know that spiritually we shall place your portion on the table and you eat with us.
 
Our prayer and desire is that the Lord may cement and consolidate our love and friendship further for the glory of His name.We beseech you by the mercies of Christ to faint not in well doing knowing that in due time you shall reap and eat the wonderful fruits of the trees you have planted.
 
I really do not know how much i will write to express our joy and confidence in you, i have no better language brother and enough words to share with you but in simple terms know that you PULLED US OUT OF THE CRUEL JAWS OF "HURRICANE" HUNGER!
 
Let us believe together that this is only but the Genesis of wonderful things the Lord is preparing for us. We are praying for you and we wish you all the best.Please i believe you received the pictures of the cow we bought and we are indeed happy to see her before us now, when the cow arrived at home one of the children who loves goats more than cows cried and asked that we buy him a goat, we did it and hope you can see him happy with his goat, he says thanks. From the remaining balance we were more than blessed to have some food and we believe it was the Lord's apointed time to send us relief for the children and the family.
 
We were very much encouraged to hear that Jan is catching up with the leading of the Lord and this has always been our humble prayers and desire. Our fervent andn faithful prayers are for her, how is she doing now right now please we would love to know so that we may know how far we go with prayers.
 
God is very wonderful and we give all the praises and thanks to Him, we are motivated to hear that your dear son Darren has been successfuly done Tonsilectomy and that he is doing wonderful, glory to God for He is the Great Physician.
 
We are devotedly praying for your daughter that the Lord may confict and capture her heart so that she may turn to Him and repent of her sinful ways, it is the devil brother who is fighting those who are anchored to the Lord but we know that he is already defeated and all his agents. Let us also know about the literature you said you would send us because we need them so that we may eat more from the word of the Lord for spritual growth.
 
Keep praying for us and we hope that soon we shall sit together here in Kenya, walk together, sing together, preach together when the Lord soon opens an opportunity for you to come over. Needs are so great but we serve A GREATER GOD than our needs!
 
May JEHOVAH JIREH be all that you need our dear brother.
 
Greetings and best wishes from my family and the children.
 
Hope to hear from you soon.
 
Lots of love, prayers and best wishes.
 
Your brother of brothers,least of the least and a sinner saved by grace,
 
Pastor Mark.

 

 


 

April 2009

 

Dear precious Brother in the Lord Wilson,

Greetings of much love, peace and grace from God the Father and our Lord Christ Jesus.

We hope all is fine with you and your family.

I am sorry to have used the contact form to write you because right now Yahoo has a problem and i was unable to access my account, sorry for the inconvenience please!

We are doing great in the Lord and we are blessedly and happily writing to let you know the good and encouraging news of the arrival of the funds in the bank, we are very thankful and appreciative of your sacrificial and willing efforts which have made a success and a blessing for us to have the funds with us now.

We plead with the Lord that He may continue to use you as His chosen vessels and others whom He Himself will raise and apoint to do His work here in Kenya.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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