A YOUNG BOY'S FAITH

For the past several years Ruth and I have been planting churches in Kenya, East Africa on the Ugandan border.  We have four healthy, growing churches and are in the process of purchasing the land for the fifth.  Since the land plus a building runs less than $4000.00 US were are able to finance them without much help.

We have been praying for others to come along side and we see evidence of that happening lately.

The following story gives us a lot of encouragement.

A youth pastor from a church near us went to Tanzania about 10 years ago on a mission trip and has shared his pictures and story with his family over the years.  A couple of weeks ago his four year old son came to him and told him, "Dad, I want to start a church in Africa."  His Dad told the boy to get a jar and start putting money into the jar to save for a church thinking that probably would put an end to his dream. But, the boy has been praying every night for his church in Africa and has been quite emphatic about this church.

The father decided to make a video and put it on You-tube. 

Someone sent the boy $100.00. 

A week or so ago the church had a conference and they had a special speaker fly in.  The youth pastor had to go to the airport and pick him up and the young boy wanted to ride along.  On the way home the young boy told the guest speaker of his dream to build a church in Africa.

During the conference the guest speaker asked the boy if he would address the audience with his vision.  The guest speaker told the boy that the Lord had spoken to him after the boy told his story in the car and told him to give him $1000.00 toward this church.

They had a table in the auditorium with a flag of Africa on it.  By the end of the meeting there was $3500.00 in cash on that table.

Since then another $500.00 has come in for his church.

The youth pastor had no idea of how to implement this dream until someone told him about Ruth and I and our African project.  Hopefully, we will soon have an African church that is the fulfillment of a four year old boy’s dream.

The father wants this church planting project to be a testimony to show people what God can do through the faith of a four year old boy.