Please note the following upcoming classes:  

School of Prayer, a 10 week course will be held every Friday from 5.30 - 7 pm, beginning from February 13. The class will be facilitated by Pst Simon Mbevi of Mavuno Church. Venue and cost will be communicated by next week.

Parenting class, a 10 week course will be held every Saturday at 7 - 9 am beginning Saturday February 14th,  facilitated by Mbithe and Anzaya Akatsa. The venue and cost will be confirmed by next week. This class is a prerequisite for all parents who wish to dedicate their children to the Lord at Nairobi Chapel, but is also open to those who do not need to. Please invite other  parents.

Premarital Counseling Class (PMCC), a 10 week course for those who intend to get married this year, will be every Sunday, 3 - 5pm starting Sunday Feb 1st, at Paresia Center. It will be coordinated by Pst Kabibi. List your name up at the info desk TODAY if you will be attending. Limited spaces only.

Crossroads , a year-long class that culminates in Ropes camp at the end of the year. It is for 13 and 14 years olds who will in this year transition from childhood into MANHOOD & WOMANHOOD. If your child is in this category,  please register them by January 28.

Prayer Rally: Welcome this very special prayer gathering of all the Nairobi Chapel sister churches on January 25th, 3-6pm at the MAVUNO DOME at the Belleview Drive-In Cinema Grounds on Mombasa Road. This prayer event will be held quarterly this year.

Adiya Ladies: Our Monthly Ladies Fellowship is coming up this Saturday January 17th. We are so excited to have one of our favorite guest speakers Pastor Esther Obasi-Ike minister to us. January theme is “Renewal”. New fellowship time is 9 - 11 am. Admission is free. Please bring a friend. To confirm attendance, kindly send an SMS to Ciru on 0712763591 or sign up at the Adiya table at the back

Prayer

Please Pray With Me
In 2008, you the members asked that I travel less and be more present here at home . . . so I've said no to several speaking engagements - to Spain, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand; but still had to accept 4 strategic opportunities.

In March I will be at Mariners Church, Los-Angeles. This is a large congregation with keen interest in ministry partnerships in Kenya, and have invited us into a ministry relationship. My visit in March will be in preparation for a state-wide missions consultation in 2010. I will however preach at their Sunday service on 8th March. Mariners have also offered to finance a writer to work with me and help put together a book on missions.

In July Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago has asked that I address a consultation of key mission leaders on Short Term Missions. They desire that I represent a Global South perspective. TEDS offered to give me 2 weeks accommodation and access to their extensive library for the writing of the book on missions.

In December URBANA, the big missions conference I addressed in 2006, has invited me back as a plenary speaker this year. This is very strategic as the conference gathers over 20,000 university students/ potential missionaries who subsequently scatter to all parts of the globe to serve the Lord. To have an African or Global South voice at the conference to shape their thinking is vitally important.

Please pray with me about these ministry engagements, and ask that the Lord empower me to speak well on behalf of the African Church.                

Pastor Oscar Muriu