Acts 29

These are the days that have not been added to the written portion of the book of Acts. And
we spent the past week experiencing them in a powerful, life-changing way. We were in
Nakuru, Kenya assisting in a city-wide crusade that was held in the poorest part of the city. It
would take far more space than I have here to tell you everything so this is just some
highlights. I pray it makes you more sensitive to the abundance you have to give.
Two plane flights and a 3-hour drive brought us to Nakuru, the third largest city in Kenya.
The only white people we saw were part of this team of 20+; some were pastors and the rest
of us were teenagers and up to this 81-year-old lady (and what could they expect from her).
Each day started with breakfast at 7, a team meeting at 8, and they kept us moving until 9:30
or 10 at night.
The first full day we joined an open-sided truck, used as a stage, in a primitive market
place. Two men who had been saved from living in the dumps when they were children were
entertaining the crowd, mostly children, with song, dance and testimonies. They brought us
into the truck and we were pulled to the front to speak; everything moving very quickly. Then
flyers for the crusade were passed out. After a while the entire thing was moved to another
area. It took 10-15 minutes to drive there on the rutted dirt road and I wondered why we would
go so far, but there is nothing to break the monotony of this poverty-stricken life and they will
walk for miles.
The night before the crusade began some of the team from NJ went out for coffee and led
the local Imam to the Lord. He was baptized two days later and came out of the water
speaking in tongues. He and his family were sent to a safe place where he will attend Bible
school. Pastor Mike Brawan gets such a large response to the crusades that he plants a new
church every year. So he raises up pastors for them also.
On the first night of the crusade an 8-year-old child who was born blind gained complete
sight and saw mom for the first time. Others were healed of crippling conditions, deafness and
blindness; and so many accepted Jesus. Hundreds and hundreds came every night. By the
end of the crusade many of them were in church and more than 100 were baptized in the
Holy Spirit.
Pastor Brawan also provides food and education (which has to be paid for) for 600
children he has placed in foster homes. Women are being rescued from prostitution and
equipped to support themselves. "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for
one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' (Matt. 25:40).