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CITAM MISSIONS & OUTREACH <strong>REPORT</strong><br />

Here I Am Lord, Send Me!<br />

Rev. Patrick Kuchio<br />

Head of Missions<br />

Frontier Missions<br />

Marsabit<br />

After laboring in Northern Kenya for a period of time,<br />

it was a great joy to commission two indigenous<br />

Pastors: Pastor Benedict Duba (Borana Community)<br />

and Pastor John Hirbo (Burjii Community). The<br />

two, with the assistance of CITAM Missions had<br />

successfully completed their BA in theological<br />

training and induction in CITAM. This is in line with<br />

our Missions objective in capacity building and<br />

leadership development in our target communities.<br />

Both Benedict & John are serving in Marsabit in<br />

CITAM Gororukesa & CITAM Mataarba respectively.<br />

A major highlight included a successful leaders and<br />

peace conference sponsored by CITAM and other<br />

stake holders including the county government. 42<br />

people gave their lives to Christ and many were set<br />

free from demonic oppression as others were healed<br />

both spiritually and physically.<br />

Olturot<br />

For the first time in Olturot, there was a major<br />

evangelistic Campaign. This included open air<br />

crusade, Jesus film and moonlight ministries. This<br />

culminated with DVBS in where more than 200<br />

children attended for four days. 10 people gave their<br />

lives to Christ.<br />

After many failed attempts, we managed to<br />

successfully plant 40 trees in 2014.<br />

Kargi<br />

The year <strong>2015</strong> was a year of great changes,<br />

transformation and breakthroughs. Among the<br />

change was the Sabbatical leave for Rev. John<br />

Mwangi Ndegwa and Rev. Wandii taking over the<br />

leadership of the mission station. It was not easy for<br />

the community to understand the transition which<br />

was happening for the first time, nevertheless the<br />

church witnessed growth in the midst of spiritual,<br />

physical and leadership challenges. 12 people who<br />

were among those who got saved went through<br />

waters of baptism after several weeks of training. We<br />

continued to engage in Manyatta outreach, sports<br />

evangelism and for the first time the church youth<br />

made a drama presentation. The church numbers<br />

which had drastically dropped have now increased<br />

with an average of 110 people.<br />

Loiyangalani<br />

There was a successful medical camp in Loiyangalani<br />

where a dentist, an Ophthalmologist (eye doctor)<br />

and two clinical officers cum missionaries served<br />

over 350 members of the Elmolo community. Elmolo<br />

lives at the shores of Lake Turkana and their diet is<br />

mainly fish. Due to lack of balanced diet, they have<br />

CITAM Annual Report and Financial Statements | <strong>2015</strong>

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