News From the Dyars...

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Greetings from beautiful Redding!
First the big news. It’s official-GCI (Gospel Communicators, Inc.) has been transferred to us! The potential here is huge: helping other ministries, networking, partnering, serving. The ability to offer non-profit (501c3) status has lot of Kingdom possibilities. If you, or someone you know, needs non-profit status, we’d be honored to help.
KENYA
As promised in earlier newsletters, we’re going introduce you to Gordon and Beatrice, our friends and ministry partners in Kenya.

Gordon and Beatrice have been ministering in Nakuru since 2004. They’ve planted churches, mentored pastors, and reached out to the poor, the widow and the orphan. And they pastored Victory International Fellowship-Nakuru all the while.

These two are a rarity in Africa: a husband and wife team, working together in everything. They minister together, pastor together, feed the poor together. What a wonderful example of how a couple should function in the Kingdom. But it’s their love that that leaves the biggest impression, their love for each other, for the poor, for believers and for God.

I saw that love demonstrated just about every day while he was in Kenya. Gordon and Beatrice were there for him every day, in whatever capacity needed. Driver, guide, translator, they wore all those hats and more. Never a complaint, always with a smile. Both genuinely and obviously love serving others. That shows up in their relationships in Victory Fellowship and with the kids they minister to every Saturday. Their people and those kids love Beatrice and Gordon and Gordon and Beatrice love them. And that, that is the essence of Kingdom life together.

I will be going back to Kenya in September. While there, I will be looking at some properties that Gordon thinks might work for the School of Ministry. But Gordon also is working on several ministry opportunities. I will be teaching in a couple of churches and meeting with church leaders from Nakuru and several villages.

Thanks for all you do. Without your love, your prayers and your generous giving none of what we couldn’t do what we do!

Yours for the Kingdom,


Mark and Julie

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