WOW – HERE’S A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE WRITTEN AFTER A PAST ELI TRAINING !
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THE WALK WAS SO SUCCESSFUL! THANK YOU!!! The Rogers Goal Reached 100%
Thank you to each and every one of you who supported the walk today (Saturday) that Amy and I participated in for ELI and for the women who desire to come out of the alcohol brewing business and discover the love of Christ! Your gifts and care have made the difference! THANK YOU!!!
Amy and I are so grateful for all of you who have given so that others may come out of poverty and discover the love of Christ! As of this morning we have reached 88% of our goal- Thank you! We begin our walk in a few minutes. Let’s pray for all of our lives to be all God has called us to be.
Tomorrow – Saturday, The Rogers are taking a long walk to create awareness and we want to invite friends like you to help sponsor our walk so that suffering women in Africa can find the training they need – to come out of poverty and to hear about the love of God! Please visit this link and be a part of the transformation!
Sponsor Amy and Don on their walk HERE
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The women (Former brewers) from Kaptarakwa today sang with all their hearts, “We want all to know that we will not go back to where we were. We are going forward now because of Jesus!”
Ilula is the location of one of the ELI Kenya Training Centers.
Amy, the boys and I have called this our second home and have spent many of the past 19 years living here. It grew from a couple of mud houses to a fully equipped training center with dorm, guest houses, dining and training halls and demonstration farm.
Right next door is the ELI Children’s Home where over 100 children and 16 staff call home.
This week over 40 women are here for training – gaining ideas for the future so they can leave their business of brewing and selling illegal alcohol.
Here are a few photos from today.
What a joy to be a part of helping these lives change course for the better.
There is no greater joy than seeing lives come to know Christ as Savior.
Over the past two years God has done something that is beyond what we could have imagined. We have been providing training integrated with the Gospel message since ELI began 20 years ago but during these past years, women who have been captured in the devastating business of brewing and selling alcohol have been hearing about the training we offer. Beginning with a small group in August 2013 we have now reached and trained over 300 women and men – helping them turn their lives and families around from a life of darkness, to a life that is directed toward a positive business or farming AND over 90% have come to follow Christ as their light and life!
THIS MORNING another miracle has taken place.
45 women arrived at the ELI Training Center in Ilula, Kenya last night and today during the morning session they shared their hearts and hopes for change. Director Samuel Teimuge listened and shared with such grace and insight that when he finished, the Holy Spirit moved in a miraculous way and all of the women asked to surrender their lives to Christ. I stood as they prayed – hearts calling to the God who made them and loves them with His eternal care. It was truly a moving moment I will never forget. The photo captures only a moment of the day but it was the turning point – the time of decision and surrender. God is real and has met them today. You are a part of this journey and we are so grateful for your prayers and encouragement. Their lives will never be the same again.
45. That is the number of women (currently all are brewers of illegal alcohol here in Kenya) who arrived a couple of hours ago for a week of training here at Ilula. Seeing them Monday when they first arrive I cannot help but believe with all my heart that by the time they leave on Friday that they will be changed – by the love and power of God.
Today was an incredibly moving day. Preaching at the AIC church in Iten, Kenya was a blessing but then visiting the home of Grace (a former Brewer) and seeing the impact that the ELI training had on her entire family as well as neighbors was overwhelming to see and hear. Her life is transformed from the inside out.
Appreciate so much your prayers!
Sunday morning (Kenya time) I will be traveling to ITEN, Kenya to preach at a AIC church there While Amy will be preaching at the Ukweli Chapel in Ilula.
Monday 45 brewers and sellers of illegal alcohol who are seeking change arrive here at the ELI Training Center (Ilula, Kenya) to begin a five days of training.
