The Team.

Omonywa Enoch- Coordinator

Rael Beneti- Assistant Coordinator

Michael Ketter- Site Advisor

(Site Committee)

Overview

By the grace of God,

There were 55 registered missionaries into the Miciimikuru site list and the breakdown is hereby provided for those that attended and there were replacements done on a last minute resort based on those that backed down in the last minute. The number however dropped to 47.

There was general good health among the members including the special cases amidst the missionaries, thanks to God.

There was above average discipline in the site with the trivial issues being handled at site level.

Scope

Site 5 aimed at delivering the gospel to Miciimikuru centre and Charuru where the host church for the site was located. 

Deliverables

• To turn the Miciimikuru area upside down and deliver the gospel to all in our reach.

1. Modus Operandi

Door to door visitations, open air sessions, children classes, youth classes, health expo and a general lifestyle as a sermon to the villagers that were watching.

We held out 5 open air sessions

Health- Ev Timothy Mburugu (Can be included in our catalogue of speaker if there be any)

Bible Study- Eld Elijah Oyugi

Family life & Sermon- Ev. Nimrod Magati

Prophecy- Ev. Josphat Kirwa

Key Operational Pillars

1.     The Holy Spirit- Whose dwelling among the missionaries makes them effective in delivering the message of the kingdom.
2.      Prayer- A key pillar in seeking divine guidance and increasing our communication efficiency with the heavens. In all situations we are to pray without ceasing. Prayer moves the mountains indeed.
3.      Teamwork- The site leadership and general site membership working as a team right from morning devotion unto the evening devotion which marks the end of the day. 
4.      Good governance- Unbiased way of operation right from the selection for any duties to be done unto the sharing of all site resources.
5.      Catering- A well fed army will focus on the war rather than when they should have their next meal. 

Challenges faced

1. Most of the site members originally allocated to the site including those with roles failed to show up on a last minute notice.
2. General tiredness of missionaries on the last 2 days of the mission.
3. Baptism day transportation challenges- Time keeping (The candidates got too tired while waiting to be ferried)
4. The rising number of people who are in need of special diets (Ulcers, allergies, etc)
5. Special needs missionaries in the sites.
6. Less facilitated open air site venues.

Recommendations

1. To encourage missionaries registering and confirming attendance to be honest and truthful on their attendance- this is to avoid leaving willing missionaries on the ground and travelling with vacancies.
2. How to keep the missionaries motivated unto the last minute is still a puzzle that need be solved. We can discuss this. 
3. Devolving the baptismal logistics to the sites to make it easier to the common baptismal place.
4. We can look into meal plans that will accommodate almost all if not all members to avoid stress upon catering teams in preparing meals for the sites.
5. When we are having special needs missionaries, like the visually impaired, it is in order to have them come along with their caregivers to ease the burden on other missionaries who have no prior experience with the said cases.
6. Provide and extra budget to sites that may not have privilege of hygiene amenities, shades for the pulpits, and also tents budget especially for open air sites with no shade.

Achievements

1.      We managed to get 22 candidates baptized on the final day of the mission and hopeful that the remaining interested candidates will get baptized at the end of follow up.
2.      Worked jointly with the local church SDA Charuru in harmony and we received much support.
3.      There was generally good discipline in the site.

Punchline

Ni God mazee! (With God, nothing is impossible – Trust me)

We give thanks to God for enabling us achieve what we achieved as a site. Truth be told, I had the best members and I pray that God keeps them strong and ready to serve him more.

Report Compiled by

Omonywa Enoch

Site Coordinator, Miciimikuru

MICHIMIKURU  

Interest Coordinator’s Report – Site 5 (Michimikuru) 

Objectives 

The objectives of the interest coordinator were: 

• Mapping the site and organizing door-to-door visitations. 
• Monitoring the effectiveness of door-to-door visitations. 
• Following up on open-air attendees. 
• Allocating personnel for visitations and appointments. 
• Monitoring attitudes towards the presentations and sharing feedback with the evangelists. 
• Keeping records of special interest persons. 

Introduction 

Site 5 was located at Michimikuru. The area is generally rural with an agricultural-based economy. The main cash crop was tea ,with a tea factory near by.  Most of the locals engage in farm-work in the morning, while some are working in the factory. Other activities included the boda-boda business which is  attractive to many young men.

 A local Adventist congregation (CHARURU) exists with a membership of about 40 (including Sabbath school members).There was once a sabbath school in the area with a population of about 20 active members  in which most  people have left the Adventist faith due to personal differences, drug and substance abuse, doctrinal issues (offshoots) among others. 

Discussion 

The missionaries were divided into 12  visitation groups of   3-4 members. With the total number of missionaries being 47 people. One member  left during day four due medical issues but the rest of our members remained for the two weeks.

The groups were structured to ensure that each was able to function autonomously by: 

Mixing people from various campuses. 

Mixing first-time missionaries with those who had been to mission before 

Ensuring each group could conduct Bible studies on their own as needed 

Morning visitations during the first few days entailed introductions, invitations to the afternoon open-air sessions, and taking note of any needs the locals might have. Groups were encouraged to pray with the homes as well. As the week progressed, and throughout the second week, the missionaries revisited the homes previously visited for follow up. 

A briefing was held daily at 9 am before morning visitations. During the briefing, groups planned for the morning’s work. This was beneficial especially during the first few days as it allowed experienced members to share what door-to-door visitation entailed, and possible strategies of going about the same. 

Each group had a report book. In it, groups noted down their daily visitation report in addition to appointments outside the morning visitation. Reporting was done before or during lunch. This was aimed at getting feedback from, and giving feedback to, each group. It also allowed members to know what was going on in other groups. 

The locals were very generous and often offered items such as foodstuff and money to the visiting missionaries. The missionaries were encouraged to decline such offers but where that would prove problematic, the gifts were brought to the site. Thanksgiving prayers were offered; foodstuff was distributed among all the missionaries while monetary gifts were added to the site treasury and the concerned group would take something in return to the home e.g., a book. 

In the afternoon, missionaries would monitor the open-air attendance, providing seats to interested people and engaging with them once a presentation was done to gauge understanding. Groups that had appointments would fulfil them as well. Some missionaries were involved in the youth’s and children’s classes. 

A bible study class (baptismal class) was set up in the second week. The class was run by the elders at the site. Interests were encouraged to attend the class. 

29 people showed interest for baptism, with  only 22 being  baptized , there were others who had not made a decision for baptism but  accepted the message.

                   Challenges 

• Language barrier as few missionaries understood Kimeru. 
• Many locals were unavailable during the morning hours due to work commitments. 
• Some homesteads were in dire need of material donations due to the high poverty levels. 
• The area was vast, characterized by a hilly terrain which made members to be physically exhausted.
• Lack of tracts that could be distributed more freely than the discover guides. 
• Lack of health tracts that could have supplemented the health presentations. 
• Groups delayed from morning visitations, affecting reporting.  
• Among some of the locals, the local Adventist church was not viewed in a positive light due to what they regarded as hypocrisy. 
• Several people in the area left the Adventist faith due to personal differences, drug and substance abuse, doctrinal issues.
• Some homes needed Bibles and books during the two-week campaign which were only available for baptisimal candidates.
• Rejection in some households

Recommendations 

• Have some Discover Guides and tracts printed in the local language. 
• Have donations ,food , clothes etc set aside to help  identified needy cases.
• Have some large-print literature material for those with eye problems. 
• Have tracts that can be distributed more freely than the Discover Guides. 
• Have health tracts that supplement the health presentations. 
• Follow up Mtumishi should seek to guide the fold against the off shoots around the area 
• Sites can organise to acquire additional Bibles and books for homes that show interest. 

Conclusion 

Said our Master, “As [my] Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” The opportunity to serve was a blessing. Many thanks to the Almighty for the work that was done at Michimikuru, and for that which will continue to be done during the follow-up period and beyond. 

Report compiled by Preminus Karani

MICHIMIKURU 2024-2025 CHILDREN REPORT

Introduction

Our goal in this mission report is to outline our experience and impact on the mission field where we participated. In the following report, you will also be acquainted with the progress we made in sharing, “the Advent message” to the children in Michimikuru community, the development that is being done and the work that is expected to be done in future.

Children teachers over the period included but not limited to:

• Beryl Moraa (JKUSDA)
• Becky Okindo(MKUSDA)

Discussion

1. Number of Children attendees each day and topics covered.

1. Sessions

We mostly began our sessions from 4:00pm or earlier depending on the time we got to the open-air venue and the time they showed up.

During our sessions, we had a division of time frame as stated below.

1. Singing session 

We begun with the singing session to attract the children to come to the open air using children’s songs from YouTube.

1. Study.     

We had a general class where the children were taught together, practicing of songs and memory verses then broke off to  two distinctive classes. One class was from ages 0-10 handled by teacher Becky and Zadock and the other was from ages11-15 handled by teacher Beryl and Belinda. We taught the children using the study guides provided by the church.

1. Work done

After the study they answered the question in the study guides which were related to the topics they studied, for the small children they had coloring activities. We then marked there work and urged them to show their parents then file them for later reading and remembrance. 

1. Contemporary issues

We concluded our sessions by engaging the children with life issues and some opened up, we counselled  them on basis of Scripture and offered help in whichever way they needed help. Such as going for door to door and holding Bible study with their parents. We always welcomed them to our prophecy sessions and reminded them to come the next day. Our sessions ended around 6:00pm in the evening 

1. Number reached out to

We reached out to hypothetically, most of the children in Michimikuru  center and those from neighboring SDA churches also attended the sessions.

The total number of children who eventually showed up to our sessions were about thirty (including those who may have visited us once and not showed up again).

1. Children’s party

We had a children’s party on Friday with a budget of two thousand shillings and we managed to use one thousand eight hundred and twenty five. The rest was returned to AUSAA account 

1. Baptismal Candidates

No new converts were brought in.

Five children members of the Charuru SDA church were baptized.

Challenges faced

1. Drug and substance abuse culture which distorts their priorities.
2. Rowdy it’s why we had to seek support from fellow missionaries in managing them hence Teacher Zadock and Belinda
3. Strict parents that deny them a chance to come for such classes.

Recommendations

1. Plan for other children sessions that would draw them in e.g. Games, a social event...
2. Encourage the speakers to reach out to the children’s parents via calls by budgeting for airtimes. This is especially when the areas covered are large and they have to go call or inform the children of the classes or even as of their well-being in case they don’t show up.
3. Increase the number of children teachers from 2 to 4 so that we may have more order and good management of the children.

Conclusion

On the whole, the children’s class was a great exercise to us in large part except for some challenges.

We thank the AUSAA fraternity for entrusting us with the responsibility of winning souls. We shall be more than willing next time when called upon again.

Miccimikuru Site 5 Catering Department  Report. 

Introduction

As the site caterers it is my privilege to present the achievement s, challenges and recommendations  during 2024 Ausaa mission. The department plays a vital role in supporting the mission's programs by ensuring that healthy and sustainable meals are provided to all the missionaries.

Achievements

1.Service Delivery

   - Provided  three meals a day with consistent quality and quantity.  

2. Cost Management

   - Maintained operations within budget by sourcing local produce and reducing food waste through efficient planning.

Challenges 

 1. Dietary Preferences

   - Balancing the diverse dietary preferences of missionaries while adhering to Adventist health principles posed a challenge.  

Recommendations

1.Meal Customization

 Develop flexible meal plans to cater to diverse preferences while maintaining health standards.

Conclusion

The Catering Department remains committed to supporting the mission's goals by providing nutritious meals that align with Adventist principles. With adequate resources and support, we aim to enhance our services and contribute significantly to the mission's overall success.  

Submitted by; 

Mary Nyakiye

INTRODUCTION 

I present this report on behalf of the prayer department thanking God for His guidance and blessings during the 2 weeks at Michimikiru.

The report outlines the duties and responsibilities of the prayer department, theachievement,challenges experienced and the recommendations. 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Preparing the morning and evening devotion program.
• Preparing a prayer box.
• Coordinating prayers at the open air. 
• Coordinating prayers at the camp.
• Coordinating the Wednesday prayer and fasting sessions with the help of the interest coordinator. 

ACHIEVEMENTS 

• The morning devotions were conducted from 5.30am to 6.30am a duration of 1 hour. As the days went by we started having our devotions as from 5.00am to 6.30am in order to have more time to pray effectively. 
• We managed to organize night vigils with our main focus being praying for the interests. The first part of the vigil started at 10.30pm to 12.00pm with groups praying at an interval of 30 minutes. The second part started at 3.30am to 4.30am. 
• The prayers at the open air were very effective. The prayer bands were praying at an interval of 10 minutes. The prayer points that we persistently prayed over were:

1. Praying for a good weather.
2. Praying for the PA system.
3. Praying for the speakers.
4. Praying for the missionaries.
5. Praying for the listeners.
6. Any other prayer request.

CHALLENGES

We experienced the following challenges:

The venue for the Wednesday  prayer and fasting was a bit far, this made us spend less time during the prayer sessions so as not to delay the open air programs.

Some missionaries found it difficult to wake up for the night vigils.

During the second week the attendance to the devotion started decreasing. 

RECOMMENDATION 

We would recommend the following:

• The venue for the prayer and fasting to be near the site.
• Missionaries to be sensitized on the importance of united prayers and devotions during missions.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, we thank God the Mission was a success and we are looking forward to having a more  vibrant prayer sessions in our mission fields. 

The music department was instrumental in enhancing the worship experience, fostering fellowship, and showcasing musical talent as elaborated bellow.

Objectives of the Music Department

The music department during the mission sought to achieve the following goals:

1. To use music as a tool for spreading the gospel beyond the mission grounds.
2. To lead congregants in meaningful and inspiring worship sessions through well-prepared musical performances and choristry.
3. To provide a platform for individuals to develop and display their musical gifts.
4. To promote unity and fellowship through shared musical experiences.

Key Activities

The music department played a central role in the mission by organizing and participating in the following activities:

1. Daily Singing Sessions: Coordinated daily worship sessions blending Nyimbo Za Kristo, Kimeru SDA songs, and presentations from talented missionaries. These sessions enriched the spiritual experience for all attendees.
2. Choir Performances: The mission featured performances by the Charuru SDA Church Choir, Charuru SDA Youth Choir, and the Missionary Choir. The harmonious blend of these groups delivered inspiring and memorable performances that deeply resonated with the audience.
3. Workshops: Conducted daily music workshops aimed at training choir members and choristers, ensuring high-quality performances during presentations.
4. Community Outreach: Accepted an invitation from the area chief to perform during his son’s homecoming ceremony after initiation. The choir extended the ministry to the chief’s guests through Adventist songs, leaving a lasting spiritual impact.

Achievements

The music department’s efforts during the Muciimukuru Mission resulted in several notable outcomes including:

1. Feedback from participants indicated that the music greatly enhanced the spiritual atmosphere, making worship sessions memorable and a blessing.
2. The use of music as a tool for outreach drew in individuals who might not have otherwise attended the mission.

Challenges

Despite its successes, the music department faced several challenges:

1. There was a shortage of sound equipment, which occasionally hindered performances and choristry.
2. The tight mission schedule limited rehearsal time, impacting the preparedness of some teams.
3. Resistance by a few missionaries who thought that they were not musical.

Recommendations

To further improve the music department in future missions, the following recommendations are proposed:

1. Allocate resources for acquiring high-quality sound systems.
2. Encourage missionaries to join music groups to enable them to appreciate the importance of music in mission fields. This will reduce resistance to choir practice and fear to perform.

Conclusion

The music department during the Muciimukuru Mission was a cornerstone of the mission’s success. Its ability to inspire worship, foster unity, and reach the community through music underscores its vital role. Addressing the challenges faced and building on the successes achieved will ensure even greater impact in future missions.

REPORT FROM THE TECHNICAL TEAM MICHIMIKURU

The mission was a success in our site as souls were won and many were baptised

The experience received by our side was good and challenges were but one.

were thank the organizers as well our site co-ordinator and the assistant as well as the whole leadership and membership.

The challenge per-say was just on the journey back as we had to infringe several luggage and the PA system so as to make them fit in the bus.

this get to be a concern as the instruments were brought to mission field by different means thus ,

 A recommendation that through the very means items are brought t mission field so could they be ferried back.this would, in the upcoming missions, ensure the proper management of our systems on road.

May the Lord bless the Leadership, membership as well as the environs of AUSAA.