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| The Towering Grace of God to Fallible Humans |
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When Paul wrote and said he had run the race and fought the good fight, and now looked forward to a crown of glory, which the Lord had in store for him, he did sound like a tired man who had witnessed the fruit of his labour in the most trying circumstances. |
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| The body grows weak and sometimes the desire for the glory of winning wars wanes. Still something higher than all the promises of this life beckons and the champion finds that extra vestige of strength to do just that little more that makes it all so extraordinary. One senses something of this in talking with Rev Capt Gideon Ndoo Njuraita. |
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| For 33 of his 58 years on earth he has served the course of Christ in ministry. He has borne Herculean challenges. Sometimes the doubts have come, which have only served to authenticate his faith, for, to paraphrase CS Lewis, a faith which does not doubt is a faith to be doubted. But if he has plumbed the depths of doubt, he has also experienced tremendous heights of faith. |
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| His moments of questions have sometimes come because of his family responsibilities. “With children in school and a family to take care of, finances have been a challenging aspect of my ministry.” Rev Ndoo was also recently transferred from Mandera to Kerwa in Meru, making a difficult transition. |
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“The time I have spent with my family is the time I have been on leave i.e. one month in a year,” Ndoo writes in a brief autobiography of his life as a missionary.
These are sacrifices he has made always knowing that the God who asked them of him would in the end make it all worthwhile. “I have revelled in the support of my family for my ministry,” he says. But he saves his warmest feelings for his lifelong partner, his wife. “When I was not able to adequately provide for the family, she stood in the gap, support us through her own efforts. She has been an amazing source of encouragement.” |
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Since his commissioning as a Church Army officer on November 24, 1973, Ndoo has served in twenty-eight parishes. From 1979 to 1981 he served in Marsabit. He seems amused by the fact that for all those years he led just one Muslim to Christ. It also seems amazing that many people who answer the call to go into ministry often have to contend with strange teachings and practices that, while not out rightly anti-biblical, present hidden dangers to the faith, such as the dos and donts which St Paul battles in his Epistle to the Galatians. A strange one when Ndoo entered Marsabit was that only Muslims slaughtered animals for food on Christmas Day. Frustrated by their rigidity, he went ahead and slaughtered an animal. As if on cue, everyone else soon joined in and a meaningless tradition that had ‘imprisoned’ the Christians.
As Ndoo sees the successes and the challenges, he finds towering above them all God’s grace that He should use so fallible humans like we. |
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From the General Secretary’s Desk.
Church Army Africa is reengineering its approach to missions and delivering the Gospel of Jesus Christ our LORD, more effectively and relevantly than it has done before.
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Bringing Christ to an Ignored World
Every Sunday at exactly eight o’clock in the morning, Moses Karanja and Peter Kamau punctually converge in the middle of Banana market centre to conduct an open-air Sunday Service for operators of matatus.
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Officers in One-day Meeting
Church Army Officers held a day-long meeting at the Church Army Africa headquarters Friday, February 10, 2006.
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The Towering Grace of God to Fallible Humans
A close look at the grace of God as it has shown throgh Rev. Capt. Ndoo' s life and given him the ability to move on at all times.
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The School Bus Project
Praise God for the funds raised so far & continue praying for success towards purchasing the bus. We also praise God for all successful activities towards this.
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Profile
A close look at the man behind the Chair. Kabuga Kariithi, Church Army Board Chairman shares insight on hil life. more> |
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Re-kindling Hope in the Hearts of Children
Many residents do not have enough to eat and one does not need to be a World Bank economist to tell that this is a life of dire poverty. Is there hope?
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 From the General Secretary’s Desk.
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Bringing Christ to an Ignored World
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Officers in One-day
Meeting
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The Towering Grace
of God to Fallible Humans
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The School Bus Project
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Profile
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Re-kindling Hope in the Hearts of Children
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| Soul Nairobi Youth Outreach |
| AUGUST 6-13 |
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| Church army sports day |
| AUGUST 2005 |
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| Church Army International Leaders Conference. |
| JULY 19—26 |
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| As the moment of Soul Nairobi draws near, we want to testify of God’s moves towards the project by giving thanks for the things he has done and continues to do. |
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Soul Nairobi, set to run from August 5 to 13, is a city-wide event organised by Church Army. During the event, thousands of young people from churches in Nairobi are going to share the love and compassion of Jesus Christ with the city’s residents through engagement in certain social activities. The youth will engage in clean-ups, painting of public buildings, music gigs, etc as a way of making Christ known.
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