Surprised by Hope
is an East African Community Development ministry providing pastors, church
leaders, and the ministries who serve them, with the Christian business
education and consulting they need to thrive in their ministry calling. What
this means is that one of our primary goals is to strengthen and support
pastors in their service to God’s people.
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| Just a few of the pastors and team members working together to serve the Lord. |
Pastors in the greater Malindi, Kenya area asked for a marriage
and family conference and identified several topical areas of interest
including covenant marriage, choosing to stay, building a godly marriage, setting
goals for the family, sexual intimacy in marriage, family roles, love and
respect, faithfulness, communication, conflict resolution, and respect.
Respect is always an important topic in marriage and even
more so in a culture where the difference between the amount of power shared
between husbands and wives is vast. That vastness is difficult for westerners,
particularly western women, to understand and to see in a positive light. Our
challenge as westerners, then, was to provide a marriage conference that supported
Scripture alone and that did not unnecessarily impose an American ideology.
The Love & Respect Ministry Team, made up of eight
Michiganders, took on the challenge of serving pastors and their community
members with the marriage conference they requested and did so in two locations
simultaneously. With the goal of strengthening and supporting pastors, we worked
alongside the Watamu Pastors’ Fellowship and Mountain of Glory Church Ganda who
made the conference a success.
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