Kenya

The literature you sent to us this past summer, we have put to good use. We have started a library and reading room in Kitale with the books that you sent. For our church members it is a library, but for the city it is a reading room. Kitale is quite a large town but really did not have anything like this before. The interest has been so great that our building has been unable to hold all the people. The people were pressing in like sardines. We have had no room to move. We have had to resort to taking appointments so that it's not so crowded. Everyone is interested in reading our good books. So far several people have made decisions to follow CHRIST after they read the books and we talked to them. God said that His word would not return void. You can be sure that the Love Packages literature you send is bringing in a great harvest here in Kenya.

Thank you very much for the package of audio tapes and books that I received late last year. I greatly appreciate your concern. You know here in Kenya we hardly ever get a chance to hear from such wonderful teachers and ministers of the gospel. I am privileged to have received such wonderful teaching by Charles Stanley though your ministry. I imagine myself sitting in one of the live meetings while I listen to one of his many tapes. I also received a brown Thompson Chain Reference Bible. I immediately transferred all my treasures from my Bible to the new one. I have given my other Bible away already to another brother who needed one badly. So far I have given away 40 Bibles from your ministry. Many people are now asking me for Bibles, there is a shortage here in our country.

We are reaching hundreds of people though the knowledge we are getting from the literature you have provided. Many churches are growing in our city because many pastors are coming to borrow Love Packages literature that we have. The books you have sent us have been a tremendous blessing. Steve, you better come and see for yourself what Love Packages literature is doing. You will be amazed to find that everyone who comes to our library knows Steve Schmidt, even though they haven’t met him. They know how much he has helped them.

Thanks for seeing the need and helping people all over the world. Your literature is helping us very much here in Kenya.

Greetings. I write to appreciate you for the gift of books. They are a blessing to me and have helped me to grow and develop my God given gift of intercession. Personally am a nurse by profession and work in a government hospital as a result am a member of Kenya Hospitals Medical Workers Fellowship (which is a fellowship for born again medical workers countrywide who believe in prayer and God’s healing power) We come together to preach Jesus and pray for the sick in our respective hospitals. I do belong to another group that convenes every lunch time to pray for our city and preach, called Kitale Interdenominational Lunch Hour Fellowship. Despite all these responsibilities, I have always made myself available to be used of God in intercession. The book “Prayers that Avail Much” has been a blessing to me and has taught me new ways of praying effectively using scriptures for my family, career, employer, ministry and much more. Another book “Pathway to the Heart of God” by Terry Glaspey has done me good by answering questions about prayer. I’ve been searching for books on how to enlarge my circle of prayer, how I can effectively listen to God and tap heaven’s instructions and how to pray without ceasing. Generally the books are a wonder and a blessing to me and my ministry of intercession. I’m really grateful. God bless you.

I just received parcels of Sunday school literature and I am so pleased. I thought it was going to be for my juniors, but it was for Adults. They will appreciate it. We were just starting a young married class and in one of the boxes, there were books just for them. Isn’t God good! You blessed many and I am so pleased.

I’m really, really grateful for the gifts. Sincerely everyone is grateful and happy. I’m pleased to inform you that people are being blessed through the books. I have distributed the books to certain groups. One group comprises nurses and medical workers in a government hospital which is very very busy. These are people who have devoted themselves to pray for the sick and minister at large in the hospital wards. I entrusted one nurse to be in charge of the books and to monitor their circulation among the nurses and she is doing a wonderful job. Nurses take the books and read when they are off duty, when they are finished they return them to her office. Then she gives them to some other one. I am so grateful that they are reading and that God is changing them. The Bibles you sent me, I desired to keep for myself, but I saw the needs of other people. The King James Bible I gave to a brother who just gave his life to Christ. Another one the Life Application Bible for Students I desired very much to keep it at first because I did not have a study Bible and second because it was very nice. But I saw someone who just didn’t have a desire but a real need so I gave it to him. I believe I have honored the Lord and He will see this as seed.

Thank you for the great gifts of film projectors, record players and film strips and books. Those gifts are a great blessing to us. All church believers are rejoicing to watch films, to listen to Christian songs on record players and literate believers are now enjoying to read Christian literature. All believers have asked me to convey sincere thanks to you brethren for the gifts.

One pastor had just began a cell group meeting and had looked everywhere for study materials but all was in Vain. He heard that we were having a pastors meeting and when he popped in he saw something on the table. We had written a note - Love package. We wanted to bless every pastor after the meeting. When he opened his package, he found something he had been believing God for for years.

We thank God for you and the Love Packages for the wonderful materials both for outreach and for spiritual growth of the new converts. During our two week mission we received 1986 responses and have given them enough for the personal study and group discussions. We highly value all these donations.

Thanks and appreciation! Greetings to you and your American friends who donated books and Bible study materials to you for onward transmission to us. Thank you for the one ton load that you donated to us. We got that distributed to all our branch churches as it was the first time to have Sunday School and Bible study materials. It was a great privilege to us to give some to our older and bigger branches.