We’re Taking The Peter Project Initiative To Kenya!
Exceedingly Abundantly….
AT THE START OF EACH YEAR, Joanne and I individually and intentionally select a word that will be our life theme in the coming year. The word we choose essentially encompasses or guides how we approach the upcoming year. It also often challenges us to strive towards reaching our personal goals.
After some deliberation, I chose the word BOUNDLESS. The word means without limit, immeasurable.
I usually pair a scripture verse with my word and I chose Ephesians 3:20 as my year verse for 2024.
“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”
This verse reminds me that no matter how bold our requests may seem, God can do all we ask and much more. The message of Ephesians 3:20 is that God can do all we ask and more than we can imagine.
I am encouraged to pray boldly before the Throne of Grace, both personally as well as for the ministry that the Lord has entrusted to us.
As I write this letter to you, I can honestly say that God has heard and granted what I have boldly asked for in so many areas of our lives. Let me share some of that with you…..
We’re Taking The Peter Project Initiative To Kenya!
SINCE I WAS A YOUNG BOY, I have always been facinated by maps. I love to pour over and study maps of various parts of the world, particularly Africa.
The goal of starting the Peter Project Initiative was to make a sound theological training both affordable and accessible to the untrained pastors of Africa - the whole of Africa.
Maps have been an important part of that vision, and as I have poured over maps of Africa I have asked the Lord to “do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.”
I have boldly asked Him to expand this ministry throughout the African Continent, as the need is great everywhere.
As I and others have prayed for more opportunity, we have seen the Lord’s answers to our prayers. On our recent furlough to the USA, our second meeting was at a church in Goldsboro, North Carolina. After sharing our ministry, a man came up to me afterwards and told me that he had been a missionary working in Kenya many years before.
He said that he had a contact there who would be very interested in our ministry as there are many in Kenya who need training and equipping. He put me in touch with his contact and we have subsequently been corresponding back and forth over the months.
As a result of this contact, I will be visiting Nairobi, Kenya at the beginning of March to conduct a Teacher Training Workshop with a group of qualified men. Thereafter, they will go out into their villages and begin classes to train pastors.
Then, at our last furlough meeting in the Greensboro, North Carolina area, the pastor mentioned that their church has been supporting a national pastor in the town of Kitale, in the Kenyan highlands. Again, he put me in touch with this pastor and we have been emailing back and forth.
This is an email I recently received from him:
“Hi Pastor Graham, greetings from Kitale, Kenya. I am Pastor Alfred Juma Mangwa. I got your information from Pastor Mike of Crusade Baptist Church in North Carolina. He has been my friend for a period of 9 years and he has been equipping our churches in Kenya with materials from his website.
He introduced me to you about your Initiative of training untrained pastors in Africa. Actually this project will really help our churches and leaders with the knowledge of God in theology and therefore when you come to Kenya please, we also welcome you at Kitale to see our pastors here also get the training.
We have got almost 300 pastors who are untrained here.
Thanks and God bless you brother.
Pastor Alfred Juma Mangwa”
Wow! My word “Boundless” comes to mind. It has been amazing to see the Lord answering our prayers in this way and using others to make the connections. I am excited to see what He does as we pray about the additional countries of Burkina Faso, Zambia and Malawi as well.
I hope this encourages you as much as it has encouraged us. Please pray with us as I visit Ghana (I leave tomorrow - 24th January) and Kenya from the 4th to the 13th March. I’ll let you know how it goes!
Thank you for your continued support of our ministry.
Onward and Upward!
Graham & Joanne Peacocke
