PMI Missionaries
Joseph & Elfi Muutuki
Ministry Area: Kenya
Responsibilities: Church planting, teaching
E-mail Address: joe@ncfnairobi.org
Joseph finished his Th.M. at Covenant Seminary in 1989. He has been teaching at Daystar University since 1995 in the Religious Studies Dept. In 1997 the Lord led Joseph and Elfi to start a church plant in the community where they live in Nairobi. This racial reconciliation church ministers to Kenyan Asians and Africans.
Joseph and Elfi form relationships with Hindus primarily through monthly "satsangs" or fellowships and quarterly evening "grills" for men, in order to reach just men. They have been blessed to see the growth of the Church from a humble fifteen people in attendance to the current seventy to ninety. The church is affiliated with a ministry to orphaned children in the slum area of Kibera in Nairobi and also ministers to handicapped people.
Latest Report: (updated 11/14/2008)
Dear friends and family members,
Greetings from a very cold German weather.
Elfi and I hope you are doing well. We have been privileged to see some of you and others... we overbooked ourselves or were sick and missed to connect. However, we are thankful to God that we have stayed in touch through email or either Elfin or I or both have talked to you within the last one year.
As I was just pondering about the meltdown to the American Economy, the just concluded Elections and now the talk here in Germany about a recession having started... If you were a missionary and you hear people talk about how tight things have become one naturally begins to worry.
But what really made me even worry more was when I overheard some Christians begin to talk about the, "Armageddon". I mean, they were talking like they now can see the signs of the End time. Are things that bad so that we can now begin to scare believers to prepare for the end of the world? Didn't Christ warn us that no body knows when that time will come? Oh well, one may say we can read the signs and tell... but remember also, we should always be ready because no one knows when that time will be.
What do I have to offer to people in Africa at this time if in the West some are getting scared and have started talking about a recession bigger than the Great American Depression? Simply, God is still in control and His love for us all has not changed.
This may sound simplistic but this is the message that needs to be in our minds right now. Those who are God's and have given their lives to Christ have the assurance from God that neither death, nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate them from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. This is comforting for us to know in times of uncertainties.
Thank you for your encouragement in the last one month through your emails. We wished it were possible to see everyone in person but time has not permitted and also the distances that separate us!
We have only three more weeks here in Germany and then we head back to Kenya December 6th.
We would covet your prayers:
- Pray with us for a difficult time at our Church in Nairobi. We need wisdom as to how to deal with some sin issues.
- We are in need of a youth director.
- We would like to see an elder's team and deacon's team that works together.
Thank you so much for your prayers and support.
Joe Muutuki
Presbyterian Mission International
12330 Conway Road
St. Louis, Missouri 63141
Telephone: (314) 434-4044
Fax: (314) 434-4819
