Morning. Happy to be back at Elkdale and I returned with my partner and the GLBM Kenya director. For those of you who don't know, GLBM is Golden Land Baptist Missions. I started it almost 16 years ago now. And for the last 16 years, we have been working in Myanmar or old Burma between India and Thailand, south of China. And we've had tens of thousands saved there. We have a large ministry there. And I thought that I was going to spend the rest of my life exclusively in Myanmar. God gave me not just license to go somewhere else, but a calling. And I thought, you know, I fought this. I literally fought going to Kenya. anywhere in Africa or anywhere other than Burma for two years and So in the for two years now An African Pentecostal Bishop has been dogging me and I would say I'm not coming. I'll pray for you, but I'm not coming. And he'd say, Oh, please, man of God, please come, please come. And I said, I'm not coming. And he would say, Why? I said, Well, number one, I said, We're different. You know, we don't believe the same thing. Oh, yes, we do. And I said, No, we don't. I said, We believe in grace. You believe in works. And he said, oh no, no, no, no. And so we went round and round about that. And he finally said, he said, we want to follow you and we want to be whatever you are. And I'm thinking, shut up. That's what I thought, you know, and because I, you know, after hundreds of invitations to India and Pakistan and Nepal and the Philippines and Malaysia and so forth, so forth, you know, I thought this is the biggest scam yet. But then I started running into Kenyans all across the country and God made it crystal clear that he wanted me in Kenya. I even went to my pastor and I said, I said, what about this? He said, Brother Bob, I think you need to go to Kenya. And I didn't tell my pastor to shut up. You think? But I still resisted this. And so after two long years of trying to figure out what God wanted to do, I called a friend of mine, Boyd Collins, Evangelist Boyd Collins, who was then, at the time, assistant pastor at the Mountain State Baptist Church, Summersville, West Virginia. His pastor, Mark Seacrest, one of my best friends on planet Earth, for a long, long, long time. And so I I asked him to pray about going to Kenya with me. And he said, Kenya? He said, what in the world? I said, I have no clue. He said, then why are we praying about it? I said, because God wants us to go to Kenya. He said, well then we better go. I said, just pray about it. So anyway, long story short, he calls me and he says, I got peace about this thing. He said, we need to go to Kenya. I said, I don't know. He said, listen, he said, I'm going to Kenya whether you go or not. Yeah. And so anyway, we finally, back in June, we made our first trip to Kenya, had over 600 people saved. Two weeks of absolute Holy Ghost revival, nothing less. people getting right with God, confessing sin openly in front of hundreds and thousands of people. And then he and his wife, Jean, went back in September. And for two weeks, they just trained these preachers, 40, 40 Pentecostal pastors and evangelists, preacher boys, who said, we want to be independent, fundamental, Bible-believing Baptist preachers. And I'm thinking, you know, this is a horse of a different color. You know, you talk about the calf looking at a new gate. What in the world is this? And so anyway, I finally... So anyway, he and his wife stayed there two weeks, and they told me, these preachers are like sponges. They are just soaking up every single word and every lesson that we give them about... And Gene took the ladies and he took the preachers. and more and more came, and a dozen, besides the 40, another dozen Assembly of God elders, and some Church of Christ people, and they all coming, and then there was an issue about women preachers, and the women preachers that were associated with these, they actually not only accepted our Baptist doctrine, Bible doctrine, but they stepped down. They literally resigned, stepped down, and believed what the Bible says about that issue. And then about the King James Bible, and on and on and on and on. So now third trip. And that's what this movie that I produced last night is all about. And I'm going to narrate this. It is a movie, and I'm going to narrate it. And so we'll just cut this loose and see where this thing goes. Yeah, let it rip. All right, here we go. Yeah, right. All right, now I got technical issues. There we go. Let's do this. you. Can you hear that? So, November 12th, we headed over and I guess I'll let this introduction go on. I don't know where to stand now. Maybe I'll sit. So November 12, we took off from Dulles International Airport. This is Evangelist Boyd Collins, who has now become GLBM Kenya director. So we flew from Washington, D.C. Dulles International Airport aboard KLM or Royal Dutch Airlines to Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam. This is a Dutch breakfast. And we really enjoyed the coffee over there. 23 hours after leaving Washington, we landed in Nairobi. This is Obadiah Samuel, Bishop Samuel's son, who is in college, met us there at the International Airport. And then we flew from the airport there in Nairobi to western Kenya. This is what it looks like. We flew aboard Jumbo Air. and then flew to Kisumu and then rented a van and went to Naira County. And Nymura County has no Baptist church that we know of. This is Bishop Sammy, Samuel, and Pentecostal Bishop, who is now, you'll see him being baptized as an independent fundamental Baptist. The first thing we did is we hit the street, witnessing the people. We had no gospel tracts, they were coming, and you'll see that in just a little bit. But we began talking to people on the streets and in communities right away finding people everywhere everywhere we went and tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people and this is Pastor Charles and Pastor Charles has a wonderful church, but doesn't have a church building and we want to help him solve that problem and the kids everywhere and children everywhere coming to us. Most of these people, most of these people in that county and in western Kenya have never ever before seen a Mzungu, never seen a white person, and so they're all over us. This is a typical kitchen. And now Boyd Collins is going to, he's teaching Baptist perspectives. But if they do certain sins, their eternal life will be terminated. The Bible, the Word of God never teaches this. That is the doctrine of man. When does eternal life begin? At the moment of salvation, when we accept the finished work of the cross of Calvary. And it never ends because man did nothing to get eternal life, therefore he can do nothing to end or terminate it. Eastern Tennessee mountain boy And no better person on planet earth that I can think of to teach Baptist distinctives They call me the Pied Piper many different communities. This was the first church service in a building that we built in the last six months for these people to hold church. Pastoring, actually pastoring these people for now, this boy is, he is actually in that photo, he is dedicating a baby here. Now the next thing you're going to see is a picture here of the Namiera County Referral Hospital. We had just left that church full of people and we had driven down the mountain, driven from about 8,000 feet. in a community where that church is that we built, and the service was phenomenal. And so many people were saved, and such liberty to preach, and we got almost all the way back into the city of Nymira, when all of a sudden Sam Wells, Bishop Sammy's phone rang and he pulled over on the shoulder and when he got off the phone I said, what's wrong? And he said, terrible accident. And he began to explain to me that a pickup truck load of people from that meeting A man had more than 60 people in the back of a pickup truck in a people cage, and the cage came loose as he went around a mountain curve, and all those in the cage came off the truck with all the people, and the people were dumped all over the road. Everybody was bruised and cut and so forth, but there was one severe injury. And the severe injury was one of our preacher boys' young wives, and her name is Alice. And I told Bishop Sammy, I said, go back. He said, go back? He said, maybe I'll take you to a hotel. I said, just turn around and go back up the mountain. Brother Stephen Here's brother Stephen one of our preacher boys Alice's husband we met them coming down the mountain on a motorcycle and Alice they had her she had a gash in her head and her eye was bulging out on this side and This arm was broke clean in half and and she was bleeding profusely. They had her wedged between the motorcycle taxi driver and her husband on the back of the bike, and they were trying to keep her from passing out. And when we met them, we were going up the mountain, they were coming down, we screeched to a halt, I jumped out and I said, put her in the van, put her in the van. We had a rented van. And so we laid her on the back seat and we are trying to, all the way down the mountain, and the road's horrendous, unbelievable. We really need four-wheel drive truck over there in the worst way. But all the way back into the city of Naimera, where the hospital was, we tried, I literally held her in place, Somebody held her arm where it wouldn't dangle and she wouldn't be in so much pain. Somebody's holding a cloth on her head and all the way down around these hairpin turns and bumps and crevices and so forth in the road. Finally, we get down to the city, get her into the emergency ward and I had been sick in my hotel room and we some kind of food poisoning. And it just lasted 24 hours. But the governor of the region, the governor of that province, he called the administrator, who is a surgeon, the top doctor in that entire province, administrator of this hospital, and that doctor literally came to my hotel room. So when we finally got to the hospital with Alice, I went straight to his office and I told him what happened and he walked with me to an ER and he looked at her and I said, whatever she needs. It doesn't matter what she needs. And so he took a look at her and I said, can you save her eye? And I said, if she needs plastic surgery, it doesn't matter what she needs. You just tell me what this woman needs, young girl, beautiful young girl. And I told her and her husband, The doctor said she's going to be fine. I'll do the surgery. It'll take surgery to fix her arm. It'll take surgery to fix her face and her head and her eye and all of that. And so I leaned over the bed and I said, God has given me whatever you need. I don't want you to worry about anything. And so God literally helped to heal this woman. And here I am praying with her husband. And of course, I'm not going to show you Alice and all of the brutal details, but you'll see her arm here. In the meantime, we're continuing the teaching of the pastors. The background noise that you hear, it's rainy season. And every day we have these torrential downpours. Now he's translating into the Swahili language. One of the former lady pastors who has submitted. They're eating chapati, which is like a big Mexican tortilla. Guana is God. We are singing, God you are enough for me. You always meet my needs. This is Pastor Charles in the background and Pastor Henry out on the street meeting children. God told me to buy this crowd of people these drinks, and we led I don't know how many parents of Christ that day. This is Pastor Jeffrey, very tall Kenyan. And the place that we have helped him rent to start his church has a wonderful, wonderful start. And my buddy Andrew, The hillsides are covered with tea. In one of the homes, we visited house to house. The homes are mud. These are mud walls, dirt floors. People have very little. Walking through the jungles on these goat trails. Everywhere you go, people have never seen a white person. As many missionaries are in Kenya, still haven't seen. There were so many people that we couldn't fit in the buildings, so we preached, I preached out in the yard. These people accepted Christ. I walked through the yard and these young men were standing on the side. I said, are you saved? And one of them said, I am trying to be. He said, one of these days, I will get saved. I said, why not now? And they just dropped to their knees. Now we're on our way to Abuki's church. Pastor Abuki? Happy we are. Happy we are. Happy we should be. Happy forever more. This man back in this past summer when we first went there, this is a deacon who had kidney failure. We paid for his dialysis, but he didn't make it. And his son Joshua is a very powerful young man of God. We preached three funerals while we were there this last month. One, the deacon, and then a saintly old mother, and then the funeral of a young three-month baby girl. literally preached to thousands of people in the funeral. This is just before I got up to preach. We are surrounded by thousands of people on the hillsides. Because we are outdoors like that, and we're trying to get through before it rains. Because the Pentecostal denomination literally stole and closed the building that this church had. So we met on the mountainside. And the people came. And hundreds that day were saved. I'm going to stop right here. This is the house where the baby died. And I sat on a bench and took this picture behind where the father was standing to show you how they build their houses and how poor they really are. The baby was laying on a pile of cedar limbs in the next room you could see through the door. And that baby laid there for a week while people came to visit the home. And we went there often, leading people to Christ and offering hope in Christ. And we wondered, Why did God bring us at this particular time? And they kept telling us, Bhaji, you are here for such a time as this. then went to another community, and where we thought there was no Baptist church, in this entire western area, we found this little tiny church and Pastor Kenny between Boyd and I. Now Micah McCurry has joined us. This is Pastor Greg and his preacher boys. Micah, you'll see over here on this side, and Micah brought us 6,500 gospel tracts in the Swahili language. He and his wife Rebecca joined us for the last two weeks of the meeting. We were in this home, and we were sharing the gospel of Christ. And as we shared the gospel of Christ, there was a man who I was sitting next to, and as I began to get up, he stopped me. And I don't know what happened to that picture. But as he stopped, let me go back just a hair here. Yeah. As that man was sitting next to me, Not that man. But as we were telling the gospel of Christ, and I was sitting next to this older man. I began to get up, and he put his hand on my arm and stopped me, and I said, yes, sir? He said, I want to get saved. Can I get saved? I said, right now? He said, yeah, right now. Can I get saved right now? I said, you sure can. And so I have a picture somewhere in here, I thought it was here, of me leading that man to Christ with an open Bible. I'm sitting between him and this girl in yellow. Her name is Eucabeth. And Eucabeth is 14 years old. And as I led him to Christ, and I was praying with him, and he was praying out loud, repeating what I was, as I was helping him pray, I noticed that Eucabeth was also praying with us. And so I leaned over to her after he had gotten saved, and I said, Yucca Beth, you prayed that prayer. She said, yes. Why did you pray that prayer? And she then just leaned over into my arms like this, and she said, because I wanted to get saved too. On the other side of the room, her mother trusted Christ as her savior. The ray of light that's shining on the Bible is not Photoshop. It's just happened in that room that day. Now we're feeding the children, and we're feeding hundreds of children. Now we're in a service. And as we are preaching the gospel, here's Micah McCurry and his wife, Rebecca, who brought the gospel tracts to us. This man came, he is the banker who has been helping us transfer funds. He came to hear Baji preach, and after he heard me preach, he came to Micah. He said, Baji is busy. He said, I want to get saved. And so Micah took him in the room and led him to Christ. Boyd is now drawing the net after I preached. This is happiness, bless her heart. Her family has nothing. As we're on the road to one of our meetings, all of a sudden, we... Yeah, all of a sudden, we... And right in front of us, there was a bad motorcycle wreck. This is Martin. He's one of our preacher boys. I literally saw the motorcycle wreck in front of our vehicle and saw Martin jump off the bike as it hit the vehicle, or as the vehicle hit them, and I thought he was dead. I jumped out of the van and grabbed him up off the street, literally picked him up off the pavement, and he's okay. I mean it was just God that he's okay So now we are on our way to the Northwest and we're going to drive five hours to the city of Bermala where there's a lot of Muslims and Bermala is over by Lake Victoria and over by the over by the Uganda border. That last slide, you couldn't see it. I thought I had that fixed, but it was late last night. There is a goat that's standing on the luggage rack of that Toyota station wagon. They're everywhere. They're just literally everywhere you go. And of course, our diet was mostly goat. and a few intestines along with it, you know. But this is in our Bermala hotel room. We got up that morning and there's a goat in the hallway. What happened? I gotta, come on. Did that really do that? Yes, it did. All right. So when we arrived in Bermala, we arrived at night. And as we are... All right, there's the goat. And we arrived at night in Burmala, and people gathered as we got out of the van on the street, vendors everywhere, it's after dark, and people, people, people, they're just everywhere. And everybody wants to see the mzungus, everybody wants to touch the mzungus, everyone, I mean, touch our hair, touch our skin, they want to compare our hands to their hands, and so forth, so forth, because they've never seen a mzungu in this part of Kenya. And so all of a sudden now six preachers, Pentecostal preachers, who want to join GLBM and follow us like the others five hours to the southeast, they have descended on us and now they take us by the hand. and put us back in the van. And a strange man jumps in the driver's seat and takes off with us down this other road. And now he parks on the side of the road and he says, get out, get out, get out. And so now he has me by the hand. It's dark. Now he's leading me down an alleyway, a dark alleyway. There's all kinds of wood, there's holes, there's crevices, there's all kinds of things you could trip over. I don't have a light on me right now, and I'm just, and he's leading me like a little boy, and somebody else has Boyd, and down this dark alleyway, finally to a door that leads to an apartment. and now they are preparing all kinds of bread, and soup, and rice, and they want us to eat, and it's nine o'clock at night, and I say, no, no, no, no, no, I can't eat, it's too late, and they said, oh yes, you must eat, you must eat, and so. Finally, I said, do you have little room? And they said, excuse me, sir? I said, little room. They said, we don't know what that is. I said, toilet? You have toilet? And he said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He disappears. I said, wait. He said, no, he just goes away. And I'm thinking, I'm done. And so finally, he comes back with a fistful of napkins. Not a roll, but a fistful of napkins, white napkins. And he takes me by the hand again, leads me out of that room, outside into the alleyway, down the alleyway to where there's four doors. And these are like little closets with Squatty Potty on the floor. So the stench is overpowering. I don't have a light. So now he closes the door on me and I'm there. Here I am. And so now as I'm there in this little closet with this squatty potty that I'm trying not to fall into, finally Boyd rescues me and hands me over the door, there's a crack there, and he hands me his phone and I turn the light on and there's cockroaches on the ceiling over my head the size of hummingbirds. And so sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do, you know. And so this was our, this is how we arrived in Bermala. And so the very next morning we had breakfast and we had prayer meeting with some of the preachers before we're going to hit the street with all these tracks. This is Pastor Stephen and he and I are going to take off down the street and we're going to go visiting home to home and as we're meeting people we're saying we're going to have a meeting and we're dragging people with us. including this gentleman and this young man who got a gospel track and he came to our meeting and I, when I finally arrived, I've got a whole bunch of people. This little boy, I walked into a shop and immediately he's in my lap and so forth and so forth and buddies everywhere. And so now, Boyd's gonna preach and then I'm going to share and this is their little rented church building that they have. This is not because of me. This is because God provides. This is because God cares. Because a long time ago, there were people in America who learned to obey God. people have given. They can't meet inside, it's too small, and they can't meet inside because the roof has collapsed and it's rainy season. So I'm going to give them 20,000 Kenya shillings, which is $130, which is like everything to them. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And because of Him. One. Two. Three. Four thousand. Five thousand. Six thousand. Seven thousand. Eight thousand. Nine thousand. Ten thousand. 11,000, 12,000, 13,000, 14,000, 15,000, 16,000, 17,000, 18,000, 19,000, 20,000. Praise the Lord. Amen. This woman walked up to Boyd afterwards and said, I want to get saved. And he led her to Christ. This is Pastor Titus from the Uganda border, has a wonderful work, has joined GLBM, is so thankful for the fellowship. Now we're on our way to Mount Elgon, which is the largest dormant volcano in the world. And there are four churches, four pastors in the shadow of this mountain. Communities everywhere who have never seen a white boy. They have, and many have, no church. And we get up here about 9,000 feet. That mountain behind us, Mount Elgon, is 14,000. The roads were horrendous. We almost couldn't get there. This is how they welcomed us to that community and church. You say, what is this? Kenyans sing, they dance, they are very warm, they are very welcoming. But they don't know any better than this. But they will. Very happy people, despite the fact that they have very little. Some of the children were afraid of us, but they couldn't help their curiosity. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by His mercy. If you don't know Christ, pray. And ask Him to forgive you. Forgive you of your sins. And come into your heart. And give you the assurance of your salvation. Very emotional moment. Again, drawing the net. Now Micah preaching. This is just the first church of four. And another Baji buddy. Places filled with lava rock from that dormant volcano in the distance. Beautiful, beautiful area. It's hard to leave. So we went to another community there in that mountain area. I called this the Princess of Elgon. She was so sweet. I asked Rebecca to pray in this home and she cried through her entire prayer. God had moved in her heart so much. Boyd is praying with a pastor and his wife. Land where sheep are still led by a real shepherd. And people are still teachable. These people just soaked it up. We couldn't preach enough. We couldn't sing enough. We couldn't share enough. They wanted more and more. Everywhere we went. They wanted to know the truth. These are three of the four preachers, and Micah is explaining how to use gospel tracts. Now, back in Nymira, eight hours southeast, these preachers welcomed us back with their people. This is the regional chief. He's like the governor and has endorsed everything we are doing. Now, I was walking through and this man was drunk. The next day I went to his house. He was so convicted and he was so ashamed that he was drunk the day before, but now he received Christ as his Savior as well as his wife, and here they are with me the day after I met him in the cornfield. Everywhere Rebecca went, she fell in love with the babies, the children. Namiera County in that western part of Kenya is very beautiful, but the people received us so well. We gave out not only those 6,500 Swahili tracts, but another 2,000 English tracts, and we need to go back with 125,000 tracts, and that's being printed as we speak. Freedom, freedom, freedom everywhere we went to preach and present the gospel. Micah McCurry is the general director of Bible Tracts Incorporated out in Illinois, a ministry that gives gospel tracts to missionaries and churches around the world free of charge, and they are quality, full-color, glossy gospel tracts full of scripture. Now, this is Samuel. And Samuel, I noticed one day that he was not like he had been before. So happy, something had happened. And I mentioned to Pastor Samuel, I said, in the last three weeks, I haven't seen Samuel change his clothes one single time. He, for three weeks, he has been in the same clothes and they're dirty. I don't think they've been washed. And Samuel started to cry. He said, Bazi, God has shown you this young man. I said, why? He said, I've tried to help the family. He said, the father is a drunk and the mother is a hooker. And he said, this young boy and his sister, they have nothing. But Samuel has received Christ and he wants to follow the Lord. But he is just a young boy. He loves you. And he said, if God has told you to do something for this boy, you should do it. I said, I'm going to take him to town. I'm going to buy him clothes. That's what I'm going to do. That's what God's told me to do. And so the day that I, there was one day, I think it was a Monday, and I said to Samuel, I said, I said, Bishop Sammy, I said, let's take Samuel down to town today and buy him some clothes. He said, Bajie, no time today. I said, how about tomorrow? He said, maybe. He said, but we have many appointments. I said, well, I need to do it this week. And so the following day, we couldn't go. Wednesday, I came to Samuel and I said, can we take Samuel now? He said, no, not today. He said, maybe tomorrow. Thursday came, now Friday. And finally, I loaded, I took Samuel under my arm. The van was absolutely stuffed, packed with people. There was no place for him to sit. But I was gonna take him hook or crook. There was no way I was gonna, Today's the day we're going to town. I'm going to, if I have to take him. So I put him on my lap in the front seat of the van with me and immediately I could smell him. He didn't smell dirty. I didn't smell body odor. I didn't smell dirty clothes. He smelled clean. And I said to Bishop Sammy, I said, I was going to take him to the hotel and let him use our shower and let him go. And I was going to let him clean up before I take him for brand new clothes. And Samuel said, Baji, he knew you were coming for him. So he cleaned up. And I thought, he that hath this hope in himself maketh himself pure, even as he is pure. Yes or no? One day Jesus is coming. Will he find us faithful and will he find us clean? And so we finally went to town. I want you to pray for Samuel. He's eight years old, and I believe God's got his hand on him. You'll see him here in a minute. This is how he looked after we took him shopping. Now I'm hiking to 9,000 feet. I'm 60, almost 68 years old, and I'm going to a community at 9,000 feet at the top of these mountains. And many people were saved up there. And up there we found Lorena, whose birthday it was. and held a birthday party for her. This is the two Rebecca's. The other Rebecca is our maid. This is one of the last meetings that we had. This actually was the last meeting. God gave me incredible liberty to preach. I don't know how many people were saved. This is the final altar call. and hundreds of people are getting saved. Boyd is leading another four people to Christ in front of everybody that day. Great conviction at the altar all the way across the room. Now we're going to baptize. Shall we gather at the river? Oh, yeah. And of the hundreds and hundreds, I personally, we baptize a hundred or three people that day. These are some of the pastors and they were re-baptized. They had been baptized by immersion before. And they said, Baji, we want to be baptized again because this is a new beginning. I said, that's a good way to lead your people. And so they did. And even Samuel's wife, Mama Mary, I baptized her. And I baptized Samuel. He's a big boy. I almost lost him, but I didn't drown him. Here's some of the mountains we're leaving. And in six months now, nearly 1,000 people have been saved in Kenya. Four churches, four brand new churches have been chartered. Two buildings have been completed. And we have reached six new communities that have never been reached by any missionary. And we have been, six properties have been donated to GLBM to build new Churches on in villages where there's never been a baptist church where there's never been any kind of Christian church there in that area and so God is doing a big thing in Kenya pretty sure you come and all that you see here and just that 30 days that we are in Kenya and the last six months in three trips and Everything is it's not it's not Boyd. It's not myself. It's all God and This is what I fought for two years and God has shown us why he called us to go to Kenya a place where there's a lot of missionaries but a place where there's people who have still never heard of Jesus Christ and a place where there's never been a church places where there's never been a New Testament Church, so thank you for praying and thank you for giving you I thank you, Brother Bob. Brother Bob was not planning to do that. I called him, and Brother Maury and his whole family got sick. And so I asked Brother Bob if he'd fill in for Brother Maury. And I do appreciate that, appreciate his work and being able to put that together. He just put that together last night. And praise God for that. Let's have an offering. We're going to give an offering to our guest speaker. Let's give his unto the Lord. Let's pray together. Lord, thank you for the givers and the gifts we're about to receive for this work. We thank you in Jesus' name.