Kenya

After several years successful ministry by our team among the Turkana people of Northern Kenyan our team is relocating to the capital city of Nairobi to assist a national group of leaders to reach the entire country and beyond.

In 1996 a group of national leaders named gathered together and formed a new thrust, FTT, (Finish The Task) and embraced the unfinished challenge of reaching the remaining 22 unreached people groups in Kenya by establishing a church- planting beachhead in each one. Today this same group desires to see a reproducible church in every town, village and neighborhood in Kenya. Simultaneously, this same group has a vision to reach 9 other East African countries and beyond. This requires training and mentoring Kenyan (and other east African) church planters and missionaries. FTT and United World Mission have agreed to embrace this vision as partners. Those joining this team will find themselves initiating a very exciting movement to finish reaching Kenya, East Africa and beyond.

Mark & Annmarie

Kids: Matthew, Benjamin & Christopher

We have worked in Kenya since 1994 when we joined a church planting team among the semi-nomadic Turkana. Along with church planting our team met physical needs of the very primitive Turkana such as health care, adult literacy, clean drinking water and basic agriculture. After several years of language learning and relationship-building, evangelism using a chronological storying method was used. Through the work of the Holy Spirit, many Turkana responded to the Truth of the gospel. Leaders were discipled and trained, and today three vibrant churches with over 350 believers remain in the area United World Mission had its work.

We have now moved to the capitol city of Nairobi to assist a Kenyan organization, Finish the Task-Afriserve (FTTA), and develop a Church Planter Training Program. The organization has a board of many prominent church leaders within Kenya. Their vision is to reach the unreached peoples still within Kenya by training and sending Kenyan missionaries to these people. The vision extends beyond Kenya, to all of East Africa, and beyond. Along with the vision of reaching the unreached, FTTA leadership also wants every Kenyan to have the chance to worship God in a local church. They have a vision of starting 15,000 new churches within this decade! For this task many church planters will need to be trained and mobilized. The vision is strong, the laborers are few. Pray for needed help in this area.

Tim & Jan

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Tim was raised in upstate New York , second of six children. Jan is from Columbia , MO , the eldest of three girls. Both of their fathers had job transfers to the Milwaukee , WI area where Jan and Tim met.

Tim and Jan served as missionaries in Kenya with SIM Int. from 1984-1997 in Marsabit, a small town in northern Kenya , and then for two years in Nairobi . Their last placement was in a very remote village among the ÎDaasanach people up on the Ethiopia/Kenya border on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana . Through the years they were involved in youth ministry, development work, Bible teaching, women's ministry, mission administration, and pioneer church planting.

Tim and Jan have been serving on the pastoral staff of Elmbrook Church in Brookfield , WI . Tim has been involved partnerships with urban churches, prison ministry, and development of leadership for small groups within the church. Jan served as an assistant and then as the pastor of the children's ministry. Through the years they both had opportunities to return to Africa for a few weeks at a time to train pastors and children's ministry workers in Sudan and Burundi .

Jan and Tim hope have a part in encouraging and equipping more leaders for churches as they spread out across Nairobi , and for the churches these churches will soon be planting.