ABOUT
The church was started and is led by Pastor Erick Nyangerisi, who is married to sister Jane and they have 5 children. Before Covid they averaged 200 plus congregants and care for 53 or more orphans, whose parents were ravaged by aids. Pastor Erick is also working with an additional orphan group in Nyamaiya. It is a very poor region but they efficiently manage in this mild climate by agriculture and service jobs.
People live in mud brick homes or if extreme poverty cast off lumber with dirt floors and no electricity. Windows are usually openings with wooden shutters to keep out intruders at night. Over the years we have partnered with them to buy Bibles, pay medical bills, purchase cattle, a cookstove, motorcycle, Keyboard, athletic equipment, sound system, electricity in the church and house, mattresses, chairs, cell phones, a computer, school tuition, children’s clothing, rain gutters, water tanks, protective roof’s over the tanks, and this year a new house for the orphans with a roof water tank and solar water pump.
We are so blessed to be able to share with just a portion of their life. Please pray for the success of this ministry and that many souls will respond to the message of salvation A special thank you goes out to all those who have faithfully helped in this ministry, and we request if our Lord lays it on your heart to help support this endeavor you will.
NEW PROJECT
Wow! What a year 2023 turned out to be
First, I want to thank you for your prayers and support. We’ve desired to be faithful to the leading of the Holy Spirit, but if you don’t make plans, you don’t ever get started and the net effect is, nothing gets done.
We started believing we were supposed to build an addition to Pastor Erick’s home for an orphanage room, but instead it ended up being a complete house. The spot was identified next to the Latrine in the middle of the Compound (one that we prayed about for several months). There was a large privacy wall that ended up the basis for the back wall of the house that would soon appear. It ended up being a six-room brick orphanage home with steel frame glass windows, doors, tiled floors, plastered and painted walls, with an attractive colorful exterior with a rebar enforced cement roof section designed to hold a very large roof water tank with a solar powered pump, elevated so it would enable a gravity feed water system.
All of this was accomplished in one-year of time for a cost of less than $20,000. Praise God from whom all blessings flow and thank you Jesus! This could only be done through indigenous local missionary people under the leadership and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Another blessing of 2023 was Pastor Erick connected with Brother Evan Andrews of Nyamaiya. They have a church and ministry to over 30 orphans, now working in tandem with RDM Kisii, Kenya. In February they did a Kesha together (a service of ministry), where there were several people delivered from demonic spirits. It was a special time of healing and deliverance. Then in March they followed up with a special revival outreach series of meetings where many came to Christ to receive Him as their Savior. In this series of open are meetings spiritual mountains were moved.
February was a hard month for everyone in Kenya because of the drought. Many families went days without water and hundreds of animals died from thirst. We didn’t find out about it for over a month and then when we did, our Sun Life Chapel group prayed and the next day there was a downpour that filled their rain gutter water tanks. We didn’t know why it was so coincidental, so all we did was Praise God for the end of the drought.
The year was not without tragedy. Pastor Erick’s older brother was caught in an altercation at a sporting event in March and was kicked severly in the head and recieved a life ending concussion and brain bleed. Then in May his uncle on his fathers side died from stomach problems and severe headache issues. To top it all off one of the orphans, Nyanchama who had been with them for over 7 years, contracted malaria from a tsetse bite and died. The heartache carried on for quite some time as she was a strong music worship leader in their church and helped a great amount with the younger children.
Altogether there were three funerals in RDM this past year and each one is a special heart break since the families are so closely related.
As the year progressed, obviously Christmas came and our end of the year goal of finishing the roof water tank and solar water pump. I am grateful for all those that participated in the final push of 2023, because we made it (see the picture of the roof tank in 1st section).
The church got decorated for the season and all the children received presents and our Lord’s birth was celebrated. The church celebrated together singing songs and dancing to the Glory of God, all the while two children were losing their parents and becoming orphans. The local people were aware that Reign Dancer Ministries, Kisii, Kenya managed an orphanage, and they took 8-year-old Margarite and 6-year-old Salvester to Pastor Erick and who took them in.
There is no substitute for prayer. We all need to be bathed in requests and aspirations toward encouraging this kind of growth in our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father. Please continue to pray for Reign Dancer Ministries in Kisii, Kenya, Africa and the family of financial support that God has caused to band together. Pray that we will be able to expand. One of our goals last year was to increase our monthly giving by $700 to support a full time support staff in Kenya. While that did not happen, it does not reduce the need to be fulfilled.
I pray God gives you a desire to follow through with this opportunity to help children and families so much less fortunate than we here in America. Please go to Reigndancerministries.org and read more about our mission, look at the pictures and you can make your donations online through Cornerstone by credit card and receive an immediate receipt or send them to Reign Dancer Ministries, 5055 E. University Dr. E 15, Mesa, AZ 85205. Your blessing will help many hungry and needy children receive from on High! In the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I Greet you, Bob Phelps (248-767-5179). Call me any time to discuss or ask questions.
May God Bless you in 2024 as you continue in the fight for Spiritual Freedom for God’s creation. Don’t forget, take some time to review reigndancerministries.org and pray over some of the pictures you see. Take some time to listen to the Youtube channel and the recordings from Kenya. Thank you for your support!
Christmas in Kisii Kenya!