Many of you have asked about needs in Kenya and how you can help families. If you are led to help this family, please send a check made payable to:

 

The Fathers Heart Ministries

P.O. Box 22821

Honolulu, HI  96823-2821

On Memo Line: Simiyu House

 

Thank you!  Through your financial support, Brother Martin has been able to place a roof on his house.  They still need an exterior door, interior doors, window frames, hinges and window glass before the can move in.

 

 

Sincere thanks!  Through your financial support, Brother Martin and his family have moved into their new home on June 10th.  He writes in his email, "Thank you very much for your sacrifice by supporting me in all ways.  I know it has been a very painful time for you to enter in your pockets from time to time helping a brother in need.  Right now I can say I am now a recognized person in the community after being undermined and despised for many years."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we welcome Gary and Julie Simons of Waikoloa, Hawaii as the newest Board members.  Gary Simons is Associate Pastor at New Harvest Christian Fellowship Church in Waikoloa.  Julie has many years as the driving force behind Young Life, a Christian based  national organization that supports and services high school students across the USA.  Both Pastor Gary and Julie have been on missions to Guatemala and excellent experience with Youth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Throughout the years that we have been doing mission work in Kenya and Uganda, there have been many people who have lifted us up in prayer, supported us financially and encouraged us to continue the Lord's work.  We'd like to say thank you for your love, understanding, support and encouragement.   As we always say to our African brothers and sisters, "without our family, friends and supporters, we wouldn't be here and couldn't commit to standing at your side." We love you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pastor Wilson and Sister Donita Butler, Florida

The Family of Greater Faith Christian Church, Lynn Haven, Florida

Mr & Mrs Steve & Hershey Kuschel - California

Mr & Mrs William & Bobbi Warren - California

Dr. & Mrs Jon & Kim Friedman - California

Mr & Mrs Irv & Harriet Tiahnybik - Illinois

Dr. & Mrs Albert Mackenzie & Cynthia  Steinberg - California

Mr & Mrs Les & Carol Mendelson - California

Mr & Mrs Gary & Darcy Bixler - Oregon      

Mr & Mrs Jack & Darlene McNulty - Big island of Hawaii

Mr & Mrs Richard & Willa Fields - California 

Mr Michael Mosheni - Washington

Mrs Yone Honjo - Kauai, Hawaii 

Mrs Precy Burbano - Big Island of Hawaii

A New Harvest Christian Fellowship Church, Big Island of Hawaii

Ms Judy Cabanting, Kauai, Hawaii

Kalaheo Family & Community Education - Kalaheo, Kauai, Hawaii

Mr Larry Trailor, California

Pastor Dale and Carol Hayashi, Big Island of Hawaii

 

 

 

 

My name is Dominic Telewa.  I was born in 1969 in a family of six in Bungoma District in Kenya.  Being a first born, I was entrusted with the responsibility of looking after my three brothers and two sisters whenever my parents left daily as laborers on the white man's land.  I remember we used to have a single meal a day prepared at dusk by my mother.  The whole day we used to hunt for birds and search for wild berries whenever we fell hungry as we waited for our parents to return home. Both of my parents are alive and aged.  We are all grown up.

 

I am married with four children.  My wife, Carolyne Nekesa Telewa, who was born at Mt. Elgon District is an understanding and supportive woman.  She was born in 1976 and attended her primary and secondary education successfully. Betty is our first born child.  She is 10 years old and in Standard Five in an academy.  Bobline is a boy and in Standard Two at St. Angies Education Center.  He is 8 years old and George, now 5 years old, is in Pre-School at St. Angies as well.  He does very well in class.  He was in position #2 last term.  Our little girl, Carren is 3 years old and has not started school yet.  My wife, therefore is a housewife preparing meals during the day.

 

I underwent both primary and secondary education successfully in 1989 and trained in the insurance industry as a Sales Representative in 1990.  I worked with Blue Shield Insurance Company for a short time before shifting to Green Belt Movement in 1992 to 1994.  In 1995 I worked with Kenya Seed Company as a casual laborer before entering a lifelong profession of teaching.  I started as an untrained teacher in 1996 and later joined a teacher training college for a primary 1 (P1) course which took two years and qualified.  After more training I received my Diploma in Education that advanced my professionalcareer.  I am currently heading St. Angies Education Center as an Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) mainly due to HIV and AIDS and natural attrition.  I also attended several other induction workshops pertaining to my teaching profession.

 

I was saved in 1987 in a Crusade on my way from school.  Prior to this, I had a vision in a dream.  In the vision I was dressed in a long priestly robe, given a staff in one hand, ordained and sent forth running.  At that time I did not understand the vision.  Later in the year 2000, by the Grace of God, I was ordained and comissioned as a pastor.  Currently I am pastoring a church in Kobos Centre which is 20 km from Kitale town.  I find peace in my calling as a pastor and an apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ who has given me the gift of healing.  My innermost passion flows to the orphans and vulnerable young children who have no guider.  I remember one day I was absorbed in my prayers for the orphans and the little street children sleeping in the cold without food to eat or water to drink.  I told God, "if you will one day visit me, I will return to these fatherless children and be their father."  The faithful and merciful God has set forth the Honjos as salt and light in the midst of the innocent, defenseless, poor and need handsome and beautiful boys and girls respectively (see what Jesus says in Matthew 5:13-14). 

 

One thing that I am amazed with salt is that even in its small quantity, it preserves food and gives it taste.  It is also medicinal.  I am marveled with light because even a dim light can never be overcome by darkness and it gives hope.  There is hope and meaning in lives of St. Angies Education Center children.  My sincere and heartfelt thanks to Brother Roy Honjo and Sister Angie Honjo of The Father's Heart Ministries, whose great vision and passion oiled St. Angies Education Center  now with 122 children.  As the Headmaster of this center I fell entrusted by Christ  to look after his least ones (Matthew 25: 37-40).  In John 21: 15-17, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Do you love me?"  Each time when Simon Peter replied that he did love Jesus, Jesus told him to "feed my lamb....tend to my sheep... then feed my sheep.  I have discovered that the things of God touches the heart and there it sinks.  When an infant, orphaned and malnourished little girl in a tattered red cloth passed before me, I was touched and tears rolled down my cheeks.  The Lord did not give me rest until I offered to give her food to eat, water to drink, cloth to cover her nakedness and school supplies.  This is true and I give testimony in the church the following Sunday.  It was the beginning of an epic journey.  A journey of faith....St. Angies journey.  I know the Lord has called me into this Ministry....a ministry of passion.

 

My vision over St. Angies Education Center.  This center should grow to more than just a Primary School but also to High Schoolas well as a technical institution.  By the will of God, may the buildings be put up and supplies be met as we are encouraged in Habbakuk 2: 1-3.

 

The fear of God is the beginning of Knowledge and a child mis-educated is a child lost.  May we who have taken the responsibilities of these orphans and vulnerable children be a light and salt in their lives for the Glory of God the Father of All.....Amen!