Kisumu City-wide mission happened in June, 2024. The mission bore great yields as over 11,000 people committed their lives to Jesus! With the Nakuru Mission only 15 days away, here is a peek into the mission experience through the eyes of Dr. Cornelius Huwa, the International Missions Manager and AE Malawi Team Leader.

“I had to haul my three bags quickly through the corridors of HomeCare Guest house. It was 5:37 am. 7 minutes later than when the breakfast was to be ready. Well, I was not hurrying up because of the food, in case you care to know. I had arrived at HomeCare Guest house in Nairobi, from Lilongwe, a day before and I had been looking forward to meeting Brother Roberts Charles, New Team Leader of AE Tanzania, and Brother Joel Kasoka, New Team Leader of AE Zambia. They had arrived around midnight, and I was fast asleep at that hour. They surely had hardly slept when the alarm clock came buzzing, reminding them that their journey was not over yet. They were heading to Kisumu, Nairobi was not the final destination!

Isn’t it amazing that life has a way of throwing us into some comfort for a short while only to wake us up so early to remind us that this comfort is not the destination? Peter in the Bible also thought he and the two other disciples had arrived at the final destination on the mount of transfiguration. They said “gentlemen, this is it. We have arrived”, only to be reminded by Jesus that they were to get off the mountain and keep this tent construction conversation to a minimum😂😂. A story of a disciple of Christ is interesting! 😅

Anyways, let me not get side tracked. Where were we? Ok.. hauling my bags down stairs… Right? Yes!

I had three bags. If you know about carrying bags up and down stairs, you will agree with me regarding how frustrating this activity is! Why do the wheels on the bags find the most inopportune time to fall apart? 😢😢. I will save this for another day. But is it not strange that we all carry some stuff that are not necessary hoping they will be useful somewhere along the way? Well, that’s my story with the bags. That’s when reason and emotions fight. Emotions tell you, you will need the items while reason speaks otherwise. But we still carry them anyways. That’s true for evangelists too. We carry what we think we will need despite the voice of reason telling us we won’t need all the items filling up our bags.

I managed to carry one bag into the cafeteria, leaving the other one outside. Upon making simple calculations, I realised that I could easily leave this one bag behind with Irene at HomeCare, then pick it up in 10 days time as this time, my reasoning managed to get louder than my emotions. I felt it would be easier to leave one bag and travel with the other two. So, I left that bag in the caring hands of our hostess Irene, at HomeCare. I am reminded that on my journey as a disciple of Christ it is easy to worry about so many things when the truth is that not everything really deserves the attention we give it.

Somethings, no matter how louder they may call us to worry about them, they need to be ignored. Of course, make proper assessment of the risk before you ignore the call. 😂😂. You may be sorry for ignoring. How did I calculate the risk? Well, the bag I left behind had a suit in it which I felt I might not need in Kisumu. But I realised that my senior Brother, Dr. Brian Mugwidi, who is also on this trip to Kisumu, never dares to leave his suits behind. So, if an assignment will beckon requiring me to put on a suit, I would surely rush to Brian.

From Left; Cornelius Huwa, Rober Charles, Joel Kasoka, and Esthe Chengo

Meeting the new team leaders Robert Charles and Joel Kasoka over breakfast, was incredible! Although I had seen them via picture and videos, this was the first time we were meeting in-person. The best versions of people is the in-person version for sure! After breakfast, we headed out for Kisumu, the mission ground!

See you in my next post when we hit the ground in Kisumu!”

Bye!
Cornelius (IMM).

Register for this year’s Nakuru Mission via this link; https://bit.ly/NakuruCitywideMission2025