The aim of the East Africa Regional Team (EART) is to develop church leaders to help accomplish the Great Commission. Over the past year, the EART in Kenya has been directed by God to significantly change our ministry. The Church Multiplication Workshop has changed and is now called Spiritual Transformation Seminar, which forms the first level of a three-level strategy to prepare Kenyan Pastors and Church Leaders for participation in the Great Commission.
The first level utilizes the five-day Spiritual Transformation Seminar to help Kenyan men and women address root spiritual issues, which impede their progress as leaders. The second level is called the Leadership Development Program, which includes a two-day Leadership Development Seminar and a two-year Leadership Mentoring Track for church leaders. The leaders will be selected based on their personal integrity, their vision for working with the whole body of Christ, their willingness to work without prejudice among all the peoples in Kenya, and their potential to impact the whole nation of Kenya and beyond. The third level is called the Great Commission Vision, which involves connecting the above-mentioned church leaders with organizations that are currently involved in advancing the Great Commission through the Kenyan church. This will include Church Planting Initiatives (Pioneer Church Planting-PCP and Saturation Church Planting-SCP), Unreached Peoples Initiatives and other church-based initiatives, which contribute to the worldwide effort to "Make Disciples of all Nations."
The AMR-Kenya team remains in partnership with FTT-Afriserve (formerly Finish The Task 2010/Africa Center for Mission) and Nairobi International School of Theology-NIST. We trust that our partnerships will help us in accomplishing our new objectives and benefit our partners in accomplishing their objectives as well. Some previous partnerships have concluded in the past year because of our change in ministry focus. We will no longer work as closely with AIM-Sudan or the Inter-Church Committee in the resettlement camps of Adjumani, because the training ministry for Sudanese Pastors has been passed on to a Sudanese-led missions group called ALARM.