Miracles Among the Maasai

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Jeremiah Getanda’s Story

by Pastor Leon Curfs

Jeremiah Getanda is a Kenyan who at a young age had his ankle crippled due to polio. He had no other choice than to just live with this handicap as others before him and after him had to do.
Jeremiah is an evangelist and had been working together with Seventh-day Adventist Churches to spread the news of the 3 angels’ messages. He came to the LIGHT training school at Nyanchwa Kisii, Kenya to learn more about evangelism.
Jeremiah was known as a critical person by the the local Seventh-day Adventist Conference. At the end of the 6-month training the Lord had changed Jeremiah to the extent that even the guest speaker at the LIGHT Graduation held on 23rd July 2009 at Nyanchwa Seventh-day Adventist Church remarked that Jeremiah had truly become a new person.

After the graduation, the Kisii Central Church made a plan to sponsor Jeremiah to do evangelism among an unreached people group, the Maasai in Maasai Mara, Kenya.
So Jeremiah took the challenge and went with his old and new wisdom in evangelism. The LIGHT school taught and practized a little agriculture. We do not know if Jeremiah learned there how to grow vegetables but one thing is sure when he went to the Maasai Mara he had learned at the LIGHT school that it is good to grow your own vegetables, etc.
So that is what Jeremiah embarked on. The soil was hard and the climate was dry. Nevertheless he succeded to grow some local vegetables called “sukuma wiki”.
The Maasai people found this very interesting and thus Jeremiah had an opportunity to share his wisdom about vegetables which later turned to the Gospel.

The Maasai people started coming and now Jeremiah has a small church among the Maasai.

The Maasai chief heard about Jeremiah’s farming wisdom and had to come and see for himself. The chief said to Jeremiah “our people have been here for a long time, and we eat meat and drink milk mixed with blood but now we see that vegetables can grow here. Thanks for showing us”.

Please pray for Jeremiah.

He is far into the Maasai Mara so I had no opportunity for real pictures from there but the two pictures you see are of the people in the Maasai Mara.

A typical Maasai house. Made from sticks woven together smeared with cow dung.
A typical Maasai dress, no pants but a small blanket that they wrap around themselves.

 

 

Maasai’s live together in small so-called “boma’s” surrounded by a fence of dried branches with thorns to protect themselves from wild animals coming in and to keep their domestic animals from going out.

The Battle With Self

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By Irene Adanza

The moment God’s will has been starting to be plain for me; it has always been my longing to know Him more. If you’d ask me why, honestly, I don’t know. But for this I’m sure, it’s His love that He faithfully shows me every moment of my life no matter how often I try to carry things on my own. Only by true love is love awakened. –DA, p. 22

It was January when Kuya Allan told me that I and three of my co missionaries are assigned to go to Camiguin Island, our mission field for a year. I really have no problem with wherever they would send me, or who will my partners be, etc… So it goes, we arrived at our mission field. Everything’s well, until this self started to come out -again. My partners’ behavior started to annoy me. I wanted things to be in order, like it used to be in our six months training where time is of an importance, things to be done are settled ahead of time. But even I wanted them to carry out those things which I believe were right; they won’t obey because it wasn’t presented in a loving way. I’m the eldest among the four of us in our assignment and I took it so heavy upon me being their ‘ate’. Everyone around me does not reach my standards. Happiness has left me because of the things that I don’t appreciate. The battle begins –for the nth time. The greatest battle that has ever been fought is the warfare against self. –SC, p. 43 Whenever I remembered to pray, I’d never forget to tell Him to show me my defects, I don’t want to be blind, but I kept closing my eyes and the problem went on for about nine months-yes nine months. It has been that long I have struggled, become hard-headed and hasn’t surrendered. I even wanted to quit thinking that I won’t be an effective missionary because of my behavior. Days are not enjoyable. They pass without leaving something to make me smile. Then my loving God again taught me things I needed to learn that only His love could show:
1. By looking on the dark side of life, I’d be getting farther and farther from Him. –PP, p. 428
2. It is by giving that I’d receive.
3. I cannot change other people, the only thing I can do is to love them.
4. If I get mad or annoyed at other people, it’s not because they’re misbehaving, but because I don’t see them the way Jesus do.
5. There are things that I can’t do that’s why I have my partners. I thought I could do things without them, but God has shown me that I cannot, that I have limitations.
6. I’m not an island. =)
7. He’s shown me how faith works.
8. In giving me blessings, He’s testing my character. –CS, 112
9. He’s always ready to help me no matter how much I make Him feel that I can do things without Him.
10. I can always find Him and He’s always ready to teach me His will through the Bible and the Spirit of prophecy.
11. He always gives opportunities. Success depends upon the use made of them. –PP, 223
12. Cultivate the habit of speaking well of others. Dwell upon the good qualities of those with whom you associate, and see as little as possible of their errors and failings. When tempted to complain of what someone has said or done, praise something in that person’s life or character. –MH, p. 492

As my assignment is coming to an end, I could now say that it’s really a blessing to be chosen by Him and be His servant. I now see everyone around me as individuals whom God has chosen to be His instruments to show me how great His love for me is. There’s really no such thing as unlovable person, it’s only this self that paints ugly pictures out of a person whom God chooses to come my way for a reason. The best thing in being His servant? It is discovering his manifestations of Himself, His love, His incomparable glory in ways unexpected and in times perfect.

The Son of God declared in positive terms that the world was destitute of the knowledge of God; but this knowledge was of the highest value, and it was His own peculiar gift, the inestimable treasure which He brought into the world. –LHU, p. 36

Praises from Nigeria

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Glory writes:

“I am grateful to God for this opportunity He granted me to be part of LIGHT medical missionary training. I am blessed and  revived with new zeal to work for God…  As I was receiving the lectures, I shared my daily experience with my family. My husband, who is a literature evangelist and who for sometime now abandoned the work for some other businesses that may give him more money, became excited and decided to read through the Spirit of prophesy series once again. He started with the great controversy and after a few days decided to take up his God-called work of literature evangelism. And God is already opening the ways for him. Praise God.”