Vision
THE BACKGROUND OF THIS VISION
The vision and mandate of this Gospel ministry emerge from the gloriously choreographed dealings of God with the men and women described in the section called KEY PERSONS IN OUR TEAM. After saving both Billy & Tessa Sked from the darkness of Atheism, God would later work miraculously to raise Billy Sked from what seemed like certain death, following a terminal blood disease. The Lord had earlier led Papa Billy to the text of Romans 15:21
Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.
Perceiving (in light of other providential events) that God had placed a call upon his life to travel to Africa, Billy and His wife mama Tessa came to Africa. They would later testify in hindsight, that for all their travels and ministries while in Africa; God had in mind one individual, in a little village town called Mumias, in western Kenya. It is as if God had sent them to Africa to find this one man. This man had been a preacher for close to two decades, yet knew nothing of the basic elements of saving Grace. He was as lost as one who had never in his life, heard of the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ, and was himself leading multitudes down the same path of destruction as he had been led. That man is the editor of this website; Pastor Elly Achok Olare (you can read his testimony here)
Using this changed man, God would reach further down to the coast of Kenya and find his elder brother; and until then his senior pastor; Barnabas Kuogo Olare, who by Gods wonderful Grace would forsake the charismatic and word of faith chaos and become a preacher of the Gospel of the Grace of God. Such radical Gospel changes affected a whole denomination, and affected many churches and many people. That chain has since been widening and expanding across the country, and even on the continent. It has spawned in its wake church plants across the country, established Biblical training centres, birthed theological materials including books, evangelism tracts, preaching and lecture videos on several social media platforms.
THE NATURE OF THIS VISION
We are as such, by origin and core mandate; a Gospel centred ministry. We are passionate about the recovery of the authentic Gospel and its propagation. in this regard, we desire to see a region, a country, a continent and a world (in that order), filled with the knowledge of the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. We long too see a day when;
…no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more-Jeremiah 31:34
Thus all our efforts strive towards the recovery and propagation of the doctrines of Grace, the Biblical Gospel, the Protestant faith. These we pursue, because we believe the eternal salvation of the souls of men depend upon the purity of the Gospel. Such purity, we believe, has been corrupted by the proliferation of today’s popular versions. These are not harmless versions of an otherwise legitimate Gospel, they are its subversions. They are in the words of the Apostle Paul in Galatians 1: 6 & 7
…another Gospel…which is no Gospel at all…
It is such a dearth of true exposition of the Gospel which has led to an outwardly vibrant church in Africa, yet lacking in that which makes for true conversion. We fear, that the vast majority of professing Christians on the continent, may be under that great delusion recorded in II Thessalonians 2:9-12 (ESV)
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness
That fear drives our Gospel ministry, because the implications of such apostasy are grave. We, like Paul, would cry with that anguished desire, that “our own people would be saved”-Romans 10:1. We would warn many of that eventual end of a vain and false religion. We hear the words of the master in Matthew 7:22-23;
On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.
It is in that context the word God gave Billy Sked many years ago ring ever louder in our ears, and in our hearts, and constitute the clarion call of this Gospel ministry;
Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand