विंग ऑफ़ MERCY

It is to build strong and dependable bridges of God in the Mission fields. It is to disciple, and to develop teachers within the fivefold specific calling so as to enhence the Lord's ministry in their lives. The teaching ministry within the fivefold ministries together perfect a teaching movement that will never end but will endure to all generation. It is to arouse and to develop a passion in the teachers' heart to communicate the word and to impart lives with the life of God. It is to transform lives of people who by teaching and doing, are inspired to develop and mature into men and women of impact. By deed of obidience to the word, we endeaver to enlarge the Lord’s vision in readiness to serve the lost world for the Lord Jesus Christ. It is to change lives with changes that heal. Changed lives means changed communities. Changed communities means better and peaceful living. People who live in harmony with peace of mind also create an environment of high creativity and meaningful spiritual social and economic productivity. This way a community is said to be recovering, healed, and developing in the intellectual, physical, spriritual, social and emotional dimentions of life

teamed up with other leaders to equip the chosen leaders of Africa- pastors, evangelists, teachers, prophets and apostles. We teamed up to reach out with love, to the independent Church leaders who are untrained, who feel lonely needing true mentors and friend to walk on this challenging Great Commission Highway.


On the low grass-covered south side of the Kenya-Uganda Highway, separating the nomadic and farming communities from the eldoret municipality community in the Rifty Valley, three women stood weeping and clinging to one another. The two young women, Grace Chapeti and Poline Cheptomo, are Kalenjines; The older woman, a Meru named Salome Gatwiri, is their mother-in-law. Tears came easily for all three, Grace and Poline were recently widowed, and their husbands were Gatwiri's beloved sons. Real names of the parties were withheld for security reasons.
Along history of friction hatred and tribal crashes between Kalenjin and other Kenyan communities has dominated and demoralised the peaceful nation and especially people from Central Kenya. The memories of historical evidence and experience made the devotion of these three women unusual;but there they stood weeping together, on their way back to Meru Town where Gatwiri felt they would fare better as lone women, with their men dead.

Years before, Gatwiri, her husband and their three sons, Kiruja, Gichuru, and Kinoti had left their hometown Meru, in the Eastern Province during the early 1980's and settled in Eldoret as a business family. They started as tobacco and grain dealers and became prosperous transporters. God had blessed and expanded their transport business. They had nine long distant transport trucks. On the first day of violence after December 27
election the nine trucks were set on fire, their business wiped out and their sons killed.

These sons had married Kalenjin girls. Gatwiri's husband died first in the Crashes of 1997, then her two sons, and now the three women and one son stood by the highway, weeping at their last sight of Eldoret Town where they had all been happy. Pauline weeping grew helplessly, and Salome checked her own, to comfort her daughters-in-law. "Chepeti, life must go on for us without them" The young woman dropped to the ground, her sobbing uncontrollable, tears wetting her long black hair. Pauline pressed her hand to her lips to stop her own weeping and looked down at Salome, Kneeling
now beside Chepeti. I must control my grief, Chepeti thought. Dear Salome's heart is broken too. Why should I add to her burden? It is enough that she must comfort Pauline. Salome's arms were around Pauline's shoulders. "Look at me daughter. Hold your weeping for a moment and try to think. Perhaps you should not leave eldoret. You were doing fine with your grief over your husband's death. It is leaving your homeland, too that crushed you.
The old woman pulled herself to her feet and faced both here daughters-in-law. "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home! May the Lord treat you as kindly as you have both treated me and those who have died. The Lord grant that you may find peach and joy each in a new Kalenjin husband's home."
Pauline was standing now, too and when Salome could say no more, she pulled them both closed and kissed them. "No, we are going back with you to Meru, Salome, to your people." I beg you, for your dear heart's sake, go back, my daughters! Why should you go with
me? Do I have any more sons within me, who could become your husbands? Go back, my daugh-ters; go your way; Go to your people that they may have the joy of marrying you to their sons and bear more Kalenji sons. Pauline turned her back and wept again, but Chepeti clung
to Salome. "Pauline sees that I am right, Chepeti sees. and she is wise."
Pauline turned suddenly and kissed her husband's mother then ran from them, back toward her own mother's house. "Look, Chepeti, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, go with her! Chepeti lifted her head from Salome's shoulder and the sun glinted off her bright, thick hair as she spoke. "Do not urge me to desert you by turning away from you; because I have come to know you and Meru people to be very kind, loving and they love God. I am ashamed of our people who are killing their son-in-laws. I could not stand our people who went to church and burn your people alive. They have no mercy. I know that God's curses will fall upon our community.
I loved my husband and my husband's family so much. My parents loved him too. We were a happy and united Meru and Kalenjin community of our own. My parents were not able to stop the animosity of our people, who killed the sons. I made a marriage covenant with my husband when he married me that I will be faithful to him and nothing can change that. Not even my heathen community can convience me. Do you think your people will accept me? Will they love me or kill me in revenge? What about these your Meru-Kalenjin grandsons of yours? I am not scared to die in the hands of a people whose son I loved with all my heart. Your people are my people, and I am prepared to live with you Salome. Whether I will live or die it is up to you and God. Didn't God say that a man shall leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh? It is now for me to keep that bond of love with my husband's family and community. Wherever you settle I will live with you and wherever you die I will die with you Salome. Thus may God do to me and worse if anything but death separate us.

Salome said no more, and the two women walked on toward the Eldoret Airport to catch a plane to Nairobi and drew still closer together with every dusty mile of the way beneath them. Love is only limited by human self-concern. We are not surprised at a deep love between two friends
between a husband and wife, between parents and their children-but a love between a woman and her daughter-in-law is pathetically rare. Jokes about their hostility are the commonplace.

And yet here is love relationship between a woman and her son's wife, which has ridden out the centuries firmly alongside Damon and Pythia, Jonathon and David, Paul and Timothy, Jesus and his disciple John. Was Pauline at fault for turning back to her people? I think not. It is not a matter for blame of Pauline, rather for wonder, that Chepeti heart held such a love capacity. She was still fairly young, undoubtedly beautiful, and might easily have decided this old woman too old to be a companion was no longer any responsibility of hers. Why should she ruin her entire life by saddling herself with a useless old lady? Was her poetic speech of devotion to Salome an extension of the love she still felt for Salome's son? Perhaps. But it also defined Chepeti's heart: open, submissive, gifted with God's own capacity to love others.

Pauline was not usually friendly and open. Chepeti was unusually unselfish, friendly and open. Chepeti was unusually unselfish, friendly loving and social. More than this, Salome's own devotion to God had reached the heart of this girl from a pagan unchristian home. Pauline turned back to the gods of her people, Chepeti moved with Salome toward God and toward the people of Meru.

There is no greater opportunity for a Christian woman to witness to her own son's wife. Now and then, but only now and then, we hear of such devotion to the Lord God. Salome hard reached Chepeti for him. She had lived so that he could reach through her believing heart into the darkened heart of her daughter-in-law, and Chepeti could say: "Your God is my God" There is no better test of a woman's spiritual health than that she love her son's wife as Salome apparently loved both Chepeti and Pauline. There is no better test for a woman's spiritual vigor than the returned love of her daughter-in-law. This may take years to happen in some cases, but it can happen. Love itself is never limited by the circumstances of a relationship,because God, himself is never limited-except by a closed heart.

Chepet's New faith was rewarded. When Salome trudged back into the mountain City of Meru with her daughter-in-law, and her grand-Sons "the whole town was stirred because of them." Salome had left a happy woman with her husband, her three sons, and a flourishing business. Now she was back,
her men and possession gone, and with her came her third son, three children and their mother a stranger. Tongues wagged, and even her close friends had trouble recognizing Salome. She had grown so old and stooped with the weight of her great grief for the great loss and family members and property. Salome and Grace Chepeti joined together in one voice, We have to transform Kenya. We have to educate our people, Chepti explained. For a community to set the church and the worshippers on fire is a clear demonstration that the crusade method of saving people has not worked. It is also
clear that these my people are anti-Christ who must be saved through love and good relationship the kind you have demonstrated to me, Salome, Chepeti panted. Kenya must become one Nation under God, the anoitnting of the Holy Spirit, and love.

Who will go with Grace Chepeti to this community anointed with the spirit of murder to preach the Gospel of love with food and clothing in their hands? Who has the anoiting to reflect the love and the light of Christ to shine in this dark community? You can make an impact by your financial and
physical support to enable those who are called to go to Kenya and make a difference. Children, youth, men, and widowed mothers are waiting for God to perform a miracle for them. But God will use someone like you to tap into the deep resources of your heart with love and compassion to make christ known and received in their hearts.

Bishop Peter Mukangu,
P.o. Box 312
La Mirada Ca 90637