Proposed Evangelistic Program for Winning Mijikenda into the Adventist Church, Kenya

Abstract

In any random sample taken from any church in the coast it will show that the indigenous Mijikenda are the Minority or at times are not represented in the church at all For Kenya Coast Field to succeed in evangelizing the whole coast region, major target should be the Mijikenda who for a long time have not responded well to the Adventist message as expected. The researcher therefore developed an evangelistic strategy through which the Mijikenda are to be reached and be won into the Adventist Church. This strategy involved the church pastors, church elders and members that the researcher had trained in Ziwani Church before the program started. The methods used in this strategy were predominantly public evangelism and literature distribution and visitations. The researcher developed an evangelistic program whereby a team of members were trained through lectures and sent to un-entered Mijikenda areas to do visitation, distribute literature, and conduct evangelistic meetings in various centers.As a result, in 2010, thirteen evangelistic meetings was conducted, 300 literature were distributed, and 276 souls from the indigenous people were baptized. In 2011, twelve meetings were conducted, 222 literature were distributed, and 259 souls were baptized. In the third year, that is 2012, fifteen meetings were conducted, 300 literature distributed, and 344 souls were won to Christ. This researcher recommends the following; that Kenya Coast Field consider deliberate evangelistic program among the Mijikenda as their primary objective, and that Kenya Coast Field increase the spiritual growth of the members in all its territory people in order to spur them into evangelism, and lastly that a replication this study in the rest of the Field focusing the Mijikenda as a target group.